Splayed Deerfly

Chrysops caecutiens

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tabanidae

Chrysops caecutiens, common name splayed deer fly, is a species of horse fly belonging to the family Tabanidae. It is also known by the colloquial name Scotch cleg. Description Chrysops caecutiens reaches a length of about 8.

Distribution

Splayed Deerfly — (c) Barry Walter, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Barry Walter · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Netherlands · 439Germany · 393United Kingdom · 324France · 156Italy · 25Spain · 20Switzerland · 19Luxembourg · 15Belgium · 14

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Barry Walter, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Barry Walter · CC-BY DescriptionChrysops caecutiens, Wikipedia contributors

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