Voria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Dapkey, Tanya, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2017, A new species of Voria Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 20123-20123 : 20123

Voria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Voria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 195. Type species: Voria latifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [= Tachina ruralis Fallén, 1810], by monotypy.

Plagia Meigen, 1838: 201. Type species: Tachina verticalis Meigen, 1824 [= Tachina ruralis Fallén, 1810], by subsequent designation of Rondani (1856).

Xenoplagia Townsend, 1914: 13. Type species: Xenoplagia setosa Townsend, 1914, by original designation. Syn. n.

Hystricovoria Townsend, 1928: 395. Type species: Hystricovoria bakeri Townsend, 1928, by original designation. Syn. n.

Itavoria Townsend, 1931: 475. Type species: Itavoria aurescens Townsend, 1931, by original designation. Syn. n.

Afrovoria Curran, 1938: 5. Type species: Afrovoria munroi Curran, 1938 [= Hystricovoria bakeri Townsend, 1928], by original designation. Syn. n.

Anavoria Mesnil, 1953: 170 (as subgenus of Voria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830). Type species: Voria ( Anavoria ) indica Mesnil, 1953 [= Hystricovoria bakeri Townsend, 1928], by monotypy. Syn. n.

Voria Other species included in Voria Robineau-Desvoidy

aurifrons Townsend, 1892: 67 ( Plagia ). Holotype male (SEMK). Type locality: USA, Pennsylvania.

aurescens Townsend, 1931: 475 ( Itavoria ). Holotype male (USNM). Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Itaquaquecetuba. Comb. n.

bakeri Townsend, 1928: 395 ( Hystricovoria ). Holotype male (USNM). Type locality: Philippines, Luzon, Mt. Makiling [as "Mount Maquiling"]. Comb. n.

munroi Curran, 1938: 6 ( Afrovoria ). Holotype male (SANC). Type locality: South Africa, Mpumalanga, Barberton.

indica Mesnil, 1953: 170 ( Voria ( Anavoria )). Holotype female (NHMUK). Type locality: India, Uttarakhand, Dehra Dun.

capensis Villeneuve, 1935 ( Voria ): 138. Holotype male (not located, possibly lost or destroyed). Type locality: South Africa.

setosa Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891: 409, 439 [also 1891: 105, 135] ( Plagia ) as " setosa Wd. litt. Cap. [Cape of Good Hope]", nomen nudum.

micronychia Chao & Zhou, 1993: 1335 ( Voria ). Holotype male (IZCAS). Type locality: China, Yunnan, Zhongdian, 2400m.

operosa Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 827 ( Voria ), nomen dubium.

parva Johnson, 1919: 436 ( Plagia ). Syntypes, 2 females (not located, possibly lost or destroyed). Type locality: Jamaica, "Liguanea Plain, near Kingston".

rufitorax Pazos, 1914: 1002 ( Plagia ), nomennudum.

pollyclari Rocha-e-Silva, Lopes & Della Lucia, 1999: 85 ( Cyrtophloeba ). Holotype male (UFVB). Type locality: BRASIL, Minas Gerais, Viçosa [20°45′S e 40°51′W]. Comb. n.

ruralis Fallén, 1810: 265 ( Tachina ). Lectotype male (NHRS), by designation of Crosskey (1973). Type locality: Sweden, Skåne, Äsperöd [as " Esperöd "]. [ Townsend (1939) mentions a holotype; however, this cannot be taken as a lectotype fixation because the specimen was not made distinguishable from the remainder of the type series.]

ambigua Fallén, 1810: 275 ( Tachina ). Holotype female (NHRS or MZLU). Type locality: Sweden.

verticalis Meigen, 1824: 299 ( Tachina ). Holotype male (MNHN). Type locality: Europe.

latifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 196 ( Voria ). Syntypes, unspecified number and sex (MNHN). Type locality: France, Gentilly.

arcuata Macquart, 1834: 264 ( Tachina ). Holotype male (MNHL). Type locality: France, Lille.

Voria interrupta Zetterstedt, 1844: 1020 ( Tachina ). Holotype female (NHRS). Type locality: Sweden, Scania.

transversa Macquart, 1848: 96 ( Plagia ). Holotype female (ETHZ). Type locality: Switzerland, Zurich.

spinicosta Palm, 1876: 419 ( Tachina ). Holotype female (not located, possibly lost or destroyed). Type locality: Austria, Innsbruck.

americana van der Wulp, 1890: 102 ( Plagia ). Syntypes, males and females (NHMUK). Type localities: Mexico: Veracruz (Orizaba); Guerrero (Venta del Zopilote), ca. 17°46′N 99°32′W, 2800ft; Xucumanatlan, ca. 17°34′N 99°37′W, 7000ft; Omilteme, ca. 17°33′N 99°41′W, 8000ft; and Tabasco (Teapa).

mexicana Giglio-Tos, 1893: 5 ( Plagia ). Holotype female (MRSN). Type locality: Mexico.

brasiliana Townsend, 1929: 380 ( Voria ). Syntypes, males and females (USNM). Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Itaquaquecetuba.

edentata Baranov, 1932: 83 ( Voria ). Holotype male (SDEI) (see O'Hara et al. 2009). Type locality: Taiwan, P’ingtung Hsien, Changkou [as “Kankau”, near Hengch’un].

ayerzai Blanchard, 1943: 157 ( Plagia ). Syntypes, unspecified number and sex (MLPA). Type locality: not given [listed as Argentina according to Guimaraes (1971)].

ciliata d’Aguilar, 1957: 261 (as ssp. of Voria ruralis ). Holotype male (USNM). Type locality: China, Sichuan, Suifu.

saginata Walker, 1861: 298 ( Eurigaster ). Holotype female (NHMUK). Type locality: Mexico.

signata . Incorrect subsequent spelling of saginata Walker, 1861 ( Guimaraes 1971: 93, 320).

setosa Townsend, 1914: 14 ( Xenoplagia ). Holotype female (USNM). Type locality: Peru, Cañada de Saman, Rio Chira, Peru. Comb. n.

Voria Voria latifrons Robineau-Desviody, 1830: 195 [= Tachina ruralis Fallén, 1810: 265]: [= Tachina ruralis Fallén, 1810]

Diagnosis

Voria can be distinguished by the following combination of traits: compound eye bare; vertex, at its narrowest point, approximately 0.6X eye width in dorsal view; frontal vitta widened posteriorly, ranging in color from dark gray to gold; both sexes with well-developed lateral vertical setae; fronto-orbital plate with 2-4 proclinate orbital setae; fronto-orbital plate ranging from bare to haired; frontal setae descending below base of pedicel; parafacial with some fine hairs on upper 1/3, sometimes with a small tuft of hairs at level of vibrissa; parafacial with 1-3 strong proclinate setae below lowest frontal seta; occiput without black setae posterior to postocular row; genal dilation very slightly developed; prosternum bare; three postsutural supra-alar setae, the anteriormost reduced and much weaker than first postsutural dorsocentral seta; scutellum with four pairs of marginal setae and one pair of erect to semi-erect apical setae; one or two pairs of sub-erect discal setae on scutellum, in line with subapical setae; anepimeral setae not or weakly differentiated from other hairs on anepimeron; wing cell r4+5 open at wing margin; bend of vein M with a long stub; wing vein R1 setulose along its entire length; R4+5 with setulae extending from the fork to just beyond crossvein R-M; abdomen narrow, oval, black in ground color; tergites 3-5 without median discal setae.

Distribution

Voria is a widespread cosmopolitan genus originally described from Sweden. The genus ranges across the Holarctic, Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental and Neotropical regions.

Ecology

Voria has been known to parasitize lepidopteran larvae primarily in the family Noctuidae (and possibly also Pyralidae ) ( Arnaud 1978). One record from ACG suggests that Voria erasmocoronadoi sp. n. may also parasitize Uraniidae .