Such a usage might suggest a specimen's membership of the same genus or possibly of a shared higher taxon, such as in, ", cf . " " ", where the author is confident of the order and family ( Diptera : Tabanidae ), but can only offer the genus ( " Tabanus " ) as a suggestion and has no information favouring a particular species.
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The physician and naturalist Thomas Muffet wrote that the horse-fly " carries before him a very hard, stiff, and well-compacted sting, with which he strikes through the Oxe his hide; he is in fashion like a great Fly, and forces the beasts for fear of him only to stand up to the belly in water, or else to betake themselves to wood sides, cool shades, and places where the wind blowes through . " The " Blue Tail Fly " in the eponymous song was probably the mourning horsefly ( " Tabanus atratus " ), a tabanid with a blue-black abdomen common to the southeastern United States.
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The physician and naturalist Thomas Muffet wrote that the horse-fly " carries before him a very hard, stiff, and well-compacted sting, with which he strikes through the Oxe his hide; he is in fashion like a great Fly, and forces the beasts for fear of him only to stand up to the belly in water, or else to betake themselves to wood sides, cool shades, and places where the wind blows through . " The " Blue Tail Fly " in the eponymous song was probably the mourning horse-fly ( " Tabanus atratus " ), a tabanid with a blue-black abdomen common to the southeastern United States.
