Tabanus americanus

{{Short description|Species of insect}}

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| image = Horsefly - Tabanus americanus, Leesylvania State Park, Woodbridge, Virginia.jpg

| genus = Tabanus

| species = americanus

| authority = Forster, 1771{{cite book |last1=Forster |first1=J.R. |title=Novae species insectorum. Centuria I. |date=1771 |publisher=Davies & White |location=London |pages=viii + 100 pp |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/255748#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=9 October 2022}}

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| synonyms = *Tabanus limbatus Palisot De Beauvois, 1806

• Tabanus plumbeus Drury, 1773{{cite book |last1=Drury |first1=D. |title=Illustrations of natural history... Vol. 1, |date=1770–1773 |publisher=Printed for the author; sold by White |location=London |pages=xxviii + 130 pp., 4 figs., 50 pls}}
• Tabanus ruficornis Fabricius, 1775{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=J.C. |title=Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. |date=1775 |publisher=Kortii |location=Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] |pages=[32] + 832 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82400#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=20 February 2021}}

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Tabanus americanus, the American horse fly, is a species of horse-fly in the family Tabanidae.{{cite journal |last1=Moucha |first1=J. |title=Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue. |journal=Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements |date=1976 |volume=7 |pages=1–320 |url=https://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-975/956-7_0_7.pdf |access-date=11 September 2022}}{{Cite journal | title = Catalog of Tabanidae (Diptera) in North America north of Mexico | date = 1995 | last1 = Burger | first1 = J. F. |journal=International Contributions on Entomology|volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–100| publisher = Associated Publishers }}

File:Horsefly - Tabanus americanus, Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia.jpg