Tabanus comosus
date: label: Collection Date
content: 5 Mar 1943
name: label: Collector
content: Pennoyer
notes: label: Notes
content: 1 female: San Fernando de Atabapo, Territorio Federal Amazonas, March 15, 1943 (Pennoyer). Female. Length 19 mm., wing 16 mm. Stout, reddish brown, with abundant tawny pile, forming three rows of large spots on the abdomen. Frons four times as high as width at base, slightly widened above, gray, tinged with yellow brown; frontal callus chestnut brown, widely separated from eyes and tapering gradually to the concolorous dorsal extension that does not reach the faintly indicated vertical spot; subcallus concolorous with frons, the clypeus and genae slightly paler;' beard cremy white. Antenna orange brown, the annulate portion of the third segment darkened; first segment somewhat produced above, with short black hair; basal portion of third segment with a moderate dorsal angle and slight dorsal excision. Palpus stout at base, creamy white with pale hairs mixed with a few black ones; occiput pale grayish, the occipital fringe creamy white. Mesonotum yellowish gray with abundant creamy-white hair and a few black hairs on prealar callus and just in front of transverse suture; a dense patch of black hair on prescutellum; pleura and sternum yellowish gray with mostly whitish hair. Wings entirely hyaline, the veins dark brown. Legs grayish brown, the tarsi darkened; hair of coxae, femora, and most of tibiae, except a few at apices; creamy white; hind tibial fringe entirely creamy; tarsi entirely black haired. Abdomen reddish brown with three rows of large apical spots of creamy-white hair; the median spots are on tergites 2-4, that on 2 being smallest; the lateral spots are on tergites 1-6; intervening areas with black hair. Venter orange brown, the hairs whitish laterally, golden medially; erect black hair on sternite 7 and a few black hairs on 6. Holotype. United States National Museum N9 56.928. Type locality. San Fernando de Atabapo, Venezuela. This species is related to ferrifer Walker, differing from it in having entirely hyaline wings, less excised third antenna! segment, and larger median abdominal spots.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Pennoyer Colr.; [Label 2] SanFernando de Atabapo Venezuela Mar.5.1943; [Label H] HoloType No. 56928 U.S.N.M.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Fernando de Atabapo, Amazonas, Venezuela
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus comosus Stone, 1944
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258396
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47250
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 56928
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258396
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Drake, C. J. Boletin de Entomologia Venezolana. 3 (3): 134.
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