| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1990 |
| Authors: | R. J. Phelps, Holloway M. T. P. |
| Journal: | Medical and Veterinary Entomology |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Pagination: | 349-356 |
| Date Published: | 1990 |
| Keywords: | Africa, Atylotus agrestis, Behaviour, Cattle, Haematopota albihirta, Haematopota daveyi, Haematopota decora, Haematopota fasciatapex, Haematopota maculosifacies, Haematopota nocens, Haematopota obsoleta, Haematopota rubens, Philoliche fodiens, Philoliche medialis, Philoliche silverlocki, Philoliche zonata, Tabanidae, Tabanus atrimanus, Tabanus copemani, Tabanus gratus, Tabanus leucostomus, Tabanus liventipes, Tabanus pertinens, Tabanus pullulus, Tabanus unilineatus, Zimbabwe |
| Abstract: | Twenty-one species of Tabanidae from four genera were recorded. Where samples were large enough, the preferred alighting sites were determined for the tabanids, and differences in such sites were found for species in three genera. The lower legs of the bait ox were the preferred alighting site for 61.8% of the flies. In the season of peak fly numbers, the bait ox was under stress from the tabanids. |
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