Tabanos

Primarily in forested areas.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: ?Nicaragua; Panama to Venezuela.

Females feed on the blood of mammals, including humans.

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae with apical spurs; antennal flagellum never with more than 5 distinct flagellomeres; ocelli present; wings nearly always with a dark crossband; frontoclypeus bare and shining; discal cell of wing entirely dark; apical spot of wing a slender band along the anterior edge; cell cu1 of the wing with at least the apex hyaline; mesoscutum and pleuron blackish, without stripes or spots; abdomen black with small dull yellow triangles laterally on the second segment and median triangles on tergites 2-5.

Localidad del tipo: Panama, Chiriqui, Progreso.
Depositario del tipo: Ann Arbor: Division of Insects, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan.
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