Tabanus cordiger Meigen & Wiedemann, 1820

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 : 54

18. Tabanus cordiger Meigen & Wiedemann, 1820

In: Meigen, J.W., Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten, 2, 47.

Type locality. Austria .

Range. Palearctic, from the Canary Islands to Morocco through most of Europe eastwards to the Ural Mts., in the East Mediterranean from the Greek mainland through Turkey to Iran ( Leclercq, 1966a; Chvála et al., 1972; Chvála, 2013).

New records. We collected a single female feeding on a donkey in Crete, south of Anogia, 650 m a.s.l., in late May 2006. New record for Crete.