Tabanus sparus

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Tabanus sparus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tabanidae
Subfamily: Tabaninae
Tribe: Tabanini
Genus: Tabanus
Species:
T. sparus
Binomial name
Tabanus sparus
Whitney, 1879 [1]
Synonyms
  • Tabanus milleriWhitney, 1914

Tabanus sparus is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. [2] [3]

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Distribution

United States.

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Tabanus sparus:

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References

  1. 1 2 Whitney, C.P. (1879). "Descriptions of some new species of Tabanidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 11: 35–38. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  2. ↑ Moucha, J. (1976). "Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements. 7: 1–320. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  3. ↑ Burger, J. F. (1995). "Catalog of Tabanidae (Diptera) in North America north of Mexico". International Contributions on Entomology. Associated Publishers. 1 (1): 1–100.


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