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lineola complex (Tabanus lineola complex)
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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
.
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Keith Bayless
, 29 June, 2011 - 3:56am
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Can't see enough detail
to decide which species; either
Tabanus lineola
or
T. similis
; a female.
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A.W. Thomas
, 9 August, 2007 - 11:50am
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Tony, he's posted a second shot
I thought you might miss it, but figured you were subscribed here.
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Ron Hemberger
, 10 August, 2007 - 6:41pm
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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
.
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A.W. Thomas
, 11 August, 2007 - 9:57am
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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).
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Richard Vernier
, 9 August, 2007 - 3:59am
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