Dichelacera melanosoma
date: label: Collection Date
content: [Not Stated]
name: label: Collector
content: P. Schild
notes: label: Notes
content: Body shining black, except the first abdominal segment. Wing pure black with hyaline markings. Length of the female 12 millimeters. Front. dark gray pollinose, frontal callosity shining black, as wide as the front, nearly square, acute angulate abovee and with a short linear extension towards the vertex. Antenna largely pale although much of the third segment is black, especially the annulate portion; basal extension of the third segment slender and more than half as long as the segment, palpi black, facial callus very prominent and shining black. Dorsum of the thorax plain black, including the scutellum; front leg black except the basal half of the tibia which is white, middle and hind femora black, tibice and tarsi white; wing black with the axillary cell. a median posterior half band and the wing margin between apex and the fifth posterior cell hyaline. The hyaline half band includes the narrow apexes of the second basal, discal and fourth poster ior cells and a large p art of the fifth posterior fonning an area of uniform width which reaches from the middle of the wing to the posterior margin. See Figure 1. Abdomen dorsally, first segment nearly white, other segments clear black.
label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Dichelacera melanosoma Hine; [Label 2] TypeNo. 49749 U.S.N.M.; [Label 3] PabloSchild Coll; [Label 4] Higuito SanMateoCR; [Label H] Holotype
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Mar 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Higuito, San Mateo, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Dichelacera melanosoma Hine, 1920
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258444
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 46605
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 49749
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258444
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Hine, J. S., Hine. 1920. The Ohio Journal of Science. 20 : 316, Fig. 4.
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