A revolutionary protocol to describe understudied hyperdiverse taxa and overcome the taxonomic impediment
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Meierotto, Sarah
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Sharkey, Michael J.
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Janzen, Daniel H.
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Hallwachs, Winnie
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Hebert, Paul D. N.
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Chapman, Eric G.
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Smith, M. Alex
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Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
2019
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119
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.66.34683
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.66.34683
1860-1324-2-119
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Zelomorpha donwindsori Meierotto
sp. nov.
Figure 6
Molecular diagnosis.
Nucleotides: 78 A, 213 C, 243 A, 390 G, 429 G, 456 G, 506-507 CT, 513 T, 585 G, 588 G, 603 C, 636 C, 660 G, 678-679 TG
Biology.
The two specimens of this species were reared from caterpillars in the
Euteliidae
,
Paectes lunodes
feeding on very young leaves of
Ocotea veraguensis
(
Lauraceae
) and
Paectes fuscescens
feeding on young leaves of the introduced species
Anacardium occidentale
(
Anacardiaceae
). Host caterpillars were collected in November and July.
Figure 6. Lateral image of
Zelomorpha donwindsori
holotype female.
Type material.
Holotype ♀: DHJPAR0048721 (ACGBA2263-12), Costa Rica,
Area
de
Conservacion
Guanacaste, Sector El Hacha, Los Almendros, GPS:
11.03226
,
-85.52776
, 290 m elevation, Elieth Cantillano coll., reared from
Paectes fuscescens
11-SRNP-23258, host collected 15 November 2011, wasp eclosed 9 January 2012, (EMUS). Paratype: DHJPAR0052679 (ASHYM2033-13).
Etymology.
Zelomorpha donwindsori
is named in honor of Don Windsor of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, a master taxonomist in
Chrysomelidae
who also contributed to the early development of ACG. The timbers from his original house are part of an ACG caterpillar rearing barn.