Has the structure of horsefly communities changed in the recent decades?

Authors

  • Máté Zsolt Otártics Department of Nature Conservation, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Kaposvár University, e-mail: otartics.mate@ke.hu (correspondence)
  • Sándor Farkas Department of Nature Conservation, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Kaposvár University, e-mail: farkas.sandor@ke.hu

Keywords:

horsefly, Tabanidae, H-trap, insect trap

Abstract

A study was carried out on an equestrian farm to study the structure of horsefly community near the village of Sántos (Somogy County, South-West Hungary) in 2018. A total of 19,366 horseflies were collected with H-traps. The specimens belonged to 31 species. According to our results, the most dominant species were Tabanus tergestinus (24%), Haematopota italica (20%), Tabanus bromius (15.15%) Tabanus autumnalis (10.8%), Tabanus sudeticus (7.1%), Haematopota pluvialis (5.4%), Atylotus loewianus (5.2%) and Tabanus glaucopis (4.6%). The proportion of 22 species in the aggregate sample is below 1%. The rarest species include Tabanus quatornotatus, Therioplectes gigas, Philipomyia graeca and Hybomitra ukrainica. Comparison of our data with previous results is limited due to the different sampling methods.

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2020-11-06