Belvosia hazelcambroneroae 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 hazelcambroneroae Fleming && Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001979 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Daniel H. Janzen; individualID: DHJPAR0001979; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC495-05, 84-SRNP-456b, BOLD:AAB5651; occurrenceID: DDACD0AE-12DF-5F43-ACFB-075831B79672; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia hazelcambroneroae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: hazelcambroneroae; 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 larvae of the Sphingidae , Aellopos fadus; verbatimEventDate: 17-Jul-1984; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001838 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0001838; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC354-05, 98-SRNP-8093, BOLD:AAB5651; occurrenceID: 9D468073-F0B0-5C6A-B0F2-979E5B85B24D; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia hazelcambroneroae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: hazelcambroneroae; 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: Quebrada Costa Rica; verbatimElevation: 275; verbatimLatitude: 10.8274; verbatimLongitude: -85.6365; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8274; decimalLongitude: -85.6365; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Aellopos fadus; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jul-1998; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001868 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Daniel H. Janzen; individualID: DHJPAR0001868; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC384-05, 84-SRNP-1461, BOLD:AAB5651; occurrenceID: 97E0AE1B-3797-55DA-82D4-DA 312088AD 2C; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia hazelcambroneroae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: hazelcambroneroae; 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 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 , Erinnyis oenotrus; verbatimEventDate: 11-Jul-1984; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 55), length: 14-15mm. 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 dark gray in ground color, lightly covered with gray tomentum giving majority of the plate a glabrous 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 small number of black 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 black, concolorous with postpedicel; postpedicel, 2X 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. Thorax: black ground color, with light gray tomentum throughout, when viewed dorsally tomentum appears thinner postsuturally, scutum transitioning yellow ground color directly adjacent to scutellum, some bronze tomentum on the postalar callosity; scutellum appearing glabrous reddish-orange to the naked eye, under microscope bronze tomentum becomes apparent when viewed 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 with some reddish-brown setulae intermingled; chaetotaxy: 3-4 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line, acrostichal setae 3:4-6 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; abdominal tomentosity on T3 gold along anterior 10% of tergite, when viewed caudally bronze tomentum becomes apparent. T4 gold tomentose 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, short and weak, approximately 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. 56): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, vaguely Y-shaped with a soft shoulder present midway, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes rounded apically, with multiple strong hair-like 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 with apices upturned giving the entire structure a flattened "w" shape. Cerci in posterior view triangular, 2X as long as wide tapering to point, length equal to surstyli; pointed at apex, separate along half its length. Cerci in lateral view, with a strong anterior curve at apex, giving it a hooked appearance; cerci densely setose along basal 2/3rds. Surstylus in lateral view, almost equilateral along its length with a slight arc overall posterior margin rounded making the structure appear bladelike; surstylus appearing to be separate and not fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli straight. Pregonite broad, well-developed, apically squared devoid of setulae. Postgonite, slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, pointed 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 (Fig. 57) length: 14-15mm, overall morphology as in male differing in the following traits: Head: fronto-orbital plate dull gray, sometimes appearing devoid of tomentum along vertex, bearing 4-6 pairs of proclinate orbital setae in addition to 1-2 pairs of reclinate orbital seta; gena 1/4 of head height and 1/3 of eye height. Thorax: Thoracic chaetotaxy: acrostichal setae 3:4; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 2:3; supra-alar setae 2:3. Abdomen: more globose than males, lacking the flattened character, setulae on abdomen not as dense appearing far less hirsute than male abdomen; differing in terminalia, and T3 bearing bronze tomentum on ventral surface.

Diagnosis

Belvosia hazelcambroneroae sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate dark gray, gena 2/5 of eye height, with a row of 5-10 small setulae directly anterior to postocular row, scutum with light gray tomentum throughout, tomentum appearing thinner postsuturally, both calypters infuscate, black basicosta, and apex of T5 black tomentose.

Etymology

Belvosia hazelcambroneroae sp. n, is named in honor of Sra. Hazel Cambronero 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 ( Janzen and Hallwachs 2011). Interim species-specific name included in previously circulating databases and publications, Belvosia Woodley07E.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, 220-480m elevation

Ecology

Belvosia hazelcambroneroae sp. n. has been reared 38 times from four species of Lepidoptera in two families Sphingidae , Aellopos fadus (Cramer, 1775) (N=28), Erinnyis oenotrus (Cramer, 1780) (N=8), Nyceryx coffaeae (Walker, 1856) (N=1), and one species of Erebidae , Parathyris cedonulli (Stoll, 1781) (N=1), in dry foresrt, rain forest, and dry-rain lowland intergrade.