The brown-eyed brachyceran species of the family Tabanidae, which occurs in considerable numbers in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. It sucks blood during the summer months at bovines, horses, donkeys, and occasionally at humans. Their saliva contains tabanin, which avoids coagulation of blood. Their length ranges between 19 and 25 mm. Thus these blood suckers may harm considerably their hosts and are able to transmit mechanically various agents of diseases (e.g., blue tongue viruses). Related species are T. bovinus (with green eyes) and T. bromius (greenish eyes, length 11–19 mm), occurring in Europe, North Africa, and Middle Asia.
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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Tabanus sudeticus, Zeller 1842. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_4901-1
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