Taxonomic study of the genus Tabanus Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Tabanidae) in East Azarbaijan province with three species as new records for the Iranian fauna

Moayyed Mazraeh, Fatemeh; Khaghaninia, Samad; Iranipour, Shahzad; Kilic, Ali Yavuz

doi:10.52547/jibs.4.2.105

Taxonomic study of the genus Tabanus Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Tabanidae) in East Azarbaijan province with three species as new records for the Iranian fauna

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

Fatemeh Moayyed Mazraeh ¹

Samad Khaghaninia ¹

Shahzad Iranipour ¹

Ali Yavuz Kilic ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

² Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Anadolu University, 26470 Eskishehr, Turkey.

10.52547/jibs.4.2.105

Abstract

Based on specimens collected from East Azarbaijan province during 2016–2017 as well as specimens which already had been collected during 2007–2015 and deposited at ICHMM, overall 18 species of the genus Tabanus were recognized which among them, Tabanus armenicus (Krober, 1928), Tabanus maculicornis Zettersted, 1842 and Tabanus nemoralis Meigen, 1820 are new records to the Iranian Tabanidae fauna. Diagnostic characters as well as their informative photos are given.

Graphical Abstract

Keywords

Tabanidae

Tabanus

Iran

East Azarbaijan province

new records

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