Tabanus transversus
date: label: Collection Date
content: 24 Aug 1983
name: label: Collector
content: G. F. Hevel
label: Collector
content: Warren E. Steiner Jr.
label: Min. Elevation
content: 1530
notes: label: Notes
content: Holotype Female.-Length 9.6 mm; wing length 9.0 mm. Front relatively narrow, diverging toward vertex, index 6.0, indexof divergence 1.6, yellowish gray pollinose near subcallus, blackish beyond level of median callus, basal callus rectangular, reddish brown below, black above, separated from denuded sub callus and from eye margins, median callosity black, nearly as broad as basal callus and narrowly joined to it; subcallus denuded, dark brown; frontoclypeus yellowish gray tomentose except dark brown from lateral margins of subcallus along lower margin of eyes, beard white. Antennae reddish brown, terminal flagellomeres slightly darker, basal flagellomere elongate, slender, dorsal angle low, length 1.6 times longer than terminal flagellomeres; maxillary palpi dark bluish gray tomentose. basal palpomere densely long yellow pilose, apical palpomere stout basally, densely black setose, except for some pale hairs at extreme base; eyes bare, pattern (revived) a broad green diagonal median stripe on a dark purple ground. Mesonotum and scutellum yellowish gray tornentose, yellow pilose, a broad subshining black transverse band present between the wings extending from notopleural lobes to but not including prescutellum; pleuron gray tomentose and pale yellow pilose; coxae gray tornentose , white pilose, femora black, gray tomentose, mostly pale pilose, distal outer margin of fore femora black pilose, tibiae pale yellowish white basally, white pilose, distal one-fifth sharply black, tarsi black; wings lightly brown tinted in costal cell and along anterior margin of wing, otherwise hyaline, R, vein without spur: hal teres light brown. Dorsum of abdomen black, black pilose, terga 1-2 yellowish gray tomentose and yellow pilose laterally, terga 3-4 similarly colored only on posterolateral margins, terga 3-4 with conspicuous median half-moon-shaped spots on posterior margin of each segment, extending about half length of segments, tergum 6 with pale apical fringe of hairs; central surface yellowish gray tomentose, pale yellowish pilose except sterna 2-3 narrowly brown basally and sternum 7 wholly black.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus transversus Burger; [Label 1] [drawing of eye coloration] dk. Green band on purple grd.; [Label 2] MALAYSIA: Sa
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Apr 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 1 km. S. Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus transversus Burger, 1988
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT258509
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258509
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Burger, J. F. 1988. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 64 : 170, Figs. 8-9.
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: Stage
content: Adult