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Tabanus

Description

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).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 559-576 in Zootaxa 3691 (5) on page 571, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/215691

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Biodiversity

Family
Tabanidae
Genus
Tabanus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus