Metaplagia svetlanakozikae 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 svetlanakozikae Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018732 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1379-07| 01-SRNP-13896| BOLD:AAD5456; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia svetlanakozikae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: svetlanakozikae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Vado Rio Calera ; verbatimElevation: 10; verbatimLatitude: 10.8027; verbatimLongitude: -85.6742; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Agrius cingulata; verbatimEventDate: 12-Nov-2001; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018721 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1368-07| 98-SRNP-8103| BOLD:AAD5456; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia svetlanakozikae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: svetlanakozikae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Costa Rica ; verbatimElevation: 275; verbatimLatitude: 10.8274; verbatimLongitude: -85.6365; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Agrius cingulata; verbatimEventDate: 06-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018722 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1369-07| 98-SRNP-8104| BOLD:AAD5456; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia svetlanakozikae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: svetlanakozikae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Costa Rica ; verbatimElevation: 275; verbatimLatitude: 10.8274; verbatimLongitude: -85.6365; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Agrius cingulata; verbatimEventDate: 08-Jun-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018723 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1370-07| 98-SRNP-8248| BOLD:AAD5456; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia svetlanakozikae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: svetlanakozikae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Costa Rica ; verbatimElevation: 275; verbatimLatitude: 10.8274; verbatimLongitude: -85.6365; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Agrius cingulata; verbatimEventDate: 10-Jul-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018630 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1277-07| 98-SRNP-8104| BOLD:AAE2876; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia svetlanakozikae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: svetlanakozikae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Costa Rica ; verbatimElevation: 275; verbatimLatitude: 10.8274; verbatimLongitude: -85.6365; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Agrius cingulata; verbatimEventDate: 08-Jun-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018733 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1380-07| 01-SRNP-14594| BOLD:AAD5456; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia svetlanakozikae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: svetlanakozikae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Cafetal ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 10.8583; verbatimLongitude: -85.6109; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Agrius cingulata; verbatimEventDate: 29-May-2002; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018734 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1381-07| 01-SRNP-13896| BOLD:AAD5456; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia svetlanakozikae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: svetlanakozikae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Vado Rio Calera ; verbatimElevation: 10; verbatimLatitude: 10.8027; verbatimLongitude: -85.6742; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Agrius cingulata; verbatimEventDate: 12-Nov-2001; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018735 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1382-07| 01-SRNP-13896| BOLD:AAD5456; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia svetlanakozikae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: svetlanakozikae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Vado Rio Calera ; verbatimElevation: 10; verbatimLatitude: 10.8027; verbatimLongitude: -85.6742; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Agrius cingulata; verbatimEventDate: 12-Nov-2001; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Male (Fig. 12), head (Fig. 12 c, d): fronto-orbital plate wide, coloration silver with pale brassy tomentum over uppermost 10%, appearing as pale brassy gold along upper 25% of occipital margin of eye; vitta wide, 1/3 width of fronto-orbital plate; ocellar setae lateraloclinate with a slight proclinate skew; with 3 proclinate orbital setae (middle proclinate orbital seta shorter and thinner than the other two) and 1 reclinate (often outwardly lateraloclinate) orbital seta; fronto-orbital plate with a sparse vestiture of short black setulae interspersed amongst frontal setae; fronto-orbital setulae not extending below pedicel; parafacial wholly silver tomentose, upper 1/3 of parafacial with small grouping of short black setulae in line with frontal setae, but separated from fronto-orbital plate; palps very slightly spathulate at tips, apically acutely inwardly curved, sparsely setulose along ventral surface, inner and upper surfaces appearing bare; arista dark brown-black. Thorax (Fig. 12 a, b): black ground color with pale grey tomentum, brassy tones can occur under certain light; 4 postpronotal setae, anteriormost seta thin and weak almost hair-like; 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 2/3 length of 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 as long as last tarsomere. Wings: R1 bare, R4+5 setulose from node to crossvein r-m. Abdomen (Fig. 12 a, b): ground color black; ST1+2 glabrous black, pale silver tomentum occupying anterior 75% of T3 and T4, T5 pale brassy-grey tomentose over entirety; tomentum extending to ventral surface of abdomen, but not completely; median marginal setae present on T3 and complete rows on T4 and T5.

Terminalia (Fig. 13): posterior margin of sternite 5 with a deeply excavated U-shaped median cleft (Fig. 13 d); lateral lobes of sternite apically rounded, with a vestiture of short setae along disc, 2x as long along caudal margin; basal section 1/2 the length of apical lobes. Cerci, in posterior view, sharply pointed and slightly medially separated and parallel, almost touching medially, with a few short setae on basal half (Fig. 13 a). In lateral view, curved and sharply tapered apically (Fig. 13 b). Surstylus well-developed, stout basally in lateral view, broadly rounded; in posterior view, basally enlarged and apically straight.

Female (Fig. 14) as in male, except in the following aspects: head (Fig. 14 c, d): fronto-orbital wider than males, just over 1/2 of head width entirely bright silver tomentose, frontal vitta 2/5 width of fronto-orbital plate; overall head of females 1.5x wider than that of males; legs (Fig. 14 b): mid-tibia with 3-4 irregularly-sized strong anteroventral setae.

Diagnosis

Metaplagia svetlanakozikae 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 rounded at tip. Metaplagia svetlanakozikae sp. n. can be separated from Metaplagia occidentalis by the presence of infrasquamal setae and from Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. by the presence of a small circular formation of setulae on the parafacial and not distinct row of setulae along the facial ridge. Metaplagia svetlanakozikae sp. n. is clearly distinguished by its COI sequence clustered within the Barcode Identification Number (BIN) BOLD:AAD5456.

Etymology

Metaplagia svetlanakozikae sp. n. is named in honor of Svetlana Kozik for her 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, 10-280 m elevation.

Ecology

Metaplagia svetlanakozikae sp. n. has been reared seven times from one species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae : Agrius cingulata , in dry forest.