New records for the horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Jordan with remarks on ecology and zoogeography

Günter C. Müller*, Jerome A. Hogsette, Edita E. Revay, Vasiliy D. Kravchenko, Andrey Leshvanov, Yosef Schlein

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Abstract

The horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Jordan is, after Israel, the richest in the Levant, with 24 known species. During the 20-year project "The Ecology and Zoogeography of the Lepidoptera of the Near East," we regularly collected blood-feeding flies, resulting in 11 additional species of Tabanidae for Jordan. The new records are: Atylotus quadrifarius (Loew, 1874), Chrysops caecutiens (Linnaeus, 1758), Dasyrhamphis nigritus (Fabricius, 1794), Haematopota pallens Loew, 1871, Nemorius irritans (Ricardo, 1901), Philipomyia graeca (Fabricius, 1794), Tabanus cordiger Meigen, 1820, Tabanus taeniola Palisot de Beauvois, 1806, Tabanus quatuornotatus Meigen, 1820, Tabanus separatus Effllatoun, 1930, and Tabanus spectabilis Loew, 1858. Most of the new records (10/11) are of Palearctic origin; of these, six are of a Mediterranean and one each of West Palearctic, Euroasiatic, Irano-Turanian, and Eremic providence. Only one species, T. taeniola, is an Afrotropical-Eremic element.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)447-450
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Vector Ecology
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2011

Keywords

  • Hosts
  • Jordan
  • Levant
  • Palaearctic
  • Tabanidae
  • Zoogeography

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