Contribution to the knowledge of Tabanidae (Diptera-Tabanidae) of the Central African Republic

The Author studied a collection of Tabanidae from Centro-African Republic, as requested by two colleagues working there. Among the specimens examined, belonging to three genera (of the Subfamily Tabaninae), five new species were established (Tabanus centroafricanus n. sp., T. cuisancei n. sp., T. pseudothoracinus n. sp., Haematopota amicoi n. sp., and H. touratieri n. sp.) and two others (Haematopota denshamii Austen, 1908 and H. ochracea (Bezzi, 1908)) were referred for the first time on that territory. The definition and the morphological characterization of the new taxa were made, as well as some climato-ecological comments on all the mentioned species. At last, a list of all species, 70 in number, actually known in the Centro-African Republic, was elaborated.