Tabanus bishoppi
date: label: Collection Date
content: 26 Mar 1929
name: label: Collector
content: Bishopp
notes: label: Notes
content: Female.- Length 12 mm. Eyes clothed with short, but distinct, white pile; color (revived) green~blue with a single yellow~green diagonal stripe. Front of moderate width, its height about 3 1/2 times its width at the frontal callus, scarcely narrowed below; clothed uniformly with yellow pollen and with brown hair above the median spot, yellow hair below. A small, slightly raised spot at the vertex, entirely covered with pollen and hair. Frontal callus black, shining, convex, about square and separated from the eye by a narrow strip of pollen. Median spot of the holotype black, very slender and lanceolate, and very narrowly joined to the frontal callus; in the paratype much shorter and completely isolated. Subcallus flat, pale yellowish. Face and cheeks with white pollen and hair. First and second antennal joints small, yellowish brown, clothed with black hair above; third joint orangebrown, the annulate portion black; basal portion of the third joint stout, its greatest width nearly as great as its length, only slightly concave anterior to the obtuse dorsal angle; annulate portion equal in length to width of basal portion. Palpi pale yellow, the second joint of moderate width at base but the apical half very slender; clothed with short white and scattered black hair. Proboscis black, nearly 2 mm. long. Thoracic dorsum black in ground color with a very fine coating of yellow pollen and an indication of grayish stripes on the mesonotum; clothed with black and yellow hair, the latter predominating. Pleurae, sternum, and coxae dark gray, the fore coxae paler than the rest; upper part of pleurae with yellowish hair, the rest white. Wings hyaline with reddish brown veins, darker apically; costal cell and first cell R5 dilute yellow. No stump vein at base of vein R4, and cell R5 wide open. Femora gray pollinose with mostly pale hair. Tibiae yellow, the apical third of the fore pair dark brown to black; hind tibial fringe mostly yellow, but with scattered black hairs apically. Fore tarsi black; middle and hind tarsi dark reddish brown. Abdomen with a continuous pale yellow stripe from scutellum to apex, slightly widening at the posterior margin of each tergite. On first tergite a black spot to either side of the stripe; an indication of black bordering the stripe on the other tergites, the apex of the abdomen largely black; rest of the dorsal surface of the abdomen rather dark orange~bro\\ n excqn fo r a lateral row of nearly square spots of yellow pollen and hair on tergites 1-5, the spots beyond the first tergite not touching the hind margin. Venter pale orange, somewhat darker apically.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] TypeNo. 49378 U.S.N.M.; [Label 2] Silver Springs, Fla. 3-26-29; [Label 3] FCBishopp Coll; [Label 4] Bishopp No13073
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Silver Springs, Marion, Florida, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus bishoppi Stone, 1933
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258382
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 54505
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A9049398
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 49378
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258382
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Stone, A. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 35 : 77, none.
label: Type Status
content: Holotype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Tabanidae, Tabaninae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Pinned
label: Remarks
content: Holotype
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult