Chlorotabanus Explained

Chlorotabanus is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.^{[1] [2] [3]} Though there were earlier descriptions of the genus, they did not fit the qualification of the Code of the International Zoological Nomenclature, thus the genus was officially accepted in 1913 by the scientific community.

Behavior

All species under this genus are crepuscular and nocturnal.

Description

Most notable characteristic is that the all species under this genus have a pale green body color and solid colored eyes. Other key features are the sclerotized labella and the lack of a frontal callus.

They resemble Phaeotabanus in structure the most compared to other Tabanids.^[4]

Distribution

Majority of this genus can be found in South America, while only one species (Chlorotabanus crepuscularis) is endemic to North America.

Species

• Chlorotabanus crepuscularis Bequaert, 1926^[5]
• Chlorotabanus fairchildi (Wilkerson, 1979)^[6]
• Chlorotabanus falsiflagellatus (Krolow & Henriques, 2010)^[7]
• Chlorotabanus flagellatus (Krolow & Henriques, 2009)
• Chlorotabanus inanis (Fabricius, 1787)^[8]
• Chlorotabanus leucochlorus (Fairchild, 1961)
• Chlorotabanus leuconotus (Krolow & Henriques, 2010)^[7]
• Chlorotabanus mexicanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Chlorotabanus microceratus (Krolow & Henriques, 2010)^[7]
• Chlorotabanus ochreus (Philip & Fairchild, 1956)
• Chlorotabanus parviceps (Kröber, 1934)

Notes and References

1. Moucha . J. . Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue. . Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements . 1976 . 7 . 1–320 . 11 September 2022.
2. Fairchild . G.B. . Family Tabanidae . Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States . 1971 . 28 . 163 pp.
3. Catalog of Tabanidae (Diptera) in North America north of Mexico . 1995 . Burger . J. F. . International Contributions on Entomology. 1 . 1 . 1–100. Associated Publishers .
4. Fairchild . G.B . 1969 . Notes on neotropical Tabanidae XII. Classification and distribution, with keys to genera and subgenera . Arquivos de Zoologica . University of São Paulo . 17 . 4 . 199–255.
5. Bequaert . J.C. . Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to the Amazon, in conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925. Part II. Medical and economic entomology . Contributions from the Harvard Institute for Tropical Biology and Medicine . 1926 . 4 . 155–257, pls. 61–67.
6. Wilkerson . R.C. . Horse flies (Dipt. Taban.) of the Colombian departments of Choco, Valle and Cauca . Cespedesia . 1979 . 8 . 87–433.
7. Krolow . T.K. . Henriques . A.L. . Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Chlorotabanus Lutz, 1913 (Diptera: Tabanidae) . Zootaxa . 2010 . 2656 . 1–40 . 15 October 2022.
8. Book: Fabricius . J.C. . Mantissa insectorum . 2 . 1787 . C. G. Proft . Hafniae [=Copenhagen] . [2] + 382 pp.