Belvosia joseperezi 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 joseperezi Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001853 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualID: DHJPAR0001853; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC369-05, 94-SRNP-5253, BOLD:AAA8475; occurrenceID: 4AD 1AFBD-0D84-5AB1-9DF7-6D5FC2AC5788; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia joseperezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: joseperezi; 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: Tanquetas ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8708; verbatimLongitude: -85.6053; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8708; decimalLongitude: -85.6053; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Erinnyis obscura; verbatimEventDate: 19-Aug-1994; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001965 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualID: DHJPAR0001965; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC481-05, 94-SRNP-5251, BOLD:AAA8475; occurrenceID: 1F562A7A-0417-590A-8416-332CDBAC98E9; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia joseperezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: joseperezi; 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: Tanquetas ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8708; verbatimLongitude: -85.6053; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8708; decimalLongitude: -85.6053; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Erinnyis obscura; verbatimEventDate: 20-Aug-1994; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0057872 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Ricardo Calero; individualID: DHJPAR0057872; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: MHMYK10572-15, 15-SRNP-70959, BOLD:AAA8475; occurrenceID: 1C0F3889-D8D8-5CAA-BF32-921426CEFF76; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia joseperezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: joseperezi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Medrano ; verbatimElevation: 380; verbatimLatitude: 11.016; verbatimLongitude: -85.3805; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 11.016; decimalLongitude: -85.3805; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Erinnyis obscura; verbatimEventDate: 26-Jun-2015; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 64): length: 14-15mm. Head: head slightly wider than thorax; vertex 1/3 head width; gena 1/3 of head height, 1/2 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate light black in ground color, lightly covered with gray tomentum giving majority of the plate a dark gray sheen transitioning to silver; ocellar setae absent at most several hair-like setulae present on ocellar triangle; reclinate orbital seta absent; two rows of frontal setae, black setulae intermingled with 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 5-8 black setulae extending just below lowest frontal setae; facial ridge setose along 2/5 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, 1/2 as long as pedicel; arista bare distinctly-thickened on basal 4/5 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 transitioning to a dark reddish yellow directly adjacent to scutellum, with light gray tomentum throughout, when viewed dorsally tomentum appears thinner postsuturally, some bronze tomentum on the postalar callosity; scutellum appearing reddish-black to the naked eye, 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 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. 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; T3 with traces of gold tomentum directly adjacent to ST1+2, T4 with gold tomentum along anterior 60% of tergite, 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 and short, less than 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. 65): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, vaguely Y-shaped, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes rounded apically, with multiple strong setae surrounded by many shorter weaker setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5 1/2 as long as posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate of sternite 5 translucent directly basal to posterior lobes, rectangular arcuate with a slight convex umbo along anterior edge. Cerci in posterior view sharply pointed wide based triangular, length to tips 1.3X basal width, with a strong taper beginning 2/5 down length, equal in length to surstyli; apically pointed, either fused along basal half. Cerci in lateral view, with a slight thickening basally not pronounced, and soft anterior curve on apex, giving it a mildly arcuate appearance; cerci densely setose along basal 2/3rds. Surstylus in lateral view, almost equilateral along its length with slightly anterior curve along its lenght, digitiform; surstylus appearing to be separate and not fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli slightly convergent. Pregonite usually broad, well-developed, apically squared off or rounded, with 3-5 marginal setulae. Postgonite, narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, blunt and rounded with a curved at apex, subequal in length to pregonite. 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, ~1.4X as long as basiphallus.

Female: unknown at this time.

Diagnosis

Belvosia joseperezi sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate light grey tomentose, with black ground color clearly visible sometimes appearing glabrous; gena 1/2 of eye height covered in black setulae, both calypters dark, black basicosta, and apex of T5 black tomentose.

Etymology

Belvosia joseperezi sp. n, is named in honor of Sr. Jose Perez 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 Woodley07H.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, 290-380m elevation.

Ecology

Belvosia joseperezi sp. n. has been reared four times from one species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae , Erinnyis obscura (Fabricius, 1775) (N=4), in dry forest.