Telothyria incisa Fleming & Wood, 2020

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Dapkey, Tanya, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2020, Revision of Telothyria van der Wulp (Diptera: Tachinidae) and twenty-five new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to Mesoamerican species, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 47157-47157 : 47157

Telothyria incisa Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0037586 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Gloria Sihezar; individualID: DHJPAR0037586; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYC4331-10, 09-SRNP-6845, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; 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: Puente Palma; verbatimElevation: 460; verbatimLatitude: 10.9163; verbatimLongitude: -85.3787; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9163; decimalLongitude: -85.3787; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 19-Jan-2010; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0037581 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Gloria Sihezar; individualID: DHJPAR0037581; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYC4326-10, 09-SRNP-6833, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; 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: Puente Palma; verbatimElevation: 460; verbatimLatitude: 10.9163; verbatimLongitude: -85.3787; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9163; decimalLongitude: -85.3787; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 23-Jan-2010; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0042684 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Gloria Sihezar; individualID: DHJPAR0042684; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYH442-11, 10-SRNP-7152, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; 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 Huerta; verbatimElevation: 527; verbatimLatitude: 10.9305; verbatimLongitude: -85.3722; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9305; decimalLongitude: -85.3722; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 09-Jan-2011; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0050292 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Osvaldo Espinoza; individualID: DHJPAR0050292; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGAZ1606-12, 12-SRNP-3747, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; 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 Huerta; verbatimElevation: 527; verbatimLatitude: 10.9305; verbatimLongitude: -85.3722; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9305; decimalLongitude: -85.3722; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 24-Sep-2012; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0010333 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Minor Carmona; individualID: DHJPAR0010333; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAS164-06, 06-SRNP-42497, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Conguera; verbatimElevation: 420; verbatimLatitude: 10.9159; verbatimLongitude: -85.2663; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9159; decimalLongitude: -85.2663; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 12-Aug-2006; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0037282 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Ricardo Calero; individualID: DHJPAR0037282; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYC4027-10, 09-SRNP-73496, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Pitilla; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Leonel; verbatimElevation: 510; verbatimLatitude: 10.9964; verbatimLongitude: -85.4019; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9964; decimalLongitude: -85.4019; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 04-Dec-2009; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018612 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Freyci Vargas; individualID: DHJPAR0018612; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1259-07, 01-SRNP-5031, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Caribe; verbatimElevation: 415; verbatimLatitude: 10.9019; verbatimLongitude: -85.2749; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9019; decimalLongitude: -85.2749; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 16-Jun-2001; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0036576 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Pablo Umana Calderon; individualID: DHJPAR0036576; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYE1487-09, 09-SRNP-42172, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: San Lucas; verbatimElevation: 320; verbatimLatitude: 10.9185; verbatimLongitude: -85.3034; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9185; decimalLongitude: -85.3034; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 03-Sep-2009; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0034442 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Geovanny Lobo; individualID: DHJPAR0034442; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYC1094-09, 09-SRNP-41000, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2018; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Alajuela; county: Sector Rincon Rain Forest; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Caribe; verbatimElevation: 415; verbatimLatitude: 10.9019; verbatimLongitude: -85.2749; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9019; decimalLongitude: -85.2749; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 06-Aug-2009; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0037591 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Gloria Sihezar; individualID: DHJPAR0037591; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYC4336-10, 09-SRNP-6850, BOLD:AAF0519; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaincisa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: incisa; 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: Puente Palma; verbatimElevation: 460; verbatimLatitude: 10.9163; verbatimLongitude: -85.3787; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9163; decimalLongitude: -85.3787; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Herpetogramma Janzen07; verbatimEventDate: 21-Jan-2010; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male. Length: 6-9 mm (Fig. 32). Head (Fig. 32 b): frons narrow, 1/5-1/6 of head width; gena 1/9-1/12 of head height; three reclinate orbital setae; anteriormost reclinate orbital one 1/2 times longer than uppermost frontal seta; ocellar setae absent; outer vertical seta absent; fronto-orbital plate gold on uppermost 20-30%; fronto-orbital plate with short blonde hairs interspersed among frontal setae; parafacial brilliant silver; facial ridge bare; palpus digitiform, sparsely haired along outer margin; arista orange-brown plumose, distinctly-thickened on basal 1/10, microtrichia at most 3X as long as width of arista; postpedicel orange over at most 50% of surface; postocular region behind margin of eye upper 1/3 gold, with lower 2/3 including gena silver tomentose; upper half of occiput gold tomentose. Thorax (Fig. 32 a, c): golden tomentose, with four almost indistinct dorsal stripes, outermost pair broken across suture, reaching just beyond 3rd postsutural dorsocentral, innermost pair slightly broken across suture, only extending up to 2nd postsutural dorsocentral; thorax with plumose hairs absent from disc of scutum, with black and blonde non-plumose hairs dorsally; chaetotaxy: 4-5 postpronotal setae, basal setae arranged in a straight line; supra-alar setae 2:3; intra-alar setae 1-2:3; dorsocentral setae 4:3; acrostichal setae 4:3; katepisternum with two setae. Scutellum golden tomentose; two pairs of strong marginal setae (basal and subapical) and a small pair of crossed apical scutellar setae 1/5th as long as subapical scutellars; basal scutellar setae subequal in length to subapical setae; subapical setae straight to slightly divergent; underside of scutellum bearing regular non-plumose blonde hairs below basal scutellar setae. Legs: foreleg yellow ground color, midleg yellow coxa and half of femur yellow remainder of femur and tarsi and tibia brown, hindleg dark brown extending from halfway along femur to tarsi; anterior leg tibia with regular fringe of short equally spaced setae along upper half of anteroventral surface, with one posterodorsal setae. Wings: basicosta ivory white; all veins bare, with only 1-2 setulae at base of R4+5; calypters pale white translucent with a pale yellow fringe. Abdomen (Fig. 32 a, c): ground color yellow-orange; ST1+2 brown over medial 30%, with yellow ventrolaterally, extending into a longitudinal middorsal brown stripe up to posterior edge of T4; T3 and T4 each with dense gold tomentum along anterior marginal 10-20%, thinning and extending over remainder of tergite, basal 10%, lacking tomentum creating the appearance of dark bands; T5 entirely orange with gold tomentum and a basal medial brown triangle; median marginal setae present only on T4 and T5; median discal setae absent. Male terminalia (Fig. 32 d, e, f): Sternite 5 with a narrow and shallow median cleft, strongly v-shaped, margins lightly pollinose; lateral lobes of sternite rounded apically, with 3-4 short weak setulae; basal section of sternite 5 subequal to slightly longer than length of apical lobes, median cleft only 1/3 length of apical section. Cerci in posterior view sharply pointed triangular at most a very slight shoulder along the basal 1/3, equal in length to surstyli, fused along entire length; in lateral view, with a slight downward curve on apical 1/3; several strong widely spaced setulae along basal 2/3rds. Surstylus in lateral view, almost equilateral along its length rounded at tip, slightly pinched at midpoint appearing digitiform or clubbed; surstylus appearing fused with epandrium; when viewed dorsally surstyli appear bowed, curving inwards and then slightly diverging again at apices. Basiphallus short and slender. Distiphallus subequal in length to basiphallus and tubular, very slightly sail-shaped at apex.

Female. Length: 5-7 mm (Fig. 33). Head (Fig. 33 b): as in male with the following exceptions: fronto-orbital plate 30% gold; parafacial brilliant silver; frons 1/4 of head width; two inner reclinate orbital setae; two proclinate orbital setae; outer vertical seta present. Thorax (Fig. 33 a, c): meron without any plumose hairs only 5-10 typical meral setae. Legs: foreleg yellow ground color, midleg yellow coxa with femur, tarsi overall brown, with yellow spot on proximal end of femur, hindleg entirely dark brown extending from entire femur to tarsi; anterior leg tibia with regular fringe of short irregularly spaced setae along upper half of anteroventral surface, with 1-2 posterodorsal setae. Abdomen (Fig. 33 a, c): ground color brown dorsally on ST1+2 and T3 with orange laterally; T4 entirely brown ground color; T5 as in male.

Diagnosis

Telothyria incisa sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Telothyria by the following combination of traits: ocellar setae absent, fronto-orbital plate mostly silver with short blonde hairs, gold on uppermost 20-30%; plumose hairs absent from disc of scutum, katepisternum with two setae, and T5 orange with a dorsomedial dark triangle, and gold tomentum. Differs from its closest congener T. peltata , by the shallow v-shaped median cleft, 1/4 length of posterior section of sternite 5.

Etymology

Telothyria incisa sp. n. From the Latin noun " incisus ", meaning "cut into", in reference to the v-shaped median cleft in sternite 5.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Alajuela Province, 96-560 m elevation.

Ecology

Telothyria incisa sp. n. has been reared 106 times from one species of Lepidoptera in the family Crambidae : Herpetogramma Janzen07 in rain forest.