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The Tabanidæ of Colombia (Diptera)

1946; Cambridge Entomological Club; Volume: 53; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1155/1946/40437

1687-7438

J. Bequaert,

Diptera species taxonomy and behavior

The tabanid fauna of Colombia is rich and extremely varied.In the northwestern part it resembles that of the Republic of Panama, which is now well known through G. B. Fairchild's prolonged investigations.In the northeastern areas it is similar to that of the adjoining districts of Venezuela, a fauna which has recently been listed by A. Stone (1945).The fauna of the southwestern highlands has affinities with that of Ecuador.Finally many of the species of the great Amazonian rain forest extend into the southeastern territories.At present, however, this vast country has been little investi- gated entomologically.Our preliminary list of definitely re- corded species will probably be more than doubled by future discoveries.Indeed, our only purpose in publishing it is to incite to further collecting.The earliest records of Colombian tabanids by Macquart (1846 to 1855) were indefinite as to locality and some of his species are at present unrecognized.Schiner (1868), v. RSder (1886), and Ricardo (1902) added a few species.In recent years, Enderlein (1925), Szildy (1926), Dunn (1929), KrSber (1925 to 1940), and Antunes (1937) made more impor- tant additions.The present enumeration includes all species recorded thus far from Colombia; but we have clearly indicated which of these we have not seen. 2The asterisk, on the other hand, indicates the species of which we have studied specimens taken in Colombia.