Telothyria duniagarciae Fleming & Wood, 2020

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Dapkey, Tanya, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2020, Revision of Telothyria van der Wulp (Diptera: Tachinidae) and twenty-five new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to Mesoamerican species, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 47157-47157 : 47157

Telothyria duniagarciae Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0052058 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0052058; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYH1170-13, 13-SRNP-30774, BOLD:ACI1191; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaduniagarciae; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: duniagarciae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Colocho; verbatimElevation: 375; verbatimLatitude: 11.0237; verbatimLongitude: -85.4188; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 11.0237; decimalLongitude: -85.4188; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Ategumia Solis01; verbatimEventDate: 24-Jun-2013; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0056114 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0056114; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYH2371-14, 14-SRNP-80910, BOLD:ACI1191; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaduniagarciae; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: duniagarciae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Selva; verbatimElevation: 410; verbatimLatitude: 10.9229; verbatimLongitude: -85.3188; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9229; decimalLongitude: -85.3188; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Ategumia Solis01; verbatimEventDate: 08-Aug-2014; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0057130 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Keiner Aragon; individualID: DHJPAR0057130; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5040-15, 14-SRNP-47584, BOLD:ACI1191; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaduniagarciae; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: duniagarciae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Casa Keyner; verbatimElevation: 121; verbatimLatitude: 10.9564; verbatimLongitude: -85.2661; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9564; decimalLongitude: -85.2661; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Ategumia Solis01; verbatimEventDate: 09-Dec-2014; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male. Length: 8 mm (Fig. 17). Head (Fig. 17 b): frons narrow, 1/5 of head width; gena 1/12 of head height; three reclinate orbital setae uppermost reclinate orbital pair slightly convergent; anteriormost reclinate orbital subequal in length to uppermost frontal seta; ocellar setae absent; outer vertical seta absent; ocellar triangle and fronto-orbital plate dark gold; fronto-orbital plate with short brown to black hairs interspersed among frontal setae; parafacial gold; facial ridge bare; palpus digitiform, apically terminating in a small bulbous club; arista brown, smoothly tapering to apical 1/8, microtrichia at most 1.5X as long as width of arista; pedicel orange and postpedicel orange over 60% of surface; postocular region behind margin of eye including gena gold tomentose; upper half of occiput gold tomentose, postgena silver tomentose. Thorax (Fig. 17 a, c): brassy-gold tomentose, with two distinct outer dorsal stripes broken across suture, and two short inner stripes extending up to first postsutural dorsocentral seta; thorax covered in dense plumose blonde hairs laterally, plumose hairs on disc of scutum sparse, and mixed in with short black hairs; chaetotaxy: five postpronotal setae, basal setae arranged in a straight line; supra-alar setae 2:3; intra-alar setae 2:3; dorsocentral setae 3:3; acrostichal setae 3:3; katepisternum with three setae. Scutellum brassy-gold tomentose; two pairs of strong marginal setae (basal and subapical) and a small pair of crossed apical scutellar setae 1/8-1/10th as long as subapical scutellars; basal scutellar setae subequal in length to subapical setae; subapical setae straight; underside of scutellum bearing plumose blonde hairs below basal scutellar setae. Legs: foreleg ground color yellow on coxa and femur, appearing darker from tibia to tarsi; both midleg and hindleg dark brown entirely, with yellow coxae; anterior leg tibia with regular fringe of equally spaced setae along anteroventral surface, with one posterodorsal setae. Wings: basicosta brown; all veins bare, with only one setula at base of R4+5; calypters pale translucent with thin slightly orange fringe. Abdomen (Fig. 17 a, c): ground color appearing brown-black dorsally with yellow-orange ventrolaterally; ST1+2 brown over medial 50%, with yellow ventrolaterally, extending into a longitudinal middorsal brown stripe bisected by a brown band along posterior edges of T3 and T4; T1+2-T4 with dense brassy tomentum extending over entire tergite; T5 brown ground color changing to dark orange apically, covered with gold tomentum; marginal setae present on T4 1/2 as long as those present on and T5; median discal setae absent. Male terminalia: not examined.

Female. Length: 6 mm (Fig. 18). Head (Fig. 18 b): as in male with the following exceptions: fronto-orbital plate pale brassy gold over upper 50%; parafacial brilliant silver; frons 1/3 of head width; two inner reclinate orbital setae; two proclinate orbital setae; outer vertical seta present; palpus apically clubbed and distinctly upturned. Thorax (Fig. 18 a, c): katepisternum with three setae; meron with only 10-12 typical meral setae. Legs: foreleg coxa with yellow ground color, femur yellow on ventral half, dark gray on posterior surfaces, yellow ground color but appearing darker from tibia to tarsal segments; both midleg and hindleg black throughout, with yellow coxae; anterior leg tibia with irregular tapered fringe of equally spaced setae along basal half of anteroventral surface, 2-3 anterodorsal setae, and 1-2 strong posterodorsal seta. Abdomen (Fig. 18 a, c): ST1+2 and T3 50% brown dorsally, with yellow lateroventrally, T4 entirely brown, and T5 yellow-orange entirely.

Diagnosis

Telothyria duniagarciae sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Telothyria by the following combination of traits: ocellar setae absent, arista brown, with microtrichia at most 1.5X as long as width of arista, pedicel orange and postpedicel orange over 60% of surface, parafacial gold, silver in females, thorax covered in dense plumose blonde hairs laterally, plumose hairs on disc of scutum present yet sparse, and mixed in with short black hairs, katepisternum with three setae, legs yellow, abdominal ground color yellow-orange, and T5 yellow with silver tomentum.

Etymology

Telothyria duniagarciae sp. n. is named in recognition of Dunia Garcia's outstanding work on the team that conducts the caterpillar and parasite inventory from ACG’s Estación Biológica Cacao.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Alajuela and Guanacaste Provinces, 121-410 m elevation.

Ecology

Telothyria duniagarciae sp. n. has been reared three times from two species of Lepidoptera in the families Crambidae and Depressariidae : Ategumia Solis01, and Filinota Janzen154 respectively, in rain forest.