Uramya constricta Fleming & Wood

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie, Janzen, Daniel & Dapkey, Tanya, 2017, Nine new species of Uramya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, with a key to their identification, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 9649-9649 : 9649

Uramya constricta Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018567 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018567; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1214-07, 97-SRNP-1486.16; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 10-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018569 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018569; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1216-07, 97-SRNP-1486; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 02-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018559 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018559; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1206-07, 97-SRNP-1486.10; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 10-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018564 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Roster Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0018564; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1211-07, 97-SRNP-1542; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of EucleamesoamericanaDHJ04 (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 14-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018560 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018560; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1207-07, 97-SRNP-1486.60; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 02-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018565 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018565; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1212-07, 97-SRNP-1486.11; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 02-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018563 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018563; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1210-07, 97-SRNP-1486.61; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 04-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018566 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018566; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1213-07, 97-SRNP-1486.48; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 02-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018562 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018562; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1209-07, 97-SRNP-1486.30; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 02-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018570 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018570; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1217-07, 97-SRNP-1486.35; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 02-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018561 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018561; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1208-07, 97-SRNP-1486.21; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018568 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen & W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018568; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1215-07, 97-SRNP-1486.41; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyaconstricta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: constricta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.927; verbatimLongitude: -85.468; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.927; decimalLongitude: -85.468; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Achariaophelians (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 13-Aug-1997; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 5). Length: 11-15 mm. Head (Fig. 5b): antenna: first flagellomere dark brown on lower 2/3, turning to bright orange on upper third, adjacent to pedicel; pedicel dark black, with orange undertones; arista 1.5X as long as first flagellomere, dark brown and minutely pubescent; palpus dark orange and haired; fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena silver pollinose; gena with a cluster of hairs along lower 1/3 to 1/2. Thorax (Fig. 5a, c): entirely gray pollinose; dorsum of thorax and scutellum black pilose; sternopleura, hypopleura, pteropleura, and ventral surface of abdomen white pilose; 2 katepisternal bristles; 3 postsutural supra-alar bristles; postpronotum and anepisternum bearing fine black hairs; underside of scutellum bearing a tuft of black hairs near basal marginal bristle. Legs: fore femur gray pollinose, densely covered in thin dark hairs; mid and hind femora dark brown to black in ground color, contrasting with the dark orange tibiae. Wing: smoky grey transparent; wing veins not infuscate. Abdomen (Fig. 5a): median marginal bristles present on all abdominal tergites (ST1+2, T3, T4 and T5); 1 pair of median discal bristles on T3, T4 and T5; ground color of abdomen brown-black up to tergite 5; silver pollinosity present on anterior half of T3, T4 and T5; ST1+2 with lateral gray pollinose spots on posterior half; base of ST1+2 slightly constricted, giving the abdomen a basaly tapered appearance. Terminalia (Fig. 5d, e, f): sternite 5 with two small lobes, inner margin covered in dense pollinosity, appearing darker than surrounding cuticle; apical edges of lobes of sternite 5 bearing short, stout bristles interspersed with longer bristles close to apical margin; sternite 5 with wide V-shaped median cleft, 0.4X the length of sternite from lobe apex to base; cercus sharply pointed, distinctly tapered; apical section 1.4X as long as upper lobe; strongly curved when viewed laterally and with a slight upward hook at its tip; surstylus equilaterally oblong and scythe-like in lateral view; posterodorsal half densely haired; apex of surstylus with a slight lobe when viewed dorsally and few short apical bristles; surstyli weakly angled inwards in dorsal view, almost parallel; surstylus 1.6X as long as cercus.

Female (Fig. 6). Length: 7-10 mm. As male, except arista 1.7X as long as first flagellomere, and 3 katepisternal bristles.

Diagnosis

Uramya constricta can be distinguished from all other Neotropical species of Uramya by the following combination of traits: pedicel dark brown, 3 postsutural supra-alar bristles, underside of scutellum with a tuft of black hairs near basal marginal bristle, only 1 pair of median marginal bristles on ST1+2, T3 and T4, and by the shape of the surstylus.

Etymology

The specific epithet is derived from the Latin adjective “constrictus”, for constricted or compressed, in reference to the slightly constricted base of ST1+2 where it meets the thorax.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG (Prov. Guanacaste), 1,150 m.

Ecology

Uramya constricta has been reared 38 times from Acharia ophelians Dyar ( Limacodidae ) (one sibling brood of caterpillars) and once from Euclea mesoamericana DHJ04 ( Lepidoptera : Limacodidae ) in ACG cloud forest.