Abstract
Horseflies make up the family Tabanidae in the suborder Brachycera. They are robust two-winged flies with antennae of three segments, the third of which has a series of annulations known as the style (Fig. 6.1). There are some 2000 species varying in length from 5 to 30 mm in several genera, the most important of which are Tabanus,Haematopota and Chrysops. Female Tabanids are blood-sucking (Fig. 6.2) and some species will readily transmit the filarial worm Loa loa,causing loaisis in humans.
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Burgess, N.R.H., Cowan, G.O. (1993). Horseflies. In: A Colour Atlas of Medical Entomology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1548-3_6
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