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.

Amoudi, M. A. (1989) New records of Tabanidae (Diptera) from south-west Saudi Arabia with some aspects of their distributions and biological information. Journal of Biological Science Research, 20, 115 - 127.

Jezek, J., Tkoc, M. & van Harten, A. (2017) Order Diptera, Family Tabanidae. In: van Harten, A. (Eds.), Arthropod Fauna of the UAE. Abu Dhabi, pp. 477 - 537.

Oldroyd, H. (1954) The Horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Ethiopian Region, Vol. II: Tabanus and Related Genera. British Museum (Natural History) London, 341 pp.

Sasaki, H. (2005) Tabanid flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, East Africa. Journal of Rakuno Gakuen University, 30 (1), 93 - 98.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tabanidae

Genus

Tabanus