Tabanus pungens Wiedemann 1828

Most common in open areas of low elevation.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Neotropics, except West Indies and Chile; Trinidad; U.S.A. (Texas).

Females feed on the blood of large mammals such as cattle and horses.

Immature stages have been collected in moist soil around the roots of grasses and water lettuce.

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta with strong setae as dense as those on the adjoining costa; vertex with a distinct tubercle; scutellum and posterior margin of the mesoscutum without a velvety black spot; not entirely black; subcallus tomentose; abdomen with median and dorsolateral longitudinal stripes; frons less than 4 times as high as the basal width; frontal callus as wide as high, yellow to black; abdomen with a narrow even or irregular pale median stripe overlying a broad black integumental stripe; dorsolateral stripes of broad, pale, oblique contiguous patches; all femora pale reddish; wing clear, cell r5 broadly open.

Localidad del tipo: Uruguay, Montevideo.
Depositario del tipo: Vienna: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Lectotype female).
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