Tabanus gratus Loew

Tabanus gratus Loew

(Figs 3 D, 5D)

Tabanus gratus Loew, 1858: 340.

Tabanus tritaeniatus Laveran, 1908: 253.

Type locality. “Kaffraria”, South Africa, Eastern Cape.

Diagnosis. Length. (Male) body 11.2–12.5 mm, wing 8.5–9.2 mm; (female) body 9.0– 11.9 mm, wing 8.8–9.0 mm.

Small handsome species; frons in females with sides not parallel; frontal index in female 3.36–3.39; subcallus entirely dusted; R4 without appendix; abdomen greyish with 4 longitudinal brown stripes, the inner margin of the two median stripes expanded on terga 3 and 4.

Local distribution. Coastal Strip, Lower Nile.

Geographical distribution. Afghanistan to South Africa, Egypt, Iran.

Specimens examined. Tisfa, 31.VIII.1924 (1 3) (ASUC); Tisfa, 26.VI.1924 (2 3); Abu Rawash, 26.V.1926 (3 3); Kerdassa, 9.VI.1926 (1 3); Kerdassa, 14.V.1927 (1 3); Manoauria, 22.IX.1926 (1 3); El-Fayoum, Tamiya, 14.V.1950 (1 3, 1 Ƥ) (CUC); Tisfa, 26.VI.1924 (2 3, 4 Ƥ); Tisfa, 18.VIII.1929 (1 Ƥ); Kerdassa, 14.V.1927 (1 3); Kafer Hakim, 27.VIII.1927 (1 3) (ESEC); Ghizeh, 15.VI.1921 (1 3, 1 Ƥ); Tisfa, 16.VI.1924 (4 3, 1 Ƥ); Elmansouria, 10.IX.1924 (1 Ƥ); El-mansouria, 12.X.1927 (1 Ƥ); Abu Raeash, 16.IX.1924 (1 Ƥ); Mansouriah, 12.X.1927 (1 Ƥ); Kafer Hakim, 8.VII.1936 (1 3) (MAC).