area, including eastern Asia, Australia and Antarctica. Normally to appear quarterly. FURTHER NOTES ON FAR EASTERN TABANIDAE WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW SPECIES
Described below are five new species, Tabanus acallosus from the Philippines, T. mur-dochi from Korea, and Hybomitra nola, H. nura, and Chrysops abavius from Central China, as well as additional characteristics in both sexes of T. rossi Philip also from the Philip-pines; the last was known previousl...
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| Summary: | Described below are five new species, Tabanus acallosus from the Philippines, T. mur-dochi from Korea, and Hybomitra nola, H. nura, and Chrysops abavius from Central China, as well as additional characteristics in both sexes of T. rossi Philip also from the Philip-pines; the last was known previously only from the holotype female (Philip, 1959). The Philippine material was received from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, H. nola and H. nur a from the U. S. National Museum (USNM), and C. abavius from the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), in which institutions the respective types are lo-cated. Among Tabaninae of the Orient and South Pacific, those without frontal callosities in the females (acallous species) are of special interest (Group IV of Ricardo, 1911). When more is known about these uncommon species, data that could have phylogenetic or zoo-geographic significance are anticipated. There appears to be intergradation or parallelism displayed here between species of Tabanus, the austral Cydistomyia and the boreal Atylotus, with remarkable similarities in dull, rather patternless appearance. It is likely these are primitive elements in the subfamily, analogous to the acallous Oriental species of subgenus |
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