Haematopota stonei
date: label: Collection Date
content: 30 Mar 1974
name: label: Collector
content: J. C. Seidensticker
notes: label: Notes
content: Female.-Length: 8.3-10.4 mm (average 9.8 mm); wing 8.5-10.3 mm (9.7 mm ); antenna 1.7- 2.1 mm (2.0 mm) (18 specimens measured). Head: Frons gray, brownish near vertex, about 3/4 as wide at vertex as high, distinctly wider below; midfrontal spot usually absent, rarely indistinctly brownish; paired spots black, usually subtriangular, separated from eyes and callus; call us usually black, rarely partially brownish orange, with lower corner just touching eye or vcry narrowly separated from it, with upper margin trilobed, with lower margin deeply concave; interantennal spot strong, black; face and lower parafacials pale grayish white, rarely with slight trace of an incomplete blackish band across upper face; upper parafacials solid black; beard white. Scape about 2 times as long as height at apex, slightly narrowed toward base, yellowish on basal 2/3 and ventrally, black dorsoapically, all grayish-white pollinose, mainly long black pilose, with a few long white ventra l hairs; pedicel light yellowish orange, black pilose, with dorsal projection strong; flagellum brownish orange, except apical f1agellomere dark brown on apical 1/2: 1st flagellomere compressed, with its greatest height slightly greater than length of style, with its length subequaJ to that of scape; apical flagellomere about as long as 2nd and 3rd together. Palpus pale orange white, light grayish-white poll inose, white and black pilose. Thorax : Scutum white and black pilose, brownish gray, with paler grayish pattern as follows: Laterally on humerus, entirely on notopleuron and supra- alar callus, and in form of 3 slender lines anteriorly, with submed.ial ones broader, pair of submedial spots at ends of transverse suture and another pair on hind margin of scutum in front of scutellum . Scutellum gray, white and black pilose. Pleuron gray, long white pilose. Halter white, with partially dark knob. Squamae with upper lobe brownish, lower lobe white. Wing pale brown with grayish- white markings in typical Haematopota pattern except as follows: No subapical band in marginal cell, 1 subapical band in 1st submarginal cell, usually with spots at bases of furcation and 2nd and 3rd posterior cells, all bands narrow and broken up. Legs: Coxae very pale gray, pale grayish-white pollinosc. white pilose; trochanters yellowish brown, sparsely pollinose, white pilose; femora pale yellow except rarely brownish subapicall y, pale grayish pollinose, largely long white pilose, black pilose on apical l/4, with hind femoral hair long and forming subapical tufts; fore tibia slightly swollen, about as wide as femur, with basal 73 pale yellowish white, with apical 2/3 brownish, sparsely light grayi!.h pollinose, black pilose except for subbasal band of white hairs; middle tibia pale yellowish brown, except for 2 submedial yellow bands, sparsely light grayi~h pollinose, black pilose on dark areas, white on yellow bands; hind tibia slightly swollen, slightly wider than femur, with fringe of long hairs on dorsal margin, pale yellowish brown, except for 2 submedial yellow bands, long black pilose except for subbasal band of white hairs; front tarsus black, black pilose; middle and hind tarsi yellow on basal 2/3 of basitarsi and narrowly on bases of 2nd through 4th tarsomeres, rest of tarsi brown, black pilose. Abdomen: Dorsum mainly appressed black pilose, white pilose on 1st , basal 1/2 of 2nd and sides of all terga, dark brownish gray except pale gray as follows: On sides and apical margins of all terga, in form of mid-dorsal stripe on all terga and paired sublateral spots always on 4th th rough 7th terga and frequently on 2nd and 3rd terga. Venter pale gray, except more brownish on 7th sternum, white pilose except with stiff black hairs on 7th sternum.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] Holotype Haematopota stonei Thompson '75; [Label 1] NEPAL: Chitawan 30 March 1974 J.C.Seidensticker
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Chitawan, Narayani, Nepal
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Haematopota stonei Thompson, 1977
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258489
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 51048
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A8110
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258489
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 79 : 19, Fig 1-3, 5.
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