Tabanus gracilipalpis
date: label: Collection Date
content: 9 Jul 1921
name: label: Collector
content: J. M. Aldrich
notes: label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Tabanus gracilipalpis Hine; [Label 2] Camp334Alsk AlskEngComm VII-9-21; [Label 3] TypeNo. 26822 U.S.N.M.; [Label 4] JMAldrich coll; [Label 5] Tabanus gracilipalpis Hine Deter. J. S. HINE. 192 [Label 6][Slide] Tabanus gracilipalpis Hine #F Holotype see pinned 1923; [Label 7][Slide] Camp334,Alaska Alask.Eugrng. Commission 9/7/21 slide - EIC
label: Notes
content: Length, 16 millimeters. Suggestive of affinis, average size somewhat smaller than that species ad in general form less elongate. Female, palpi somewhat elongated, slender, only very graduatlly tapering and ending in a blunt point. Third segment of the antennae reddish, infuscated dorsally and apically, wide and rather short, annulate portion much shorter than the basal, distinctly excised dorsally at base, dorsal basal angle prominent and acute. Subcallus not denuded, front grayish-yellow pollinose, gradualle narrowed anteriorlywhere it is about one half millimeter in width; ocelligerous tubercle prominent and shining, frontal callosity nearly as wide as the front, leaving only a very narrow pollinose space on either side, curved inward dorsallyand connected with an extension above nearly half itswidth and reaching very near half way to vertex; the entire structure is rather dull black in color and shows peculiar wrinkled appearance; eyes pilose. Thorax black with gray and black pile, thinly gray pollinose and with the usual stripes dorsally; wings hyaline, veins dark, costal cell pale yellowish, stigma brown; anterior leg black, tibia only slightly reddish basally; femora of other legs black, narrowly red apically tibiae and tarsi nearly wholly reddish dorsally. Abdomen bright reddish yellow on sides of first three segments and with a very narrow gray margin bearing a few pale yellow hairs posteriorly on each segment, first segmet widely beneath the scutellum, second and third segments more narrowly, and all of following segments black; abdomen may be said to be shining reddish ellow with a nearly uniform back middorsal stripe slightly over two millimeters in width. Ventrally, first segment, anterior margin of second, a somewhat obscure midventral line on two and three and all of following segments black, otherwise venter yellow.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Camp 334 near Fairbanks, Alaskan Engineering Comission, Fairbanks North Star, Alaska, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus gracilipalpis Hine, 1923
label: Published Name
content: Tabanus arpadi (Szilady)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258417
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 45252
label: Other Numbers
content: USNMENT : USNMENT00258567
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 26822
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258417
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Hine, J. S., Glingerland. Canadian Entomologist. 55 : 143.
label: Type Status
content: Holotype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Tabanidae, Tabaninae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Pinned
label: Preparation
content: Slide
label: Remarks
content: Holotype
label: Remarks
content: Holotype
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult