Merycomyia haitiensis
date: label: Collection Date
content: 25/28 JUNE
name: label: Collector
content: [Not Stated]
notes: label: Notes
content: Female: Length 17 mm, wing 14.5 mm. Head grayish brown with darker brown hairs. Frons as high as width at lower margin of eyes; width at vertex about 0.8 width below. Eyes with dense, short hair, when relaxed uniformly green. Ocelli on a prominent tubercle, the hairs behind the tubercle somewhat stouter, curving forward: frontal callus diamond-shaped, about 0.4 width of frons; a very slender darker line extends dor- sally, about halfway to ocelli. Subcallus dis- tinctly swollen, yellowish brown, this and the upper part of genae without hairs; a distinct median groove from lower angle of callus to interantennal area. Genae and clypeus with long dark hair. Antenna: Scape and pedicel both grayish brown, short, stout, with long black hairs; flagellum orange brown, with a few short hairs; first segment about twice as long as broad, the dorsal margin nearly straight, the ventral margin distinctly convex; second and third segments subequal, the third tapering . Palpus short and stout, the first 8egment subglobular, the second swollen, and curved to an acute apex; both with long hairs. Proboscis less than 1 mm long, the labellae large. Dorsum of thorax reddish brown and grayish, subshining, the gray forming fi.ve narrow stripes, the outermost one on each side dividing just behind the transverse suture; humeri yellowish; sides of scutellum paler than middle; pleura brown; hairs of thorax dark brown to blackish. Halteres light brown. Wings pale brown all the veins broadly margined with dark brown, venation unmodified. Legs uniformly yellow-brown, with brown hairs; hind tibial spurs small but distinct, dark. Abdomen dark brown, the sides of segment one and basal half of t ergite four grayish brown; hairs mostly blackish brown, with some admixture of paler hairs.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] TypeNo 61675 USNM; [Label 2] 5; [Label 3] JUNE 25/28; [Label 4] HAITIEN
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: [Not Stated], Haiti
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Merycomyia haitiensis Stone, 1953
label: Published Name
content: Thaumastomyia haitiensis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258421
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47588
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 61675
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258421
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Stone, A. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 43 (8): 255, 3a-c.
label: Type Status
content: Holotype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Tabanidae, Chrysopsinae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Pinned
label: Remarks
content: Type
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult