Tabanus xuthus
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. W. L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: A medium-sized species with unicolorous black eyes (relaxed), dark thorax, and red abdomen without distinct pattern; red antennae resembling T. ruficolaratus above, but this has wider, parallel-sided front, more reddish hind legs, and paler vestiture underneath with a mid-ventral row of black-haired patches. Description (holotype female). - Length 18.5 mm. Frons buff-gray pollinose, index 1 :5.6, suggestion of a low ocellar bulla in a patch of black hairs below the vertex, callosity tall, ovoid, dark-yellow gradually tapered into a strong, median keel to the upper third of frons. Subcallus and upper cheeks pale-creamy pollinose. Face and lower cheeks pearlaceous-whitish pollinose and snow-white pilose. Antennae brick-red, black-haired basally, plate a little shorter and wider than in ruficoloratus, the tooth obtuse, style abruptly black and shorter than plate. Palpi not quite as pale creamy as subcallus, sparsely black and white-haired, moderately thickened basally, slender and elongate apically. Notum and scutellum blackish, without distinct lines, scattered dark and pale-yellow hairs with whitish patches around hind margin. Antealar tubercles brighter reddish than preceding. Pleura pinkish-gray with mostly whitish pile. Coxae, fore tibiae, except at apex, and two hind pairs of legs pinkish with mostly whitish hairs and a few scattered black hairs, accentuated on hind tibial fringe; fore femora dark, heavily gray pollinose with black hairs inwardly, white outwardly. Wings glass-clear, no spur veins. Halteres orange. Abdomen brick-red above with indistinct, darker shadows across incisures, and obscure, paler, sublateral spots in certain lights, but entirely black-haired except for whitish along the extreme edges. Venter orange-red, whitish-haired along sides and narrowly white-haired across incisures, the integument but little darkened beneath large, median patches of black hairs. Type Material.-Holotype female, "Trong Lower Siam", (Dr. W.L. Abbott). In USNM.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus xuthus n.sp. #F C.B.Philip '59; [Label 1] index 1:5.6; [Label 2] eyes(relax) plain black greenish ref[?]ction; [Label 3] TrongLowerSiam DrWLAbbott; [Label 4] coup. 54
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Trong, Trang, Thailand
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus xuthus Philip, 1960
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258525
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 51034
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A8096
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258525
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Philip, C. B. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, Malaysian Parasites XXXV-XLIX. 29 : 28, 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