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Revisiting the Tabanid Fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Uruguay: Notes on the Species of the Genus Tabanus Linnaeus, with the Description of a New Species

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We describe a new species of Tabanus (for Uruguay, the first in more than 90 years) based on females from the Department of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. Tabanus tacuaremboensis sp. n. is the 15th species of the genus Tabanus recorded from Uruguay. The species description is accompanied by illustrations of the diagnostic external and internal characters. In addition, for comparison with the new species, we provide photographs of the regional species of Tabanus whose distributions are still poorly known. In view of the lengthy hiatus since the last new tabanid species was described from Uruguay, we offer a brief discussion of the importance of new and further sampling in areas where the tabanofauna is still poorly known.

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  1. Lucas et al. (2020) as Tabanus sp.1.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Erica McAlister from The Natural History Museum (NHMUK), Dr. Gary J. Steck and Wm. Charles Whitehill from the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA), and Dr. Luciano Damián Patitucci from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN) for kindly providing the pictures of species and allowing their publication.

We are deeply grateful to Dr. Franklin Riet-Correa and Dr. Cecilia Miraballes from the Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), for the design and management of the project.

To Dra. María Martínez for help with bibliography and discussions. To Dr. Stephen M. Smith from University of Waterloo (Canada) for comments and help in editing the English version and bibliography. We also thank at Laboratório de Sistemática from Universidade Federal do Tocantins for the support for image acquisition, granted by the FINEP (Brazilian Innovation Agency) Project “Análise e Mapeamento da Biodiversidade e Recursos Hídricos do Estado do Tocantins” (process number 01.18.0077.00). We thank the anonymous reviewers that undoubtedly contributed to the improvement of the work. 

Funding

INIA Tacuarembó as part of the project “Control of horn fly through the selective treatment of bulls and the importance of Horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) as vectors of Anaplasma marginale in the northern region of the country.” Tiago Kütter Krolow received a research grant from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq-310214/2021–1).

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  1. Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade, Ecologia e Conservação (PPGBec), Porto Nacional, TO, Brazil

    Tiago Kütter Krolow

  2. Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Plataforma de Salud Animal, Estación Experimental INIA, Tacuarembó, Uruguay

    Martín Lucas

  3. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil

    Augusto Loureiro Henriques

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation and data collection were performed by ML. Taxonomic discussion was performed by TKK and ALH. The first draft of the manuscript was written by TKK and all authors read, commented, and approved the final manuscript.

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Krolow, T.K., Lucas, M. & Henriques, A.L. Revisiting the Tabanid Fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Uruguay: Notes on the Species of the Genus Tabanus Linnaeus, with the Description of a New Species. Neotrop Entomol 51, 447–457 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00958-7

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