Mesopangonius philipi
date: label: Collection Date
content: 9 Sep 1983
name: label: Collector
content: G. F. Hevel
label: Collector
content: Warren E. Steiner Jr.
label: Min. Elevation
content: 1560
notes: label: Notes
content: Female (Fig. I).-Length: body 12-14 mm: wing 13-15 mm. Front (Fig. ) 8) yellowish brown laterally. slightly diverging below, with broad dark brown pollinose ridge in middle extending from subcallus to vertex, bordered by an irregular row of semi-erect black setulae; frontal index 2.8-3.2. divergence index 1.2-1.3. Ocelli large and prominent, borne on a conspicuous tubercle; vertex depressed below upper margin of head. Subcallus, gena and face brown pollinose, gena sparsely clothed with brown hairs; face moderately produced, upper lateral surface with patch of brown hairs; beard rather sparse with brown hairs anteriorly, pale yellowish ones posteriorly. Antenna (Fig. 2C) yellow brown. slightly darker apicallyy bases closely approximated, distance between them distinctly less than width of scape; scape and pedicel yellowish brown pollinose, black setose; flagellum subulate. with 8 annuli; basal annulation enlarged. about one-third broader than succeeding annulation and bearing a dense tuft of black setulae at apex of upper margin, apical annulation three times length of penultimate annulation. Proboscis slender (Fig. 2A), length 1.7-1.9 times head height; labella long and slender, sclerotized. Maxillary palpus (Fig. 2D) with apical palpomere short and slender, subcylindrical, length less than one-fifth that of proboscis, bearing long, black semi-erect setae on outer surface, basal palpomere slightly broader than apical segment, bearing long black semi-erect setae. Eye bare, unpatterned (relaxed). rather coarsely faceted. Mesonotum light brown, bearing semi-erect brown hairs, except pale yellowish white ones anteriorly near the head; notopleural lobe concolorous with mesonotum: scutellum slightly paler; pleuron paler yellowish brown, bearing pale yellow hairs, except dark brown ones posteriory on mesanepisternum. Legs slender. elongate. unicolorow. pale yellowish brown. bearing mixed pale yellowish and d3rk brown hairs: apical spurs on h1l1d tibia nearly as long as those all mid-ubla. Wing lighlty brown lint-ed throughout R. with long spur: cells r, and m, open to wing margin. Halter lighl brown. Abdomen pale greenish brown. with some yellowish tones intermixed but without def-inite pallern: lergi te I slightly paler: tergi tes 5-7 slighlty darker: all lergi les beari ng pre-dominantly dark hairs. with some pale yellowish ones intermixed anteriorly and laterally ventral surface concolorous.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kinabalu National Park, Headquarters Area, Sabah, Malaysia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Mesopangonius philipi Burger, 1988
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258469
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 132642
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258469
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 90 (1): 12, Figs. 1-2.
label: Type Status
content: Holotype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Tabanidae, Pangoniinae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Pinned
label: Remarks
content: Holotype
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult