Tabanus baguiensis
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1927
name: label: Collector
content: C. F. Baker
notes: label: Notes
content: holotype, female. Length, 15 mm. Eyes bare, one wide green band on purple ground (relaxed). Front slightly convergent below, index 1:7.0, buff gray pollinose, a small flat bare brown spot at vertex with suggestions of three vestigial ocelli in front of a patch of short black hairs, callosity mahogany brown, taller than broad, rounded below, almost touching ocular margins and gradually narrowed above into a heavy median callus which reaches to upper fourth of front, longitudinally furrowed at juncture with the callosity. Subcallus unusually small, pale yellow brown pollinose, a narrow, velvety black band across the top margining the callosity, and two half-moon rings of brown around the antennal fossae, which reach nearly half across the length of the subcallus. Face and cheeks whitish pilose and pollinose, the upper cheeks beside the antennae brown with some brown- ish hairs; the beard creamy white. Two basal segments of antennae brownish black with black hairs; plates black, a small reddish spot at extreme base, not quite twice longer than wide, distinctly excavated with a rectangular tooth, the annuli more reddish brown and a little shorter than plate. Palpi dull purplish-red, tapered to a blunt point nearly as long as the stylets and covered with black hairs, with some inconspicuous, pale yellow ones inwardly and basally. Proboscis black.Notum dark reddish brown with a bluish-purple sheen, suggestions anteriorly open. No spur-veins though there is a suggestion of a knot on one wing. Sub- epaulets hairy. Halteres reddish brown. Abdomen subshiny, purplish brown at the base grading to deep brown-black caudad with bright bluish-purple iridescence in certain bright lights, incisures very narrowly paler red with a few inconspicuous pale hairs in the middle and along the extreme edges, the dorsal vestiture otherwise entirely deep brownish red. Venterwith same integumental color, widely gray pollinose along each side, the incisures and sides with more conspicuous, short, creamy hairs.
label: Notes
content: [Label H] TABANUS baguiensis TYPE #F DET. n.sp. C.B. PHILIP 1959; [Label 1] CFBaker collection 1927; [Label 2] fr ind 1:7.0; [Label 3] Baguio Bengue[?] Baker
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baguio, Benguet, Benguet, Philippines
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus baguiensis Philip, 1959
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258376
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 53004
label: Other Numbers
content: SELGEM Serial Number : A16208
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258376
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Philip, C. B. Fieldiana: Zoology. 33 (6): 568, Fig. 131.
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: Holotype
label: Sex
content: Female
label: Stage
content: Adult