Tabanus thoracicus
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1 Aug 1895
name: label: Collector
content: [Not Stated]
notes: label: Notes
content: [Label 1] CoType No 5340 U.S.N.M.; [Label 2] Oswego, N.Y. Aug., 1895
label: Notes
content: Length 9 mm. Thorax gray pollinose, abdomen piceus, yellow on the sides. Female. - Front yellowish pollinose, clothed with short yellow hairs; frontal callosity and subcallous absent, occiput gray, face and cheeks yellowish gray pollinose, clothed with rather short hairs, some of which appear dark, almost black from some views; antennae yellow, first section of third joint narrow, as compared with bicolor, gently convex below, prominent above; thorax gray, clothed with white hairs; legs yellow; all the femora darker at base, but this coloring is most apparent in the middle pair; last joint of all the tarsi brown, tibiae and tarsi clothed with dark hairs, wings transparent, marginal cell and some of the longitudinal veins yellow; abdomen above piceous, yellow on sides of the first four segments; below a narrow, piceous stripe is present on the first three segments, on each side of this stripe the first two segments are plain yellow, and the apical part of the abdomen is variegated with piceous and yellow. Male. - Differs from the female in having the basal half of all the femora. dark, and less yellow on the venter of the abdomen. Two females and a male collected at Oswego, N.Y., in August; the property of the National Museum. This species differs from bicolor, to which it is most closely related, in its colour. smaller size and more slender form, and in the striking difference in the form and width of the third antennal joint of the female.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oswego, New York, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus thoracicus Hine, 1900
label: Published Name
content: Atylotus thoracicus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258504
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 42956
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 5340
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258504
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Hine, Glingerland. Canadian Entomologist. 32 : 248.
label: Type Status
content: Syntype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Tabanidae, Tabaninae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Pinned
label: Remarks
content: Syntype
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult