Calolydella felipechavarriai 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 felipechavarriai Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0050491 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Keiner Aragon; individualID: DHJPAR0050491; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 12-SRNP-79033, BOLD:ACJ3769, ACGBA3083-13; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellafelipechavarriai; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: felipechavarriai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Palomo; verbatimElevation: 96; verbatimLatitude: 10.9619; verbatimLongitude: -85.2804; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the notodontid moth, Disphragis perses; verbatimEventDate: 08-Jan-2013; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0050489 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Keiner Aragon; individualID: DHJPAR0050489; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 12-SRNP-79034, BOLD:ACJ3769, ACGBA3081-13; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellafelipechavarriai; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: felipechavarriai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Palomo; verbatimElevation: 96; verbatimLatitude: 10.9619; verbatimLongitude: -85.2804; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the notodontid moth, Disphragis perses; verbatimEventDate: 10-Jan-2013; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: 12-SRNP-79034 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Keiner Aragon; individualID: 12-SRNP-79034; individualCount: 3; sex: 1M, F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 12-SRNP-79034, BOLD:ACJ3769, ACGBA3081-13; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellafelipechavarriai; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: felipechavarriai; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Palomo; verbatimElevation: 96; verbatimLatitude: 10.9619; verbatimLongitude: -85.2804; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the notodontid moth, Disphragis perses; verbatimEventDate: 10-Jan-2013; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 17a, b, c). Length: 4-6mm. Head (Fig. 17b): frontal setae extending beyond base of postpedicel; fronto-orbital plate gold, almost bare, with a few small setulae interspersed among frontal setae; parafacial silver throughout. Thorax (Fig. 17a, c): gold on dorsal surface, silver laterally (>50% coverage); with four regular thoracic vittae; postpronotum with three setae; 3:3 acrostichal setae; 2:3 dorsocentral setae; 2:3 intra-alar setae; 2:3 supra-alar setae 2:3; three katepisternal setae; anatergite with two hair-like setae; scutellar discal setae slightly closer together than subapical scutellar setae. Wing vein R4+5 with 6-7 small setulae dorsally, extending to crossvein R-M. Abdomen (Fig. 17a): black in ground color, with uninterrupted transverse marginal pollinose bands; abdominal pollinosity gold 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 one pair of discal setae. Terminalia (Fig. 18): sternite 5 (Fig. 18c) with two small lobes and a wide U-shaped median cleft, 0.31X the length of the sternite from lobe to apex; inner margin covered by dense pollinosity, appearing darker than surrounding cuticle; upper half of sternite with many stout, outwardly-pointing setae. Cerci (Fig. 18b), in dorsal view, separated by a narrow gap; each cercus long and rounded, and not significantly tapering from base to tip; cercus straight when viewed laterally, with a slight downward hook at its tip, setose almost along its entire length. Surstylus (Fig. 18a) stout and digitiform, bent midway, with a strong downward bias; apical half with short setae; tip of surstylus not lobed or angled inwards when viewed dorsally; subequal in length to cercus.

Female (Fig. 17d, e, f). Length: 4-5mm. Fronto-orbital plate 1.36X as wide as in male.

Diagnosis

Calolydella felipechavarriai can be distinguished from all other species of Calolydella by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate almost bare, anatergite with at most two hair-like setae, and T4 with one pair of discal setae.

Etymology

The specific epithet is in honor of Luis Felipe Chavarria Diaz of ACG, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, in recognition of his high quality accounting, photography and administrative support of the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund (www.gdfcf.org) and of the ACG parataxonomists who collected and reared the caterpillars from which the new species of ACG Calolydella described here emerged.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Alajuela Province, Palomo, 96m.

Ecology

Calolydella felipechavarriai has been reared twice from Bardaxima perses Druce, 1900 ( Lepidoptera : Notodontidae ), in rain forest.