Tabanus atropilosus
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. - Length 11.2-12.4 mm; wing length 9.6-10.8 mm. Front narrow, diverging toward vertex, index 7.0, index of divergence 1.7-1.8, dark grayish brown tomentose and black pilose, basal callus brown, rectangular, about twice as tall as wide, contiguous with eye margins, median callus black, narrowly lanceolate to oval, widely separated from basal callus; subcallus denuded, shining brown; frontoclypeus gray tomentose, white pilose, parafacials brownish tinged and black pilose laterad of subcallus along ventral margin of eyes, beard white; antennae brown, scape enlarged dorsally, shining, basal flagellomere elongate, with obtuse dorsal tooth, length twice height, and twice length of terminal flagellomeres; maxillary palpi light gray tomentose with some bluish gray tones, apical palpomere stout basally; eyes bare, pattern (revived) a narrow median transverse purple stripe on bright green ground. Mesonotum brown tomentose with some grayish tones anteriorly and laterally, black pilose, scutellum concolorous, postpronotal lobes gray tomentose, notopleural lobes reddish gray; pleuron gray tomentose, white pilose, with some black hairs intermixed on mesanepisternum. Coxae gray tomentose, fore femora black, gray tomentose on outer surface and mixed black and white pilose, mid- and hind femora brown, gray tomentose, tibiae yellowish white basally, white pilose, apical one-third of fore tibiae and apical one-fourth of mid- and hind tibiae contrastingly black, tarsi black; anterior part of wing brownish tinged, sometimes concentrated in the marginal ad first submarginal cell along veins R2+3 and R4, remainder of wing subhyaline, R4 without spur, basal half of Cu vein forming lower margin of median cell with row of setulae; halteres yellowish to dark brown. Abdomen reddish brown anteriorly, progressively darkened on posterior segments, black pilose, ventral surface light brown with a poorly-defined dark grayish tomentose, black-haired median stripe, paler areas yellowish pilose.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus atropilosus Burger; [Label 1] MALAYSIA: Sabah; Kinabalu National Park, Headquarters area, el. 1560m, 9 Sept. 1983 G.F.Hevel & W.E.Steiner
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Apr 2016
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: Tabanus atropilosus Burger, 1988
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT258371
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258371
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Burger, J. F. 1988. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 64 : 163, Figs. 8-9.
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: Stage
content: Adult