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Index of the Tabanidae (Diptera) in Croatia

Tabanidae horse flies are a lange family of the Diptera order. Horse flies are worldwide known ectoparasitae of Mammalia. Through their nutrition the blood meals taking and annoyance they cause the reduction in the livestock production as well as carry various deseases. That is why the horse flies researches has, besides scientific, also a much broader meaning. In the horse flies fauna of Croatia have till today been recorded 76 species which have been devided in 10 or perhaps 11 genera (Table 1). For the species Pangonius micans, Hybomitra aterrima, and Haematopota gallica there are no exact locations and dates of their collection (MOUCHA, 1959 ; CHVÁLA et al., 1972). The species Chrysops melicharii is marked in the list with the sign minus. The researches mentioned before only with the "Illiric" area, and according to that, it was later aligned with Croatia, as well (KRÖBER, 1932 ; MOUCHA, 1959 ; SURCOUF, 1924). But that is not true because this species was collected near Monfalcone in Italy (MIK, 1898 ; NONVEILLER, 1989). The species Tabanus armeniacus, Tabanus caucasius, Haematopota lambi, Dasyrhamphis algirus, and Dasyrhamphis denticornis were mistakenly mentioned as a part of horse flies fauna of Croatia. Mediteranean and temperate continental elements are present in the horse flies fauna of Croatia, and they point at the necessity of the further systematical entomological and zoogeographical research.

Tabanidae ; Diptera ; Croatia

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