Tabanus moderator
date: label: Collection Date
content: 2 Jun 1935
name: label: Collector
content: P. W. Fattig
notes: label: Notes
content: Female - Length 19-20 mm. Eye bare, purple, with two green-blue bands. Frons gray tinged with yellow brown at level of median callus, about nine times as high as width at base, distinctly widened above; basal callus orange brown, about two and one-half times as high as wide, narrowed above; median callus a narrow concolorous stripe, somewbat longer tban basal callus and narrowly 'olned to it; subcallus and top of genae yellowish brown. Antenna black, the first two segments with black balr; third with a prominent, acute, dorsal angle and a pronounced excision; annulate portion about as long as width of basal portion. Clypeus and lower genae white, with white hair. Palpus yellowish brown, the second segment moderate in length and thickness, with mixed black and pale-yellowish hair. Mesoscutum dark brown, with five distinct, yellowish-gray stripes, the median one very slender, sublateral ones broader, fading somewhat posteriorly, and lateral stripes broad, spUt by a longitudinal dark stripe above wing base: a transverse spot of dense black hair before scutellum; the latter entirely white, with white hair. Wing subhyaline, the costal cell faintly brownish and cross veins, furcation, and particularly veins R2+3 and R4. margined with pale brown; venation normal Femora black, the fore femur with black hair, others with some pale hair; fore tibia black, except for extreme base, which is yellowish, with a Uttle white hair; middle and hind tibiae white, with white hair except the extreme apices, which are blackish with black hair; tarsi black, the middle and hind tarsi with short orange hair below. Abdomen above dark brown, with a median row of broad white spots and tergltes with very narrow posterior margins, widening at lateral margins; median spot on tergite 2 much smaller than those on tergites 3 and 4, slightly smaller than that on terglte 5; venter grayish, with transverse brown bands on anterior margins of sternites 3-6, narrowed laterally; tergite 7 entirely brown.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Tabanus moderator det AStone Stone; [Label 2] TypeNo. 51969 U.S.N.M.; [Label 3] 1941; [Label 4] Atlanta, Ga. 6-2-35 P.W.Fattig.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus moderator Stone, 1938
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258446
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47015
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 51969
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258446
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Stone, A. 1938. Miscellaneous Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture. 305 : 98, Fig. 74, C.
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: Type
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult