New records, descriptions, and redescriptions of male horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Brazil

Lia Pereira Oliveira; Augusto Loureiro Henriques; Tiago Kütter Krolow

doi:10.12741/ebrasilis.v16.e1033

Authors

Lia Pereira Oliveira Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Porto Nacional, Tocantins, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3882-2387
Augusto Loureiro Henriques Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6601-2061
Tiago Kütter Krolow Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Porto Nacional, Tocantins, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6453-0057

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v16.e1033

Keywords:

Entomological collections, light traps, pollination, taxonomy, terminalia

Abstract

Tabanidae Latreille are hematophagous and act as mechanical and biological vectors of several pathogens, and therefore they have been widely studied in both ecology and public health, as well as in taxonomy works. Males are nectarivorous and rarely captured, so for most species they remain unknown. Thus, we aimed to describe/redescribe the males of five species: Esenbeckia osornoi Fairchild, 1942, Acanthocera marginalis Walker, 1854, Dicladocera mutata Fairchild, 1958, Stypommisa aripuana Fairchild & Wilkerson, 1986, and Tabanus mucronatus Fairchild, 1961. Three males are described for the first time and two others are redescribed, we also provide a complete description of the species, including photographs of habitus, head and genitalia.

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