The horse-fly fauna of the East Mediterranean is poorly known and, in some geographical
areas, has not been studied for decades. The present study summarizes the results of …

During a 20-year survey we routinely collected Tabanidae in the Sinai resulting in a
checklist of 22 species. We recorded 2 species for the Levant (Tabanus mordax Austen …

Samples were collected from southern, central and eastern regions of Saudi Arabia using
Malaise traps and sweep nets. Nine species of Tabanidae were identified, two for the first …

The horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Jordan is, after Israel, the richest in the Levant,
with 24 known species. During the 20‐year project “The Ecology and Zoogeography of the …

Knowledge of the horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Lebanon is fragmentary, while the
local fauna of most neighboring countries has been fairly well researched. Within the …

Abstract Family Tabanidae (Diptera) has cosmopolitan distribution with about 4455
described species. A comprehensive review of literature was conducted to list the recorded …

The aquatic and semi-aquatic insects of Wadi Al-Walah, Jordan were collected biweekly
from five sites from August 2015 to August 2016. A total of 24,176 specimens of aquatic and …

The family Tabanidae (horse flies) is a well-known group of haematophagous Diptera of a
great economic importance. Females usually suck the blood of mammals, while both sexes …

It is presented the distribution of 50 brachyceran dipteran species (11 families) from Turkey
and Syria, collected in the expeditions „Euphrates”-2008,„Focida”-2006,„Taurus”-2005. From …

On a world-wide scale, tabanids (horse flies) are among the major livestock pests, but the
relative importance of most species varies temporally and geographically (1). Horse flies are …