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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 » lineola complex (Tabanus lineola complex)
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Possible Deer Fly - Tabanus
Copyright © 2007 Jay Greenberg

Possible Deer Fly - Tabanus
Thousand Acre Swamp in Penfield, Monroe County, New York, USA
August 5, 2007
Size: 0.5 inch
I suspect this is a deer fly, but I haven't been able to find anything quite like it.

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Contributed by Jay Greenberg on 8 August, 2007 - 4:05pm
Last updated 29 June, 2011 - 3:56am

Moved
Moved from Tabanus.
… Keith Bayless, 29 June, 2011 - 3:56am login or register to post comments

Can't see enough detail
to decide which species; either Tabanus lineola or T. similis; a female.
… A.W. Thomas, 9 August, 2007 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

 
Tony, he's posted a second shot
I thought you might miss it, but figured you were subscribed here.
… Ron Hemberger, 10 August, 2007 - 6:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Easy to miss
So many images being posted daily that it's difficult to keep up with them.
This doesn't help! The main character for separting the 2 spp. in NY is the scutellum:
see here
same colour as thorax in lineola
reddish or with reddish edge on posterior margin; specimens with reddish scutellum are thus easily identified but some similis have a dark scutellum with very little or no red and these are cannot easily be separated from lineola.
… A.W. Thomas, 11 August, 2007 - 9:57am login or register to post comments

Horse Fly (Tabaninae) - female
The name "Deer Fly" applies to members of the Chrysopinae subfamily (Chrysops and related genera), Although rather small-sized for the group, this one is either a Tabanus, an Hybomitra or another genus of the Tabaninae subfamily (Horse Flies).
… Richard Vernier, 9 August, 2007 - 3:59am login or register to post comments

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