New North American Tabanidae. XV. Additions to Records of Chrysops in Florida

Abstract

A small, dark species, including scutellum, with abdomen contrasting yellow on 2 basal segments, callosity yellow an disc, brown on upper margin, femora yellow, and wing picture sharply black in 1st basal cell and through discal cell to hind margin in cell M3, cubital cell hyaline, apical spot widened to include nearly all of cell R4, a spur in R5, hyaline triangle sharply acuminate before reaching vein R+3 and widely open behind. HOLOTYPE: Female, 6 mm. Eye pattern (relaxed) most nearly approaching C. bistellata Daecke (1906, fig. 30) with the occipital border contiguous to the margin, the other spots separated vertically from one another and from the anterior eye margin, and the arrowhead unusually vertically extended and isolated. Frons blue-gray pollinose, taller than broad, a large, quadrate black shining spot surrounding the ocelli at vertex, and narrowly connected beneath to the ovoid, yellow and blackish-brown callosity. Face