Tabanus autumnalis

Taxobox | name = "Tabanus autumnalis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Endopterygota|
ordo = Diptera
subordo = Brachycera
infraordo = Tabanomorpha
superfamilia = Tabanoidea
familia = Tabanidae
subfamilia = Tabaninae
tribus = Tabanini
genus = "Tabanus"
species = "T. autumnalis"
species_authority = Linnaeus, 1761
binomial = "Tabanus autumnalis"
synonyms = *"Tabanus brunnescens" Szilady, 1914
*"Tabanus molestans" Becker, 1914

"Tabanus autumnalis", the Large Marsh Horsefly, is a medium sized species of biting horsefly. It is somewhat scarce compaired to "T. bromius" and "T. bovinus". This species shows slightly more of a preference for coastal marsh than some of the other European "Tabanus", sometime even found in saltmashes. Wing lenth is 13-16mm and about 16-22mm in body length. [cite book|author=Stubbs, A. and Drake, M.|year=2001 |title=British Soldierflies and Their Allies: A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera|pages=512 pp|publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society |language=English|isbn=1899935045]

ee also

List of soldierflies and allies recorded in Britain

References