Tabanus fairchildi
date: label: Collection Date
content: 21 Jun 1920
name: label: Collector
content: [Not Stated]
notes: label: Notes
content: Female.-Length 13-16 mm. Eye bare or with very sparse, short pile, green, with a single narrow, diagonal, purple band. Frons three and one-half to four times as high as width at base, slightly widened above, gray, with brown on each side of median callus and tinged with yellow below it, with black hair, and a few yellowish hairs below median callus; basal callus dark brown to black, shiny, subquadrate, below as wide as frons and slightly narrowed above; median callus black, about as long as basal callus and narrowly joined to it; vertex with abundant black hair, and often with a denuded black spot, but no tubercle. Subcallus yellowish brown, somewhat swollen. First antennal seg- ment orange brown to black, densely clothed with black hair, somewhat swollen above, as wide as basal portion of third segment and somewhat projecting forward over second; third entirely black, with a distinct dorsal angle at base and only a slight excision; basal portion longer than wide, the annulate portion intermediate in length between length and width of basal portion. Clypeus and genae below antennae light gray, with white hair. Second palpal segment stout, tapering to a point, white, with black and white haii'. Mesoscutum and scutellum black, the former with narrow gray stripes of pollen; vestiture consisting of erect black hair, recumbent orange hair, and some erect white hair along anterior margin, above wing base and around scutellum; prescutal lobe reddish, with black hair. Pleura, sternum, and coxae gray with white hair. Wing entirely hyaline, with dark-brown veins ad stima; venation normal. Femora gray, with white hair; tibiae pale reddish brown except for apical half of fore tibiae and extreme apices of middle and hind tibiae, which are black; pale portions of tibiae with white hair, the hind tibial fringe well-developed; tarsi dark reddish brown to black. Dorsum of abdomen black, with three rows of gray spots, a round spot on first tergite, followed by a row of distinct gray triangles, the triangle on second tergite largest and the others progressively smaller posteriorly; sublateral spots smaller, somewhat oblique, and not touching hind margins of tergites beyond second; venter gray, with whitish Incisures, somewhat darker medianly.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Tabanus fairchildi det Stone AStone;[Label 2] Taghanic Ithaca, N.Y. 6.21 1920; [Label 3] TypeNo. 51963 U.S.N.M.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Taghanic [Taughannock], Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus fairchildi Stone, 1938
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258406
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47011
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 51963
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258406
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Stone, A. 1938. Miscellaneous Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture. 305 : 63, 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