Tabanos

Lowland forest species below 800 mts.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Nicaragua to northern Brazil and eastern Peru.

Females feed on the blood of large mammals including humans.

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta without strong setae; third antennal segment with a strong dorsobasal forward pointing spine which often reaches to or beyond the end of the basal flagellomere; eyes bare; not a stout, bee-like species; antennal scape not greatly elongated; frontal callus as wide as the front; wings with dark markings, sometimes faint; species not entirely black; mesoscutum transversely banded; frontoclypeus tomentose; at least the fifth tergite with a pale hind border or tuft or triangle of pale hairs; proximal margin of the wing fascia straight or somewhat dentate, generally passing proximal to the fork of veins R4 and R5; fascia faint and dilute, strongest along the proximal border; mesoscutum and abdomen with prominent yellow haired bands; prescutellar pale band as wide as or wider than the dark intraalar band; femora all yellow; front 2.5-3.1 times as high as the basal width; males with upper eye facets greatly enlarged.

Localidad del tipo: French Guiana, Cayenne.
Depositario del tipo: London: The Natural History Museum.
Recolector del tipo:

Dichelacera marginata 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.