Apatolestes (Apatolestes) similis
date: label: Collection Date
content: JULY
name: label: Collector
content: [Not Stated]
notes: label: Notes
content: Apatolestes (Apatolestes) similis, new species Color. Gray. Size. Length,14mm. Structural and color characters. Female: Vertex (except a broad, denuded brown mid-streak), genae and frontoclypeus, gray-white pollinose; the genae and postgenae with white and a little black pile. Palpi gray-yellow, with black and white hairs. Flagellum of antenna black; scape and pedicel gray-yellow with black and white hairs. Dorsum of thorax and scutellum black, gray pruinose, white pubescent, the former with faint stripes; pleurae and venter gray pruinose with white pile and on the humeri some black. Abdomen gray pollinose with black and white pubescence, the former dominant along the sides and apex, and discs of tergites, the latter conspicuous on the whitish hind margins of the segments; a ferruginous ground color shows through the pruinosity on the venter, near the base. Halteres yellow-brown. Wings subhyaline. Legs red-brown, darker basally and apically. Male: Like the female and easily associated. Comparative Notes. Except for color this species has the habitus of A. albipilosus n. sp., but in that species the costal cells of the wings are yellowish and the palpi are more tenuous apically. Type Data. Holotype, female, Los Angeles Co., California, July. Allotype, male, same data. In the United States National Museum.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: [Not Stated], Los Angeles, California, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Apatolestes (Apatolestes) similis Brennan, 1935
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258485
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47139
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 54065
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258485
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Brennan. University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 22 (8): 374.
label: Type Status
content: Holotype
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Brachycera, Tabanidae, Pangoniinae
physicalDescription: label: Prep Count
content: 1
label: Preparation
content: Pinned
label: Remarks
content: Type
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult