Tabanus surifer Fairchild 1964

Found in heavily forested areas with high rainfall.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Panama; Colombia (Choco, Valle del Cauca, Meta); eastern Peru.

Females feed on the blood of mammals, including humans.

Immature stages unknown.

Hine tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta with strong setae as dense as those on the adjoining costa; vertex without a tubercle; scutellum and posterior margin of the mesoscutum without a velvety black spot; body not wholly black; wing not heavily spotted; abdomen red and coppery haired on the first 4 tergites and the anterior middle of tergite 5, remainder dark and black haired; face, genae and beard brown; antennae orange, unusually long and slender, with the dorsal tooth close to the base of the basal flagellomere; wing evenly tinted, with a long spur at the fork of veins R4 and R5.

Localidad del tipo: Panama, Panama Prov., Cerro Campana.
Depositario del tipo: Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Recolector del tipo:

Tabanus surifer 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.