HORSEFLIES (DIPTERA: TABANIDAE) OF SOUTH - EAST HERZEGOVINA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)

The article presents the horsefly fauna (Dipteral: Tabanidae) of the south-east Herzegovina region, Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the 1987-1990 and 2003–2005 periods we collected a total of 847 horseflies representing 27 species and classified in eight genera. The most common genus is Tabanus represented with 12 species, followed by the genera Hybomitra – 6, Haematopota – 3 Chrysops – 2, and Atylotus, Dasyrhamphis, Philipomyia and Therioplectes with 1 species, respectively. The five most abundant species were Hybomitra muehlfeldi (34, 36%), Tabanus bromius (12.04%), Chrysops viduatus 9.33%, Hybomitra ciureai (8.85%) and Philipomyia greaca (6.26%), which account for 70.84% of the total number of collected specimens. New species recorded for this region and the for the whole of the state of Bosnia and Hercegovina are: Tabanus eggeri, Tabanus darimonti and Tabanus shanonnellus