Original scientific paper
BLOOD MEAL TAKING OF SOME HORSE FLIES SPECIES (DIPTERA, TABANIDAE) ON HORSES (EQUUS CABALLUS)
Stjepan Krčmar
; Pedagoški fakultet Sveučilišta "J.J. Strossmayer", Zavod za biologiju, Osijek, Republika Hrvatska
Paula Durbešić
; Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu,Zoologijski zavod, Zagreb, Republika Hrvatska
Josip Franjić
; Šumarski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Republika Hrvatska
Abstract
The research of the horse flies blood meal taking location, the pasture in the village Petrijevci CR 05, took place in 1993. With the help of the net there were collected 2010 specimens, all of which were female. In the collected sample we established 26 species two of which Haematopota bigoti and Hybomitra ucrainica were new for Croatia. Horse flies to belong subfamily Chrysopsinae and Tabanidae, and genera Chrysops, Atylotus, Hybomitra, Tabanus, Heptatoma and Haematopota. X² test demonstrated that species Haematopota subcylindrica, Hameatopota pluvialis, Chrysops parallelogrammus, Hybomitra ciureai, Tabanus bromius and Tabanus autumnalis significantly distinguish between certain parts of the horse while taking their blood meal. In that way is diminished the competitive relationship between some species.
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Hrčak ID:
163817
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Publication date:
30.3.1995.
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