Abundancia estacional de tabánidos (Diptera: Tabanidae) en el sector Las Lajas, Municipio Miranda, estado Guárico, Venezuela.

VELÁSQUEZ DE RÍOS M, TIAPE GÓMEZ Z, GORAYEB I, TAMASAUKAS R.2004. Seasonal abundace of horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) at sector Las Lajas, Miranda County, Guárico State, Venezuela. Entomotropica 19(3): 149-152. From August 2002 to August 2003, weekly collections of tabanids were conducted to study their seasonal fluctuation during the rainy and dry seasons in a farm located at Las Lajas, Miranda County, Guárico State, Venezuela. Two kinds of traps were used, malaise and canopyand occasional captures on horses. The flies were removed from the traps weekly and carried to the Entomology Lab of Rómulo Gallegos University for identification and count. A total of 1179 tabanids belonging to four genera and 14 species were captured. Species diversity and captures were highest at the end of the rainy season. T. claripennis (Bigot, 1892) y T. pungens Wiedemann, 1828 were the most abundant species,and were recorded in both capture periods