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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) and Latreille (1796); to Antliata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Tabanii by Latreille (1802); to Tabanidae by Aldrich (1905), Cockerell (1909), Theobald (1937) and Carpenter (1992); to Tabaninae by Statz (1940) and Martins-Neto (1997); and to Tabanini by Morita et al. (2016).
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) and Latreille (1796); to Antliata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Tabanii by Latreille (1802); to Tabanidae by Aldrich (1905), Cockerell (1909), Theobald (1937) and Carpenter (1992); to Tabaninae by Statz (1940) and Martins-Neto (1997); and to Tabanini by Morita et al. (2016).
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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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 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
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Piacenzian or 37.20000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 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 | United Kingdom (England) | Chrysops vectensis (123960) | |
| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | T. parahippi, T. hipparionis (114150) | |
| MP 23 | France | T. sp. (122536) | |
| Chattian | Brazil | T. tremembeensis (153054) | |
| Chattian | Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) | T. fulvescens (122010) | |
| Piacenzian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | T. sudeticus (109196 167949) |