Osca lata explained

Osca lata, the coliguacho or black horse fly, is a large horse fly whose range includes southern Chile and southern Argentina.^{[1] [2] [3]} The fly has a striking reddish-orange coloration on the side of its thorax and abdomen. It is generally around 2 cm. in adult size.^[4]

Like most species of horse flies, the females of Scaptia lata need to feed on mammalian blood before they can produce eggs.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. González . Christian R. . Elgueta . Mario . KJrolow . Tiago Kütter . Henriques . Augusto Loureiro . Catalog of the horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Chile . Zootaxa . 2022 . 5091 . 2 . 201–257.
2. Web site: Horse Fly from Patagonia . 3 January 2009 . What's That Bug . 17 February 2010.
3. Web site: Tábano - Coliguacho (Colihuacho) . Pucón Chile . 17 February 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110707012101/http://www.pucononline.cl/articulo.php?p_id=108 . 7 July 2011 .
4. Moucha . J. . Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue. . Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements . 1976 . 7 . 1–320 . 11 September 2022.
5. González . C. R. . Sanhueza . Y. . 2004 . Comparative study of mouthparts of the female of three species of Scaptia (Scaptia) Walker from Chile (Diptera: Tabanidae). . Acta Entomológica Chilena . 0716-5072 . 487184759 . 28 . 1 . 23–31 . Instituto de Entomología.
6. Fairchild . G.B. . Burger . J.F. . A catalog of the Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Americas south of the United States . Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute . 1994 . 55 . vii + 249.