Telothyria fulgida 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 fulgida Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CNC618904 ; recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualID: CNC618904; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Puntarenas; verbatimLocality: Monteverde; verbatimElevation: 1500; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 10-12-Dec-1990; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: CNC618891 ; recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualID: CNC618891; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Puntarenas; verbatimLocality: Monteverde; verbatimElevation: 1500; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 10-12-Dec-1990; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Puntarenas; verbatimLocality: Monteverde; verbatimElevation: 1500; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 10-12-Dec-1990; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Puntarenas; verbatimLocality: Monteverde; verbatimElevation: 1500; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 10-12-Dec-1990; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Puntarenas; verbatimLocality: Monteverde; verbatimElevation: 1500; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 20-22-Jul-1993; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Mexico; countryCode: MX; stateProvince: Chiapas; verbatimLocality: 6 km SW of Ocosingo; verbatimElevation: 1400; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 20-Sep-1991; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Mexico; countryCode: MX; stateProvince: Chiapas; verbatimLocality: 6 km SW of Ocosingo; verbatimElevation: 1400; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 20-Sep-1991; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Mexico; countryCode: MX; stateProvince: Chiapas; verbatimLocality: 6 km SW of Ocosingo; verbatimElevation: 1400; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 22-Sep-1992; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: D.M. Wood; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriafulgida; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: fulgida; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2019; Location: continent: Central America; country: Mexico; countryCode: MX; stateProvince: Chiapas; verbatimLocality: 6 km SW of Ocosingo; verbatimElevation: 1400; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2019; Event: samplingProtocol: Hand collected; verbatimEventDate: 22-Sep-1992; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male. Length: 7-9 mm (Fig. 27). Head (Fig. 27 b): frons wide almost 1/3 of head width; gena 1/10 of head height; two reclinate orbital setae; anteriormost reclinate orbital almost equal to uppermost frontal seta; ocellar setae reduced but present, arising behind anterior ocellus; outer vertical seta absent; fronto-orbital plate enlarged, frontal vitta almost absent coloration brilliant silver throughout, ocellar triangle silver and contiguous with fronto-orbital plate; fronto-orbital plate densely covered with short pale blonde hairs interspersed among frontal setae; parafacial pale brilliant silver; facial ridge bare; palpus short yellow and digitiform with slight upward turn apically, sparsely haired along outer margin; arista brown, smoothly tapered, microtrichia at most 2X as long as width of arista; pedicel orange, postpedicel with slight orange apex, adjacent to pedicel; postocular region behind margin of eye gold tomentose, gena mostly silver tomentose; upper half of occiput gold tomentose. Thorax (Fig. 27 a, c): dark brownish ground color with light gold tomentum, dorsal stripes indistinct and not evident; thorax densely covered in plumose blonde hairs throughout; chaetotaxy: 4-5 postpronotal setae, basal setae arranged in a straight line; supra-alar setae 2:3; intra-alar setae 3:3; dorsocentral setae 4:4; acrostichal setae 3:3; katepisternum with three setae. Scutellum brown with slight gold tomentum; two pairs of strong marginal setae (basal and subapical) and a small pair of crossed apical scutellar setae 1/5th 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 with dark brown-orange femur and yellow tibia appearing darkened due to hair covering, with dark yellow-brown ground color tarsal segments; mid leg and hind leg similar to foreleg; hind femur with covering of blonde hairs proximal on proximal half of femur; anterior leg tibia with regular fringe of equally spaced setae along anteroventral surface, with one posterodorsal seta. Wings: basicosta orange; all veins bare, and very slightly infuscate, with one setula at base of R4+5.; calypters strongly cinereous infuscate with a narrow yellowish fringe. Abdomen (Fig. 27 a, c): ground color dark brown dorsally, T1+2-T4 with yellow ventrolaterally and T5 brown with orange apically; T3-T5 with dense gold tomentum along margin, extending and thinning over entire tergite appearing to have a gold sheen when viewed with the naked eye; median marginal setae present only on T4 and T5; median discal setae absent. Terminalia (Fig. 27 d, e, f): Sternite 5 with a wide deeply separated median cleft, widely V-shaped, margins tomentose; lateral lobes of sternite subtriangular apically, outer margins covered in strong setae; basal section of sternite 5 2X longer than length of apical lobes. Cerci in posterior view sharply pointed rectangular with a widened shoulder medially, equal in length to surstyli, fused along entire length; medial shoulder weakly developed, entire structure vaguely dagger-shaped. In lateral view cerci, with a strong downward curve, with several strong widely spaced setae along basal 2/3rds. Surstylus in lateral view pointed at tip, downwardly curved overall digitiform in appearance; fused with epandrium; when viewed dorsally surstyli appear robust and straight with a very slight club apically, strongly hirsute along entire length. Basiphallus short and stout and stout, distiphallus subequal to in length to basiphallus, weakly tapering apically.

Female. Unknown at this time.

Diagnosis

Telothyria fulgida sp. n. is easily distinguished from all other Telothyria by the following combination of traits: ocellar setae reduced but present, frons wide almost 1/3 of head width, prominent and brilliant silver, with frontal vitta almost obliterated; parafacial entirely silver; pedicel orange with postpedicel mostly dark, thorax entirely covered in plumose blonde hairs, dorsal stripes indistinct and not evident; abdominal ground color dark brown, with yellow ventrolaterally from ST1+2-T4. Differentiated from T. frontalis Townsend by the tibia of fore leg having only one posterodorsal seta, and an anteroventral fringe, and the abdominal ground color being dark brown dorsally with yellow laterally, T5 orange only apically.

Etymology

Telothyria fulgida sp. n. From the Latin adjective, " fulgidus " meaning shining, in reference to its remarkable shining silver frons.

Distribution

Southern Mexico south to Costa Rica, 1400-1500 m.

Ecology

Specimens hand collected, 15 times from altitudes 1400-1500 m, further ecology not available.