Calolydella renemalaisei Fleming & Wood

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H, 2018, Revision of the Mesoamerican species of Calolydella Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) and description of twenty-three new species reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 11223-11223 : 11223

Calolydella renemalaisei Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0011709 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0011709; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 04-SRNP-31285, BOLD:AAD9853, ASTAS435-06; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellarenemalaisei; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: renemalaisei; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Mismo; verbatimElevation: 680; verbatimLatitude: 10.9876; verbatimLongitude: -85.4197; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eucereon aeolum; verbatimEventDate: 10-Apr-2004; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0011710 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0011710; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 04-SRNP-31280, BOLD:AAD9853, ASTAS436-06; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellarenemalaisei; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: renemalaisei; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Mismo; verbatimElevation: 680; verbatimLatitude: 10.9876; verbatimLongitude: -85.4197; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eucereon aeolum; verbatimEventDate: 08-Apr-2004; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0057608 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Gilberth Ampie; individualID: DHJPAR0057608; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 15-SRNP-891, BOLD:AAD9853, ASTAX020-15; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellarenemalaisei; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: renemalaisei; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero al Crater; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eucereon aeolum; verbatimEventDate: 20-Apr-2015; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0011705 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0011705; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 04-SRNP-31286, BOLD:AAD9853, ASTAS431-06; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellarenemalaisei; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: renemalaisei; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Mismo; verbatimElevation: 680; verbatimLatitude: 10.9876; verbatimLongitude: -85.4197; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eucereon aeolum; verbatimEventDate: 09-Apr-2004; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0011712 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0011712; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 04-SRNP-31283, BOLD:AAD9853, ASTAS438-06; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellarenemalaisei; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: renemalaisei; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Mismo; verbatimElevation: 680; verbatimLatitude: 10.9876; verbatimLongitude: -85.4197; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eucereon aeolum; verbatimEventDate: 10-Apr-2004; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017809 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Elieth Cantillano; individualID: DHJPAR0017809; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 03-SRNP-2236, BOLD:AAD9853, ASTAR520-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellarenemalaisei; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: renemalaisei; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; 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; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Leucotmemisnexa; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jun-2003; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 30a, b, c). Length: 5-8mm. Head (Fig. 30b): frontal setae extending to base of postpedicel; fronto-orbital plate gold, sparsely setulose throughout; parafacial up to 50% silver pollinose or mostly gold (75-90%). Thorax (Fig. 30a, c): gold on both dorsal and lateral surfaces; with four regular thoracic vittae; postpronotum with three setae; 3:3 acrostichal setae; 3:3 dorsocentral setae; 1:3 intra-alar setae; 2:3 supra-alar setae; three katepisternal setae; anatergite with three or more hair-like setae, often in a small tuft; scutellar discal setae situated as wide apart as subapical scutellar setae or absent. Wing vein R4+5 with at most 2-3 setulae dorsally at base, not extending to crossvein R-M. Abdomen (Fig. 30a): ground color dark brown-orange with uninterrupted transverse marginal pollinose bands; gold dorsally, silver ventrally, and with an orange spot lateroventrally at base of ST1+2 or base of ST1+2 black lateroventrally; T3 with one pair of median marginal setae and one pair of discal setae; T4 with 1-2 pairs of discal setae. Terminalia (Fig. 31): sternite 5 (Fig. 31c) with two small lobes and a wide U-shaped median cleft, 0.47X the length of the sternite from lobe to apex; inner margin covered by dense pollinosity, appearing darker than surrounding cuticle; entire lobe of sternite with short setae, all of equal length. Cerci (Fig. 31b), in dorsal view, separated by a narrow gap widening at apex; each cercus long, slender and straight, very slightly tapered from its already narrow base; setose along basal half. Surstylus (Fig. 31a) subequal to length of cercus, broad and digitiform when viewed laterally; with short setae along entire length; tip of surstylus not curved inwards when viewed dorsally.

Female: not known at this time.

Diagnosis

Calolydella renemalaisei can be distinguished from all other other species of Calolydella by the following combination of characters: frontal setae extending to base of postpedicel, fronto-orbital plate sparsely setose througout, with four thoracic vittae, the outermost two twice as wide as the innermost two, anatergite with three or more hair-like setae arranged in a small tuft, and up to two pairs of discal setae on T4.

Etymology

The specific epithet is in honor of René Edmond Malaise (1892-1978) of Stockholm, Sweden, in recognition of his invention of the Malaise trap, which has captured so many ACG Tachinidae and other insects, as explained by Fredrik Sjöberg in his wonderful book "The Fly Trap" ( Sjöberg 2014, translation by Thomas Teal), a book that explains much about Malaise traps.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, 280-680m.

Ecology

Calolydella renemalaisei has been reared six times from two species of Arctiinae: Euceron aeolum Hampson, 1898, and Leucotmemis nexa Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 ( Lepidoptera : Erebidae ), in rain forest and dry-rain lowland intergrade ecosystems.