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 Hi

Switzerland, 15.06.2010, 430 msm, near edge of wood and small wetland

There are a lot of pics from this tabanidae. Please ask for more details if needed.

Thanks a lot, Brigitte
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 and this is the male of Tabanus maculicornis for sure.

You can nicely see the curly hairs on the occiput.


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 Hi Theo

still big luck with my pictures: not often the Tabanidae are so kind to bring down their head to show this curly hairs, pic 1, if i unterstood right.
Thank you for the ID.

Best Regards, Brigitte
 
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 Well, I could have IDed pic 2 as well, so no luck here but a good photographer.

By the ways: these don't bite (male !)


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