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Tabanus spodopteroides?
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Posted on 16-10-2012 18:03
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Found dead on summer 2000, Iberian peninsula: Catalonia: Girona province: Beuda; UTM 31T DG7477, 395 m. Total lenghth 19,5 mm; frontal índex=4 (=52/13)

This fly was previously identified as Tabanus eggeri, but...
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it has some red at laterl thorax
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a female
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... and the antenna
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Hi Rafael

Definitely NOT eggeri and it really looks like spodoperoides


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Well, in the spanish keys (someone left to me) it is needed the back tibiae, but it does'nt fit with the other alternatives (bovinus, tinctus, sudeticus), so cf. spodopteroides
Thanks anyway
 
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