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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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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