Tabanus vectensis Cockerell 1921

Insecta - Diptera - Tabanidae

Alternative combination: Chrysops vectensis

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480

Belongs to Tabanus according to W. KrzemiƄski et al. 2019

See also Cockerell 1921 and Stuckenberg 1975

Sister taxa: Tabanus hipparionis, Tabanus parahippi, Tabanus statzi, Tabanus sudeticus, Tabanus tremembeensis

Type specimen: Hooley H.46, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll)

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