Tabanos

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: West Indes; Panama to Paraguay, Argentina and Chile.

Females feed on the blood of mammals.

Immature stages have been found in a stone watering tank with much organic matter.

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta with strong setae as dense as those on the adjoining costa, never with the setae sparse; vertex rarely with a tubercle; first antennal segment moderately enlarged dorsally and extending over the pedicel; no prominent black pilose spot covering the base of the scutellum and adjacent area of the mesoscutum; species not wholly black; wings not heavily spotted; subcallus denuded and shiny, joined to the adjoining basal callus; frons distinctly widened above.

Localidad del tipo: "Australia" (in error)
Depositario del tipo: London: The Natural History Museum.
Recolector del tipo: