Tabanus zoster
date: label: Collection Date
content: 5 Mar 1952
name: label: Collector
content: D. C. Thurman
label: Collector
content: Ernestine B. Thurman
label: Microhabitat Description
content: In hot spring
notes: label: Notes
content: A small, brown species with lined thorax, narrow, pale, abdominal bands, short, broad, red antennae, mid legs unicolorous reddish but fore and hind femora dark-brown, and wings glass-clear with short spur veins. Upper eye facets of male strongly enlarged, the head subhemispherical and wider than thorax. This is obviously related to T. multicinctus Schuurmans Stekhoven and T. equicinctus Schuurmans Stekhoven, but is separable on characters in the key. Description (holotype female). - Length 10 mm. Eyes (relaxed) black, unhanded. Frons dark-gray pollinose sides nearly parallel, index 1:6.2; callosity dark-brown, tall, triangular, tridentate at base, extending as median keel to upper third of frons. Subcallus and upper cheeks buff-gray. Face and lower cheeks whitish pollinose and pilose. Antennae orange-red, black-haired basally, plate short and nearly as tall as long, mildly excised, the tooth low, obtuse; annuli a little darker and nearly as long. Palpi pale yellow, swollen basally, and pointed, sparsely black and white-haired. Notum and scutellum dark-brown, the former with a pair of brown, longitudinal lines above each wing base, the antealar tubercles and upper pleura dull pinkish, darkening to ash-gray on the chest. Fore and hind femora, and apical half of fore tibiae blackish-brown, the remainder pale reddish, the mid femora only slightly darker than mid tibiae, mostly pale-haired including hind tibial fringe. Halteres pale brown. Abdomen dull reddish-brown becoming black on last three tergites, the seventh unusually prominent; all incisures but the first contrasting pale pollinose and pilose. Venter pinkish with pale-yellow hairs. Allotype Male. - Like the female and readily associated. A little lighter brown over-all, with thoracic lines less distinct. Enlarged eye facets occupying upper three-fourths of area, a wide band of small facets extending upward on the occipital margin to vertex. Tubercle in occipital notch depressed below eye level. Palpi are short, ovoid, mostly white-haired. Paratypes. - Male, 4 females, same data as holotype. In unworn specimens there are suggestions of expansion of the incisural bands to form pale, yellow-haired, low, median triangles. One female has entirely white-haired palpi. In Com. Dis. Center Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, and collection C.B.P. Type Material.-Holotype female and allotype male, Thailand, Chiengmai, "in hot spring," 5.iii.1952 (D.C. and E.B. Thurman). In USNM.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus zoster #F C.B. PHILIP '59; [Label 1] Thailand, Chien-mai, 5 Mar. 1952 D.C. & E.B.Thurman In hot spring; [Label 2] 332
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chiengmai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus zoster Philip, 1960
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258527
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 51035
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A8097
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258527
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Philip, C. B. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, Malaysian Parasites XXXV-XLIX. 29 : 28, none.
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