Belvosia anacarballoae 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 anacarballoae Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0015214 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0015214; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASBE371-06, 05-SRNP-63685, BOLD:AAA2299; occurrenceID: 83D585DE-17E6-522B-8C5F-106FF215A9F0; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia anacarballoae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: anacarballoae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Horizontes ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Torre Esperanza ; verbatimElevation: 85; verbatimLatitude: 10.7894; verbatimLongitude: -85.551; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.7894; decimalLongitude: -85.551; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Saturniidae , Automeris zozimanaguana; verbatimEventDate: 24-Jun-2006; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0003591 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Daniel H. Janzen; individualID: DHJPAR0003591; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC695-05, 84-SRNP-1199, BOLD:AAA2299; occurrenceID: 4249A67C-20F7-58DA-ABF1-452BC663149C; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia anacarballoae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: anacarballoae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Bosque Humedo ; verbatimElevation: 290; verbatimLatitude: 10.8514; verbatimLongitude: -85.608; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8514; decimalLongitude: -85.608; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca lanuginosa; verbatimEventDate: 16-Aug-1984; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0040103 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0040103; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYE2271-11, 10-SRNP-13666, BOLD:AAA2299; occurrenceID: D6D35CCE-A99C-5B5A-962C-2A2697DA0997; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia anacarballoae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: anacarballoae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Potrerillos ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Rio Azufrado ; verbatimElevation: 95; verbatimLatitude: 10.8122; verbatimLongitude: -85.5444; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8122; decimalLongitude: -85.5444; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Saturniidae , Automeris zozimanaguana; verbatimEventDate: 28-Aug-2010; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 7), length: 11-13mm. Head: head slightly wider than thorax; vertex 1/3 head width; gena 1/4 of head height, approximately 1/3 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate dark ground color, entirely covered with silver tomentum giving the whole plate a shining silver character; ocellar setae absent; reclinate orbital seta absent; 2-3 irregular rows of frontal setae, with shorter black setulae interspersed throughout, these short black setulae extending beyond lowest frontal seta. Parafacial light yellow in ground color, densely covered in silver tomentum making the entire surface reflective and brilliant silver in appearance; bare overall, except for a small number of setulae extending just below lowest frontal setae; facial ridge setose along 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 dark brownish black, to concolorous with postpedicel; postpedicel, 3X as long as pedicel. Palps, yellow-orange throughout and densely covered in short black setulae; slightly clubbed, but gradually tapering to a slight point apically. Thorax: dark brown-black ground color throughout, with dark gray tomentum dorsally, scutellum light brown to dark yellow ground color bearing a brassy-brown tomentum; four distinct dorsal vittae, 2 outer, and 2 inner, these broken along suture. Lateral surfaces of thorax primarily covered in the same silver tomentum as on the dorsal surfaces; all pleura with densely hirsute areas populated with long black setulae becoming long black setulae along posterior margins; chaetotaxy: 3 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line; acrostichal setae 3:3; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 2:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; 4 katepisternal setae; scutellum, with four pairs of long flat marginal setae of subequal length, and one rows of median discal scutellar setae; apical setae present short parallell and erect, at a slight upward angle from the plane of the rest of the scutellar marginal setae. Wing, strongly infuscate, with a brilliant orange basicosta; both upper and lower calypters strongly infuscate concolorous with remainder of wing; wing vein R4+5, bearing 3-3 setulae at base; halteres orange stalk and capitulum. Legs: black, with yellow pulvilli; 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 sockets. Abdomen: slightly flattened globose, brown ground color; bronze abdominal tomentosity along anterior margin of T3, and strikingly yellow on>50% of surface of T4 and all of T5 which; T4 bearing a narrow median black stripe bisecting the yellow band. Middorsal depression on ST1+2 reaching to hind margin of tergite. Median marginal setae present on ST1+2 and T3, and complete rows of setae on T4 and T5.

Male terminalia (Fig. 8): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, smoothly U-shaped, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes coming to a rounded point apically, with strong bristle-like setulae surrounded by many shorter weaker setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5 approximately 1/2 length of posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate of sternite 5 ranging translucent directly basal to posterior lobes, elongate spanning the entire width of the posterior lobes. Cerci in posterior view triangular/blade-like in appearance, subequal to length of surstyli; completely separate medially. Cerci in lateral view. wide and appearing rounded apically, straight along lower margin with only a very slight anterior projection, not appearing clubbed apically; cerci setose along basal 2/3rds, underside of cerci setose along entire length (visible in lateral profile). Surstylus in lateral view, broadly rounded along its posterior edge giving the structure a leaf or oarlike appearance; surstylus appearing fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli appearing slightly convergent or bearing inward curved apices but not strongly convergent. Pregonite broad, well-developed, apically rounded, somewhat blunt, devoid of setulae. Postgonite, slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, bluntly rounded with a slight curve at apex, short. Distiphallus broadly cone-shaped (in some species this cone or flare is much more pronounced, in others appearing square or barrel shaped), with a slender median longitudinal sclerotized reinforcement on its posterior surface and a broad, anterolateral, sclerotized acrophallus, on anterior surface near apex, 1.75X as long as basiphallus; epiphallus, short and rounded, appearing as a small hump on dorsal surface of basiphallus.

Female (Fig. 9) length: 11-14mm, overall morphology as in male differing in the following traits: Head: bearing 2-3 pairs of proclinate orbital setae in addition to single pair of reclinate orbital seta; gena 2/5 of eye height, inner row of 5-10 post-ocular setae; palps follow same general morphology of males, but are apically devoid of black setulae. Thorax: katepisternum with 4-5 strong setae; anterodorsal fringe on hind tibia with 3-4 interspersed much longer setae approximately 2x as long as setae of fringe. Abdomen: slightly more globose than males.

Diagnosis

Belvosia anacarballoae can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: males without proclinate orbital setae, pilosity of gena, anepisternum, katepisternum black, basicosta brilliant orange, abdomen with dark ground color, median marginal setae present on syntergite 1+2, anterior margin of T3 bearing some minor gold tomentum <10%; gold tomentum on T4 ranging from 20-40% coverage of tergite, gold tomentum of tergites bissected medially by a middorsal stripe of dark tomentum.

Etymology

Belvosia anacarballoae sp. n., is named in honor of Sra. Ana Carballo in recognition of her decades of being part of the Parataxonomist Program of Area de Conservación Guanacaste (http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr) in northwestern Costa Rica. Interim species-specific name included in previously circulating databases and publications, Belvosia Woodley02.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG (Provinces of Alajuela and Guanacaste), 10-1060 m elevation.

Ecology

Within the ACG inventory, Belvosia anacarballoae has been reared 468 times from two families of Lepidoptera : Saturniidae , Automeris banus (Boisduval, 1875) (N=11), A. belti Druce, 1886 (N=1), A. celata Lemaire, 1969 (N=7), A. dagmarae Brechlin & Meister, 2011 (N=33), A. exigua Lemaire, 1977 (N=12), A. hamata Schaus, 1906 (N=4), A. io DHJ01 (N=11), A. pallidior Draudt, 1929 (N=5), A. tridens Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 (N=32), A. zozimanaguana Brechlin & Meister, 2011 (N=334), A. zugana Druce, 1886 (N=1), A. zugana DHJ01 (N=1), Hylesia continua (Walker, 1865) (N=3), Molippa nibasa Maassen & Weyding, 1885 (N=10), M. similima Jones, 1907 (N=1), Periphoba arcaei (Druce, 1886) (N=1); and Sphingidae , Manduca languinosa (Edwards, 1887) (N=1); from cloud forest, dry forest, rain forest and dry-rain lowland intergrade.