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
Author
Fleming, AJ
Author
Wood, D. Monty
Author
Smith, M. Alex
Author
Hallwachs, Winnie
Author
Janzen, Daniel H
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2018
6
11223
11223
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e11223
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e11223
1314-2828--11223
Calolydella bicolor Fleming & Wood
sp. n.
Materials
Type status:
Holotype
. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber:
DHJPAR0054050
; recordedBy:
D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Sebastian Kleppe
; individualID: DHJPAR0054050; individualCount:
1
; sex:
F
; lifeStage:
adult
; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 13-SRNP-31573, BOLD:ACM2409, ASHYD3218-14; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellabicolor; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: bicolor; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country:
Costa Rica
; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality:
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
; verbatimLocality: Sendero Bernales; verbatimElevation:
660
; verbatimLatitude: 10.9835; verbatimLongitude: -85.4212; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy:
AJ Fleming
; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol:
Reared from the larva of the nymphalid butterfly, Callicorelyca
; verbatimEventDate:
26-Nov-2013
; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode:
CNC
; collectionCode:
Insects
; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen
Description
Female (Fig. 6a, b, c). Length: 7mm. Head (Fig. 6b): frontal setae extending to base of postpedicel; fronto-orbital plate gold throughout, ranging from bare to almost bare; parafacial silver throughout. Thorax (Fig. 6a, c): gold on dorsal surface, silver laterally (>50% coverage); vittae fused into two prominent dark stripes; postpronotum with three setae; 3:3 acrostichal setae; 2:3 dorsocentral setae; 1:3 intra-alar setae; 2:3 supra-alar setae; three katepisternal setae; anatergite with three or more hair-like setae, often in a small tuft; scutellar discal setae situated slightly closer together than subapical scutellar setae. Wing vein R4+5 with at most 2-3 setulae dorsally at base, not extending to crossvein R-M. Abdomen (Fig. 6a): ground color orange-yellow, with median dark stripe breaking up pollinose marginal banding; abdominal pollinosity gold dorsally, silver ventrally; base of ST1+2 black lateroventrally; T3 with a row of marginal setae and one pair of discal setae; T4 with one pair of discal setae.
Male: not known at this time.
Diagnosis
Calolydella bicolor
can be distinguished from all other species of
Calolydella
by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate entirely gold, parafacial entirely silver, anatergite with three or more hair-like setae, and gold abdominal pollinose bands interrupted by a median dark stripe.
Etymology
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin adjective "
bicolor
", meaning two-toned, in reference to its gold fronto-orbital plate and silver parafacial.
Distribution
Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, Sendero
Bernales
, 660m.
Ecology
Calolydella bicolor
has been reared once from
Callicore lyca
(Doubleday, 1847) (
Lepidoptera
:
Nymphalidae
), in rain forest.