| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1980 |
| Authors: | G. B. Fairchild |
| Journal: | Florida Entomologist |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Pagination: | 344-345 |
| Date Published: | 1980 |
| Keywords: | Florida, Tabanidae, Tabanus aranti, Tabanus pungens, USA |
| Abstract: | The results of a survey of tabanids in Florida in 1977 indicated that some species previously recorded from that state had been misidentified. One of these was recorded as Tabanus nigrescens var. atripennis Stone in 1938, since when it had not been collected from Florida; from reexamination of one of the Florida specimens the author concludes that it is actually T. aranti Hays (the bulk of the type material being from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas). In addition, a species actually collected in Texas but housed in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, T. pungens Wied., is recorded for the first time from the USA; it is common in tropical areas from Mexico to Argentina. |
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