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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Tabanomorpha » Horse and Deer Flies (Tabanidae) » Deer Flies (Chrysopsinae) » Chrysopsini » Chrysops » flavidus group (Chrysops flavidus group)

flavidus group

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Chrysops flavidus ??? - Chrysops - female Chrysops - female Deer Fly - Chrysops - female Deer fly - Chrysops brunneus - male Deer fly - Chrysops Deer Fly? - Chrysops brunneus - female Chrysops flavidus agg. - Chrysops Chrysops flavidus? - Chrysops flavidus
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 Chrysopsinae (Deer Flies)
Tribe Chrysopsini
Genus Chrysops
No Taxon flavidus group
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1)
Numbers
9 spp.
Identification
Face and frontal callus shining yellow. Thorax with three stripes darker than background color. With with first basal cell (br) more or less half dark, second basal cell (bm) less dark. Crossband reaches hind margin of wing, apical spot connected to crossband with hyaline triangle not reaching R2+3. Dark triangle on tergite 2, point forward.
Range
e US, NB & ON
Works Cited
1.A revision of the flavidus group of the genus Chrysops Meigen (Diptera : Tabanidae)
Baier, T. M. 1999. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101: 175-196.
Contributed by John F. Carr on 8 January, 2012 - 5:40pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Chuck Sexton
Last updated 12 August, 2021 - 3:18pm

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