Tabanus boreus
date: label: Collection Date
content: 14 Aug 1912 to 17 Aug 1912
name: label: Collector
content: J. M. Jessup
notes: label: Notes
content: Female.-Length 15 mm. Eye pilose. Frons gray, with black hair above, whitish hair below, nearly two and one-half times as high as width at base, with nearly parallel sides; basal callus chestnut brown, nearly twice as wide as high, not quite touching eyes; median callus small, irregular, connected with basal callus by narrow line; ocellar tubercle large, yellowish brown. Subcallus, clypeus, and genae concolorous with frons: clypeus and genae with white hair. First two antennal segments dark gray, with mixed black and white hair; third black, the basal portion slender, with low, obtuse dorsal angle and no dorsal excision. Palpus creamy white, with long white hair; second segment slender, with a few scattered black hairs. Mesonotum, including prescutal lobe, black, an indication of five gray lines on anterior margin; type specimen with humerus and region above wing base tinged with brownish: in paratype the humerus dark. Pleura, sternum, and coxae black, the hair mostly white. Wing entirely hyaline, with dark-brown veins: venation normal. Legs brownish black, the tibiae somewhat lighter than the femora: hind tibial fringe concolorous with tibia, the hairs long but irregular. Abdomen black, with three rows of gray spots above and incisures, both above and below, narrowly grayish; spots rather indistinct, the median triangle or tergite 2 large, reaching nearly to anterior margin, the sublateral spots reaching about half way; venter with white hair.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Tabanus boreus det AStone Stone; [Label 2] J.M Jessup Collection; [Label 3] Collection JMAldrich; [Label 4] long.141:lat. 69-10. Alaska VIII-14-17.12; [Label 5] 10; [Label 6] TypeNo. 51973 U.S.N.M.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska-Yukon boundary, North Slope, Alaska, United States
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content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus boreus Stone, 1938
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258388
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47016
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 51973
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258388
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Stone, A. 1938. Miscellaneous Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture. 305 : 147, Fig. 74, C.
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: Type
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult