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Scione nigripes

  • 1. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia (PPGEnt / INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil.
  • 2. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
  • 3. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 4. Laboratório de Entomologia, Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT), Porto Nacional, TO, Brazil.

Description

Scione nigripes (Kröber, 1930)

(Fig. 61A–F)

Rhinotriclista nigripes Kröber, 1930: 152, fig. 3.

Scione nigripes; Kröber, 1934: 234 (cat.); Bequaert & Renjifo-Salcedo, 1946: 63 (Colombia spp.); Fairchild, 1967b: 355, fig. 13 (Kröber spp.); 1971: 27 (cat.); Moucha, 1976: 40 (cat.); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 51 (cat.); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009: 54 (cat.).

Type locality. “ New Granada ” (Colombia).

Diagnosis. Body yellowish-brown. Frons broad covered with white pruinosity. Palpus dark brown, quite sharp. black, about twice the height of the frons. Gena with dense, long whitish setulae. Thorax brown with two incomplete yellowish sublateral stripes. Legs dark brown. Wing smoky yellow. Abdominal tergites 1 and 2 yellowish-brown, the first a little darker. Tergite 3 brown with yellowish posterior margin. Other tergites dark brown.

Distribution. Colombia.

Type material examined. Holotype, ♀, deposited at the MLUH (examined through photographs).

Comments. Scione nigripes is similar to S. cingulata. It differs in that S. cingulata has brown thorax with five yellowish longitudinal stripes, dark brown frons and is less wide than in S. nigripes.

Notes

Published as part of Oliveira, Lia Pereira, Henriques, Augusto Loureiro, Buestán, Jaime & Krolow, Tiago Kütter, 2026, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Scione Walker, 1850 (Diptera: Tabanidae), pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 5761 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5761.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19190310

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MLUH
Scientific name authorship
Krober
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tabanidae
Genus
Scione
Species
nigripes
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Scione nigripes (Krober, 1930) sec. Oliveira, Henriques, Buestán & Krolow, 2026

References

  • Krober, O. (1930) Die sudamerikanischen Arten der Gattung Scione Wlk. (= Rhinotriclista End.) (Dipt.). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 91, 141-174.
  • Krober, O. (1934) Catalogo dos Tabanidae da America do Sul e Central, incluindo o Mexico e as Antilhas. Revista de Entomologia, 4 (2 - 3), 222-276 + 291 - 333.
  • Bequaert, J. & Renjifo-Salcedo, S. (1946) The Tabanidae of Colombia (Diptera). Psyche, 53 (3 - 4), 52-86. https://doi.org/10.1155/1946/40437
  • Fairchild, G. B. (1967 b) Notes on Neotropical Tabanidae (Diptera). IX. The species described by Otto Krober. Studia entomologica, Sao Paulo, 9 (1 - 4), 329-379.
  • Moucha, J. (1976) Horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 7, 1-319.
  • Fairchild, G. B. & Burger, J. F. (1994) A catalog of the Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Americas south of the United States. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 55, 1-249.
  • Coscaron, S. & Papavero, N. (2009) Catalogue of Neotropical Diptera. Tabanidae. Neotropical Diptera, 16, 1-199.