Species Tabanus calens

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Works Cited

Another Tabanus calens? - Tabanus calens - female

Pennsylvania Fly for ID - Tabanus calens

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 Tabanini

Genus Tabanus

Species calens (Tabanus calens)

Explanation of Names

Tabanus calens Linnaeus 1758

Numbers

2 sspp.: T. c. calens and T. c. giganteus De Geer

Size

22-24 mm(1)

Identification

Abdomen uniformly dark or with small white patches, eyes uniformly dark, thorax faintly striped, antenna bright orange, wings uniformly brownish

Range

Eastern USA, except Gulf states, and the southern tip of Ontario

Season

Jul-Sep in NC(2)

Works Cited

1.	Tabanidae of Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains 2: a photographic key to the genera and species of Tabaninae... Thomas A.W. 2011. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification No.13.

2.	Insects of North Carolina C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

Contributed by A.W. Thomas on 10 September, 2006 - 4:30pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 10 August, 2021 - 8:21pm

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