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orange-striped tabanid - top - Diachlorus ferrugatus

orange-striped tabanid - top - Diachlorus ferrugatus
Everglades City, Collier County, Florida, USA
April 4, 2006
Size: body 8-10 mm
on wall of building at night

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orange-striped tabanid - top - Diachlorus ferrugatus orange-striped tabanid - side - Diachlorus ferrugatus

Known in some
Americam literature as "The Yellow Fly of the Dismal Swamp".

 
D. ferrugatus
Thanks again, Tony. I had seen two of these earlier in the day in a dense cypress swamp that completely blocked the sun; dark and dismal would be a fitting description of the habitat.

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