The Tabanidae of the Mitaraka expedition, with an updated check list of French Guiana (Diptera)

By

Krolow, Tiago Kütter
Henriques, Augusto
Pollet, Marc

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

684

Pages

85-118

Subjects

Amazon Basin , Distribution , Horse flies , list of species , Neotropics , new records

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.684.13197

 

Abstract

This paper documents the horse fly fauna collected in lowland rainforest in the southwesternmost part of French Guiana (Mitaraka). During this “Our Planet Revisited” survey nine tabanid species were recorded from French Guiana for the first time:Chrysops ecuadorensisLutz,C. incisusMacquart,Catachlorops amazonicusHenriques & Gorayeb,Chlorotabanus flagellatusKrolow & Henriques,Cryptoylus cauriStone,Phaeotabanus phaeopterusFairchild,Philipotabanus stigmaticalis(Kröber),Stypommisa captiroptera(Kröber) andTabanus amapaensisFairchild. An updated check list of Tabanidae of French Guiana is presented, including 79 species and one unidentifiedChrysops.