🦋 Family

Tabanidae

33 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Diptera › Tabanidae

Diachlorus ferrugatus, the yellow fly, is a biting insect found from the southeastern US to Costa Rica near water.

Chlorotabanus crepuscularis is the only green North American horse fly, a blood-feeding nocturnal insect with blue blood and glowing brown eyes.

Philipomyia aprica is a horse fly found across most of Europe and the Near East, with distinct physical traits for adult females.

Haematopota pluvialis, the common horse fly, is a striped-eyed fly found across Europe, the Near East, and eastern Palearctic.

Heptatoma is a mostly monotypic European fly genus containing the extant species Heptatoma pellucens and one extinct fossil species.

Scaptia auriflua is a 10mm insect that mimics bees, with golden dense hair and color-changing meeting eyes.

Osca lata is a large South American horse fly species with distinctive reddish-orange markings, whose females need mammalian blood to produce eggs.

Stonemyia tranquilla, the peaceful stonian horsefly, is a non-blood-feeding tabanid fly found across Canada and the United States.

Goniops chrysocoma is the only fly species in genus Goniops of Tabanidae, found in Canada and the United States.

Related Families

Syrphidae 232 species Cecidomyiidae 92 species Tephritidae 78 species Tachinidae 58 species Culicidae 54 species Bombyliidae 53 species Stratiomyidae 51 species Asilidae 49 species

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