Tabanus gracilicornis insulicola
date: label: Collection Date
content: 22 Jun 1930
name: label: Collector
content: H. S. Peters
notes: label: Notes
content: Total length, male and female 12 mm.; width of head, male 4.5, female 4 mm.; width of front, female, one half mm. General color pale brown, abdomen with three rows of pale spots, wings very pale reddish hyaline, disk of the scutellum dark surrounded by a gray margin. Female: form somewhat slender, head comparatively small, front of medium width, brownish gray pollinose, sides parallel, frontal callosity pale brown, somewhat narrower than the front, slightly produced dorsally, hut with no disconnected spot above and no denuded area at vertex, face gray pollinose, beard white, palpi pale yellowish white, pointed at apex, nearly as long as the proboscis; antenna slender, first and second segments pale brown with short black hairs above, third segment broWn basally, darker apicaIly, annulate portion only about half as long as basal, prominence minute. Thorax brown above with longitudinal gray stripes faintly evident; legs pale brown, apex of front tibia, and its tarsus darker; wing pale reddish hyaline, all posterior cells open, anterior branch of the third vein without an appendage, anal ceIl closed and petiolate. Abdomen pale brown, a middorsal row of gray contiguous triangles and a row of small gray spots on either side. Male: colored like the female, head large, eyes contiguous, a large area of enlarged facets with a narrow margin of small facets. The whole area occupied by the enlarged facets is pale while that occupied by the small ones is nearly black. End segment of palpus nearly oval and directed forward. The species is about the same sice as and looks much like T. gracilis Wd., but the dark spot on the scutellum, the slender antennae and coloration of the wings are distinctive. The specimens at hand vary in total length from 1 Q to 12 mm. There is some variation also in the frontal callosity of the female, it being nearly square in some and slightly elongated in others
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Bishopp No15025; [Label 2] Anguila Isl.,Bah. Isl. O.W.I. 6-22-30; [Label 3] Type insulicola #F JB.; [Label 4] H.S.Peters Collector; [Label H] Tabanus gracilicornis var. insulicola holotype #F JAcq
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anauila Island, [Not stated], Bahamas
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus gracilicornis insulicola Bequaert, 1940
label: Published Name
content: Tabanus gracilicornis Hine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258416
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 53025
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A16229
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258416
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Revista de Entomologia. 11 : 301, Fig. 4F-H.
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