Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Huge female Tabanus from Jura

Posted by clovis on 21-09-2014 16:40
#1
Hi,

Here is a huge female i found dead in a lake this summer, at foot of reeds, where i guess she was primely laying eegs (?)

Abdomen is really orange, so i ended out on T eggeri, but Jura seems to be a strange place to find a mediterranean specie, so i think i should stay on my first idea: bovinus/sudeticus (a little preference on sudeticus)


www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/image/dos128/big/doucier_juillet_.jpg
Clovis : France : Doucier : 39130 : 17/7/2013
Altitude : 520 m - Taille : 22mm
Réf. : 128891
www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/image/dos128/big/img_5925.jpg.jpg
Clovis : France : Doucier : 39130 : 17/7/2013
Altitude : 520 m - Taille : 22mm
Réf. : 128892
www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/image/dos128/big/img_5928.jpg.jpg
Clovis : France : Doucier : 39130 : 17/7/2013
Altitude : 520 m - Taille : 22mm
Réf. : 128893

Posted by libor on 21-09-2014 17:07
#2
I would say it is T. eggeri.
Libor

Posted by Zeegers on 21-09-2014 19:40
#3
Looks like it !

Pretty far north, indeed.

Theo


Posted by clovis on 21-09-2014 19:50
#4
Youhou, i was right then!!! :D
Thanks to both of you! :)

Posted by Zeegers on 22-09-2014 17:14
#5
Yes, that is a pretty nice find, indeed.

I am curious if it is a migrant or whether there might be a population.

Rectus reached the Netherlands once and spodopterus the northern border of Poland. These things happen once in ten years.

Theo