1960. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federation of Malaya, Malaysian Parasites XXXV-XLIX. 29: 9.
Type Status:
Holotype
Place:
Thailand; chieg-mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Collection Date:
29 Jul 1952
Notes:
Description (holotype #F). - Length, 13 mrn. Eyes greenish (relaxed). Frons buff-gray pollinose, index 1:4.2; the callosity deep reddish, lower margin sinuate and nearly reaching the eyes, grading gradually into a darker median extension forming a tall triangle with apex above the upper third of frons. Subcallus, face, cheeks, beard and palpi as in T. konis. Antennae bright orange, about same shape. Thorax and scutellum grayish pollinose with scattered pale yellow and black hairs. Legs as in T. ardalus n. sp. with widely reddish knees on two hind pairs of femora. Abdomen black with sides of first three tergites broadly brick-red, and dusted all over with yellow-olive pollinosity as in T. konis, and covered with sparse, black hair. The indefinite, median, dark stripe anteriorly is irregular because of narrow lateral expansions along the incisures of tergites 2 and 3. Venter dusty olive-blackish with narrow pale reddish incisures, and short, sparse, pale yellow hairs.
[Label 1] Thailand, Chieng-mai, 25 July 1952 D.C. Thurman In house; [Label H] HOLOTYPE Tabanus acuminaris n.sp. F# C.B. Philip '59; [Label 2] 920
