Tabanus accensus Austen
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6150953 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F74BAC24-E22A-3518-FF73-C0C2F79FFB4B |
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Plazi |
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Tabanus accensus Austen |
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Tabanus accensus Austen View in CoL
Tabanus accensus Austen, 1920: 309 .
Type locality. Wadi el Kelt Plain ( Palestine).
Diagnosis. Length. (Female) body 12.0– 13.4 mm, wing 9.0– 9.7 mm.
Small narrow bodied elongate, greyish brown species; frons in females with sides not parallel; subcallus entirely dusted; R4 lacking appendix; abdomen greyish with 4 longitudinal brown elongated separated spots.
Local distribution. Sinai.
Geographical distribution. Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
Remarks. This species was recorded in the list of Egyptian Tabanidae by Steyskal and El–Bialy (1967) from the literature. Only recently, Müller et al. (2012) reported that they observed this species in April/May and mid- September 1995 in Wadi Feiran and later in September 2005 near Nuweiba while feeding on donkeys and horses.
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