Tabanus sphinx
date: label: Collection Date
content: 2 Mar 1952
name: label: Collector
content: D. C. Thurman
label: Collector
content: Ernestine B. Thurman
notes: label: Notes
content: Description (holotype female). - Length 12 mm. Eyes minutely hairy, purple with three narrow, green bands (relaxed). Frons subparallel-sided, index 1 :5.2, buff-gray pollinose, a darker patch in certain lights surrounding an isolated, spindle-shaped, blackish, median callus, a rugose, black "W" -shaped bare area across vertex, and dark-brown, quadrate, basal callosity touching eyes at lower comers. Subcallus pinkish pollinose. Face and cheeks creamy pollinose and pilose. Antennae red, scape black-haired and somewhat enlarged, cap-like over pedicel, plate rather broad and short, but little excised, the tooth low, obtuse; style black, shorter than plate. Palpi deep dull yellow, black-haired, scarcely enlarged basally, blunt apically. Norum and scutellum blackish-brown, unlined, with sparse black and brassy hairs. Pleura pinkish- mostly pale-yellow-haired. Legs reddish, mostly pale-yellow-haired including hind tibial fringe; fore femora, apical third of fore tibiae, and tarsi dark-brown. No spur veins. Halteres brown. Abdomen light chocolate-brown above with black hairs, pale yellow ones narrowly on incisures, on low median triangles, and on outer corners of tergites. A blackish collar behind the scutellum on tergite I, and on 2 a black ovoid spot above the median triangle.
label: Notes
content: Description (holotype female). - Length 12 mm. Eyes minutely hairy, purple with three narrow, green bands (relaxed). Frons subparallel-sided, index 1 :5.2, buff-gray pollinose, a darker patch in certain lights surrounding an isolated, spindle-shaped, blackish, median callus, a rugose, black "W" -shaped bare area across vertex, and dark-brown, quadrate, basal callosity touching eyes at lower comers. Subcallus pinkish pollinose. Face and cheeks creamy pollinose and pilose. Antennae red, scape black-haired and somewhat enlarged, cap-like over pedicel, plate rather broad and short, but little excised, the tooth low, obtuse; style black, shorter than plate. Palpi deep dull yellow, black-haired, scarcely enlarged basally, blunt apically. Norum and scutellum blackish-brown, unlined, with sparse black and brassy hairs. Pleura pinkish- mostly pale-yellow-haired. Legs reddish, mostly pale-yellow-haired including hind tibial fringe; fore femora, apical third of fore tibiae, and tarsi dark-brown. No spur veins. Halteres brown. Abdomen light chocolate-brown above with black hairs, pale yellow ones narrowly on incisures, on low median triangles, and on outer corners of tergites. A blackish collar behind the scutellum on tergite I, and on 2 a black ovoid spot above the median triangle.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
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 sphinx Philip, 1960
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258486
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 51024
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A8086
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258486
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Philip, C. B. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, Malaysian Parasites XXXV-XLIX. 29 : 21, 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: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult