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big eyes - Tabanidae? ID?
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Posted on 01-08-2009 20:51
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location: switzerland, highmoor, near like zurich
date: today
size: about 12 mm

I dont know, where I have to search in the gallery . . .
Thanks for your help, Brigitte
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Correct, it's a Tabanid. A male Atylotus sp. These are tough to get any further but . . . .
 
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Thank you. I overlooked the pic in the gallery - for me not similar enough to be sure . . .
 
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I'd go for male Tabanus maculicornis, you can see the long hairs on the occiput.
In Atylotus, only sublunaticornis has these, which is smaller and without reddish sidemarks on the abdomen.


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