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Key to the horse flies fauna of Croatia (Diptera, Tabanidae)

Background and Purpose: The aim of the present paper is to presentation of a key for subfamilies, genera and species of Croatian horse flies (Tabanidae) fauna. Material and Methods: A key to the horse flies (Tabanidae) occuring in the Croatian fauna include both all available literary records and the all faunistical data of our study from the nineties of last century to first ten years of 21st century. The most of sampled species are deposited in the collections of the Department of Biology, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek. Horse flies were collected using various methods: with the entomological net, by the hand around livestock on pasture, by Malaise traps and by modified canopy traps. Results and Conclusions: The horse flies (Tabanidae) fauna of Croatia consists of 78 species belonging to 10 genera and 2 subfamilies. The most numerous is the genus Tabanus with 30 species, while other genera are represented as follows: Hybomitra with 17 species, Haematopota with 9 species, Chrysops 7 species, Atylotus 5 species, Dasyrhamphis 3 species, Silvius, Therioplectes, Philipomyia with two species each and Heptatoma with one species.

Fauna; Diptera; Tabanidae; horse flies; Croatia

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