Page 5 - at-macro-flies

4] The Horse Flies and Deer Fies. Family: Tabanidae
A favourite group for photographers thanks to their spectacular eye colours in life.
Horse Flies’, Tabanus and Hybomitra spp., eyes are often vividy striped (Fig. 4)........

Fig. 4. Horse Fly faces
........ whereas those of Deer Flies, Chrysops spp., (next page) defy description (Fig.5, female left, male right)