Tabanus provocans
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1927
name: label: Collector
content: Baker
notes: label: Notes
content: Description (holotype, female). Length, 11.5 mm. Eyes bare, a single, heavy purple band on green ground (relaxed). Front parallel-sided, index 1:6.8, gray pollinose, callosity and stout median callus mahogany-brown, the callosity filling the lower portion of the front, gradually tapered into a heavy median keel which reaches to the upper fourth of the front. Subcallus peculiar, small, a narrow brown band under the callosity, then an ash-gray band which is lighter viewed from above, and a wide yellow pair of curved bands over the antennal fossae. Face and cheeks whitish pollinose and pilose. Antennae long and slender, the basal segments dark red, black haired, the third segment over twice longer than wide and a little longer than the annuli, the dorsal margin sinuous and the tooth low, obtuse. Palpi dull yellow, stout at base and pointed apically, black haired. Proboscis yellowish brown. Notum and scutellum ash-gray pollinose with short yellow and black hairs. Pleura, chest, and coxae gray pollinose and pilose. Legs reddish, the fore and hind femora, apical thirds of fore tibiae, and all tarsi a little darker. Wings tinted, with a distinct apical shadow, veins and costal cells yellow. Cell R5 open, no spur veins. Subepaulets hairy. Halteres yellow. Abdomen yellowish red basally, dark brown caudally, all but the seventh incisures pale yellow; mostly black haired, but with yellow hairs on the incisures and median patches which extend forward of the middle on tergites 4 to 6. Venter uniformly reddish with yellow hairs.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus provocans #F n.sp. C.B.PHILIP'59; [Label 1] fr. 1:6.8 ant 3.0:125:2.25 (24); [Label 2] [drawing of eye coloration]; [Label 3] Island Sibuyan Baker; [Label 4] CFBaker collection 1927
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Island Sibuyan, Romblon, Philippines
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus provocans Philip, 1959
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258473
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 51020
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A8082
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258473
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Philip, C. B. Fieldiana: Zoology. 33 (6): 603, 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: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult