''Chlorotabanus'' is a genus of
horse flies in the family
Tabanidae
Horse flies and deer flies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. The adults are often large and agile in flight. Only females bite land vertebrates, including humans, to obtain blood. They prefer to fly in sunli ...
.
Though there were earlier descriptions of the genus, they did not fit the qualification of the Code of the International Zoological Nomenclature, thus the genus was officially accepted in 1913 by the scientific community.
Behavior
All species under this genus are crepuscular and nocturnal.
Description
Most notable characteristic is that the all species under this genus have a pale green body color and solid colored eyes. Other key features are the sclerotized labella and the lack of a frontal callus.
They resemble
Phaeotabanus in structure the most compared to other Tabanids.
Distribution
Majority of this genus can be found in South America, while only one species (''
Chlorotabanus crepuscularis'') is endemic to North America.
Species
*''
Chlorotabanus crepuscularis''
Bequaert
Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgium, Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts.William J. Clench, Clench WJ (1982). "Joseph Charles Bequaert". ''The Nauti ...
, 1926
*''
Chlorotabanus fairchildi'' (
Wilkerson, 1979)
*''
Chlorotabanus falsiflagellatus'' (
Krolow & Henriques, 2010)
*''
Chlorotabanus flagellatus'' (
Krolow & Henriques, 2009)
*''
Chlorotabanus inanis''
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**Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome
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*''
Chlorotabanus leucochlorus''
(Fairchild, 1961)
*''
Chlorotabanus leuconotus'' (
Krolow & Henriques, 2010)
*''
Chlorotabanus mexicanus''
(Linnaeus
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, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
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*''
Chlorotabanus microceratus'' (
Krolow & Henriques, 2010)
*''
Chlorotabanus ochreus'' (
Philip & Fairchild, 1956)
*''
Chlorotabanus parviceps''
( Kröber, 1934)
References
Tabanidae
Brachycera genera
Diptera of South America
Diptera of North America
Taxa named by Adolfo Lutz
Tabanoidea genera
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