Tabanus (Chelotabanus) attenuatus
date: label: Collection Date
content: 29 May 1964
name: label: Collector
content: A. B. Broce
label: Collector
content: R. E. Woodruff
notes: label: Notes
content: Tabanus (Chelotabanus) attenuatus, new species (Fig. 3) A large dark brown species with reddish, caudally narrowed abdomen, predominantly black appendages, the antennal plates acutely excised but teeth not elongate, cells R5 (1st posterior) of wings wide open, no spur veins. Holotype: 19 mm. Eyes bare, no bands revivable. Postocular fringe with short black hairs. Frons smoky buff-gray pollinose, narrow (index 1:7.5), parallelsided; median callosity black, keellike, expanded below but separated from eyes and attenuated at about the upper third of the frons from apex. Subcallus, face, and cheeks dull buff-gray pollinose, beard short yellow-haired. Shapes of antennae and palpi as figured, the latter dull, blackish-brown, black-haired, and but little shorter than the proboscis. Scapes, pedicels and plates at extreme bases dark reddish; distal remainder of antennae black. Notum and scutellum dull blackish-brown with inconspicuous scattering short black and golden-yellow hairs; prealar tubercles dull reddish. Pleura, coxae, and lower femoral margins mostly yellow-haired. Dorsums of femora, and all but basal thirds of tibiae, including entire prominent hind tibial fringes, black. Wings strongly brown-tinted, accentuated costally; basicostas black setose. Halteres yellow, brown on sides of knobs. Abdomen tapered caudally, dull dark red, covered with sparse short black hairs, and with orange-red hairs laterally and narrowly on the incisures; venter orange-red with concolorous hairs; sternite 7 red with accentuated black hairs. Allotype #F, 19 mm. Closely resembles the holotype in all but the usual sexual characters. Eyes bare with uniformly small facets. Tubercle at vertex dark brown not raised above eye level. Palpi short ovoid, yellow with concolorous hairs, black hairs ventrally and apically. Abdomen more strongly tapered through segment 4, and caudally constricted thereafter; segment 7 reddish with accentuated black hairs. Holotype, allotype, and 2 #M , 2 #F paratypes. Honduras, Dep. Camayagua, Rancho Chiquito. km 62, 29.V.64. "black light trap." F. S. Blanton, A. B. Broce, and R. E. Woodruff. In collection of Florida State Collection of Arthropods; 1 pair in coll. C.B.P. The abdomen is brighter brick red in part of the series, accentuated by wear.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] TABANUS attenuis #F DET. C.B.PHILIP 1969 nn.; [Label 2] HONDURAS: DEPT. OF COMAYAGUA, RANCHO CHIQUITO, KM. 62; [Label 3] 29 V 64 BLACKLIGHT TRAP; [Label 4] F. S. BLANTON A. B. BROCE & R. E. WOODRUFF; [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus attenuatus #F n.sp. C.B. PHILIP 6[?] HOLOTYPE
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rancho Chiquito; km 62, Comayagua, Honduras
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus (Chelotabanus) attenuatus Philip, 1968
label: Published Name
content: Tabanus abattenuis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258372
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 53007
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A16211
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258372
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 61 (2): 381, Fig. 3.
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: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult