Tabanus mordax Austen

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, Zootaxa 3691 (5), pp. 559-576 : 570

Tabanus mordax Austen

( Figs 1 C, 1H, 3G, 4F)

Tabanus mordax Austen, 1911a: 175 .

Type locality. Sudan.

Diagnosis. Length. (Male) body 10.6–12.8 mm, wing 8.2–10.6 mm; (female) body 13.0–14.0 mm, wing 10.0– 11.6 mm.

Frons in females with sides not parallel; frontal index in female 2.1–2.2; subcallus entirely smooth and strongly bulging; R4 without appendix; abdomen blackish brown with 2 oval grey longitudinal separated spots.

Local distribution. South-eastern Desert (Gebel Elba).

Geographical distribution. Chad, Egypt, Kenya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Sudan.

Specimens examined. Gebel Elba, I.1933 (2 Ƥ); G. Elba, South eastern desert, 15.III.-30.IV.1928 (1 Ƥ); W. Edeil, 26.II.-7.III.1938 (1 Ƥ) (CUC); Gebel Elba, South Eastern Desert, 15.III.-IV.1928 (2 3, 1 Ƥ) (ESEC); Gebel Elba, South Eastern Desert, 15.III.-IV.1928 (1 3) (MAC).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Head, dorsal view. A-E. Males. A. A. agrestis (Wiedemann). B. T. autumnalis Linnaeus. C. T. mordax Austen. D. T. sufis Jaennicke. E. T. taeniola Palisot de Beauvois. F-J. Females. F. A. agrestis (Wiedemann). G. T. autumnalis Linnaeus. H. T. mordax Austen. I. T. sufis Jaennicke. J. T. taeniola Palisot de Beauvois. Scale line = 3 mm.