Diachlorus curvipes (Fabricius 1805)

Most abundant in open lowland areas near swamps or large rivers.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Panama to eastern Peru; Bolivia and Brazil (Para, Rondonia, Mato Grosso, ?Minas Gerais); Trinidad; Suriname.

Females feed on the blood of mammals, including humans and horses.

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta without strong setae; third antennal segment with at most an acute dorsobasal angle; tibiae not or only slightly inflated; wings not glass clear or abdomen drawn out into an elongated point; mesopleura shiny or pearly tomentose in contrast to the rest of the pleuron; labella unsclerotized; frontoclypeus shiny and inflated; wings with a dark subapical patch; mesoscutum with a prominent shiny black area, lacking anterolateral shiny dark spots, the median black shiny area crossed by a prominent central yellow tomentose line that is widened posteriorly.

Localidad del tipo: "South America"
Depositario del tipo: Copenhagen: Department of Entomology, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen.
Recolector del tipo:

Diachlorus curvipes adolah sabuah spesies Tabanidae. Spesies ko juo marupokan bagian dari ordo Diptera, kelas Insecta, filum Arthropoda, dan kingdom Animalia.

Lalek kudo dewasa mahisok nektar dan kadang-kadang sarbuak sari. Betino dari kabanyakan spesies adolah anautojenik, nan artinyo butuah mahisok darah sabalun mampu untuak bareproduksi sacaro efektif. Telua dilatakkan di ateh batu atau vegetasi biasonyo balansuang dakek jo aia misalnyo kolam ranang.