Atylotus quadrifarius ( Löw, 1874 )

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 : 50-51

12. Atylotus quadrifarius ( Löw, 1874)

Zeitschrift für die gesamte Naturwissenschaft, 43, 414.

Type locality. Iran .

Range. Palearctic, in the western Mediterranean Basin in Morocco, Iberian Peninsula, France and again in the east in Greece, Turkey and the Levant, to Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, in the north from Ukraine to southern Siberia and Central Asia ( Leclercq, 1966a; Chvála et al., 1972; Müller et al., 2011a; Chvála, 2013). In Cyprus, A. quadrifarius was mentioned by Olsufjev (1937), but we did not observe it there.

New records. We caught 2 females while attacking men and donkeys in numbers on Lesvos, in the area surrounding the salt pans of Kalloni and Polichnitos (at sea level), in mid-May 2005 (new Record for Northern Aegean islands) .