Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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Tabanidae Latreille, 1802

Milan Chvála

Department of Zoology, Charles University Prague, CZ–128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic; mchvala@natur.cuni.cz

The family Tabanidae, the horse-flies, is a well-known group of haematophagous insects of great economic importance. Females of all the Central European species are blood-sucking flies, whereas the males are nectar feeders. Much of the taxonomy of the group and most of the important differential features are based only on the female sex. Females are dichoptic, with many good characters on the head (frontal calli), antenna and abdominal pattern; males are holoptic, and in general have less good differential features.

Altogether some 3500 species are known throughout the world. 166 species are recorded in Europe (Chvála 1980, Chvála et al. 1972), and 63 species are listed in the present checklist. The family was intensively studied during the second half of the last century in the former Czechoslovakia and many faunistic papers were published, culminating in the publication of two books (Chvála 1980, Chvála et al. 1972) with keys for identification. The excellent state of knowledge of this group is demonstrated by the fact that nothing new has been added since the last version of the checklist. Of the 63 listed species, 54 have been found in the Czech Republic (49 species in Bohemia and 48 in Moravia) and 56 in Slovakia.

References

[1] Chvála M. 1980: Tabanidae. In Chvála M. (ed.): Krevsající mouchy a střečci – Diptera. Fauna ČSSR sv. 22. Academia, Praha, pp. 282-390.

[2] Chvála M., Lyneborg L. & Moucha J. 1972: The Horse Flies of Europe (Diptera, Tabanidae). Entomological Society of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 499 pp. + 8 Plates.


CHRYSOPSINAE
Chrysops Meigen, 1803
caecutiens (Linnaeus, 1758)  CZ   (B M ) SK
divaricatus Loew, 1858  CZ   (B ) SK
flavipes Meigen, 1804  CZ   ( M ) SK
parallelogrammus Zeller, 1842  CZ   (B ) SK
relictus Meigen, 1820  CZ   (B M ) SK
rufipes Meigen, 1820  CZ   (B M ) SK
sepulcralis (Fabricius, 1794)  CZ   (B )
viduatus (Fabricius, 1794)  CZ   (B M ) SK
Silvius Meigen, 1820 
alpinus (Scopoli, 1763)  CZ   (B M ) SK
TABANINAE
TABANINI
Atylotus Osten-Sacken, 1876
fulvus (Meigen, 1820)  CZ   (B M ) SK
latistriatus (Brauer, 1880)  CZ   (B )
loewianus (Villeneuve, 1920)  CZ   (B M ) SK
plebejus (Fallén, 1817) CZ   (B M ) SK
rusticus (Linnaeus, 1767) CZ   (B M ) SK
sublunaticornis (Zetterstedt, 1842)  CZ   (B )
Glaucops Szilády, 1923
hirsutus (Villers, 1789)  CZ   (B M )
Hybomitra Enderlein, 1922
acuminata (Loew, 1858)  SK
arpadi (Szilády, 1923) CZ   (B M )
auripila (Meigen, 1820)  CZ   (B M ) SK
bimaculata (Macquart, 1826)  CZ   (B M ) SK
borealis (Fabricius, 1781)  CZ   (B M )
ciureai (Séguy, 1937)  CZ   (B M ) SK
distinguenda (Verrall, 1909)  CZ   (B M ) SK
kaurii Chvála & Lyneborg, 1970  CZ   (B M ) SK
lundbecki Lyneborg, 1959  CZ   (B M ) SK
lurida (Fallén, 1817)  CZ   (B M ) SK
micans (Meigen, 1804)  CZ   (B M ) SK
montana (Meigen, 1820)  CZ   (B M ) SK
muehlfeldi (Brauer, 1880)  CZ   (B M ) SK
nigricornis (Zetterstedt, 1842)  CZ   (B )
nitidifrons confiformis Chvála & Moucha, 1971 CZ   (B M ) SK
pilosa (Loew, 1858)  CZ   ( M ) SK
tropica (Linnaeus, 1758)  CZ   (B M ) SK
Tabanus Linnaeus, 1758
autumnalis Linnaeus, 1761  CZ   (B M ) SK
bifarius Loew, 1858  SK
bovinus Linnaeus, 1758  CZ   (B M ) SK
briani Leclercq, 1962  SK
bromius Linnaeus, 1758  CZ   (B M ) SK
cordiger Meigen, 1820  CZ   (B M ) SK
exclusus Pandellé, 1883  SK
glaucopis Meigen, 1820  CZ   (B M ) SK
maculicornis Zetterstedt, 1842  CZ   (B M ) SK
miki Brauer, 1880  CZ   (B M ) SK
paradoxus Jaennicke, 1866  SK
quatuornotatus Meigen, 1820  CZ   (B M ) SK
regularis Jaennicke, 1866  SK
spodopterus Meigen, 1820  CZ   (B M ) SK
sudeticus Zeller, 1842  CZ   (B M ) SK
tenuicornis (Enderlein, 1932)  CZ   ( M ) SK
tergestinus Egger, 1859  CZ   (B M ) SK
unifasciatus Loew, 1858  SK
Therioplectes Zeller, 1842
gigas (Herbst, 1787)  CZ   ( M ) SK
DIACHLORINI
Philipomyia Olsufjev, 1964
aprica (Meigen, 1820)  CZ   (B M ) SK
graeca (Fabricius, 1794)  CZ   (B M ) SK
HAEMATOPOTiNI
Hematopota Meigen, 1803 in ECV1 all species erroneously in genus Heptatoma Meigen, 1803 
bigoti Gobert, 1881  SK
crassicornis Wahlberg, 1848  CZ   (B M ) SK
csikii Szilády, 1922  SK
grandis Meigen, 1820  CZ   ( M ) SK
italica Meigen, 1804  CZ   (B M ) SK
pluvialis (Linnaeus, 1758)  CZ   (B M ) SK
scutellata (Olsufjev, Moucha & Chvála, 1964) CZ   (B M ) SK
subcylindrica Pandellé, 1883  CZ   (B M ) SK
Heptatoma Meigen, 1803
pellucens (Fabricius, 1776)  CZ   (B M ) SK


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