Tabanus (Tabanus) tenens Walker, 1850

Maity, Aniruddha, Naskar, Atanu, Homechaudhuri, Sumit & Banerjee, Dhriti, 2020, Taxonomic Accounts With Notes On Spatial Diversity And Relative Abundance Pattern Of Horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) From Sonamukhi Protected Forest Area Of West Bengal, India, Munis Entomology & Zoology 15 (1), pp. 200-225 : 212

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3761958
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3804931
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scientific name	Tabanus (Tabanus) tenens Walker, 1850
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6. Tabanus (Tabanus) tenens Walker, 1850 View in CoL

1850. Tabanus tenens Walker View in CoL , Insecta Saunders., Dipt. View in CoL , 1: 49.

Type locality: East India.

Material examined: 1♀, collected from cow, 23°17'24.55"N, 87°24'52.28"E, 76.4 m, Station 8, Bankura , 29.ix.2013, Coll. S.K. Sinha GoogleMaps ; 2♀♀, collected from cow, 23°18'31.42"N, 87°18'14.02"E, 85.9 m, Station 5, Bankura , 20.iv.2014, Coll. A. Maity GoogleMaps .

Distribution: India (West Bengal: E Midnapore, Bankura, Maldah, Birbhum, Hooghly, S 24 Paragana; Assam, Orissa, Sikkim); SE Asia.

Remarks: The adult fly is an important mechanical vector of Surra disease and is also implicated in the transmission of anthrax.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Tabanidae
Genus	Tabanus