Revison of Metaplagia Coquillett (Diptera: Tachinidae) with description of five new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica Author Fleming, AJ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0943-8047 Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada ajfleming604@gmail.com Author Wood, D. Monty Agriculture Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada Author Smith, M. Alex https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8650-2575 University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada Author Hallwachs, Winnie Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America Author Janzen, Daniel Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-07-29 9 68598 68598 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e68598 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e68598 1314-2828-9-e68598 2085FED09C5346EBB8ACBFD99139FC69 6B9318E9557C538BA728F43A4DB85C45 Metaplagia lindarobinsonae Fleming & Wood sp. n. Materials Type status: Holotype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059091 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: Male ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5508-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018642 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & gusaneros ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1289-07| 94-SRNP-3161| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03 ; verbatimEventDate: 21-Jun-1994 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018643 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & gusaneros ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1290-07| 94-SRNP-3160| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03 ; verbatimEventDate: 30-Jun-1994 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018644 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & gusaneros ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: Female ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1291-07| 89-SRNP-173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Pocosol ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Quebrada Aserradero ; verbatimElevation: 160 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8986; verbatimLongitude: -85.5642; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03 ; verbatimEventDate: 22-May-1990 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018645 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & gusaneros ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1292-07| 89-SRNP-173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Pocosol ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Quebrada Aserradero ; verbatimElevation: 160 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8986; verbatimLongitude: -85.5642; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03 ; verbatimEventDate: 22-May-1990 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0019809 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira ; individualCount: 1 ; sex: Male ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAB357-07| 06-SRNP-17663| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Horizontes ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Vado Esperanza ; verbatimElevation: 85 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.7894; verbatimLongitude: -85.551; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ02 ; verbatimEventDate: 04-Jun-2007 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059089 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5506-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059090 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5507-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018641 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & gusaneros ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1288-07| 94-SRNP-3160| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sextaDHJ03 ; verbatimEventDate: 30-Jun-1994 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059092 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5509-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059093 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5510-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059094 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5511-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059095 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5512-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059096 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5513-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059097 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5514-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059098 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5515-16| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059440 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Winnie Hallwachs ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5857-16| 16-SRNP-10201| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 22-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0060750 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA7171-17| 16-SRNP-10172| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: May-2017 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype . Occurrence : catalogNumber: DHJPAR0060751 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen , W. Hallwachs & Toby Hammer ; individualCount: 1 ; lifeStage: adult ; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA7172-17| 16-SRNP-10173| BOLD:AAD5563; Taxon : scientificName: Metaplagia lindarobinsonae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: lindarobinsonae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood , 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste ; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste , Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295 ; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming ; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca sexta ; verbatimEventDate: 15-Jun-2016 ; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Description Male (Fig. 5 ), head (Fig. 5 c , d ): fronto-orbital plate wide, coloration silver to pale grey; vitta wide, 1/3 width of fronto-orbital plate ocellar setae lateraloclinate with a slight proclinate skew; with 3-4 proclinate orbital setae (middle proclinate orbital seta most often shorter and thinner than the other two) and 1 reclinate orbital seta fronto-orbital plate with short black setulae interspersed amongst frontal setae; fronto-orbital setulae extending below lower margin of pedicel, well into angle of parafacial; parafacial wholly silver tomentose with a distinct row of parafacial setulae along inner margin of parafacial approaching facial ridge, seemingly continuous with fronto-orbital setulae; palps either slightly spathulate at tips, apically acutely inwardly curved, extremely sparsely setulose along inner margin, remainder appearing bare; arista dark brown-black. Thorax (Fig. 5 a , b ): black ground color with pale grey tomentum; 3-4 postpronotal setae; 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 subequal in length to 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 shorter than last tarsomere. Wings: R1 bare, R4+5 setulose from node up to, but not beyond, crossvein r-m. Abdomen (Fig. 5 a , b ): ground color black; ST1+2 glabrous black, pale silver tomentum occupying anterior 50% of T3-T5; tomentum not extending to ventral surface of abdomen; median marginal setae present on T3, and complete rows on T4 and T5. Terminalia (Fig. 6 ): posterior margin of sternite 5 with a deep and narrow excavated U-shaped median cleft (Fig. 6 d ); lateral lobes of sternite apically rounded, with a vestiture of short setae along disc, 3x as long along caudal margin; basal section 1/3 the length of apical lobes. Cerci, in posterior view, medially separated and parallel not touching medially, with a few short setae on basal half (Fig. 6 a ); in lateral view, bowed and sharply tapered to a point apically (Fig. 6 b , c ). Surstylus well-developed, stout basally in lateral view, rounded basally and appearing hooked or slightly beaked apically; in posterior view, basally enlarged and apically straight. Female (Fig. 7 ) as in male, except in the following aspects: head (Fig. 7 c , d ): fronto-orbital just under 1/2 of head width, vitta 1/3 width of fronto-orbital plate; overall head of females 1/5 wider than that of males; legs (Fig. 7 b ): mid-tibia with 3-4 irregularly-sized strong anteroventral setae. Diagnosis Metaplagia lindarobinsonae 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 sharp at tip. Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. can be separated from Metaplagia occidentalis by the presence of infrasquamal setae and from Metaplagia svetlanakozikae sp. n. by the presence of a distinct row of setulae along the facial ridge. Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. is clearly distinguished by its COI sequence clustered within the Barcode Identification Number (BIN) BOLD:AAD5563. Etymology Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. is named in honor of Linda Robinson for her many 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, 85-300 m elevation. Ecology Metaplagia lindarobinsonae sp. n. has been reared 17 times from two species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae : Manduca sexta (Linnaeus, 1763), Manduca sexta DHJ02 and Manduca sexta DHJ03, in dry forest.