Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) ➔ Class Insecta (Insects) ➔ Order Diptera (True flies) ➔ Family Tabanidae (Clegs, deer flies, horse flies)

Haematopota scutellata (Olsufjev, Moucha & Chvála, 1964)

Synonyms and other combinations:

Chrysozona scutellata Olsufjev, Moucha & Chvála, 1964 | Chrysozona pontica Olsufjev, 1964 | Chrysozona rossica Olsufjev & Ivanistshuk, 1975 |

  • Haematopota scutellata, female 697
    Haematopota scutellata (Olsufjev, Moucha & Chvála, 1964)     
    Haematopota scutellata, female, conf. Theo Zeegers
    DE, Chemnitz; 2004-08-07 18:17:45
    Image number: 697
    female
    DE, Chemnitz
    2004-08-07 18:17:45
    conf. Theo Zeegers

Classification:
Haematopota scutellata belongs to the subfamily Tabaninae.
Distribution:
Europe (absent in the north), in parts of Russia, Transcaucasus, Uzbekistan; rare species.
Habitat:
Prefers swamps and wooded wetlands of the mountain and foothills region.
Description:
Body length 9 - 11 mm; dark species; wings with dark brown pattern; scutellum with whitish grey spot in the middle; 1st antennal segment shiny black.
Biology:
Adults of Haematopota scutellata can be found from Juni to September.

References, further reading, links:
  1. Pape T. & Thompson F.C. (eds) (2017). Systema Dipterorum (version 2.0, Jan 2011). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
  2. E. Völlger, M. Jeremies: Bestimmungsschlüssel für mitteleuropäische Bremsen (Dipt., Tabanidae), Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte, 29, 1985/1, 1-11.
  3. Stjepan Krčmar, Davorka K. Hackenberger, Branimir K. Hackenberger: Key to the horse flies fauna of Croatia (Diptera, Tabanidae); Periodicum Biologorum, Vol. 113, Suppl 2, 2011, ISSN 0031-5362.
  4. M. Mally: Teil XIX k: Fam.: Tabanidae in Catalogue Faunae Austriae, Ein systematisches Verzeichnis aller auf österreichischem Gebiet festgestellten Tierarten, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1989.