Hyphantrophaga albopilosa Fleming & Wood

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Dapkey, Tanya, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2019, Twenty-two new species in the genus Hyphantrophaga Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, with a key to the species of Mesoamerica, Biodiversity Data Journal 7, pp. 29553-29553 : 29553

Hyphantrophaga albopilosa Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0007442 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0007442; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAT214-06, 04-SRNP-34031, BOLD:AAF3886; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagaalbopilosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: albopilosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Laguna; verbatimElevation: 680; verbatimLatitude: 10.9888; verbatimLongitude: -85.4234; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9888; decimalLongitude: -85.4234; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae, Adhemariusypsilon; verbatimEventDate: 18-Aug-2004; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0054045 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Elda Araya; individualID: DHJPAR0054045; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYD3213-14, 13-SRNP-7080, BOLD:AAF3886; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagaalbopilosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: albopilosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector San Cristobal; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Finca San Gabriel; verbatimElevation: 645; verbatimLatitude: 10.8777; verbatimLongitude: -85.3934; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.8777; decimalLongitude: -85.3934; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae, Adhemariusypsilon; verbatimEventDate: 12-Jan-2014; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0016631 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Elda Araya; individualID: DHJPAR0016631; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAP936-07, 06-SRNP-8879, BOLD:AAF3886; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagaalbopilosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: albopilosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector San Cristobal; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Corredor; verbatimElevation: 620; verbatimLatitude: 10.8787; verbatimLongitude: -85.3896; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.8787; decimalLongitude: -85.3896; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae, Adhemariusypsilon; verbatimEventDate: 29-Nov-2006; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0007441 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Osvaldo Espinoza; individualID: DHJPAR0007441; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAT213-06, 04-SRNP-3482, BOLD:AAF3886; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagaalbopilosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: albopilosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector San Cristobal; locality: Dos Rios ; verbatimLocality: Finca San Gabriel; verbatimElevation: 645; verbatimLatitude: 10.8777; verbatimLongitude: -85.3934; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.8777; decimalLongitude: -85.3934; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae, Adhemariusypsilon; verbatimEventDate: 22-Aug-2004; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0050333 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Freddy Quesada; individualID: DHJPAR0050333; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGAZ1647-12, 12-SRNP-31215, BOLD:AAF3886; Taxon: scientificName: Hyphantrophagaalbopilosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Hyphantrophaga; specificEpithet: albopilosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Amonias; verbatimElevation: 390; verbatimLatitude: 11.0425; verbatimLongitude: -85.4034; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 11.0425; decimalLongitude: -85.4034; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2017; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae, Adhemariusypsilon; verbatimEventDate: 08-Sep-2012; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 3). Length: 7-9 mm. Head (Fig. 3b): vertex 1/5 of head width; one pair of reclinate upper orbital setae; ocellar setae arising behind anterior ocellus; ocellar triangle silver (slight gold tinge present but overall concolorous with fronto-orbital plate); fronto-orbital plate shiny silver and setulose, setulae not extending below lowest frontal seta; parafacial brilliant silver and bare; facial ridge bare; eye with short sparse ommatrichia up to 2X as long as one ommatidium; pedicel brownish-black with some orange, concolorous with postpedicel; arista brown, very minutely pubescent, distinctly thickened on basal 1/3-1/4; palpus yellow and densely haired, apically clubbed. Thorax (Fig. 3a, c): bright brassy-gold tomentose dorsally, contrasting with silver grey laterally; densely covered in blond setulae along anterior and lateral surfaces, dorsally with dense dark setulae interspersed amongst setae; four thin yet prominent dorsal vittae, outermost two broken across suture, innermost pair unbroken, reaching just beyond 2nd postsutural dorsocentral seta; postpronotum with 4-5 setae arranged in a triangle; chaetotaxy: acrostichal setae 3:3; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 2:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; two katepisternal setae; basal scutellar setae subequal in length to subapical scutellar setae; lateral scutellar setae less than 1/2 as long as subapical scutellar setae, curving inwards medially; apical scutellar setae subequal in length to lateral scutellar setae, crossed apically; one pair of discal scutellar setae more widely set than apical setae but more narrowly set than subapical setae; scutellum concolorous with scutum. Legs (Fig. 3c): brilliant yellow in ground colour; fore femur with dense silver tomentum on posterodorsal surface; hind coxa bare. Wing (Fig. 3a): pale translucent, hyaline, not distinctly infuscate; vein R4+5 with 2-3 setulae at base. Abdomen (Fig. 3a, c): ground colour yellow; middorsal depression on ST1+2 almost reaching hind margin; median marginal setae absent on ST1+2, present on T3; a complete row of marginal setae present on T4; discal setae only on T5; sex patch covering ventral surfaces of T4-T5; distinct brassy tomentose bands along anterior edge of T3 and T4, broken medially by a dorsocentral stripe and covering almost 80% of tergites; T5 with brassy tomentum throughout. Terminalia (Fig. 3d, e, f): anterior margin of sternite 5 (Fig. 3f) with a deeply curved medial depression, posterior margin with a deep median cleft, smoothly U-shaped. Lateral lobe of sternite slightly pointed apically and with many short setulae of equal length. Anterior plate of sternite 5 shorter than apical lobes. Unsclerotised "window" anterior to median cleft broadly rounded, stalked and convex reminiscent of a mushroom cap, extending as widely as median cleft. Cerci in posterior view (Fig. 3d) triangular with external edges inwardly wedged, slightly shorter than surstyli, blunt and rounded off towards apex, completely separate medially, diverging slightly at tips; in lateral view with a strong, almost 90 degree bend 1/5 along their length. Surstylus in lateral view (Fig. 3e) almost parallel-sided along its length, ending in a slightly downcurved apex, making the structure appear fingerlike; basal half, twice as wide as apical half; surstylus appearing fused with epandrium. Surstyli when viewed dorsally strongly divergent and wide open. Pregonite well-developed, 1/2 as long as distiphallus, squared off, ending in a trumpet-like, flared apex. Postgonite elongate and slender, horn-shaped, subequal in length to pregonite, slightly narrowed towards apex, not strongly curved. Distiphallus sail-shaped, apically flared, 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: 7-9 mm. As male, differing only by the presence of two pairs of proclinate orbital setae.

Diagnosis

Hyphantrophaga albopilosa sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Hyphantrophaga species by the following combination of traits: brilliant silver parafacial, two katepisternal setae, dense covering of blond setulae along lateral surface of thorax, brilliant yellow legs, hind coxa bare and abdomen yellow in ground colour.

Etymology

From the Latin adjective " albopilosa ", meaning "white-haired", in reference to its blond thoracic setulae.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Alajuela and Guanacaste Provinces, 390-645 m elevation.

Ecology

Hyphantrophaga albopilosa sp. n. has been reared six times from a single species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae , Adhemarius ypsilon (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903), in rain forest.