Mesopangonius brackleyae
date: label: Collection Date
content: 9 Sep 1983
name: label: Collector
content: G. F. Hevel
label: Collector
content: Warren E. Steiner Jr.
label: Min. Elevation
content: 1560
notes: label: Notes
content: Holotype female. - Length: body 15.6 mm: wing 16 mm (Fig. 3). Front (Fig. 43) dark brown pollinose. slightly diverging below. middle with a poorly-defined raised ridge from subcallus to vertex, bearing an irregular median subshining black area and bordered by an irregular row of black setulae; frontal index 2.5. index of divergence 1.2. Ocelli large and prominent, borne on a conspicuous tubercle at vertex. Subcallus concolorous with front. Gena and face gray pollinose, except face shining dark brown along lower margin: face moderately produced. dorsolateral surfaces with patch of dark brown hairs: beard mostly pale yellowish, except dark brown hairs anteriorly. Scape and pedicel of antenna yellowish gray pol1inose, antennal bases closely approximated, distance between them distinctly less than width of scape; flagcllum subulate (Fig. 4C). with 8 annuli, yellowish brown. apical annutation dusky brown; basal annulation conspicuously enlarged, twice as broad as second annulation, bearing 1-2 setulae on upper surface: apical annulation 2.5 times length of penultimate annulation. Proboscis slender (Fig. 4A), length 1.5 times head height, labella long and slender, sclerotized. Maxillary palpus (Fig. 4D) short, apical palpomere brown, distinctly flattened, length one-fourth that of proboscis. bearing long black setae on outer surface and narrow bare median concavity. Eye bare, unpanerned (relaxed). relatively coarsely faceted. Mesonotum and scutellum subshining dark brown. densely clothed with semi-erect yellowish hairs; postpronotal lobe reddish gray pollinose: notopleural lobe reddish: pleuron grayish pollinose. except mesanepiternum and anterior half of katepisternum with blackish tones. densely yellow pilose. Legs slender, elongate; coxa and femur dark brown. black pilose, except apex of femur paler: tibia pale brown. bearing yellow hairs: hind tibial spurs well-developed. subequal 10 mid-tibial spurs; tarsus basally concolorous with tibiae. darker brown apically. Wing light brownish tinted on anterior half, subhyaline posteriorly: R4 with long spur: cells r, and m, open 10 wing margin. Halter pale brown. Tergite I of abdomen entirely pale yellowish brown. pale yellow pilose: tergites 2-4 dark brown on basal three-fourths, contastingly paler brown on apical fourth, the dark and light areas bearing black and pale yellow hairs respectively: tergites 5-7 dark brown, black-haired, with conspicuous yellow-haired posterior margins (Fig. 3); ventral surface of abdomen with similar pattern as dorsum. except sternite 1 predominantly light brown, and only basal halves of sternites 3-4 dark brown.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kinabalu National Park, Headquarters Area, Sabah, Malaysia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Mesopangonius brackleyae Burger, 1988
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258384
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 132641
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258384
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 90 (1): 15, Figs. 1-2.
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: Holotype
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult