Tabanus nigrovittatus

Taxobox | name = Greenhead Horse Fly


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status = secure
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. nigrovittatus"
binomial = "Tabanus nigrovittatus"
binomial_authority = Macquart, 1847
synonyms = "Tabanus allynii" Marten, 1883 "Tabanus contactus" Walker, 1850 "Tabanus floridanus" Szilady, 1926 "Tabanus fulvilineis" Philip, 1958 "Tabanus simulans" Walker, 1848

"Tabanus nigrovittatus" also known as the Greenhead horse fly or the Salt marsh greenhead is a species of biting horse-fly. Commonly found around coastal marshes of the Eastern United States. The biting females are a considerable pest to both humans and animals while they seek a source of blood protein to produce additional eggs. Females live for three to four weeks and may lay about 100 to 200 eggs per blood meal. [cite book|author=Stubbs, A. and Drake, M.|year=2001 |title=British Soldierflies and their Allies|pages=512 pp|BENHS]

ee also

List of soldierflies and allies recorded in Britain

References