Tabanos

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Mexico to eastern Peru and northern Brazil.

Adults feed on nectar of flowers (males and females) and the blood of mammals (females).

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae with apical spurs; antennal flagellum with 8 distinct flagellomeres; ocelli well developed; eyes bare; oculogenal margin with a distinct row of hairs below the subantennal suture; maxillary palpi usually over half the length of the proboscis; proboscis length less than head height; legs black; mesoscutum and scutellum orange tomentose and pilose; abdomen with first two segments horn colored, remainder black (female) or first 3 segments bright orange (male).

Localidad del tipo: "Brazil"
Depositario del tipo: Holotype female lost.
Recolector del tipo:

This species is not particularly common in Costa Rica.