| Chrysops excitans | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tabanidae |
| Subfamily: | Chrysopsinae |
| Tribe: | Chrysopsini |
| Genus: | Chrysops |
| Species: | C. excitans |
| Binomial name | |
| Chrysops excitans | |
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Chrysops excitans is a species of deer fly in the family Tabanidae. [3] [4]
Tabanus nigrovittatus, also known as the greenhead horse fly, salt marsh greenhead, or simply the greenhead fly, greenhead or greenfly, is a species of horse-fly commonly found around the coastal marshes and wetlands of the Eastern United States. They are smaller than most horsefly species, instead being close in size to a common housefly. The biting females are a considerable pest to both humans and animals while they seek a source of blood protein to produce additional eggs: greenhead larvae develop in the mud of salt marshes, and adult flies mate and lay their first group of eggs in the marsh, but to lay more eggs a female fly needs to drink an animal's blood, and so female greenheads which have laid eggs fly inland to look for prey in the area bordering the marsh; they can stay on land looking for animals to bite for up to four weeks. Their bites itch, like those of mosquitoes, but are more painful, since greenheads feed by cutting a wound in the skin with scissor-like mouth parts and sucking the blood released through it. Females live for three to four weeks and may lay about 100 to 200 eggs per blood meal. The eggs are laid on the grass in a salt marsh; the larvae live in the intertidal mud of the salt marsh for one or two years, preying on other invertebrates, before pupating in early spring. The adult flies emerge in late spring and are most common from late June to August.
Superfamily Tabanoidea are insects in the order Diptera.
Scaptia is a genus of horse-fly in the tribe Scionini.
Scepsis is a genus of horseflies of the family Tabanidae.
Tabanus fulvulus is a horse fly in the subfamily Tabaninae, in the order Diptera ("flies").
Chrysopsinae is an insect subfamily in the family Tabanidae commonly known as deer flies or sheep flies and are bloodsucking insects considered pests to humans and cattle. They are large flies with large brightly-coloured compound eyes, and large clear wings with dark bands. They are larger than the common housefly and smaller than the horse-fly.
Tabanus conterminus is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae.
Hybomitra frontalis is a species of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.
Tabanus quinquevittatus is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae.
Hybomitra lasiophthalma is a species of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.
Philoliche is a genus of long-tongued horse-flies found in the Old World. It is placed in the tribe Philolichini. The clade is thought to have originated about 40 million years ago and the 120 or more species are thought to have originated in Africa and expanded into Asia. The plants that they pollinate tend to have elongate corolla tubes.
Pangoniinae is a subfamily of horse-flies in the order Diptera, containing at seven tribes and over 40 genera.
Scionini is a tribe of horse and deer flies in subfamily Pangoniinae of family Tabanidae.
Chrysops provocans is a species of deer fly in the family Tabanidae.
Pityocera is a genus of flies in the family Tabanidae.
Osca is a genus of horse-flies in the tribe Scionini.
Hybomitra hirta is an Asian species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae.
Phaeotabanus is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.
Stenotabanus taeniotes is a species of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.
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