Therioplectus tricolor Zeller, 1842

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 : 51

13. Therioplectus tricolor Zeller, 1842

Isis von Oken, 1842 , 819

Type locality. Russia (“Sudrussland”) .

Range. Palearctic. From Italy through the Balkans to mainland Greece and the Northern Aegean islands (Vóreion Aiyáion), through Bulgaria, Romania to Turkey and in southern Russia and South Caucasus ( Leclercq, 1966a; Chvála, 2013; Evenhuis & Pape, 2023).

New records. We caught one male in a Malaise trap on Rhodes Island , Mt. Attavyros 900–1000 m, south of Embonas, in early May 1989 (new record for Dodecanese islands) .