Tabanus caenosus
date: label: Collection Date
content: 12 Jul 1969
name: label: Collector
content: J. F. Burger
label: Min. Elevation
content: 1682
notes: label: Notes
content: Holotype Female, 15.5 mm, Eyes essentially bare, although microscopic scattered hairs visible in certain lights; eye color in life dark brown with purplish reflections and 2 light green stripes. Front narrowed below, gradually widening above, grayish pollinose, brownish spots present on either side of median callosity and around vertex, 1:3.5; basal caUosity round, black, narrowly joined with narrow, black median callosity, not quite touching eyes below. Subcallus mostly bare, shining black, bare area crescent-shaped, pollinose only above antennae and along outer edges. Genae tinged light brown adjacent to subcallus and clothed with black hair; remainder of genae and face grayish, clothed with white hair. First and second antennal segments yellowish orange, clothed with black hair; first segment but slightly enlarged; third segment yellowish orange to dorsal angle, remainder black; dorsal angle of third segment acute, plate moderately excised dorsally, about 1.15 times longer than broad; annulate portion slightly shorter than basal portion. Second segment of palpus stout basally, rather evenly tapered apically, creamy white and clothed with mixture of while and black hairs dorsally and anteriorly and dense, long white hair ventrally along basal hal£. Thorax blackish, with grayish lines, clothed with short, erect, black hair and mixture of black and cupreous appressed hairs; pre-alar lobes orange; thoracic area above wing base and hind margin of scutellum densely clothed with white hair. Pleura grayish, clothed with dense, white hair. Coxae and femora blackish, gray pollinose and clothed with white hair, except fore-femora blackish on upper surface; fore-tibiae reddish orange on basal 1/2, black apically; mid-tibiae reddish orange on basal 4/5, black on apical 1/5; hind-tibiae reddish orange on basal 2/3, remainder black; tarsi black; hind tibial fringe with mixed white and black hair, white predominating on basal half, black on apical half. Wings hyaline, veins dark brown, venation normal. Halteres with knobs brown, stalks pale. Abdomen blackish above, grayish below; abdominal pattern consisting of pale, median irregular triangles which are progressively smaller from terga II-V and isolated pale, sublateral spots well separated from hind margin of each tergum; median triangle on segment II tall , about 3 times as long as broad, almost reaching anterior edge of tergum; no trace of triangle on segment VI; second tergum with patch of pale hair along anterolateral margins. Venter grayish, with broad, median black linc of black hair; pale hair present laterally on the anterior 4 sterna, posterior 2 sterna clothed with black hair.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus caenosus n.sp. #F det. J.F. BURGER 1973; [Label 1] S.W.Res.Sta.Chiricahua Mts.CochiseCo.,ARIZ. 12-VII-1969 5520ft.Coll. JFBurger REARED SPM.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southwestern Research Station, Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise, Arizona, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus caenosus Burger, 1974
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258389
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 53010
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A16214
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258389
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 76 (6): 3, Fig. 2,3.
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