Cryptotylus stonei
date: label: Collection Date
content: 3 Apr 1950
name: label: Collector
content: J. Maldonado Capriles
notes: label: Notes
content: Female.- Length 13.5 mm.; wing 13.0 mm. Brownish orange above, anterior portions of thorax and abdomen somewhat paler; face, thorax and first three abdominal sterna lighter, yellow orange. Without any greenish tinge. Frontal callus, subcallus and frons concolorous, lighter than mesonotulll, frons with shurt erect black hairs. First two antennal segments light brownish-orange, third slightly darker. Palpus uniformly yellow brown, with decumbent, short, black hairs. Labrum-epipharynx light brownish-yellow; labium and labella shiny black. Mesonotum with slightly decumbent blackish pile; pteropleura with blackish brown pile, remaining parts of pleura with golden yellow pile, this longer than that of mesonotum, Wings hyaline; costal cell and stigma yellowish; stigma narrow; veins dark brown. Halter with yellowish Shaft, grayish brown knob. Legs yellow, tarsi darker; pilosity of coxae, hind femur below, and basal under portion of hind tibia yellowish, tile rest black. Pile of dorsum of abdomen entirely dark, first three abdominal sterna with yellow pilosity at base and with scattered black hairs on apical margin; rest of segments with longer and mixed yellow and black hairs, black hairs predominating. Frons less than three times 3S high as basal width, the sides very slightly diverging above, with a very shallow concavity before upper end (fig. 1). Frontal callus narrow, somewhat indistinct, about one third width of frons at base, dorsal extension reaching almost to middle of frons; subcallus not elevated, smooth or with a few shallow diagonal corrugations. Dorsal angle of third antennal segment strong but slightly produced forward (fig. 2); second segment with a strong spine in upper anterior angle. Palpus moderately stout at base, tapering apically. Proboscis less than three-fourths as long as height of head. Labella rather long, reaching to middle of proboscis. Wing venation as in figure 3; no stump vein at base of vein R4. Holotype female, from the mouth of the Cunucunuma River, affluent of the Orinoco River, Territorio Amazonas, Venezuela, S.A., collector J. Maldonado Capriles; April 3, 1950. USNM No. 62896.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] Holotype Cryptotylus stonei Maldonado Capriles; [Label 1] Venezuela Exp. Territ. Amazonas, Mouth Cunucunuma R., Apt. 3 1950; [Label 2] J. Maldonado Capriles Coll.; [Label 3] TypeNo 62896 U.S.N.M.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mouth of the Cunucunuma River, Amazonas, Venezuela
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Cryptotylus stonei Capriles, 1955
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258487
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47724
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 62896
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258487
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 57 : 189, Figs. 1-3.
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