Belvosia adrianguadamuzi 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 adrianguadamuzi Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0003566 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Mariano Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0003566; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC670-05, 05-SRNP-58598, BOLD:AAA8366; occurrenceID: 7E16F31B-F6BF-5BA9-AA0E-9557FF093FCF; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia adrianguadamuzi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: adrianguadamuzi; 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: Porton Rivas ; verbatimElevation: 570; verbatimLatitude: 10.7586; verbatimLongitude: -85.3727; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.7586; decimalLongitude: -85.3727; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Saturniidae , Periphoba arcaei; verbatimEventDate: 23-Sep-2005; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0029520 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Roster Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0029520; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYM941-09, 08-SRNP-22641, BOLD:AAA8366; occurrenceID: FB8C2BE1-E0DE-5507-B39F-A9B952A4D053; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia adrianguadamuzi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: adrianguadamuzi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Del Oro ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Quebrada Ayotal ; verbatimElevation: 326; verbatimLatitude: 11.0095; verbatimLongitude: -85.5113; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 11.0095; decimalLongitude: -85.5113; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Saturniidae , Periphoba arcaei; verbatimEventDate: 03-Nov-2008; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0036478 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Lucia Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0036478; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYE1389-09, 08-SRNP-24223, BOLD:AAA8366; occurrenceID: B79B64BC-07CC-5631-A592-BCFDA27465F2; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia adrianguadamuzi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: adrianguadamuzi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Del Oro ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Quebrada Salazar ; verbatimElevation: 560; verbatimLatitude: 11.0022; verbatimLongitude: -85.4634; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 11.0022; decimalLongitude: -85.4634; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Saturniidae , Periphoba arcaei; verbatimEventDate: 17-Jun-2009; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 4), length: 11-14mm. Head: head slightly wider than thorax; vertex 2/5 head width; gena 1/4 of head height, approximately 1/3 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate dark ground color apically transitioning to lighter towards parafacial, entirely covered with silver tomentum giving the whole plate a shining character; ocellar setae weak and hair-like almost appearing absent, these arising lateral to anterior ocellus; one reclinate orbital seta outside of frontal rows; 2-3 irregular rows of frontal setae, with shorter black setulae interspersed throughout, these short black setulae extending beyond lowest frontal seta. Parafacial light yellow in ground color, densely covered in silver tomentum making the entire surface reflective and brilliant silver in appearance; bare overall, except for a small number of setulae extending just below lowest frontal setae; wide, approximately 2/3 of eye width when viewed laterally; facial ridge setose along 2/3 of its length, with a few sparse hair-like setulae emerging along outer edge of row; gena covered in light yellow yellow to reddish yellow setulae, sometimes with black setulae intermingled. Antenna, pedicel ranging from dark brownish orange, to distinctly lighter than postpedicel; postpedicel dark brownish black, 5X as long as pedicel. Palps, yellow-orange throughout and densely covered in short black setulae; slightly club shaped, but tapering to a slight point apically. Thorax: dark brown-black ground color throughout, with light gray tomentum dorsally, scutellum bearing a brassy-brown tomentum sometimes appearing black on some specimens; five distinct dorsal vittae, outer, inner, and one dorsocentral, these at times only becoming evident under certain angles of light. Lateral surfaces of thorax primarily covered in the same silver tomentum as on the dorsal surfaces; anterior margin of anepisternum densely hirsute with long reddish brown setulae becoming long black setulae along posterior margin; both katepisternum and anepimeron bearing the same long reddish setulae as on anepisternum; chaetotaxy: 3-4 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line; acrostichal setae 3:4; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 3:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; 4-5 katepisternal setae (5th katepisternal sometimes weakly present below row of stronger katepisternals); scutellum, with four pairs of long flat marginal setae of subequal length, and up to two rows of median discal scutellar setae; apical setae present short crossed and erect, at a slight upward angle from the plane of the rest of the scutellar marginal setae. Wing: strongly infuscate, with a brilliant orange basicosta; both upper and lower calypters strongly infuscate, concolorous with the remainder of wing; wing vein R4+5, bearing 3-3 setulae at base; halteres orange stalk with dark black/brown capitulum. Legs: black, with yellow pulvilli; anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia irregular and not fringelike, with several median setulae that are distinctly longer and stronger than others. Abdomen: flattened globose, black ground color; strikingly yellow abdominal tomentosity along anterior margin of T3, 50% of surface of T4 and 95% of surface of T5 which transitions to black along posterior apex; T4 bearing a narrow median black stripe bisecting the yellow band. Middorsal depression on ST1+2 reaching to hind margin of tergite. Median marginal setae present on ST1+2 and T3, and complete rows of setae on T4 and T5.

Male terminalia (Fig. 5): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, smoothly and narrow with a small shoulder midway, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes rounded apically, with multiple fine hair-like setulae surrounded by many shorter weaker setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5, 1/3 as long as posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate of sternite 5 almost transparent directly basal to posterior lobes, shaped like two adjacent crescents. Cerci in posterior view broadly triangular, slightly shorter than surstyli; blunt and rounded at apex, completely separate medially to fused along basal 1/2. Cerci in lateral view, with a slight bend at apex, giving it a vaguely clubbed appearance; cerci densely setose along basal 2/3rds. Surstylus in lateral view, broad and bladelike, with a straight anterior edge and curved posterior edge; surstylus appearing to be separate and not fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli parallel and straight. Pregonite broad, well-developed, apically rounded, blunt, marginally setose. Postgonite, slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, bluntly rounded with a slight curve at apex, short. Distiphallus narrow cone-shaped, with a slender median longitudinal sclerotized reinforcement on its posterior surface and a broad, anterolateral, sclerotized acrophallus, on anterior surface near apex, 1.5X as long as basiphallus; epiphallus, short and rounded, appearing as a small hump on dorsal surface of basiphallus.

Female (Fig. 6) length: 10-15mm, overall morphology as in male differing in the following traits: Head: bearing two pairs of proclinate orbital setae in addition to single pair of reclinate orbital seta. Thorax: scutellum with up to 6 pairs marginal scutellar setae although most often similar to males. Abdomen: slightly more globose than males.

Diagnosis

Belvosia adrianguadamuzi sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: dark setulae below lowest frontal setae, along with light setulae on parafacial, orange basicosta, four postsutural acrostichals, and T4 with gold tomentum over 50% of tergite.

Etymology

Belvosia adrianguadamuzi sp. n, is named in honor of Sr. Adrian Guadamuz 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 Woodley01.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG (Guanacaste Province), 10-640 m elevation.

Ecology

Belvosia adrianguadamuzi sp. n. has been reared 214 times from two species of Lepidoptera in the family Saturniidae , Periphoba arcaei Druce, 1886 (N=212), and Automeris banus (Boisduval, 1875) (N= 2), in dry forest, dry-rain lowland intergrade, with only seven rearing events from rain forest.