Rhabdotylus viridiventris (Macquart, 1838)

Turcatel, Mauren, 2019, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Rhabdotylus Lutz, 1913 (Diptera: Tabanidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 7, pp. 36277-36277 : 36277

Rhabdotylus viridiventris (Macquart, 1838)

Rhabdotylus viridiventris Rhabdotylus viridiventris Tabanus Macquart 1838 Tabanus Walker 1854 Tabanus Hunter 1901 Tabanus Kertész 1908 Gymnochela Kröber 1932 Amphichlorops Kröber 1934 Carrera and Lane 1945 Fairchild 1956 Stibasoma Fairchild 1971 Stibasoma Moucha 1976 Fairchild and Burger 1994 Turcatel et al. 2007 Coscarón and Papavero 2009

Dicladocera sulphurea Kröber, 1931: 408 ( Kröber 1931). Kröber, 1934: 269 ( Kröber 1934), 1940: 83 ( Kröber 1940); Pechuman, 1942: 55 ( Pechuman 1942); Fairchild, 1967b: 344 ( Fairchild 1967b) (synonym).

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Rhabdotylusviridiventris; originalNameUsage: Tabanusviridiventris; family: Tabanidae; genus: Rhabdotylus; specificEpithet: viridiventris; scientificNameAuthorship: Macquart, 1838; Location: country: Brazil; countryCode: BR; stateProvince: Rio de Janeiro; municipality: Rio de Janeiro; locationRemarks: label transliteration: "Tabanus \ viridiventris" "Rio-janei. \ St. hilaire" “IOC” “HOLOTYPE” "MNHN, Paris \ ED7586"; Record Level: institutionID: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle; institutionCode: MNHN; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R. Benoist; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Rhabdotylusviridiventris; family: Tabanidae; genus: Rhabdotylus; specificEpithet: viridiventris; Location: country: Ecuador; countryCode: EC; municipality: Quito; locationRemarks: label transliteration: " Équateur \ Quito" " Muséum Paris" " Équateur \ R. Benoist 1930" "Stibasoma (Rhabdotylus) \ viridiventris Macq. \ Det. Fairchild 1965"; Record Level: institutionID: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle; institutionCode: MNHN; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Rhabdotylusviridiventris; family: Tabanidae; genus: Rhabdotylus; specificEpithet: viridiventris; Location: country: Brazil; countryCode: BR; locationRemarks: label transliteration: "R. Bandeirante \ 7.7.37" "Rhabdotylus (Lutz) \ viridiventris \ Macquart \ Leg. B. Lutz \ (nymphas)" "N. T636" "Inst. O. Cruz" " Coleçăo A. Lutz"; Record Level: institutionID: Fundaçăo Instituto Oswaldo Cruz; institutionCode: FIOC; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Female (holotype). Head. Frons narrow, light brown, with sparse black hairs and silver pollinosity along the margins of the eyes. Frontal Index: 4.56. Divergence Index: 1. Subcallus light brown with dense white pollinosity. Scape and pedicel yellow to light brown with black hairs. Flagellum orange. Clypeus light brown with dense white pollinosity and white hairs. Gena and postgena light brown with dense white pollinosity and white hairs. Palpus yellow with black hairs.

Thorax. Scutum light brown with sparse white pollinosity and sparse black hairs, and a tuft of white and black hairs on the supra-alar area; scutellum light brown to yellow with sparse white pollinosity and a few white and black hairs. Postpronotal lobe and notopleuron light brown, with white pollinosity and sparse black hairs. Proepisternum and proepimerum light brown, with white pollinosity and white hairs. Anepisternum light brown with white pollinosity and white hairs anteriorly and a tuft of black hairs posterodorsally, near the wing. Katepisternum, anepimeron, katepimeron, and katatergite light brown with white pollinosity and white hairs. Coxa 1 yellow with white pollinosity and white hairs on proximal two-thirds, and light brown with white pollinosity and some white hairs on distal third. Coxae 2 and 3 yellow to light brown, with white pollinosity and white and some black hairs mixed. Femur yellow to light brown with black hairs. Tibiae 1 and 2 light brown to yellow with white hairs proximally, and light brown with black hairs distally. Tibia 3 light brown with black hair. Tarsus light brown with black hairs. Pterostigma yellow. Venation brown. Halter yellow with white apex.

Abdomen. Abdomen predominantly light brown. Tergites 1-3 light brown with black hairs, with a faintly lighter band distally and some yellow to white hairs. Remaining tergites light brown with black hairs. Sternites 1-3 yellow to light brown with a lighter band distally and yellow to white hairs. Remaining sternites light brown with black hairs.

Measurements: Body length: 13.5mm. Wing length: 12mm.

Figs 7, 8

Distribution

Venezuela; Ecuador; Brazil (Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina).

Figures

Figure 8. Known geographic range of Rhabdotylus viridiventris (Macquart, 1838).