Metaplagia lindarobinsonae Fleming & Wood, 2021

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2021, Revison of Metaplagia Coquillett (Diptera: Tachinidae) with description of five new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 68598-68598 : 68598

Metaplagia lindarobinsonae Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059091 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5508-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018642 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1289-07| 94-SRNP-3161| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03; verbatimEventDate: 21-Jun-1994; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018643 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1290-07| 94-SRNP-3160| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03; verbatimEventDate: 30-Jun-1994; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018644 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1291-07| 89-SRNP-173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pocosol ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Aserradero ; verbatimElevation: 160; verbatimLatitude: 10.8986; verbatimLongitude: -85.5642; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03; verbatimEventDate: 22-May-1990; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018645 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1292-07| 89-SRNP-173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pocosol ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Aserradero ; verbatimElevation: 160; verbatimLatitude: 10.8986; verbatimLongitude: -85.5642; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03; verbatimEventDate: 22-May-1990; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0019809 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAB357-07| 06-SRNP-17663| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Horizontes ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Vado Esperanza ; verbatimElevation: 85; verbatimLatitude: 10.7894; verbatimLongitude: -85.551; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ02; verbatimEventDate: 04-Jun-2007; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059089 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5506-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059090 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5507-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018641 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1288-07| 94-SRNP-3160| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03; verbatimEventDate: 30-Jun-1994; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059092 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5509-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059093 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5510-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059094 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5511-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059095 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5512-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059096 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5513-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059097 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5514-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059098 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5515-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059440 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Winnie Hallwachs; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5857-16| 16-SRNP-10201| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 22-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0060750 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA7171-17| 16-SRNP-10172| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: May-2017; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0060751 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA7172-17| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Male (Fig. 5), head (Fig. 5 c, d): fronto-orbital plate wide, coloration silver to pale grey; vitta wide, 1/3 width of fronto-orbital plate ocellar setae lateraloclinate with a slight proclinate skew; with 3-4 proclinate orbital setae (middle proclinate orbital seta most often shorter and thinner than the other two) and 1 reclinate orbital seta fronto-orbital plate with short black setulae interspersed amongst frontal setae; fronto-orbital setulae extending below lower margin of pedicel, well into angle of parafacial; parafacial wholly silver tomentose with a distinct row of parafacial setulae along inner margin of parafacial approaching facial ridge, seemingly continuous with fronto-orbital setulae; palps either slightly spathulate at tips, apically acutely inwardly curved, extremely sparsely setulose along inner margin, remainder appearing bare; arista dark brown-black. Thorax (Fig. 5 a, b): black ground color with pale grey tomentum; 3-4 postpronotal setae; supra-alar setae 2:3; intra-alar setae 3:3; dorsocentral setae 3:3; acrostichal setae 3:3; katepisternum with 3 setae. Infrasquamal setae present. Scutellum black ground color, with tomentum concolorous with thorax; with five pairs marginal setae; apical scutellar setae 1/2 as long as subapical scutellars, sub-erect, arising above plane of marginal setae; basal scutellar subequal in length to subapical setae; subapical setae convergent, lateral scutellar setae can be convergent or strongly divergent. Legs: black ground color; mid tibia with 2-3 strong anteroventral setae; tarsal claws and pulvilli shorter than last tarsomere. Wings: R1 bare, R4+5 setulose from node up to, but not beyond, crossvein r-m. Abdomen (Fig. 5 a, b): ground color black; ST1+2 glabrous black, pale silver tomentum occupying anterior 50% of T3-T5; tomentum not extending to ventral surface of abdomen; median marginal setae present on T3, and complete rows on T4 and T5.

Terminalia (Fig. 6): posterior margin of sternite 5 with a deep and narrow excavated U-shaped median cleft (Fig. 6 d); lateral lobes of sternite apically rounded, with a vestiture of short setae along disc, 3x as long along caudal margin; basal section 1/3 the length of apical lobes. Cerci, in posterior view, medially separated and parallel not touching medially, with a few short setae on basal half (Fig. 6 a); in lateral view, bowed and sharply tapered to a point apically (Fig. 6 b, c). Surstylus well-developed, stout basally in lateral view, rounded basally and appearing hooked or slightly beaked apically; in posterior view, basally enlarged and apically straight.

Female (Fig. 7) as in male, except in the following aspects: head (Fig. 7 c, d): fronto-orbital just under 1/2 of head width, vitta 1/3 width of fronto-orbital plate; overall head of females 1/5 wider than that of males; legs (Fig. 7 b): mid-tibia with 3-4 irregularly-sized strong anteroventral setae.

Diagnosis

Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Metaplagia by the following combination of traits: frontal vitta indistinct around ocellar triangle, infrasquamal setae present, fronto-orbital plate at pale gray or silver, with a silver parafacial and setulae on vein R4+5 not extending beyond crossvein r-m, surstylus sharp at tip. Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. can be separated from Metaplagia occidentalis by the presence of infrasquamal setae and from Metaplagia svetlanakozikae sp. n. by the presence of a distinct row of setulae along the facial ridge. Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. is clearly distinguished by its COI sequence clustered within the Barcode Identification Number (BIN) BOLD:AAD5563.

Etymology

Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. is named in honor of Linda Robinson for her many years of coordinating and administrating a plethora of problems and events for the undergraduate biology teaching laboratories of the Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, 85-300 m elevation.

Ecology

Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. has been reared 17 times from two species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae : Manduca sexta (Linnaeus, 1763), Manduca sexta DHJ02 and Manduca sexta DHJ03, in dry forest.