Tabanus aniptus Fairchild

Carmo, Daniel D. D. & Henriques, Augusto L., 2019, Taxonomy of Tabanus trivittatus species-group (Diptera: Tabanidae), with description of five new species, Zootaxa 4554 (1), pp. 63-100 : 68

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4554.1.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944710

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scientific name

Tabanus aniptus Fairchild
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Tabanus aniptus Fairchild View in CoL

( Figures 3 View FIGURE 3 A–E, 4A–D, 33)

Tabanus aniptus Fairchild, 1976: 242 View in CoL , fig. 1; Wilkerson, 1979: 365 ( Colombia spp.); Fairchild, 1986: 110 ( Panama spp.); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 131 (cat.); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009: 124 (cat.); Wolff & Miranda-Esquivel, 2016: 280 (cat.).

Tabanus trivittatus Fabricius View in CoL ; Fairchild, 1961: 31 ( Costa Rica spp., misident.); Lee et al., 1969: 455 (Raposo river spp., misident.); Wolff & Miranda-Esquivel, 2016: 287 View Cited Treatment (cat., in part).

Diagnosis. Light brown with contrasting abdominal color pattern, the first two or three segments yellowish brown, the remainder, black. Frons narrow and divergent above (F. I. 9-11, D.I. 2.4). Wings lightly brownish tinted, darker at c, sc, r1 and r2+3. Abdominal stripes fainted. Notopleuron brown, concolour with scutum, sometimes slightly paler. Fore femur brown, mid and hind femora yellowish brown.

Comments. This species range from Nicaragua to Colombia, west of the Andes. Wilkerson (1979) mentions a specimen from Ecuador, however, does not provide any further details about the locality for the specimen. This species may be easily identified by the contrasting pattern of the abdomen.

Material examined. Paratype female ( FSCA) , labels as in figure 3E; COLOMBIA, Cauca, Guapi, Altitude 10 M. Tropical Rain Forest . Neted R. Wilkerson V-10 -76 (♂ FSCA) .

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tabanidae

Genus

Tabanus

Loc

Tabanus aniptus Fairchild

Carmo, Daniel D. D. & Henriques, Augusto L. 2019
2019
Loc

Tabanus aniptus

Wolff, M. E. & Miranda-Esquivel, D. R. 2016: 280
Coscaron, S. & Papavero, N. 2009: 124
Fairchild, G. B. & Burger J. F. 1994: 131
Fairchild, G. B. 1986: 110
Wilkerson, R. C. 1979: 365
Fairchild, G. B. 1976: 242
1976
Loc

Tabanus trivittatus

Wolff, M. E. & Miranda-Esquivel, D. R. 2016: 287
Lee, V. H. & Fairchild, G. B. & Barreto, P. 1969: 455
Fairchild, G. B. 1961: 31
1961
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