Uramya pannosa Fleming & Wood

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie, Janzen, Daniel & Dapkey, Tanya, 2017, Nine new species of Uramya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, with a key to their identification, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 9649-9649 : 9649

Uramya pannosa Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018572 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, Harry Ramirez; individualID: DHJPAR0018572; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1219-07, 02-SRNP-23893; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyapannosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: pannosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Toma Agua; verbatimElevation: 1140; verbatimLatitude: 10.928; verbatimLongitude: -85.467; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.928; decimalLongitude: -85.467; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Parasamacrodonta (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 01-Dec-2002; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018571 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, Roster Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0018571; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1218-07, 97-SRNP-11106; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyapannosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: pannosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Derrumbe; verbatimElevation: 1220; verbatimLatitude: 10.929; verbatimLongitude: -85.464; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.929; decimalLongitude: -85.464; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Parasamacrodonta (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 10-Jan-1998; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0042603 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, Dunia Garcia; individualID: DHJPAR0042603; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYH361-11, 11-SRNP-35195; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyapannosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: pannosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Cacao ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Derrumbe; verbatimElevation: 1220; verbatimLatitude: 10.929; verbatimLongitude: -85.464; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.929; decimalLongitude: -85.464; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Parasamacrodonta (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 12-Apr-2011; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018574 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, Petrona Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0018574; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1221-07, 05-SRNP-30344; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyapannosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: pannosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Pitilla ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Orosilito; verbatimElevation: 900; verbatimLatitude: 10.983; verbatimLongitude: -85.436; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.983; decimalLongitude: -85.436; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Parasamacrodonta (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 27-Feb-2005; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017074 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, Calixto Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0017074; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAP512-07, 06-SRNP-65874; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyapannosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: pannosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Pitilla ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Orosilito; verbatimElevation: 900; verbatimLatitude: 10.983; verbatimLongitude: -85.436; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.983; decimalLongitude: -85.436; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Parasamacrodonta (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 02-Mar-2007; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018573 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, Petrona Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0018573; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1220-07, 05-SRNP-30344; Taxon: scientificName: Uramyapannosa; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Uramya; specificEpithet: pannosa; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Area de Conservación Guanacaste; locality: Sector Pitilla ; verbatimLocality: Sendero Orosilito; verbatimElevation: 900; verbatimLatitude: 10.983; verbatimLongitude: -85.436; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.983; decimalLongitude: -85.436; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: samplingProtocol: reared from caterpillar of Parasamacrodonta (Limacodidae); verbatimEventDate: 27-Feb-2005; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 15): 15 mm. Head (Fig. 15b): antenna: first flagellomere dark brown on lower 2/3,turning to brownish orange on upper third and adjacent to pedicel; pedicel dark orange; arista 1.5X as long as first flagellomere, dark brown and minutely pubescent; palpus dark orange and haired; fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and gena silver pollinose; gena silver pollinose with a cluster of hairs along lower 1/3 to 1/2; facial ridge darkened, with few fine hairs along lower margin; frontogenal suture black. Thorax (Fig. 15a, c): entirely gray pollinose; dorsum of thorax and scutellum black pilose; sternopleura, hypopleura, pteropleura, and ventral surface of abdomen yellow-white pilose; 2 katepisternal bristles; 2 postsutural supra-alar bristles; postpronotum and anepisternum bearing fine black hairs; underside of scutellum bearing a tuft of black hairs near basal marginal bristle. Legs: fore femur gray pollinose, densely covered in thin dark hairs interspersed among the bristles; mid and hind tibiae dark brown to black basally, apically dark orange. Wings: smoky gray, with dense infuscation around each vein. Abdomen (Fig. 15a): median marginal bristles only on ST1+2; 2 pairs of median discal bristles on T3 and T4; ground color of abdomen brown-black up to tergite 5; silver pollinosity present on anteriormost half of T3, T4 and T5; ST1+2 with lateral gray pollinose spots on posterior half; band of short black hairs surrounding discal bristles on T3 and T4, abdomen otherwise appearing devoid of hairs. Terminalia (Fig. 15d, e, f): sternite 5 with two small lobes; inner margin covered in dense pollinosity, appearing darker than surrounding cuticle; apical edges of lobes of sternite 5 bearing many medium-length, stout bristles interspersed with longer bristles close to apical margin; sternite 5 with wide V-shaped median cleft, 0.42X length of sternite from lobe apex to base; cercus sharply pointed, distinctly tapered; apical section of cercus 1.4X as long as upper lobe; strongly curved when viewed laterally with a slight upward hook at its tip; surstylus oblong, curved and scythe-like in lateral view; posterodorsal half of surstylus haired, apex with almost no short apical bristles; tip of surstylus not lobed when viewed dorsally; surstylus strongly angled inwards, 1.4X as long as cercus.

Female (Fig. 16): 10-12 mm. As male, except arista 1.7X as long as first flagellomere, abdomen normally haired, median marginals present on segments ST1+2, T3, T4, and T5, and median discal bristles on T3, T4, and T5.

Diagnosis

Uramya pannosa can be distinguished from all other Neotropical species of Uramya by the following combination of traits: pedicel orange, 2 postsutural supra-alar bristles, underside of scutellum with a tuft of black hairs near basal marginal bristle, overall absence of abdominal hairs, only 1 pair of median marginal bristles on ST1+2, and 2 pairs of median discal bristles on T3 and T4.

Etymology

The species epithet is derived from the Latin adjective " pannosus ", meaining tattered or shabby, in reference to the irregular and ragged appearance of the abdominal banding.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG (Prov. Guanacaste), 900-1220 m.

Ecology

Uramya pannosa has been reared 5 times from Parasa macrodonta Hering & Hopp ( Limacodidae ) in both cloud and rain forest, and is the only species of tachinid to have been reared from this species of caterpillar in 166 non-sibling rearings.