Gastroxides

Gastroxides is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.^[4] This genus possesses three closely placed ocelli at the vertex of the head, between the compound eyes.

Gastroxides
Gastroxides ornatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Tabanidae
Subfamily:	Chrysopsinae
Tribe:	Rhinomyzini
Genus:	Gastroxides Saunders, 1842[1]
Type species
Gastroxides ater Saunders, 1842[1]
Synonyms
Ditilomyia Schiner, 1868[2] Ditylomyia Bigot, 1859[3]

Species

• Gastroxides ater Saunders, 1842^[1] - India
• Gastroxides ornatus (Bigot, 1859)^[3] - Sri Lanka
• Gastroxides shirakii Ôuchi, 1939^[5] - China

References

1. Saunders, W.W. (1842). "Descriptions of four new dipterous insects from Central and Northern India". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3(1)[1841]: 59–81. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
2. Schiner, I.R. (1868). Diptera. vi In [Wullerstorf-Urbair, B. von (in charge)], Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara. Zool. 2(1)B. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn. pp. 388pp., 4 pls.
3. Bigot, J.M.F. (1859). "Dipterorum aliquot nova genera". Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée. 11 (2): 305–315, pl. 11. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
4. Moucha, J. (1976). "Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements. 7: 1–320. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
5. Ôuchi, Y. (1939). "Diptera Sinica. Tabanidae. I. On some horseflies belonging to the Subfamily Pangoninae from Eastern and Northern China, Manchoukuo and Northern Corea". J. Shanghai Sci. Inst. 4 (3): 175–189.