Horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (Czech Republic)
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) |
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| Field | Zoology |
| Keywords | Diptera; Tabanidae; faunistics; biogeography; new records; species conservation; White Carpathians; Moravia; Czech Republic |
| Description | An account of the family Tabanidae in the Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area and Biosphere Reserve (south-eastern Moravia, Czech Republic) is presented, with a total of 8 genera and 26 species of horse flies. A survey of 38 localities in 2005-2010 yielded records of 25 species. One species, Tabanus sudeticus Zeller, 1842, was collected from the area only in the distant past. Important among the records are Haematopota bigoti Gobert, 1881 and H. ocelligera (Kröber, 1922), both new for the fauna of the Czech Republic, and Therioplectes gigas (Herbst, 1787) which is classified as a vulnerable species in the national Red List of threatened invertebrates. A brief overview of distribution and ecology is provided for all the taxa recorded. |
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