Tabanus biguttatus Wiedemann, 1830

Al-Talafha, Hazem A. & Amr, Zuhair S., 2024, Tabanidae Fauna (Order: Diptera) of the Arab Countries in the Middle East, Ecologica Montenegrina 71, pp. 53-85 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2024.71.7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13250648
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scientific name	Tabanus biguttatus Wiedemann, 1830
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Tabanus biguttatus Wiedemann, 1830 View in CoL

Tabanus biguttatus View in CoL is distributed through Afrotropical region except Congo basin ( Sasaki 2005). This species is known from Saudi Arabia and Yemen ( Amoudi 1989; Ježek et al. 2017). Tabanus biguttatus View in CoL breeds in temporary water bodies and lays the eggs in a spherical mass on grass and reeds, with each mass containing up to 450 eggs ( Oldroyd 1954). The male, according to Oldroyd (1954), prefers tree trunks and huge stones or boulders.