Species Tabanus nigrovittatus - Greenhead

Classification · Food · Remarks · Internet References

Greenhead Fly - Tabanus nigrovittatus - female

Red and Green Eyes - Tabanus nigrovittatus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Infraorder Tabanomorpha

Family Tabanidae (Horse and Deer Flies)

Subfamily Tabaninae (Horse Flies)

Genus Tabanus

Species nigrovittatus (Greenhead)

Food

Larvae are predatory. Adult females require blood to lay a second egg mass.

Remarks

A common pest of East Coast salt marshes.

Internet References

"The greenhead and you", Rutgers

"Greenheads arrive at refuge, right on time", Newburyport News July 3, 2008

Contributed by tom murray on 27 July, 2005 - 7:16pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 12 July, 2011 - 5:31pm

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