Tabanus restrepoensis Fairchild, 1942

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 : 83-84

Tabanus restrepoensis Fairchild

( Figures 18 A–D, 35)

Tabanus restrepoensis Fairchild, 1942b: 163 ; Bequaert & Renjifo-Salcedo, 1946: 78 ( Colombia spp.); Barretto, 1957: 87 ( Guyana spp.); Fairchild, 1971: 101 (cat.), 1976: 253, fig. 10 (rev.); Moucha, 1976: 135 (cat.); Wilkerson & Fairchild, 1985: 51 ( Peru spp.); Henriques & Gorayeb, 1993: 19 (MPEG spp.); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 148 (cat.); Henriques, 1997: 88 (INPA spp.); Cárdenas & Vieira, 2005: 155 ( Ecuador spp.); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009: 141 (cat.); Wolff & Miranda-Esquivel, 2016: 285 (cat.).

Diagnosis. Frons divergent (D.I.> 2). All coxae and femora yellow. Notopleuron integument paler than adjacent scutum. Middorsal abdominal stripe even through tergite 6. Dorsolateral even and continuous through tergite 4 or 5. Subcallus dark brown to black, not conspicuously inflated under lateral view.

Male. Unknown.

Comments. Fairchild (1976) already highlighted the resemblance of this species to T. tristichus , but differentiated them both by the more divergent frons of T. restrepoensis , broader antennae, palpus more inflated basally and broader abdominal stripe in T. tristichus . After examining specimens at the collections studied, we have seen that the antenna and palpus characters are very variable and not very useful to separate the two species. We decided to keep them separated, by the divergent frons, strongly bicolored tibia of T. restrepoensis and geographic distribution, T. tristichus is restricted to areas with coastal influence.

Material examined. BRAZIL, Pará, Conceição do Araguaia (6 ♀ INPA) ; Tocantins, Araguacema (♀ INPA) ; PERU, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata (♀ INPA) ; BRAZIL, Acre, Serra do Divisor (5 ♀ MPEG) .

Figures

FIGURE 18. Tabanus restrepoensis. Female. A. Dorsal habitus. B. Lateral habitus. C. Head, anterior view. D. Head, lateral view. Scale bars. A, B. 5 mm. C, D. 1 mm.