Translation for 'horsefly' from English to French

horsefly

taon {m} des chevaux [Tabanus sudeticus]entom.T

taon {m} des Sudètes [Tabanus sudeticus]entom.T

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horsefly [Br.]

taon {m}entom.T

• The adult horsefly flies from late May until early September.
• The larva of the Australian horsefly ("Scaptia muscula") lives in antlion (for example "Myrmeleon pictifrons") pit traps and feeds on the prey caught, and the female chalcid wasp ("Lasiochalcidia igiliensis") purposefully allows itself to be trapped so that it can parasitise the antlion larva by ovipositing between its head and thorax.
• Monkey beetles and the horsefly "Philoliche atricornis" have been seen to visit the flowers.
• The holotype fossil of "Promastax archaicus" was collected by Lawrence Lambe from outcrops of the Horsefly Shales at the horsefly Mine on 20 July 1906, and then subsequently described by Anton Handlirsch in 1910.
• "Hybomitra expollicata", also known as the striped horsefly, is a Palearctic species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae.

• "Xylocopa tabaniformis", the horsefly-like carpenter bee or mountain carpenter bee is a species of carpenter bee in the family Apidae.
• A horsefly named Billy Hazelnuts appeared in an early "Maakies" strip. However, this character is unrelated to the titular character in Millionaire's 2006 graphic novel "Billy Hazelnuts".
• When they bite they inject fluids inhibiting the coagulation of blood, which flows out in such a way that allows the horsefly to lap it.
• The horsefly has been used from classical times to portray torment, appearing in a play by Aeschylus and again in Shakespeare's "King Lear" and "Antony and Cleopatra"; the mosquito has a similar reputation.