Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Thai. Tabanidae
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 17-11-2006 10:47
#1
Pattaya, 9-10mm, in grass.
Since long time I didn't send fly for Theo:D
Posted by Zeegers on 17-11-2006 11:52
#2
This is a well known Tabanus from southeast Asia, but I don't know it by heart.
Need to look it up.
At the moment, I don't have time,
I will report next week.
Thanks
Theo
Posted by Susan R Walter on 17-11-2006 14:24
#3
Nikita
It is very like this one
http://www.dipter...#post_6652 that I took just inside the tropical zone in central northern Australia. Similar size and markings, but impossible to tell from my photo if they are same unfortunately. I await Theo's response on yours with interest.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 17-11-2006 14:47
#4
OK Susan, let's wait altougether;)
Nikita
Posted by Zeegers on 20-11-2006 16:55
#5
Hi Nikita
I'm back.
It is a female Tabanus somewhere near T. striatus.
However, there are many of these in Thailand and I'm not an oriental expert, so T. striatus group is what I can do.
Theo Zeegers
Posted by Zeegers on 20-11-2006 17:05
#6
And to Susan:
Yours is similar at first glance. However, the frontal stripe seems much broader and the thoracic pattern is very different, so absolutely a different species.'
It might even not be Tabanus, some Pseudotabanus (Chrysopsinae) are very similar ! (what's in a name)
Theo
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 22-11-2006 13:38
#7
Thank you Theo.
Nikita
Posted by Susan R Walter on 11-12-2006 13:38
#8
Many thanks Theo - I wasn't sure whether the differences were real or just a product of my poor quality photo. It would have been nice to put a name to it, since it got familiar enough to bite me, but always useful to know what something is not as well. I don't know Pseudotabanus at all, but it wouldn't surprise me if that is what it is - Australia seems to be full of Pseudo-this and Para-that.