Belvosia manuelpereirai 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 manuelpereirai Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001217 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualID: DHJPAR0001217; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC135-05, 02-SRNP-12585, BOLD:AAC9692; occurrenceID: B1476E59-B563-5126-BEA8-B613CB6F1A3F; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia manuelpereirai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: manuelpereirai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Elena; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Vado Quebrada Calera ; verbatimElevation: 305; verbatimLatitude: 10.8668; verbatimLongitude: -85.6465; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8668; decimalLongitude: -85.6465; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Notodontidae , Dasylophia placida; verbatimEventDate: 25-Jul-2002; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001211 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualID: DHJPAR0001211; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC176-05, 02-SRNP-12561,; occurrenceID: ECA8FC73-6BD2-5960-AFFF-86177E090602; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia manuelpereirai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: manuelpereirai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Elena; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Vado Quebrada Calera ; verbatimElevation: 305; verbatimLatitude: 10.8668; verbatimLongitude: -85.6465; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8668; decimalLongitude: -85.6465; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Notodontidae , Dasylophia placida; verbatimEventDate: 06-Aug-2002; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0016472 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Jose Cortez; individualID: DHJPAR0016472; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAP676-07, 06-SRNP-60380, BOLD:AAC9692; occurrenceID: 43585C47-B3D2-5CBB-B306-82B44FAE587C; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia manuelpereirai; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: manuelpereirai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Mundo Nuevo ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Quebrada Tibio Perla ; verbatimElevation: 330; verbatimLatitude: 10.7626; verbatimLongitude: -85.4298; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.7626; decimalLongitude: -85.4298; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Notodontidae , Xylodonta guarana; verbatimEventDate: 17-Jan-2007; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 72), length: 9-12mm. Head: head wider than thorax; vertex 1/3 head width; gena 1/4 of head height, 1/3 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate dull gray with a silver sheen and with no gold tomentum, darkening slightly apically in some cases appearing glabrous or devoid of tomentum apically, with 2-3 irregular rows of frontal setae, populated with short black hair-like setulae intermingled with setae; ocellar setae absent; orbital setae absent. Parafacial light yellow in ground color, densely covered in silver tomentum, entire surface reflective and brilliant appearance; almost bare along parafacial outside facial ridge, with only 1-2 setulae extending just below lowest frontal setae; facial ridge setose along 2/3 of its length; gena covered in black setulae. Antenna, pedicel darkened orange sometimes appearing dark brown or black, overall concolorous with postpedicel; postpedicel dark brown with orange accent, 3-4X as long as pedicel; arista bare gradually tapering to a point at tip. Palps, orange throughout and densely covered in short black setulae; tapering to a sharp point apically, devoid of setulae apically. Vibrissa approximately 1 pedicel length from facial margin. Thorax: black ground color throughout, with light gray tomentum throughout, except around post-alar callus where it is lighter brown and bronze tomentose; scutellum ground color light brown almost yellow, distinctly lighter than scutum, under microscope bronze tomentum throughout becomes visible; scutum with four dorsal vittae, one outer pair, one inner pair, both broken at suture; lateral surface of thorax densely covered in long hair-like setulae, these setulae all black; chaetotaxy: 3-4 strong setae (4 setae on N=1) on postpronotum arranged in a line, acrostichal setae 3:3-5; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 3:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; 4 katepisternal setae; scutellum, with 4-5 pairs of long marginal setae of subequal length; apical scutellar setae short erect, inserted slightly above plane of marginal setae; 1 complete row of scutellar discal setae just posterior to marginal setae. Wing, infuscate, slightly darkened gray at wing base, basicosta brilliant orange; 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, lightly covered in shimmering silver tomentum, coxa on midleg and hindleg covered in black setulae; tarsal claws yellow-orange with black tips, with burnt umber pulvilli shorter than length of tarsal claws; anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia regularly sized fringelike, with 1 longer stronger setae at least 2X as long as others. Abdomen: medium (compared to other congeneric species), rounded globose, black ground color; tomentum absent from T1+2, light dusting of bronze tomentum on T3 with only very slight gold tomentum along anterior margin, gold tomentum covering anterior 70-80% of surface of T4, bisected medially by an area devoid of tomentum, densely gold tomentose throughout T5 not reaching to hind margin of tergite; ventral surfaces of T3-T5 with no distinct sex-patches present, but with light gold tomentum throughout; middorsal depression on ST1+2 reaching to hind margin of tergite; ST1+2 with no median marginal setae, one pair of median marginal setae present on T3, and complete rows of setae on T4 and T5.

Male terminalia (Fig. 73): sternite 5 with an excavated median cleft along posterior edge, smoothly U-shaped, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes squared off apically, with 3-5 strong erect bristle-like setulae surrounded by many shorter weaker setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5 subequal to length of posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate of sternite 5 translucent directly basal to posterior lobes, flat basally, with 2 indentations along anterior edge, like a flattened "w". Cerci in posterior view triangular, short subequal to length of surstyli; separate medially along apical 2/3s of its length, appearing serrate along interior margins. Cerci in lateral view, narrow 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 bare. Surstylus in lateral view, wide broadly rounded, spatulate 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 short, not well-developed, apically flat, somewhat blunt, devoid of setulae. Postgonite, short slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide and 2/3rds as long as pregonite, rounded and blunt at apex. Distiphallus broadly cone-shaped and a broad, anterolateral, sclerotized acrophallus, on anterior surface near apex, 1.5X as long as basiphallus.

Female (Fig. 74) length: 10-12mm, overall morphology as in male differing in the following traits: Head: bearing three pairs of proclinate orbital setae in addition to single pair of reclinate orbital seta. Abdomen: gold tomentum along anterior 80% of surface of T4 and all of T5, much denser than in males; T4 bearing a narrow median black stripe bisecting yellow band; slightly more globose than males.

Diagnosis

Belvosia manuelpereirai sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: dorsal surfaces of scutum entirely silver tomentose, orange basicosta, pedicel brown concolorous with postpedicel, and median marginal setae absent from ST1+2.

Etymology

Belvosia manuelpereirai sp. n, is named in honor of Sr. Manuel Pereira 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 Woodley11.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, 160-330 m elevation.

Ecology

Belvosia manuelpereirai sp. n. has been reared 19 times from four species of Lepidoptera in the family Notodontidae , Nycterotis placida (Schaus, 1892) (N=11), Nycterotis ravana ICG02 (N=4), Nycterotis xylinoides DHJ02 (N=2), and Xylodonta guarana (Schaus, 1892) (N=2), in dry forest, dry-rain lowland intergrade.