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ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LXII 2001 pp. 257-262 List of Tabanidae (Diptera) in Slovenia S. Krcmar and T. Bogdanovic List of Tabanidae (Diptera) in Slovenia —A total of 44 species of horse-flies belonging to nine genera have been recorded in Slovenia to the present. Eight species, Tabanus bromius, T. bovinus, T. glaucopis, T. maculicornis

, T. quatuornotatus, T. tergestinus, Haematopota italica and H. pluvialis make up 84.71% of the fauna of horse-flies in Slovenia. The determined sample also include 10 Mediterranean species. The determined species were collected on 32 localities that cover 26 fields on the UTM grid of Slovenia. Key words: Tabanidae, Diptera, Slovenia, Europe. INTRODUCTION The early research works and studies of the entomofauna and the horse-fly fauna were made by foreign entomologists. The first studies dealing with horse-flies refer to the Diptera Fauna of Austro-Hungarian Empire (Brauer 1880). Thanks to a few researchers, the number of horse-fly species recorded in Slovenia considerably increased during the 1950s, 60s and 70s (Coe 1960; Danielova 1961; Leclercq 1960, 1965, 1968, 1976; Moucha 1959, 1965). The present manuscript is based on previous research and published data as the starting point for further studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS All species were established upon the basis of the data published in entomological periodicals. However some specimens were found in the collections of the Croatian Natural Museum in Zagreb. Our classification follows that of the Palaearctic Diptera Species Catalogue of Chvála (1988) as well as the higher systematic categories (family, subfamily, genus).