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

Tabanus aniptus Fairchild

( Figures 3 A–E, 4A–D, 33)

Tabanus aniptus Fairchild, 1976: 242 , 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 ; Fairchild, 1961: 31 ( Costa Rica spp., misident.); Lee et al., 1969: 455 (Raposo river spp., misident.); Wolff & Miranda-Esquivel, 2016: 287 (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) .

Figures

FIGURE 3. Tabanus aniptus. Paratype female. A. Dorsal habitus. B. Lateral habitus. C. Head, anterior view. D. Head, lateral view. Scale bars. A, B.1 mm. C, D. mm. E. Labels. Scale bars. A, B. 5 mm. C, D. 1 mm.