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Tabanus

Insecta - Diptera - Tabanidae

Taxonomy

Tabanus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Tabanidae, Tabaninae, Tabanini.

It was assigned to Halterata by Scopoli (1763); to Diptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796); to Antliata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); to Tabanii by Latreille (1802); to Tabanidae by Aldrich (1905), Cockerell (1909), Theobald (1937), Carpenter (1992); to Tabaninae by Statz (1940), Martins-Neto (1997); and to Tabanini by Morita et al. (2016).

Species

T. hipparionis, T. parahippi, T. statzi (syn. T. fulvescens), T. sudeticus, T. tremembeensis, T. vectensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Tabanus Linnaeus p. 601
1761	Tabanus Linnaeus p. 462
1762	Tabanus Geoffroy p. 457
1763	Tabanus Scopoli p. 370
1764	Tabanus Müller p. 86
1766	Tabanus Schaeffer
1767	Tabanus Linnaeus p. 999
1768	Tabanus Strøm p. 357
1770	Tabanus Drury
1771	Tabanus Forster p. 100
1775	Tabanus Fabricius p. 788
1776	Tabanus Müller p. 179
1796	Tabanus Latreille p. 160
1798	Tabanus Fabricius p. 567
1802	Tabanus Latreille p. 438
1905	Tabanus Aldrich p. 200
1909	Tabanus Cockerell
1937	Tabanus Theobald p. 413
1940	Tabanus Statz p. 130
1992	Tabanus Carpenter
1997	Tabanus Martins-Neto p. 52
2016	Tabanus Morita et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
—	Homeodactyla
infraorder	Tabanomorpha	Hennig 1948
family	Tabanidae	()
subfamily	Tabaninae
tribe	Tabanini
genus	Tabanus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Tabanus Linnaeus 1758

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†Tabanus hipparionis Cockerell 1909

†Tabanus parahippi Cockerell 1909

†Tabanus statzi Moucha 1972

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Invalid names: Tabanus fulvescens Statz 1940 [replaced]

Tabanus sudeticus Zeller 1842 [dark giant horsefly]

†Tabanus tremembeensis Martins-Neto 1997

†Tabanus vectensis Cockerell 1921

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Piacenzian or 37.00000 to 2.58000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Chrysops vectensis (123960)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	T. parahippi, T. hipparionis (114150)
MP 23	33.9 - 27.3	France	T. sp. (122536)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Brazil	T. tremembeensis (153054)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	T. fulvescens (122010)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.58	Germany (Niedersachsen)	T. sudeticus (109196 167949)