Calolydella ordinalis Fleming & Wood

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H, 2018, 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, Biodiversity Data Journal 6, pp. 11223-11223 : 11223

Calolydella ordinalis Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017787 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Mariano Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0017787; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 98-SRNP-15880, BOLD:ACF1517, ASTAR498-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellaordinalis; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: ordinalis; 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 Maritza; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimLatitude: 10.9364; verbatimLongitude: -85.4776; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eloriatorrida; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jan-1999; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017792 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Mariano Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0017792; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 98-SRNP-15883, BOLD:ACF1517, ASTAR503-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellaordinalis; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: ordinalis; 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 Maritza; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimLatitude: 10.9364; verbatimLongitude: -85.4776; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eloriatorrida; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jan-1999; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017791 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Mariano Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0017791; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 98-SRNP-15887, BOLD:ACF1517, ASTAR502-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellaordinalis; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: ordinalis; 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 Maritza; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimLatitude: 10.9364; verbatimLongitude: -85.4776; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eloriatorrida; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jan-1999; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017789 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Mariano Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0017789; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 98-SRNP-15883, BOLD:ACF1517, ASTAR500-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellaordinalis; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: ordinalis; 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 Maritza; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimLatitude: 10.9364; verbatimLongitude: -85.4776; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eloriatorrida; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jan-1999; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017790 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Mariano Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0017790; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 98-SRNP-15887, BOLD:ACF1517, ASTAR501-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellaordinalis; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: ordinalis; 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 Maritza; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimLatitude: 10.9364; verbatimLongitude: -85.4776; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eloriatorrida; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jan-1999; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017788 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Mariano Pereira; individualID: DHJPAR0017788; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 98-SRNP-15891, BOLD:ACF1517, ASTAR499-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydellaordinalis; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: ordinalis; 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 Maritza; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimLatitude: 10.9364; verbatimLongitude: -85.4776; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Eloriatorrida; verbatimEventDate: 20-Jan-1999; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 28a, b, c). Length: 6-8mm. Head (Fig. 28b): frontal setae extending to base of postpedicel; fronto-orbital plate gold, sparsely setulose, throughout; parafacial almost entirely gold (75-90% coverage). Thorax (Fig. 28a, c): gold on both dorsal and lateral surfaces; outermost two vittae twice as wide as innermost two; postpronotum with three setae; 3:3 acrostichal setae; 2:3 dorsocentral setae; 2:3 intra-alar setae; 2:3 supra-alar setae; three katepisternal setae; anatergite bare; scutellar discal setae situated as wide apart as or slightly wider apart than subapical scutellar setae. Wing vein R4+5 with at most 2-3 small setulae dorsally at base. Abdomen (Fig. 28a): ground color dark brown-orange to orange with uninterrupted transverse marginal pollinose bands; pollinosity gold dorsally, silver ventrally, and with an orange spot lateroventrally at base of ST1+2; T3 with one pair of median marginal setae and one to more than two pairs of discal setae; T4 with a row of marginal setae and a row of discal setae. Terminalia (Fig. 29): sternite 5 (Fig. 29a) with two small lobes and a wide U-shaped median cleft, 0.34X the length of the sternite from lobe to apex; inner margin covered by dense pollinosity, appearing darker than surrounding cuticle; entire lobe of sternite with short setae, of varying lengths. Cerci (Fig. 29b), in dorsal view, separated by a narrow gap, rejoining at apex; each cercus broad and digitiform, setose along its entire length; cercus with a very slight upward bend when viewed laterally. Surstylus (Fig. 29a) spatulate with a downward curve, appearing subequal to length of cercus when viewed laterally; with short setae along entire length; tip of surstylus not appearing curved inwards when viewed dorsally.

Female (Fig. 28d, e, f). Length: 5-6mm. Fronto-orbital plate 2.1X as wide as in male.

Diagnosis

Calolydella ordinalis can be distinguished from all other species of Calolydella by the following combination of characters: parafacial mostly gold, fronto-orbital plate with setulae sparsely interspersed among frontal setae, anatergite bare, and a complete row of discal setae on T4.

Etymology

The specific epithet is derived from the Latin adjective "ordinarius", meaning ordinary or complete, in reference to the complete, regular row of discal setae on T4, a character state unique to this species.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, Sendero Maritza, 760m.

Ecology

Calolydella ordinalis has been reared six times from Eloria torrida Schaus, 1910 ( Lepidoptera : Erebidae ) in cloud forest.