Tabanus vittiger nippontucki
date: label: Collection Date
content: 20 Jul 1933
name: label: Collector
content: M. Cazier
notes: label: Notes
content: T. vittiger subsp. nippontucki subsp. nov. {The unorthodox name was applied in manuscript on Dec. 8, 1941 (the day after "Pearl Harbor"), and is of barbaric derivation to commemorate recent events associated with "Nippon", and a style of sneak air attack used even by horseflies.}As indicated above, this is a southwestern variant which, in both sexes, resembles schwardti but is much more pallid and frosty appearing, the femora not usually infuscated basally, and the thoracic lines more obscure. Holotype, #M, 12.5 mm. Head large, eyes brown, upper area of enlarged facets extensive occupying 3/4 the total area, distinctly hairy, vertical tubercle narrow and reduced. Frontal triangle yellow pollinose extending onto the cheeks along the eye margins. Remainder of face and cheeks whitish pollinose and pilose. Palpi pale creamy, whitish pilose, the apical segments plump and with a decurved nipple. Antennae red, scapes not enlarged. Thorax frosty pollinose and pilose, a little darker above with only suggestions of 2 sublateral dorsal lines; prescutal lobes and apical half of scutellum pale reddish. Wings hyaline, venation normal; halteres pale yellow darker on the stem. Front legs with inner faces of femora, apical half of fore tibiae, and all tarsi dark brown, remainder of legs pale yellowish, the hind tibia1 fringe predominantly whitish on the basal 2/3. Abdomen pale yellowish above and below the dark mesa1 pair of lines faded brown, the sublateral ones obsolescent, with few black hairs in evidence. The mid-stripe broad, and widened on each hind border. The sublateral pale lines indistinctly step-like and irregular. Westmoreland, Calif., July 20, 1933, M. Cazier. In the U. S. Nat'1. Museum No. 56087. Allotype, #F 12 mm. Head and its appendage shapes and eye pattern of the usual lineola type, frontal index 1:4.5, convergent below but parallel in the upper third. Callosity brown, narrowly separated from the eye margins, the median callosity short and narrowly joined to the basal. Subcallus yellow pollinose, face and cheeks whitish pilose and pollinose. Antennae red, scapes normal. Palpi pale yellow, attenuated, covered with pale hairs, and a few black ones on the apical segment. Thorax pale yellowish pilose and pollinose above with 3 indistinct dark lines posteriorly, scutellum broadly pale reddish behind; pleurae, chest and cox= whitish pilose and pollinose. Wings hyaline, venation normal. Halteres pale yellow. Legs pale reddish, fore pair brown on the inner faces of the femora and blackish beyond the middle of the tibiae, the hind-tibia1 fringe predominantly white on the basal two thirds. Abdomen very pale, inconspicuously gray and reddish lined above, the pale middorsal line widened on each incisure, the sublateral gray lines irregular in a schwardti-like arrangement. Venter pale reddish, with an indistinct, darker, mid-ventral band in certain lights; black hairs only on terminal sternite. Westmoreland, Calif., 5-20-31, R. M. and G. E. Bohart. In the collection of the author through courtesy of Dr. T. H. G. Aitken. Paratypes-3 #M, Westmoreland, Calif., July 20, 1933, M. Cazier; #M, same data as allotype but May 15;2 #M, Coachella, Calif., May 13, 1917, E. P. Van Duzee; #M, #F, Brawley, Imperial Co., Calif., Aug. 9, 1914, J. C. Bradley; #F, same data but Aug. 10; 3 #M,same place May, 1911, June 1and 6, 1912, J. C. Bridwell; #M, El Centro, Calif., June 25, 1917 (BishoppNo.7392);#M,El.Centro,Calif.,April;4 #M, #F, Sommerton, Ariz., June 2, 1938, C. C. Deonier (Bishopp No. 27,815); #M, Yuma, Ariz., April, 1937, R. M. and G. E. Bohart; #M, Ehrenberg, Ariz., Aug. 25, 1938, F. H. Parker. In the collections of the U. S. Nat'l Museum, Museum of Comp. Zoology, T. H. G. Aitken, G. B. Fairchild, J. C. Bequaert, and the author. Part of these males were assigned to T. truquii Bell. by Stone (1938).
label: Notes
content: [Label H] HOLOTYPE #M Tabanus vittiger subsp nippontucki nov. descr. C.B.Philip '42; [Label 1] M. Cazier Collection; [Label 2] Westmorland VII-20-33 Cal.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Westmoreland, Imperial, California, United States
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content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus vittiger nippontucki Philip, 1942
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258458
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 51032
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A8094
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258458
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Psyche. 49 : 32.
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: Male
label: Stage
content: Adult