Belvosia josecortezi 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 josecortezi Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0029527 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Duvalier Briceno; individualID: DHJPAR0029527; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYM948-09, 08-SRNP-65800, BOLD:ABY4919; occurrenceID: AA775FC4-5FC9-5EDE-BB88-6BDE07F066ED; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia josecortezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: josecortezi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Brasilia ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Gallinazo ; verbatimElevation: 360; verbatimLatitude: 11.0183; verbatimLongitude: -85.372; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 11.0183; decimalLongitude: -85.372; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Xylophanes chiron; verbatimEventDate: 21-Sep-2008; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001999 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Daniel H. Janzen; individualID: DHJPAR0001999; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC515-05, 82-SRNP-762,; occurrenceID: 33533271-0627-53AB-96B9-AB1DF216C288; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia josecortezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: josecortezi; 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 unknowable, unknowable; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0002003 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Daniel H. Janzen; individualID: DHJPAR0002003; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC519-05, 82-SRNP-20, BOLD:ABY4919; occurrenceID: 05502304-CE01-5610-B8AF-F6C5F977CEF4; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia josecortezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: josecortezi; 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 unknowable, unknowable; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 61), length: 12-14mm. 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 light black in ground color, lightly covered with gray tomentum; ocellar setae absent at most several hair-like setulae present on ocellar triangle; one pair of slightly lateraloclinae orbital seta; 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 2-4 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, 1/2 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, but gradually tapering to a slight point apically. Thorax: black ground color transitioning to a dark reddish yellow directly adjacent to scutellum, with light gray tomentum throughout, when viewed dorsally tomentum appears thinner postsuturally, some bronze tomentum on the postalar callosity; scutellum appearing reddish-black to the naked eye, under microscope bronze tomentum becomes apparent when view 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; chaetotaxy: 3-4 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line, acrostichal setae 3:4 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; T3 with traces of gold tomentum directly adjacent to ST1+2, T4 with gold tomentum 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, stout but short, 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. 62): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, vaguely Y-shaped with a slight shoulder, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes rounded apically, with multiple strong setae surrounded by many shorter weaker setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5. 1/2 length of posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate translucent directly basal to posterior lobes, appearing slightly arcuate with a curved anteriro surface. Cerci in posterior view, triangular width 2/3 of length, slightly longer than surstyli; rounded at apex separate medially along 1/2 of their length. Cerci in lateral view, often with a strong anterior curve on apex, giving it a curved appearance, terminating in a slight hook; densely setose along basal 2/3rds. Surstylus in lateral view, almost equilateral along its length sometimes with a very slight curve along its length, apically pointed making the structure appear bladelike; surstylus appearing to be separate and not fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli straight. Pregonite usually broad, well-developed, apically squared off or rounded, with 2-5 thin setulae along margin. Postgonite, slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, blunt and curved at apex. Distiphallus broadly cone-shaped, with a slender median longitudinal sclerotized reinforcement on its posterior surface and a broad, anterolateral, sclerotized acrophallus, on anterior surface near apex, 1.9X as long as basiphallus.

Female (Fig. 63) length: 12-14mm, 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; profile of head not rounded as in males; gena 1/4 head height and 1/3 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 goldish tomentum on ventral surface.

Diagnosis

Belvosia josecortezi sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate pale silver gray, gena 2/5 of eye height, covered in black setulae, post sutural scutum mostly silver, both calypters dark, black basicosta with orange along caudal edge, anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia fringelike and apex of T5 black tomentose.

Etymology

Belvosia josecortezi sp. n, is named in honor of Sr. Jose Cortez 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 Woodley07G.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Alajuela and Guanacaste Provinces, 2-660m elevation.

Ecology

Belvosia josecortezi sp. n. has been reared 51 times from ten species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae , Callionima denticulata (Schaus, 1895) (N=1), Unzela japix (Cramer, 1776) (N=1), Xylophanes anubus (Cramer, 1777) (N=3), X. ceratomioides (Grote & Robinson, 1867) (N=1), X. chiron (Drury, 1773) (N=15), X. guianensis (Rothschild, 1894) (N=9), X. libya DHJ02 (N=1), X. pluto (Fabricius, 1777) (N=16), X. porcus ( Hübner, 1823) (N=1), X. zurcheri (Druce, 1894) (N=1), and two unknwon hosts collected and reared out from pupae, in dry forest, and rain forest, and dry-rain lowland intergrades.