Ostracocoelia mirabilis Giglio-Tos, 1893

Norrbom, Allen L., Sutton, Bruce D., Steck, Gary J. & Monzón, José, 2010, New genera, species and host plant records of Nearctic and Neotropical Tephritidae (Diptera) 2398, Zootaxa 2398, pp. 1-65 : 28-29

Ostracocoelia mirabilis Giglio-Tos

Ostracocoelia mirabilis Giglio-Tos 1893: 11 (Type ♀ (IMZ), Mexico; not examined).

Ceratitoedaspis palpalis Aczél 1953: 111 (Holotype ♂ (USNM), Guatemala: Yepocapa; examined). New synonymy. Ostracocoelia palpalis: Foote 1980: 39 .

Ceratitoedaspis palpalis Aczél is here considered a new junior synonym of O. mirabilis Giglio-Tos. Among the examined specimens there is variation in the size of the nonmicrotrichose shiny area on the anepisternum (generally smaller in Mexican specimens), the color of the anepisternal setulae (paler in some Mexican specimens), the size of the subapical marginal hyaline spot in cell r 2+3, and the subapical hyaline markings of cell

r 4+5 (usually absent or minute; longer and isolated in the two Chiapas specimens; connected to marginal spot in cell r 2+ 3 in one female from Zurquí, Costa Rica, which also has a tiny apical marginal spot in r 4+5), but all of these characters intergrade and all of the specimens examined appear to be conspecific.

Biology. One male was reared from an elongate, tapered stem gall on Ageratina mairetiana (DC.) R.M. King & H. Rob. ( Asteraceae : Eupatorieae ) at Angangueo, Michoacán, Mexico and a similar gall from which an adult had already eclosed was found near Huitzilac, Morelos. Noel Krauss also reared two adults of this species from stem galls on an undetermined plant in Morelos.

Material examined. COSTA RICA: [unspecified locality], 1920, P. Serre, 1♀ ( MNHNP) . Guanacaste: Parque Nacional Guanacaste, SW side Volcan Cacao, Estación Cacao , LN 323300 375700, 1000–1400 m, Sep 1989, R. Blanco & C. Chaves, 1♂ (INBio INBioCRI000027227) ; W side Volcan Orosi, Estación Maritza , LN 326900 373000, 600 m, Aug 1990, 1♂ (INBio INBioCRI000253548) ; 9 km S of Santa Cecilia, Estación Pitilla , LN 330200 380200, 700 m, 24 Aug–11 Sep 1992, P. Rios, 1♀ (INBio INBioCRI000831958) ; 6 km S Santa Cecilia, Finca Laoiciga , LN 332400 380400, 500 m, 6–28 Jan 1992, P. Rios, 1♂ (INBio INBioCRI001111267) ; Río Naranjo , 3 km SE of [10°40'N 85°4'W], 16–31 Aug 1993, F. D. Parker, 1♀ ( USU USNMENT00213119 ) ; same, 20–29 Nov. 1991, 1♀ ( USU USNMENT00213120 ) . San José: Zurquí de Moravia , 10°3'N 84°1'W, 1600 m, Malaise trap, May 1992, P. Hanson, 2♂ 1♀ ( USNM USNMENT00213282–84 ) ; same, Aug 1995, 2♀ ( USNM USNMENT00048618 , USNMENT00048629 ) , 1♂ 1♀ ( UCRSJ USNMENT00048623 , USNMENT00048630 ) ; same, Dec 1995, 1♀ (INBio). GUATEMALA: Chimaltenango: Yepocapa , Aug 1949, H. T. Dalmat, ♂ holotype of Ceratitoedaspis palpalis ( USNM USNMENT00213109 ) ; Huehuetenango: Sierra los Cuchumatanes, Aquacatán , ~ 3.75 km NE of, 15.36845°N 91.28866°W, 2210 m, oak forest, ovipositing on possibly Ageratina sp. , 6–8 Jun 2009, G. J. Steck, B. D. Sutton & J. Monzón, 1♀ ( FSCA) . MEXICO: Chiapas: Teopisca , 10 mi. E of, 2 May 1969, J. E. H. Martin, 1♂ ( CNC USNMENT00213117 ) ; Tuxtla Gutierrez, 1000 ft., 3 May 1959, H. E. Evans, 1♂ ( CUI USNMENT00212829 ) . Chihuahua: Sierra Madre Occidental, La Bufa, 4 Jul 1972, D. Giuliani, 1♂ ( CAS USNMENT00213110 ) . Distrito Federal: Mexico City, May 1917, R. Muller, 1♂ ( USNM USNMENT00213112 ) . Michoacán: Angangueo [19°37'N 100°18'W], 2–4 km N of, emerged 20 Apr 1992 reared ex elongate stem gall on Ageratina mairetiana (91M40) coll. 4–5 Sep 1991, A. L. Norrbom, 1♂ with gall ( USNM USNMENT00213118 ) . Morelos: Amecuzac , 5 km SW of, 1030 m, 21 Jun 1979, J. Butze, 1♂ ( CNC USNMENT00213115 ) ; Cuernavaca , Jun 1945, N. L. H. Krauss 348, 1♀ with puparium ( USNM USNMENT00213114 ) ; same, emerged May 1945 ex stem gall on undetermined plant collected Oct 1944, N. L. H. Krauss 276, 1♂ with puparium in opened gall ( USNM USNMENT00213113 ) ; Rt. 95 (libre), junction of road to Huitzilac (near Km 65) [19°0'N 99°15'30"W], ex elongate stem gall on Ageratina mairetiana (91M19), 24 Sep 1991, A. L. Norrbom, 1 puparium in gall ( USNM USNMENT00213108 ) . Oaxaca: Tejocates, Rt. 190, Km 491, 4 Aug 1965, Flint & Ortiz, 1♀ ( USNM USNMENT00213116 ) . Sinaloa: 36.6 mi. NE of Villa Union , near La Capilla Detaxte, 2 Jul 1982, 1♂ ( USNM USNMENT00213111 ) .