Tabanus Linnaeus

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 : 562

Genus Tabanus Linnaeus

Tabanus Linnaeus, 1758: 601 . Type-species: Tabanus bovinus Linnaeus, 1758: 601 . See Chvála (1988) for full generic synonymy.

Diagnosis. Medium-sized to large species with head broad (not convex or concave anteriorly and/or posteriorly), if convex anteriorly, R4 lacking appendix (except T. leucostomus ), if concave posteriorly not strongly convex anteriorly; frontal calli in females usually well developed, lower callus filling at least 3/4 width of frons; R4 with or without appendix, basicosta densely and entirely covered with dark hairs.