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Species Tabanus nigrovittatus - Greenhead

Greenhead Fly - Tabanus nigrovittatus - female

Greenhead - Tabanus nigrovittatus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)

Infraorder Tabanomorpha

Family Tabanidae (Horse and Deer Flies)

Subfamily Tabaninae (Horse Flies)

Tribe Tabanini

Genus Tabanus

Species nigrovittatus (Greenhead)

Explanation of Names

Tabanus nigrovittatus Macquart 1847

Remarks

common on East Coast salt marshes, "The bane of bathers"(1)

With known pathogenic transmission of Anaplasma marginale, a bacteria that affects cattle; Western Equine Encephalitis virus, a virus that can infect mammals, usually horses, but including humans; and Bacillus anthracis, or anthrax.

Works Cited

1.	The horse flies and deer flies of Maine (Diptera, Tabanidae) Pechuman L.L., Dearborn R. 1996. Maine Agric. & Forest Exp. Sta. Technical bulletin 160, iv+24 pp.

Contributed by tom murray on 27 July, 2005 - 7:16pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 27 April, 2022 - 5:24pm

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