A new species of Tabanus from Yunnan, China (Diptera: Tabanidae).

Tabanus jinghongensis sp. nov (Fig. 1) Eye purple with two green bands, Frons brownish yellow, indes X 5.2. Subcallus, face, cheeks, antenna and palpus brownish yellow. Thorax scutum and scutellum dark brown, covered with brown and black hairs. Tibiae mainly brown with brown hairs. Tergite I brownish yellow covered with brown hairs. Tergites II - VII black covered with black hairs, tergites II - V with one tuft of white hairs on medium-hind margins, Stermum II - VI black with apial white hairs bands. Holotype, female, Mengla County, Yunnan, China, 480 m 23degreeN, 102degreeE, 26 August 1996, was collected. The type is deposited in the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China. The new species is related to Tabanus fujianensis Xu et Xu, 1993, but in Tabanus fujianensis, the tergites II - V of abdomen with apial white hairs bands, the notum of thorax covered with brown-yellow hairs only.