Tabanus hookeri
date: label: Collection Date
content: 9 Jan 1912
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: Neotropical
label: Collector
content: C. W. Hooker
notes: label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Tbanus hookeri Knab; [Label 2] Type No. 19354 U.S.N.M.; [Label 3] P. R. 95; [Label 4] CWHooker Collector; [Label 5] Mayaguez, P.R. I.9.1912
label: Notes
content: Eyes bare in the female, hairy in the male. Abdomen dorsally with three longitudinal series of pale markings. Wings clear, the posterior cells all widely open, the upper branch of the third vein not appendiculate. Female: General color brownish gray. Frons broad, narrowing gradually toward the antennre, yellowish gray; frontal callosity brown, roughly quadrate, as broad as high and con- tiguous with eyes, a narrow connected line reaching about one-third the way to occiput. Antenna:: bright ferruginous; first joint with the dorsal apex black and with many short black hairs; third joint dorsally with a prominent but obtruse basal process, its apex and the annulate part of the joint black. Palpi yellowish white, with a few scattered black hairs. Face and cheeks clothed with white pollen and hair. Thorax dor- sally dark gray and yellowish brown, the latter color mostly laterally and in two narrow subdorsal stripes; scutellum yellow brown tinged with gray; pleura: grayish white and clothed with white hair; disk of thorax and scutellum clothed with white hair scales and fine black hairs. Abdomen dorsally blackish brown, a median series of yellowish brown contigu- ous triangular spots, narrow on anterior margins and broad- ened to posterior margins; on each side, half-way toward lat- eral margins, a series of broad oblique bars of the same color, touching both anterior and posterior margins of the segments, but not the lateral margins; extreme lateral margins with a narrow continuous brownish yellow stripe; the pale markings are overlaid with whitish hair-scales j venter pale ferruginous, tinted with pale gray at the sides, the seventh segment with short erect black bristles. Legs pale ferruginous, with pale gray pruinosity and whitish down, the anterior and middle cox'" dark, the front tibi", blackened from just beyond the middle; tarsi blackish. Wings hyaline, the stigma long and brownish yellow. Halteres pale ferruginous, with creamy white knobs. The eyes show traces of two transverse pur- plish stripes. Length: Body, about 11 mm.; wing 9 mm.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus hookeri Knab, 1915
label: Published Name
content: Tabanus claripennis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258426
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 44207
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 19354
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258426
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Knab, F., Crawford. Insecutor Inscit. Menstr. 3 : 48.
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