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Tribe Diachlorini

deer fly - Diachlorus ferrugatus Horse Fly - Leucotabanus ambiguus Yellow Fly - Chlorotabanus crepuscularis - male Horse Fly - Leucotabanus annulatus - female deer fly? - Diachlorus ferrugatus - male Horse Fly - Leucotabanus annulatus - male Is this Tabanus sp., Horse Fly, teneral?? - Chlorotabanus crepuscularis green fly?? - Chlorotabanus crepuscularis - 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 Diachlorini
Numbers
~20 spp. in 8 genera in our area(1), ~210 spp. in >30 genera total(2)
Works Cited
1.Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 1
Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1981. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.
2.BioLib.cz
Contributed by v belov on 25 August, 2015 - 1:50pm
Last updated 10 August, 2021 - 3:35pm

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