Calolydella susanaroibasae Fleming & Wood

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H, 2018, Revision of the Mesoamerican species of Calolydella Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) and description of twenty-three new species reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 11223-11223 : 11223

Calolydella susanaroibasae Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0057699 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Carolina Cano; individualID: DHJPAR0057699; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 15-SRNP-1269, BOLD:ACW6315, ASTAX072-15; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellasusanaroibasae; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: susanaroibasae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector San Cristobal; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Rio Blanco Abajo; verbatimElevation: 500; verbatimLatitude: 10.9004; verbatimLongitude: -85.3725; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Isanthreneechemon; verbatimEventDate: 20-May-2015; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: 15-SRNP-1269 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Carolina Cano; individualID: 15-SRNP-1269; individualCount: 2; sex: 2F, siblings to holotype; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 15-SRNP-1269; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellasusanaroibasae; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: susanaroibasae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector San Cristobal; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Rio Blanco Abajo; verbatimElevation: 500; verbatimLatitude: 10.9004; verbatimLongitude: -85.3725; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Isanthreneechemon; verbatimEventDate: 20-May-2015; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 32a, b, c). Length: 9mm. Head (Fig. 32b): frontal setae extending to base of postpedicel; fronto-orbital plate gold, with a single row of fine setulae outside of frontal setae; parafacial silver along lower half. Thorax (Fig. 32a, c): gold on dorsal surface, silver laterally (>50% coverage); outermost two vittae twice as wide as innermost two; postpronotum with three setae; 3:3 acrostichal setae; 3:3 dorsocentral setae; 2:3 intra-alar setae; 2:3 supra-alar setae 2:3; three katepisternal setae; anatergite with three or more hair-like setae, often in a small tuft, or rarely bare; scutellar discal setae situated as wide apart as subapical scutellar setae. Wing vein R4+5 with 5-7 setulae dorsally, reaching from base almost to crossvein R-M. Abdomen (Fig. 32a): ground color dark brown-orange, with transverse marginal pollinose bands; gold pollinosity dorsally, silver ventrally; base of ST1+2 black lateroventrally; T3 with one pair of median marginal setae and one pair of discal setae; T4 with 1-2 pairs of discal setae. Terminalia: not examined.

Female (Fig. 32d, e, f). Length: 6mm. Fronto-orbital plate 1.7X as wide as in male.

Diagnosis

Calolydella susanaroibasae can be distinguished from all other species of Calolydella by the following combination of characters: fronto-orbital plate with a single row of fine setulae outside of frontal setae, thoracic pollinosity gold dorsally and on 50% of lateral surface, with outer two thoracic vittae twice as wide as inner two, anatergite with three or more hair-like setae arranged in a small tuft, and base of ST1+2 black lateroventrally.

Etymology

The specific epithet is in honor of Susana Roibas of Lexington, Kentucky, in recognition of her company "Sante-Traps" (http://www.santetraps.com), which has long supplied the world with Malaise traps and other kinds of insect traps, many of which have been used to collect ACG Tachinidae and other insects.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Alajuela Province, Rio Blanco Abajo, 500m.

Ecology

Calolydella susanaroibasae has been reared once from Isanthrene echemon Druce, 1884 ( Lepidoptera : Erebidae : Arctiinae), in rain forest.