Twenty-two new species in the genus Hyphantrophaga Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, with a key to the species of Mesoamerica
Fleming, AJ
Wood, D. Monty
Smith, M. Alex
Dapkey, Tanya
Hallwachs, Winnie
Janzen, Daniel
Biodiversity Data Journal
2019
7
29553
29553
Aldrich, 1933
Aldrich
1933
Insecta
Tachinidae
Hyphantrophaga
CoL
Animalia
Hyphantrophaga myersi
Diptera
0
29553
Arthropoda
species
myersi
Materials Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: J.G. Myers; individualCount: 1; sex: male; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: Cat. No. 49789 U. S. N. M.; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagamyersi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Prophryno; specificEpithet: myersi; scientificNameAuthorship: (Aldrich, 1933); Location: continent: South America; country: Guyana (as British Guiana); stateProvince: Pakaraima (as Pakeraima); verbatimLocality: Upper Ireng River; Identification: identifiedBy: M. Wood; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Selenis suere Cramer [sic]; eventDate: March, 1931; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: BMNH; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0007460; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Osvaldo Espinoza; individualID: DHJPAR0007460; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAT232-06, 98-SRNP-6859, BOLD:AAA9858; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagamyersi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: myersi; scientificNameAuthorship: (Aldrich, 1933); Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector San Cristobal; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste; verbatimLocality: Estacion San Cristobal; verbatimElevation: 640; verbatimLatitude: 10.871; verbatimLongitude: -85.3914; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.871; decimalLongitude: -85.3914; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Portentomorphaxanthialis; verbatimEventDate: 30-Jul-1998; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0007445; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0007445; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAT217-06, 03-SRNP-13817, BOLD:AAA9858; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagamyersi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: myersi; scientificNameAuthorship: (Aldrich, 1933); Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Horizontes; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste; verbatimLocality: Bejuco; verbatimElevation: 180; verbatimLatitude: 10.7671; verbatimLongitude: -85.5966; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.7671; decimalLongitude: -85.5966; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Portentomorphaxanthialis; verbatimEventDate: 24-Jul-2003; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0007447; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Jose Cortez; individualID: DHJPAR0007447; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAT219-06, 03-SRNP-13919, BOLD:AAA9858; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagamyersi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: myersi; scientificNameAuthorship: (Aldrich, 1933); Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Horizontes; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste; verbatimLocality: Bejuco; verbatimElevation: 180; verbatimLatitude: 10.7671; verbatimLongitude: -85.5966; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.7671; decimalLongitude: -85.5966; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Portentomorphaxanthialis; verbatimEventDate: 26-Jul-2003; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0007461; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Osvaldo Espinoza; individualID: DHJPAR0007461; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAT233-06, 98-SRNP-6878, BOLD:AAA9858; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagamyersi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: myersi; scientificNameAuthorship: (Aldrich, 1933); Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector San Cristobal; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste; verbatimLocality: Estacion San Cristobal; verbatimElevation: 640; verbatimLatitude: 10.871; verbatimLongitude: -85.3914; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.871; decimalLongitude: -85.3914; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Hoterodesausonia; verbatimEventDate: 28-Jul-1998; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0007450; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0007450; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAT222-06, 03-SRNP-13852, BOLD:AAA9858; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagamyersi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: myersi; scientificNameAuthorship: (Aldrich, 1933); Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Horizontes; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste; verbatimLocality: Bejuco; verbatimElevation: 180; verbatimLatitude: 10.7671; verbatimLongitude: -85.5966; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.7671; decimalLongitude: -85.5966; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Portentomorphaxanthialis; verbatimEventDate: 26-Jul-2003; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen
Description Male (Fig. 21). Length: 5-7 mm. Head (Fig. 21b): vertex 1/3 of head width; two reclinate upper orbital setae; ocellar setae arising slightly behind anterior ocellus; ocellar triangle gold, concolorous with fronto-orbital plate; fronto-orbital plate entirely gold and sparsely setulose throughout, setulae not reaching below lowest frontal seta; parafacial shiny silver and bare; facial ridge setose along its entire length; eye with short sparse ommatrichia up to 2X as long as one ommatidium; pedicel light brown; postpedicel black; arista brown, bare, distinctly thickened on basal 1/3-1/4; palpus dark amber yellow and haired. Thorax (Fig. 21a, c): pale brassy-silver tomentose dorsally, grey tomentose laterally; four prominent dorsal vittae, outermost two slightly broken across suture, innermost pair unbroken across suture, reaching 2nd postsutural dorsocentral seta; postpronotum with 3-4 setae arranged in a triangle; chaetotaxy: acrostichal setae 3:3; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 3-4:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; three katepisternal setae; lateral scutellar setae shorter than subapical scutellar setae; apical scutellar setae curving inwards medially and slightly upturned so as to rise above the plane of remaining scutellar setae; one pair of discal scutellar setae; scutellum slightly darker and grey along basal 3/4, apically concolorous with scutum. Legs (Fig. 21c): femora and coxae black in ground colour; tibiae yellow in ground colour, densely covered in short black hairs, appearing darkened, almost black; fore femur with dense silver tomentum on posterodorsal surface; hind coxa with a single seta along posterior margin. Wing (Fig. 21a): pale translucent, hyaline, not distinctly infuscate; vein R4+5 with only two setulae at base. Abdomen (Fig. 21a, c): ground colour black; mid-dorsal depression on ST1+2 extending only halfway across tergite; median marginal setae absent on ST1+2 and weak on T3; T4-T5 with a complete row of marginal setae; discal setae absent on all tergites; sex patch covering ventral surfaces of T4-T5; dorsal surface of abdomen covered in brassy-silver tomentum on ST1+2-T4; T5 with brilliant gold tomentum over its entirety. Terminalia: sternite 5 (Fig. 21f) with a deeply excavated median cleft, rounded U-shaped, inner margins covered in dense tomentum. Lateral lobes of sternite rounded apically, with 2-3 strong setae surrounded by 2-3 shorter, weaker setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5 from subequal to slightly longer than apical lobes, unsclerotised "window" rectangular, 1/2 as wide as median cleft and slightly convex. Cerci in posterior view (Fig. 21d) slightly rectangular, shorter than surstyli, blunt and rounded at apex, fused along basal 2/3, separating medially along apical 1/3; in lateral view with a strong downward curve in apical 1/3; densely setulose along basal 2/3 dorsally, setulose ventrally along entire length (visible in lateral view). Surstylus in lateral view (Fig. 21e) almost parallel-sided along its length, rounded at tip; surstylus appearing to be fused with epandrium; when viewed dorsally, surstyli appearing slender and straight, not strongly convergent. Pregonite broad and well-developed, bent medially, apically rounded, devoid of setulae. Postgonite elongate, slender, very slightly hooked at tip, subequal in length to pregonite. Distiphallus vaguely cone-shaped, could be seen as rectangular, weakly flaring apically, with a slender median longitudinal sclerotised reinforcement on its posterior surface and a broad, anterolateral, sclerotised acrophallus on each side, joining the plate of opposite side on anterior surface near apex. Female. Length: 5-7 mm. As male, differing only by the presence of two pairs of proclinate orbital setae.
Diagnosis Hyphantrophaga myersi(Aldrich) can be distinguished from all other Hyphantrophagaspecies by the following combination of traits: facial ridge with stout setae along entire length and sternite 5 distinctly golden tomentose.
Distribution Neotropical species recorded from South America: Guyana, Venezuela; Lesser Antilles: Trinidad & Tobago; and Mesoamerica: Costa Rica, ACG (Provinces of Alajuela and Guanacaste), 180-640 m elevation.
Ecology Hyphantrophaga myersihas been reared 43 times within the ACG inventory from eight species of Lepidoptera, six in the family Erebidae( Renodes curviluna(Druce, 1890), Anomis illita Guenee, 1852, Anomis luridula Guenee, 1852, Eulepidotis folium(Schaus, 1911), Helia sueroides( Guenee, 1852) and Dysschema lycaste(Klug, 1836)); and two in the family Geometridae( Semiothisasp. and geoJanzen01 Janzen17), in rain forest, dry forest and dry-rain lowland intergrade.
March, 1931
Reared from the larva of the Selenis suere Cramer [sic]
BMNH, Insects
J. G. Myers
Guyana (as British Guiana)
Guyana (as British Guiana)
0
29553
1
1
Holotype
1998-07-30
Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Portentomorphaxanthialis
CNC, Insects
D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Osvaldo Espinoza
Costa Rica
10.871
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
-85.3914
0
29553
DHJPAR 0007460
1
1
Other material
2003-07-24
Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Portentomorphaxanthialis
CNC, Insects
D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira
Costa Rica
10.7671
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
-85.5966
0
29553
DHJPAR 0007445
1
1
Other material
2003-07-26
Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Portentomorphaxanthialis
CNC, Insects
D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Jose Cortez
Costa Rica
10.7671
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
-85.5966
0
29553
DHJPAR 0007447
1
1
Other material
1998-07-28
Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Hoterodesausonia
CNC, Insects
D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Osvaldo Espinoza
Costa Rica
10.871
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
-85.3914
0
29553
DHJPAR 0007461
1
1
Other material
2003-07-26
Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Portentomorphaxanthialis
CNC, Insects
D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira
Costa Rica
10.7671
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
-85.5966
0
29553
DHJPAR 0007450
1
1
Other material