Asaphomyia texensis
date: label: Collection Date
content: [Not Stated]
name: label: Collector
content: [Not Stated]
notes: label: Notes
content: Female: Length 8 mm, wing 7.5 mm. Almost uniformly dark brown, the head and thorax tinged with grayish, the abdomen darker, subshining. Frons about 1.5 times as high as width below, at vertex about three-fourths as wide as below. Ocelli very prominent on a nearly black, shining tubercle, bearing short dark hairs posteriorly; hairs on frons sparse, short. Eyes with a few short hairs, when relaxed uniformly green. No frontal callus but a pair of curved grooves, deepest and narrowest above, weakly outline a central raised area; sub callus small, flat, with a median groove and without hairs. Antenna: Scape and pedicel small, dark brown, with short dark hairs; first flagellar segment small, nearly round in profile, the extreme base slightly paled; second and third flagellar segments straw yellow, the second segment very short, the third long, narrowest at base, with a few pale hair at tip. Clypeus and genae dark brown, with black hair. Palpus short, stout; second segment distinctly longer than first, curved and tapering distally. Proboscis very short, the palpi extending well beyond the labellae. Thorax brown, the dorsum tinged with gray, but with no stripes. Halteres brown. Wings brown, somewhat darker along anterior margin; vein R4 with stump parallel to vein R4+5. Legs dark brown with concolorous hair; hind tibial spurs short but distinct. Abdomen stout, dark brown, subshining. Male: As in female except: Length 9 mm; head large, holoptic, the facets above level of antennae distinctly enlarged; ocelli on an even more prominent tubercle. Abdomen somewhat tapering posteriorly. Hind tibial spurs slightly longer.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] TypeNo 61677 USNM; [Label 2] Columbus Texas
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Columbus, Texas, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Asaphomyia texensis Stone, 1953
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258502
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 47590
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 61677
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258502
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Stone, A. 1953. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 43 (8): 256, 3a-c.
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