Stibasoma dyridophorum
date: label: Collection Date
content: [Not Stated]
name: label: Collector
content: P. L. Guppy
notes: label: Notes
content: [Label 1] Stibasoma dyridophorum Knab; [Label 2] PLGuppy Collector; [Label 3] Type No. 16362 U.S.N.M.; [Label 4] 50-7
label: Notes
content: Female. Antennae black; third joint with an obtuse but prominent tooth on the lower side and above with a long, thick process, slightly enlarged toward apex, rounded at tip, and reaching nearly to the apex of the third annulation. Frons narrow, nearly parallel-sided, the frontal callosity convex, elongate subovate, as wide as the frons, continued upward by a raised line which becomes obsolete toward the vertex. Face whitish pruinose. Cheeks with long black cillation. Palpi black. Thorax blackish brown, clothed with black hair, two indistinct reddish lines on the dorsum; humeri and ante-alar callosities yellowish brown; pleurae brown, with black hair, a small tuft of snow-white hair close before wing insertion. Scutellum reddish brown, darker in the middle, with black hair (mostly rubbed off). Abdomen dorsally reddish brown, the first and second segments pale, with dense lateral tufts of long sulphur-yellow hair and a mixture of black and yellow hair on the disk (somewhat abraded), the black hairs predominating; hind margin of second segment and all of the succeeding segments densely black haired. Venter ferruginous, the second and third segments with large quadrate lateral patches of dense sulphur-yellow hair, which are joined to the yellow patches of the dorsum; the remaining vestiture ferruginous, with Some black hairs intermixed at the sides posteriorly, a tuft of black hair medianly at the base of the second segment. Legs reddish brown, the front tibiae thickened and blackish on the distal two-thirds; vestiture black, the hind tibiae with long black ciliation with ferruginous luster on outer side and shorter bright ferruginous ciliation on inner side; hind tarsi with ferruginous hair. Claws black. Pulvilli and empodia yellow. Wings rather narrow, moky black, a triangular hyaline spot in the middle of the second submarginal cell, an elongate hyaline spot occupying most of the discal cell and extending well over into the second basal cell. Halteres with a pale greenish knob. Length: Body about 14 mm.; wing 12 mm.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: [Not Stated], Trinidad and Tobago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Stibasoma dyridophorum Knab, 1914
label: Published Name
content: Stibasoma festivum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258402
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 44139
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 16362
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258402
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Knab. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 46 : 410.
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: Remarks
content: Type
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult