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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Tabanomorpha » Horse and Deer Flies (Tabanidae) » Horse Flies (Tabaninae) » Tabanini » Tabanus » Striped Horse Fly (Tabanus lineola)
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Horse Fly? - Tabanus lineola - male
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Meeds

Horse Fly? - Tabanus lineola - Male
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USA
June 3, 2009
The eyes are like... connected. If this doesn't have a common name, it needs to be called the Cyclops Fly.

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Horse Fly? - Tabanus lineola - male Horse Fly? - Tabanus lineola - male
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Contributed by Andrew Meeds on 21 November, 2009 - 1:23am
Last updated 30 November, 2009 - 5:04pm

Moved
Moved from Tabanus.
… John F. Carr, 21 November, 2009 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 21 November, 2009 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

Also called "male"
Connected eyes ("holoptic") means male in this family.
… John F. Carr, 21 November, 2009 - 7:04am login or register to post comments

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