Tabanus abaculus
date: label: Collection Date
content: 4 Aug 1958 to 8 Aug 1958
name: label: Collector
content: R. Traub
notes: label: Notes
content: Description (holotype #M). - Length, 17 mm. Eyes (relaxed) uniformly coppery black. Frons brown pollinose which changes to pale buff on vertical view, index 1:5.7; prominent reddish-brown callosities as figured. Subcallus pale, creamy. Face and cheeks whitish pollinose and pilose, without upper brown crossband. Two basal, antennal segments and extreme base of third reddish with black hairs, remainder black; plate rather narrow, des;Ply excised, and almost a third longer than style. Palpi missing. Notum purplish-gray with prominent gray Jines anteriorly, scutellum paler gray, denuded but probably with white pile originally similar to patches behind the wing insertions. Femora and approximate apical thirds of tibiae dark-brown, the former with mostly pale hairs. Cells basad of humeral crossvein in extreme base of wings yellow, alula and remainder clear except for slight tinting of the costal cell outwardly; cell R5 about half narrowed at outer margin, no spur veins. Halteres pale brown. Abdomen steel-gray, each tergite, except the second, with wide, blackish-brown, basal bands notched in the middle; the second tergite has a pair of less distinct, brown, transverse shadows, with the basal margin gray; on the stemites there is a median, black, midventral band, the incisures narrowly gray; vestiture whitish and black in corresponding places.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Malaya Trengganu Dung[?]n,Bukit Besi,4-8 Ag.'58 R. Traub; [Label 2] eyes/relax\ uniformly coppery bl.; [Label H] HOLOTYPE TABANUS abaculus #F DET. n.sp. C.B. PHILIP 1959
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Malaya, Trengganu, dungan, Bukit besu, Terengganu, Malaysia
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content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus abaculus Philip, 1960
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258352
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 52992
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A16196
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258352
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Philip, C. B. 1960. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, Malaysian Parasites XXXV-XLIX. 29 : 7, Fig. 23.
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