Tabanus

Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M., Badrawy, Haitham B. M., Fadl, Hassan H. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2013, A review of the genus Tabanus Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Egypt, Zootaxa 3691 (5), pp. 559-576 : 571

Tabanus s eparatus Efflatoun

( Figs 3 I, 4H, 5G)

Tabanus s eparatus Efflatoun, 1930: 89.

Type locality. Siwa Oasis and Ein Soukhna, Ghoubbet-el-Bouss ( Egypt).

Diagnosis. Length. (Male) body 8.6–11.8 mm, wing 8.3–9.2 mm; (female) body 9.3–11 mm, wing 8.3–9.8 mm.

Pale brownish grey species; frons in females with sides not parallel; frontal index in female 2.17–2.36; subcallus entirely dusted; post occipital rim broad in male; scape brownish grey with black hairs; R4 with appendix; thorax with five greyish longitudinal stripes; abdomen grey with four longitudinal brown triangular separated spots.

Local distribution. Sinai.

Geographical distribution. Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Specimens examined. Ghoubbet El-Bous, VIII.1929 (4 Ƥ); Ghoubbet El-Bous, 26.VI.1929 (5 Ƥ); Ghoubbet El-Bous, 18–29.VI.1930 (1 Ƥ) (CUC); Ghoubbet El-Bous, 26.VI.1929 (4 3, 6 Ƥ); Ghoubbet El-Bous, 22.VII.1929 (1 3, 1 Ƥ); VIII.1929 (2 Ƥ) (ESEC); Ghoubbet El-Bous, 26.VI.1929 (1 Ƥ) (AZUC).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Female frons, anterior view. A. T. albifacies Loew. B. T. arenivagus Austen. C. T. autumnalis Linnaeus. D. T. gratus Loew. E. T. leleani Austen (adapted from Chvála et al. 1972). F. T. lunatus Fabricius G. T. mordax Austen. H. T. rupinae Austen. I. T. separatus Efflatoun. J. T. sufis Jaennicke. K. T. taeniola Palisot de Beauvois. L. T. unicinctus Loew (adapted from Loew 1856). Scale line = 1 mm. (L. not scaled).