Tabanus auripilosus
date: label: Collection Date
content: May 1926
name: label: Collector
content: R. C. McGregor
notes: label: Notes
content: holotype, female. Length, 13.5 mm. Eyes bare, apparently uniformly green (relaxed). Front with parallel sides, index 1 :7.0, golden-yellow polli- nose and short pilose, a sooty, black-haired triangle at the vertex, callosity dark brown, drop-shaped, nearly twice taller than wide, rounded below, narrowly sep- arated from ocular margins, tapered rather rapidly into a thin, median, concolor- ous line which reaches about the upper fourth of the front. Subcallus, face, and cheeks golden-yellow pollinose, and pilose below, sparse brown hairs on the up- per cheeks. Antennae red, the annuli sharply black, with black hairs basally; plate rather slender, about twice longer than wide, distinctly excavated dorsally, the tooth subrectangulate, annuli long, a little shorter than the plate. Palpi orange, rather slender, blunt apically and predominantly shaggy, black haired. Probos- cis black.Thorax and scutellum concolorous, heavily golden pollinose and pilose, over-lying blackish integument which shows only in worn spots. Pleura, chest, and coxae the same. Fore legs deep brownish, black haired except for a few yellow ones on the reddish basal third of the tibiae. Mid and hind pairs uniformly reddish with golden hairs, the tips of the tibiae and tarsi brown with black hairs. Wings tinted, the costal cells deep yellow and a distinct apical shadow below the costa, margining the branches of the radial vein, veins yellow; spur-vein on one wing half the length of the stem, a pronounced knot only on the other; cell R5 wide open. Subepaulets hairy. Halteres orange. Abdomen without pattern, the golden hairs rather long and shaggy; tergite 7 sharply blackish with black hair. Venter becoming dusky from sternite 4 caudad, the seventh blackish with black hairs as above. No integumental black spots on the second segment.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus auripilosus #F n.sp. C.B.Philip '59; [Label 1] Lucban v:26 TayabasPI RCMcGregor; [Label 2] fr.ind 1:7.0
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Philippines; Lucban; Luzon; Tayabas Prov., Quezon, Philippines
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus auripilosus Philip, 1959
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258375
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 53009
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A16213
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258375
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Philip, C. B. Fieldiana: Zoology. 33 (6): 580, Fig. 131.
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