Belvosia ciriloumanai 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 ciriloumanai Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001805 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0001805; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC321-05, 03-SRNP-16753, BOLD:AAA1520; occurrenceID: 84CC3820-75C3-53B7-A86D-80A6CDA807B2; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia ciriloumanai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: ciriloumanai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2022; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Del Oro ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Puente Mena ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 11.0456; verbatimLongitude: -85.4574; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 11.0456; decimalLongitude: -85.4574; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Enyo ocypete; verbatimEventDate: 30-Aug-2002; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0002055 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Lucia Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0002055; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC571-05, 03-SRNP-2804, BOLD:AAA1520; occurrenceID: E7BFABBA-419B-517A-BB7E-43322157DD73; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia ciriloumanai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: ciriloumanai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2022; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Del Oro ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Quebrada Trigal ; verbatimElevation: 290; verbatimLatitude: 11.0268; verbatimLongitude: -85.4955; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 11.0268; decimalLongitude: -85.4955; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Enyo ocypete; verbatimEventDate: 08-Jul-2003; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0003666 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Daniel H. Janzen; individualID: DHJPAR0003666; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASBE009-06, 84-SRNP-490, BOLD:AAA1520; occurrenceID: 332F9858-C1B6-5D9F-9FC8-0A35CFDAF5B6; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia ciriloumanai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: ciriloumanai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2022; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8439; decimalLongitude: -85.6138; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Enyo ocypete; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jul-1984; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 25), length: 12-14mm. Head: head slightly wider than thorax; vertex 1/3 head width; gena 1/4 of head height, 2/5 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate ranging from dull silver to pale gray often with slight hints of gold, with two rows of frontal setae, black hair-like setulae intermingled with setae, with a few dark colored setulae extending below lowest frontal seta; ocellar setae absent at most several hair-like setulae present on ocellar triangle; orbital setae absent; inner row of 5-10 post-ocular setae. Parafacial light yellow in ground color, densely covered in silver tomentum making the entire surface reflective and brilliant appearance; setulose along parafacial outside facial ridge, a small number of setulae extending just below lowest frontal setae; facial ridge setose along 2/3 of its length, with numerous black hair-like setulae emerging along outer edge of row; gena covered in black setulae. Antenna, pedicel black, concolorous with postpedicel; postpedicel black, 4X as long as pedicel; arista bare gradually tapering to a point at tip. Palps, yellow-orange throughout and densely covered in short black setulae; slightly clubbed, tapering to a slight point apically, devoid of setulae apically. Thorax: black ground color, with light gray tomentum throughout presuturally, thinning centrally postsuturally, and transitioning to brown-bronze laterally when viewed from a caudal angle; scutellum appearing dark brown-black to the naked eye, under microscope glabrous adjacent to scutum, abruptly transitioning to dense bronze tomentum which becomes apparent when view on an oblique caudal angle; scutum with four dorsal vittae, one outer pair, one inner pair broken at suture; lateral surface of thorax densely covered in long hair-like setulae, these setulae all black; chaetotaxy: 3-4 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line, acrostichal setae 3:3-5; dorsocentral setae 3-4:4; intra-alar setae 3:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; 4-5 katepisternal setae; scutellum, with 5-6 pairs of long flat marginal setae of subequal length; apical setae absent; 1 complete row of scutellar discal setae just posterior to marginal setae. Wing: strongly infuscate, slightly darkened but not orange at wing base, basicosta black with slight accent of orange along caudal edge; 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, covered in shimmering bronze tomentum, coxa on midleg and hindleg covered in black setulae; tarsal claws yellow-orange with black tips, with orange pulvilli subequal to length of tarsal claws; anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia irregularly sized not fringelike. Abdomen: large, flattened globose, with black ground color, brown lateroventrally on ST1+2-T4; bronze to gold tomentosity along anterior 5% of T3 almost not visibly so, only when viewed from a very strong caudal angle, gold tomentum along anterior 40-50% of surface of T4 becoming more apparent under different angles, bisected medially by an area devoid of tomentum, densely gold tomentose throughout T5 not reaching to hind margin of tergite, black along caudal 10% of tergite, where it is devoid of gold; ventral surfaces of T3-T5 densely hirsute, reminiscent of sex-patches present in other Goniini , but lacking any definitive shape or form; middorsal depression on ST1+2 reaching to hind margin of tergite; one pair of median marginal setae present on ST1+2 and T3, and complete rows of setae on T4 and T5; T5 devoid of any setulae in the area of gold tomentosity.

Male terminalia (Fig. 26): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, roughly Y-shaped, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes rounded apically, densely covered in multiple long, fine hair-like setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5, 1/2 length of posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate of sternite 5 rectangular, nearly transparent directly basal to posterior lobes. Cerci in posterior view variable, with two distinctive shoulders each tapering down by 1/2 previous width, overall triangular, lenght subequal to that of surstyli; blunted triangular at apex, medially to fused along 1/3 of their length. Cerci in lateral view, with a strong anterior curve on apex, giving it a pinched- slightly clubbed appearance; densely setose along most of its length, only bare at apex. Surstylus in lateral view, almost equilateral along its length with a slight curve; surstylus appearing to be separate and not fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli straight, not convergent. Pregonite broad and well developed, apically squared off, blunt, devoid of setulae. Postgonite, slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, curved at apex, short and scythelike. 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, only slightly ~1.8X as long as basiphallus.

Female (Fig. 27) length: 12-15mm, overall morphology as in male differing in the following traits: Head: fronto-orbital plate dull gray, sometimes appearing devoid of tomentum, bearing 3-4 pairs of proclinate orbital setae in addition to single pair of reclinate orbital seta; postpedicel 2-3X as long as pedicel; gena 1/3 of head height, 1/2 of eye height. Thorax: chaetotaxy as in males. Abdomen: as in the males differing only in terminalia, overall abdomen not as hirsute as in males, particularly apparent on the underside.

Diagnosis

Belvosia ciriloumanai sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate gray tomentose with a silver parafacial, pilosity of gena, and lowest frontal setulae black, basicosta black-dark brown, both calypters dark infuscate, median marginal setae present on syntergite 1+2, anterior margin of T3 at most with gold tomentum along anterior 5% and T4 with gold tomentum over 10% of tergite, gold tomentum on T5 ending before last marginal setae making the apex of the tergite black, gold tomentum of tergites bissected medially by a middorsal stripe of dark tomentum.

Etymology

Belvosia ciriloumanai sp. n, is named in honor of Sr. Cirilo Umaña 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 Woodley04A.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG (Provinces of Alajuela and Guanacaste), 50-740 m elevation.

Ecology

Belvosia Woodley04A sp. n. has been reared 420 times from five species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae , Aleuron iphis (Walker, 1856) (N=3), Enyo cavifer (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903) (N=1), Enyo ocypete (Linnaeus, 1758) (N=390), Unzela japix (Cramer, 1776) (N=22), U. pronoe Druce, 1894 (N=3), in rain forest, dry forest, and dry-rain lowland intergrade.