Tabanus luzonensis
date: label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1929
name: label: Collector
content: R. C. McGregor
notes: label: Notes
content: Description (holotype, female). Length, 16.5 mm. Eyes bare. Front parallel-sided, index 1:5.5, ash-gray pollinose with buff tints below and a patch of short black hairs in a notch at the vertex; callosity mahogany brown, large ovoid, nearly twice taller than wide, separated from eyes by very narrow pollinose margins viewed from above, median furrow in the upper half, connected narrowly to a moderately expanded, spindle-shaped median callus which again narrows just above the middle of the front into a long, very thin, bare line. Subcallus pearlaceous, golden-gray with a prominent though narrow, dark brown, velvety band across the apex beneath the callosity. Face and cheeks pale, creamy-gray pollinose and pilose, beard pale yellow, nearly white. First two antennal segments reddish brown with black hairs, third missing. Palpi pale yellow with sparse yel- low and black hairs, tapered to a long, thin point. Proboscis black. Notum and scutellum olive-gray pollinose with brown shadings on margins and sutures. Pleura, chest, and coxae buff pollinose with yellow pile. Fore femora, fore tibiae at apex and all tarsi brown, the first with yellow hairs. Basal two thirds of fore tibiae reddish with yellow and black hairs. Two hind pairs of legs bright orange with yellow hairs, a few black ones on the tibiae. Halteres orange. Cell R6 open, no spur-veins. Subepaulets hairy. Abdomen above and below reddish orange on basal four segments, the fol- lowing ones dark brown with wide orange incisures. Dorsum mostly black haired, including incisures, except for golden-yellow patches of hairs along the margins and in the middle as obscure, sparse, tall triangles which would disappear com- pletely with wear. Entire venter golden-yellow haired.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ube Laguna, Luzon, Philippines
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus luzonensis Philip, 1959
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258439
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 51014
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A8076
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258439
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Philip, C. B. Fieldiana: Zoology. 33 (6): 582, Fig. 131.
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: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult