Pangonius (Pangonius) obscuratus Löw, 1859

Müller, Günter C., Prozorov, Alexey M., Traore, Mohamed M., Revay, Edita E., Hogsette, Jerome A., Kline, Daniel, Chaskopoulou, Alexandra, Prozorova, Tatiana A., Volkova, Julia S., Diarra, Rabiatou A., Petrányi, Gergely, Schneider, Tom, Beck, Robert H. - T., Ignatev, Nikolai, Yakovlev, Roman V., Cui, Liwang & Schlein, Yosef, 2023, The Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Greek islands and Cyprus: An annotated checklist with remarks on ecology, zoogeography, and new records on the East Mediterranean fauna, Ecologica Montenegrina 67, pp. 45-65 : 47

1. Pangonius (Pangonius) obscuratus Löw, 1859

Program der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz, 27.

Type locality. Rhodes Greece and the opposite coast of Turkey.

Range. Palearctic, North Mediterranean. Known from Portugal, Spain, Corsica, Bulgaria, Rhodes Island and Turkey ( Leclercq, 1960; Chvála, 2013).

New records. We recorded two males of this species for the first time on the Greek mainland in Vouno Kastorias Park near Koromilia, 890 m a.s.l., in early July 1992 feeding on nectar in a flowering meadow, collected by sweep net by G. Müller & A. Kotitsa (new record for Greek mainland). One male was collected on flowering Umbilifera and another male near an irrigation water puddle on the ground on Rhodes Island, in a park of the outskirts of Rhodes city, on 29 July 1991. The species was observed by us in Cyprus in the Troodos Mts., NW of Mylikouri, 900 m a.s.l., in early August 1995 (new record for Cyprus).