Tabanus surifer Fairchild 1964

Found in heavily forested areas with high rainfall.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Panama; Colombia (Choco, Valle del Cauca, Meta); eastern Peru.

Females feed on the blood of mammals, including humans.

Immature stages unknown.

Hine tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta with strong setae as dense as those on the adjoining costa; vertex without a tubercle; scutellum and posterior margin of the mesoscutum without a velvety black spot; body not wholly black; wing not heavily spotted; abdomen red and coppery haired on the first 4 tergites and the anterior middle of tergite 5, remainder dark and black haired; face, genae and beard brown; antennae orange, unusually long and slender, with the dorsal tooth close to the base of the basal flagellomere; wing evenly tinted, with a long spur at the fork of veins R4 and R5.

Localidad del tipo: Panama, Panama Prov., Cerro Campana.
Depositario del tipo: Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
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