Belvosia freddyquesadai Fleming & Woodley, 2023

Fleming, AJ, Woodley, Norman, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H, 2023, Revision of Belvosia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) and 33 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to known North and Mesoamerican species, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103667-103667 : 103667

Belvosia freddyquesadai Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0054965 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0054965; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYH1512-14, 14-SRNP-30020, BOLD:AAA8475; occurrenceID: E643BC2A-6A3F-593E-9E1F-D3B0614B4EFD; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia freddyquesadai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: freddyquesadai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Pitilla ; verbatimElevation: 675; verbatimLatitude: 10.9893; verbatimLongitude: -85.4258; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.9893; decimalLongitude: -85.4258; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Xylophanes chiron; verbatimEventDate: 25-Feb-2014; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0023250 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Calixto Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0023250; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAW411-08, 07-SRNP-65788, BOLD:AAA8475; occurrenceID: 25A053DC-7D91-5730-8456-5B5C9D934FEC; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia freddyquesadai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: freddyquesadai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Brasilia ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Camino Ensayo ; verbatimElevation: 500; verbatimLatitude: 10.9515; verbatimLongitude: -85.3739; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.9515; decimalLongitude: -85.3739; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Xylophanes chiron; verbatimEventDate: 19-Dec-2007; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059786 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Freddy Quesada; individualID: DHJPAR0059786; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA6207-16, 16-SRNP-31290, BOLD:AAA8475; occurrenceID: C72A52C8-63A9-5E08-BD2F-2668A275DD9A; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia freddyquesadai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: freddyquesadai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Laguna ; verbatimElevation: 680; verbatimLatitude: 10.9888; verbatimLongitude: -85.4234; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.9888; decimalLongitude: -85.4234; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Xylophanes chiron; verbatimEventDate: 14-Sep-2016; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 43), length: 14-17mm. Head: head slightly wider than thorax; vertex 1/4 head width; gena 1/3 of head height, 2/5 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate light black in ground color, lightly covered with gray tomentum giving majority of the plate a glabrous dark gray sheen transitioning to silver; ocellar setae absent at most several hair-like setulae present on ocellar triangle; inner row of 5-10 post-ocular setae; reclinate orbital seta absent; two rows of frontal setae, black setulae intermingled with setae, several black setulae present below lowest frontal setae. Parafacial dark yellow in ground color, densely covered in silver tomentum making the entire surface reflective brilliant silver appearance; bare overall, except for a small number of setulae extending just below lowest frontal setae; facial ridge setose along 1/3-1/2 of its length, with a few sparse hair-like setulae emerging along outer edge of row; gena covered in black setulae. Antenna, pedicel black, concolorous with postpedicel; postpedicel, 1.5X as long as pedicel; arista bare, with a regular taper along most of its length only thickened on basal 1/5 almost to tip. Palps, yellow-orange throughout and densely covered in short black setulae; slightly clubbed, but gradually tapering to a slight point apically. Thorax: black ground color, with light gray tomentum throughout, when viewed dorsally tomentum appears thinner postsuturally, some bronze tomentum on the postalar callosity; scutellum appearing reddish-black in ground color, under microscope bronze tomentum becomes apparent when view on an oblique caudal angle; scutum with four dorsal vittae, becoming more evident under certain angles of light, these broken at suture; lateral surface of thorax densely covered in long black hair-like setulae; chaetotaxy: 3-4 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line, acrostichal setae 3:4-6 often with 2 extra setae appearing just adjacent to acrostichal setae; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 3:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; 4-6 katepisternal setae; scutellum, with 5-6 pairs of long flat marginal setae of subequal length; apical setae absent; complete row of scutellar discal setae just posterior to marginal setae, approximately 1/3 as long as scutellar marginals. Wing: strongly infuscate, slightly orange at wing base, black basicosta, with some orange along posterior margin; both upper and lower calypters also infuscate concolorous with remainder of wing; wing vein R4+5 setose, bearing only 2-3 setulae at base; halteres orange stalk with dark black/brown capitulum. Legs: black overall, coxa on midleg and hindleg with a few reddish-yellow setulae; tarsal claws yellow with black tips, with yellow pulvilli 2/3 length of tarsal claws; Anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia fringelike, formed by a very regular row of uniformly sized setae separated from each other by less than the width of their socket. Abdomen: globose, with dark burgundy-black ground color; abdominal tomentosity on T3-T4 bronze confined to the anterior margin of the tergite, at most anterior 10% of surface, T5 densely gold tomentose on 95% of surface absent along posterior 5%, which appears as glabrous black; middorsal depression on ST1+2 reaching to hind margin of tergite, median marginal setae present on ST1+2 wide set, stout but short, approximately 1/2 as long as median marginals on T3, T3 also with 1 pair of median marginal setae, and complete rows of marginal setae on T4 and T5; ventral surfaces of T3-T4 with clearly defined sex-patches extending from underside of tergite to lateral surface.

Male terminalia (Fig. 44): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, roughly V-shaped, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes rounded apically, with multiple fine setae surrounded by many shorter weaker setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5, 1/2 length of posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate of sternite 5 translucent directly basal to posterior lobes, flattened rectangular with a slight upward arc at extremities. Cerci in posterior view like an isosceles triangle, 2x as long as wide, narrow and parallel sided, slightly longer than surstyli; pointed at apex, medially to fused along most of its length only separate on anterior 1/2. Cerci in lateral view, obclavate with a moderate anterior curve at apex; cerci densely setose along basal 4/5ths. Surstylus in lateral view, wide almost equilateral along its length broadly downcurved, appearing digitiform; surstylus appearing to be fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli straight. Pregonite broad, well-developed, apically rounded, with 2-3 strong setulae along inner margin. Postgonite, slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, short and sharp at apex. Distiphallus broadly cone-shaped with a pronounced flare, with a slender median longitudinal sclerotized reinforcement on its posterior surface not reaching apex and a broad, anterolateral, sclerotized acrophallus, thickened apically appearing clubbed, 1.5X longer than basiphallus.

Female (Fig. 45) length: 14-17mm, overall morphology as in male differing in the following traits: Head: fronto-orbital plate dull gray, sometimes appearing devoid of tomentum along vertex, bearing 4-6 pairs of proclinate orbital setae in addition to 1-2 pairs of reclinate orbital seta; profile of head not rounded as in males. Thorax: Thoracic chaetotaxy: acrostichal setae 3-4:4; dorsocentral setae 3-4:4; intra-alar setae 2-3:3; supra-alar setae 2:3. Abdomen: more globose than males, lacking the flattened character, setulae on abdomen not as dense appearing far less hirsute than male abdomen; differing in terminalia, and T3 bearing goldish tomentum on ventral surface.

Diagnosis

Belvosia freddyquesadai sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: gena covered in black setulae, inner row of 5-10 post-ocular setae, black basicosta, both calypters infuscate, anterodorsal setae on hind tibia comblike and regular, median marginal setae on ST1+2 reduced to absent, and T5 black apically.

Etymology

Belvosia freddyquesadai sp. n, is named in honor of Sr. Freddy Quesada in recognition of his decades of being part of the Parataxonomist Program of Area de Conservación Guanacaste (http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr) in northwestern Costa Rica ( Janzen and Hallwachs 2011). Interim species-specific name included in previously circulating databases and publications, Belvosia Woodley07A.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG (Provinces of Alajuela and Guanacaste), 95-1020m elevation

Ecology

Belvosia freddyquesadai sp. n. has been reared 30 times from eight species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae , Erynnyis ello (Linnaeus, 1758) (N=1), Xylophanes adalia (Druce, 1881) (N=3), X. ceratomioides (Grote & Robinson, 1867) (N=1), X. chiron (Drury, 1773) (N=19), X. germen (Schaus, 1890) (N=1), X. hannemanni (Closs, 1917) (N=1), X. maculator (Boisduval, 1875) (N=1), X. zurcheri (Druce, 1894) (N=4) in cloud forest, dry foresrt, rain forest, and dry-rain lowaland intergrade.