Tabanus monoensis
date: label: Collection Date
content: 10 Jul 1918
name: label: Collector
content: Webb
label: Collector
content: Waite
notes: label: Notes
content: Length 12 to 14 millimeters. Eyes not hairy, a small, four-sided, nearly denuded spot, narrowed anteriorly, on the frontal. vertex. Wing with the furcation of the third vein and the transverse veins at the apex of the discal cell plainly margined with brown. Female (Pl. IV, A): Front at vertex nearly one-third as wide as either eye, narrowed somewhat below, frontal callosity occupying the entire width of the front, shiny black, nearly square, and with a rather obscure connected line above reaching two-thirds of the distance to the vertex. Spot at vertex four- sided, plainly narrowed before, entirely separated from the eyes. Very thinly pollinose and without any ocelligerous prominence such as is present in species of Tabanus with hairy eyes. Subcallus plainly pollinose but not so dense as the face. Palpi white, enlarged basally, pointed below, and clothed with black and white hair. Proboscis uniformly nearly black. Antenna brown, with the annulate portion of the third segment black, first segment prominently en- larged, nearly as wide anteriorly as the base of the third segment; second segment small, more or less hidden between the first and third; third segment widest at the base, with a small prominence dorsally, then gradually narrow- ing to the annulate portion of the segment, which is pointed at apex and distinctly shorter than the basal portion. Facets of the eyes of nearly uniform size throughout. Thorax dark with gray stripes; wing hyaline with the furcation of the third vein and the transverse veins at the apex of the discal cell plainly margine<1 with brown; some of the other veins, especially those having a Transverse direction, very obscurely margined with the same color. Legs yellowish brown and black, all the femora black, front tibia yellowish brown on a little more than basal third, remainder black, middle and hind tibiae largely yellowish brown, darkened apically, front feet black, other feet largely dark yellowish brown, darker above than beneath. Abdomen dark in ground color with three rows ot small gray spots. Hind margin of each segment narrowly gray also. Venter of abdomen partially reddish.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Mar 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Topaz, Mono, California, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Entomology Types
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Tabanus monoensis Hine, 1924
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Entomology Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: USNMENT00258448
label: Other Numbers
content: Inquire SerNum : 45033
label: Other Numbers
content: USNM Type Number : 24950
label: USNM Number
content: USNMENT00258448
objectType: label: Type Citation
content: Webb, J. L., Wells, R. W. 1924. United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin. 1218 : 29, Plate 4, A.
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