Tabanus par Walker, 1854 - Identification

This species is all orange and has unicolorous green eyes in the female, and the male eye has the upper part unbanded, of a shining golden colour. Thorax: mesonotum and scutellum black in ground colour, covered with yellow-grey tomentum. Pleura grey or a little yellowish, with long white hairs. Abdomen: dorsum orange, without pattern, darkening towards the tip. Wings: Quite clear veins and stigma yellow. Length: body 12 mm; wing 11 mm.

Illustrated in Austen 1909:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/75729#page/253/mode/1up

Common thoughout the Afrotropical region.

Original description by Walker
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/119033#page/249/mode/1up

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