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 interrupta Fleming & Wood
sp. n.
Materials
Type status:
Holotype
. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber:
DHJPAR0029598
; recordedBy:
D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Dunia Garcia
; individualID: DHJPAR0029598; individualCount:
1
; sex:
M
; lifeStage:
adult
; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 08-SRNP-36564, BOLD:AAW8657, ASHYM1019-09; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellainterrupta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: interrupta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country:
Costa Rica
; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Cacao; locality:
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
; verbatimLocality: Sendero Arenales; verbatimElevation:
1080
; verbatimLatitude: 10.9247; verbatimLongitude: -85.4674; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy:
AJ Fleming
; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol:
Reared from the larva of the limacodid moth, Achariaophelians
; verbatimEventDate:
17-Sep-2008
; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode:
CNC
; collectionCode:
Insects
; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen
Type status:
Paratype
. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber:
08-SRNP-36564
; recordedBy:
D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Dunia Garcia
; individualID: 08-SRNP-36564; individualCount:
1, sibling of holotype
; sex:
F
; lifeStage:
adult
; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 08-SRNP-36564; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellainterrupta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: interrupta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country:
Costa Rica
; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Cacao; locality:
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
; verbatimLocality: Sendero Arenales; verbatimElevation:
1080
; verbatimLatitude: 10.9247; verbatimLongitude: -85.4674; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy:
AJ Fleming
; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol:
Reared from the larva of the limacodid moth, Achariaophelians
; verbatimEventDate:
17-Sep-2008
; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode:
CNC
; collectionCode:
Insects
; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen
Description
Male (Fig. 23a, b, c). Length: 8mm. Head (Fig. 23b): frontal setae extending to base of postpedicel; fronto-orbital plate gold, ranging from bare to almost bare; parafacial silver along lower half. Thorax (Fig. 23a, c): gold on dorsal surface, silver laterally (>50% coverage); with two bold thoracic vittae; postpronotum with three setae; 2:3 acrostichal setae; 2:3 dorsocentral setae; 2:3 intra-alar setae; 1:3 supra-alar setae; three katepisternal setae; anatergite with three or more hair-like setae, often in a small tuft; scutellar discal setae slightly closer together than subapical scutellar setae. Wing vein R4+5 with 2-4 setulae dorsally, confined to base of wing vein, not extending up to crossvein R-M. Abdomen (Fig. 23a): ground color dark orange, with a median dark stripe breaking up pollinose marginal banding; abdominal pollinosity gold dorsally, silver ventrally; base of ST1+2 black lateroventrally, mostly gold pollinose dorsally; T3 with a row of marginal setae and one pair of discal setae; T4 with one pair of discal setae. Terminalia: not examined.
Female (Fig. 23d, e, f). Length: 6mm. Fronto-orbital plate 2X as wide as in male.
Diagnosis
Calolydella interrupta
can be distinguished from all other species of
Calolydella
by the following combination of traits: parafacial at least 50% silver pollinose, two bold thoracic vittae, abdominal pollinosity interrupted by median stripe, anatergite with three or more setae arranged in a small tuft, and T3 with a complete row of marginal setae.
Etymology
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin adjective "interruptum", meaning breach or interruption, in reference to dark median stripe breaking up the gold marginal pollinosity on the abdomen of this species.
Distribution
Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, Sendero Arenales 1080m.
Ecology
Calolydella interrupta
has been reared once from
Acharia ophelians
(Dyar, 1927) (
Lepidoptera
:
Limacodidae
), in cloud forest.