Merycomyia brunnea
date: label: Collection Date
content: 20 Jul 1951
name: label: Collector
content: C. M. Jones
label: Microhabitat Description
content: "grass"
notes: label: Notes
content: Female: Length 12 mm, wing 11.5 mm. Eyes bare, when relaxed uniformly green. Frons twice as high as width across lower margin at inner angles of eye", very slightly narrowed above. Ocelli prominent, yellow, each one narrowly ringed with blackish; frontal callus about two- thirds width of frons, slightly wider than high, with a short, acute dorsal projection that merges into a narrow groove reaching nearly to ocelli; the frontal callus very weakly shining, scarcely differentiated from the rest of the frons in this respect. Subcallus slightly protuberant, pollinose, without hairs. Antenna: Scape short, stout, tri - angular in profile, the angles rounded ; pedicel short, stout, somewhat nalTowed above; first flagellar segmcnt oval in profile, slightly longer than broad; second slightly broader than long; third twice as long as broad, tapering; scape, pedicel, dorsum of first flagellar segment, and last two flagellar segments with hail'. Palpus short and stout, the second segment about twice as long as broad, tapering to a blunt apex and with long hairs. Proboscis very short, the labella not exceeding palpi. Genae slightly swollen, with long brown hair. Thorax, abdomen, hal teres, and legs entirely brown, with brown hair; thorax with very thin pollen; abdomen distinctly shining. Wing almost uniformly brown, the anal cell slightly paler, the stigma slightly darker; wing venation unmodifired. Tibial spurs not as long as some of the adjacent hairs.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1]Grass 7-20-51 New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Coll. C.M.Jones; [Label 2] 34518; [Label 3] TypeNo 61676 USNM
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Smyrna Beach, Volusia, Florida, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Merycomyia brunnea Stone, 1953
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258387
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47589
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 61676
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258387
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Stone, A. 1953. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 43 (8): 256, 3a-c.
label: Type Status
content: Holotype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Tabanidae, Chrysopsinae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Pinned
label: Remarks
content: Holotype
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult