Belvosia jorgehernandezi Fleming & Woodley, 2023

Fleming, AJ, Woodley, Norman, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H, 2023, Revision of Belvosia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) and 33 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to known North and Mesoamerican species, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103667-103667 : 103667

Belvosia jorgehernandezi Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001288 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0001288; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC129-05, 00-SRNP-9157, BOLD:AER5028; occurrenceID: 932FA7FD-A8B1-5EFE-B74D-B5A8637046FC; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia jorgehernandezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: jorgehernandezi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Cacao ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Cacao ; verbatimElevation: 1150; verbatimLatitude: 10.9269; verbatimLongitude: -85.4682; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.9269; decimalLongitude: -85.4682; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Xylophanes tersa; verbatimEventDate: 25-Apr-2000; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0054963 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Calixto Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0054963; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYH1510-14, 14-SRNP-30163, BOLD:AER5028; occurrenceID: 2BB19429-0D05-587E-85EF-3DB40A705502; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia jorgehernandezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: jorgehernandezi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Carica ; verbatimElevation: 660; verbatimLatitude: 10.9928; verbatimLongitude: -85.4294; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.9928; decimalLongitude: -85.4294; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Xylophanes tersa; verbatimEventDate: 02-Apr-2014; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0059127 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Cirilo Umana; individualID: DHJPAR0059127; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA5544-16, 16-SRNP-75211, BOLD:AER5028; occurrenceID: 288976BE-F80B-5AA5-B34D-BE89FD0B7D8A; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia jorgehernandezi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: jorgehernandezi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Finca Esmeralda ; verbatimElevation: 123; verbatimLatitude: 10.9355; verbatimLongitude: -85.2531; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.9355; decimalLongitude: -85.2531; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Xylophanes cthulhu; verbatimEventDate: 28-Mar-2016; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 58), length: 14-16mm. Head: head slightly wider than thorax; vertex 1/3 head width; gena 1/4 of head height, 1/3 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate light black in ground color, lightly covered with gray tomentum giving majority of the plate a glabrous dark gray sheen transitioning to silver; ocellar setae absent at most several hair-like setulae present on ocellar triangle; reclinate orbital seta absent; two rows of frontal setae, black setulae intermingled with setae. Parafacial dark yellow in ground color, densely covered in silver tomentum making the entire surface reflective brilliant silver appearance; bare overall, except for a small number of setulae extending just below lowest frontal setae; facial ridge setose along 1/2 of its length, with a few sparse hair-like setulae emerging along outer edge of row; gena covered in black setulae. Antenna, pedicel black, concolorous with postpedicel; postpedicel, 2X as long as pedicel; arista bare distinctly-thickened on basal 4/5 almost to tip. Palps, yellow-orange throughout and densely covered in short black setulae; slightly clubbed, but gradually tapering to a slight point apically. Thorax: black ground color, transition to dark burnt orange adjadcent to scutellem with light gray tomentum throughout, when viewed dorsally tomentum appears thinner postsuturally, bronze tomentum on the postalar callosity; scutellum appearing reddish-black to the naked eye, under microscope bronze tomentum becomes apparent when view on an oblique caudal angle; scutum with four dorsal vittae, becoming more evident under certain angles of light, these broken at suture; lateral surface of thorax densely covered in long black hair-like setulae; chaetotaxy: 3 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line, acrostichal setae 3:4 often with 2 extra setae appearing just adjacent to acrostichal setae; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 3:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; 4-6 katepisternal setae; scutellum, with 5-6 pairs of long flat marginal setae of subequal length; apical setae absent; complete row of scutellar discal setae just posterior to marginal setae. Wing: strongly infuscate, slightly orange at wing base, black basicosta, with some orange along posterior margin; both upper and lower calypters also infuscate concolorous with remainder of wing; wing vein R4+5 setose, bearing only 2-3 setulae at base; halteres orange stalk with dark black/brown capitulum. Legs: black overall, coxa on midleg and hindleg with a few reddish-yellow setulae; tarsal claws yellow with black tips, with yellow pulvilli 2/3 length of tarsal claws; anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia fringelike, formed by a very regular row of uniformly sized setae separated from each other by less than the width of their socket. Abdomen: globose, with dark burgundy-black ground color; abdominal tomentosity on T3 bronze confined to the anterior margin of the tergite, at most anterior 10% of surface, T4 with gold tomentosity over anterior 50-60% of tergite, T5 densely gold tomentose on 95% of surface absent along posterior 5%, which appears as glabrous black; middorsal depression on ST1+2 reaching to hind margin of tergite, median marginal setae present on ST1+2 wide set, T3 with 1 pair of median marginal setae, and complete rows of marginal setae on T4 and T5; ventral surfaces of T3-T4 with clearly defined sex-patches extending from underside of tergite to lateral surface.

Male terminalia (Fig. 59): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, Y-shaped, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes rounded apically, either bare, with multiple strong setae surrounded by many shorter weaker setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5, 1/2 length of posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate of sternite 5 subrectangular directly basal to posterior lobes, slightly umbonate convex on anterior edge, and a slight upcurve at lateral apices. Cerci in posterior view sharply pointed triangular with a narrow base, length to tips 1.8X basal with, slightly longer than sursyli; apically pointed, separate along anterior 1/2. Cerci in lateral view, with a strong anterior curve on apex, thickened basally tapering to apex; cerci densely setose along basal 2/3rds. Surstylus in lateral view, almost equilateral along its length with no definitive curvature, digitiform; surstylus appearing to be separate and not fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli straight. Pregonite broad, well-developed, apically squared off, with one setula along margin. Postgonite, slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, sharply pointed and curved at apex. Distiphallus cone-shaped, with a slender median longitudinal sclerotized reinforcement on its posterior surface and a broad, anterolateral, sclerotized acrophallus, on anterior surface near apex, ~1.4X as long as basiphallus; epiphallus when visible, short and rounded, appearing as a small hump on dorsal surface of basiphallus.

Female (Fig. 60) length: 14-16mm, overall morphology as in male differing in the following traits: Head: fronto-orbital plate dull gray, sometimes appearing devoid of tomentum along vertex, bearing 4-6 pairs of proclinate orbital setae in addition to 1-2 pairs of reclinate orbital setae. Thorax: Thoracic chaetotaxy: acrostichal setae 3:4; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 2:3; supra-alar setae 2:3. Abdomen: larger and more flattened than males, setulae on abdomen not as dense appearing far less hirsute than male abdomen; differing in terminalia, T3 with traces of gold tomentum directly posterior to tergite ST1+2, and T4 and T5 bearing gold tomentum throughout including ventral surface.

Diagnosis

Belvosia jorgehernandezi sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate pale silver gray, gena 1/3 of eye height, post sutural scutum mostly silver, both calypters dark, black basicosta, anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia fringelike, and apex of T5 black tomentose.

Etymology

Belvosia jorgehernandezi sp. n, is named in honor of Sr. Jorge Hernandez in recognition of his decades of being part of the Parataxonomist Program of Area de Conservación Guanacaste (http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr) in northwestern Costa Rica ( Janzen and Hallwachs 2011). Interim species-specific name included in previously circulating databases and publications, Belvosia Woodley07F.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Alajuela Province, 2-1150m elevation.

Ecology

Belvosia jorgehernandezi sp. n. has been reared nine times from two species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae , Xylophanes cthulhu Haxaire & Vaglia, 2008 (N=1), Xylophanes tersa (Linnaeus, 1771) (N=8), in cloud forest, dry foresrt, and rain forest.