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Tabanid fly

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

Very large and persistently intimidating black fly about 28mm long with thick white setae under the abdomen.

Habitat:

Higher country in a state park. Above 400 metres estimated. Bunyip State Park.

Notes:

Refused to take warnings and insisted on biting my steel capped boots. :) Luckily it never thought to try much above ground level. <br> Called horse-flies in USA and March flies here. <br> Yet to search for genus/species... matbe Scaptia

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PublishedOctober 19, 2015

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