| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1987 |
| Authors: | B. M. Drees |
| Journal: | Annals of the Entomological Society of America |
| Volume: | 80 |
| Pagination: | 51-54 |
| Date Published: | 1987 |
| Keywords: | Larvae, Tabanidae, Tabanus atratus, Texas, USA |
| Abstract: | Final instars of 4 Afrotropical Tabanus species construct mud cylinders in which pupation occurs. This behaviour is believed to ensure adult survival where mud in which these species develop becomes dry and cracked during dry seasons. Evidence of construction of mud cylinders by T. atratus and possibly other species that construct similar mud cylinders is described from Texas. Differences between, and possible explanations for, the construction of Afrotropical and Texas mud cylinders are discussed. |
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