Rhabdotylus Lutz, 1913

Turcatel, Mauren, 2019, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Rhabdotylus Lutz, 1913 (Diptera: Tabanidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 7, pp. 36277-36277 : 36277

Rhabdotylus Lutz, 1913

Rhabdotylus Lutz, 1909: 29 (1911: 34), nomen nudum ( Lutz 1909, Lutz 1911).

Rhabdotylus Rhabdotylus Lutz 1913 Lutz 1914 Trojan 1998 Tabanus planiventris Wiedemann 1828 Bequaert 1924 Tabanus rubrum Thunberg 1827 Fairchild 1951 Fairchild 1961a

Gymnochela Enderlein, 1925: 388 ( Enderlein 1925). Type species: Tabanus planiventris Wiedemann, 1828 = Tabanus rubrum Thunberg, 1827.

Rhabdotylus

Diagnosis

Includes species with typically medium-sized bodies (13-15mm), greenish or yellow to brown; eyes bare; ocellar tubercle and ocelli indistinct; frontal callus as wide as frons, mid callus connected to frontal callus, both the same color as frons; subcallus bare; short robust antenna, basal flagellomere of antenna with long and curved dorsal spine; palpus shorter than proboscis; labellum totally sclerotized; wings hyaline, sometimes yellowish; legs slender, scarcely haired; abdomen with distal bands on tergites.

Species

Rhabdotylus rubrum (Thunberg, 1827), R. venenatum (Osten Sacken, 1886), R. viridiventris (Macquart, 1838).