Calolydella destituta 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 destituta Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017799 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Roster Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0017799; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 01-SRNP-11844, BOLD:AAE7382, ASTAR510-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydelladestituta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: destituta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Del Oro; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Mena Central; verbatimElevation: 345; verbatimLatitude: 11.0299; verbatimLongitude: -85.4536; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Ramphiaalbizona; verbatimEventDate: 20-Nov-2001; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017768 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Roster Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0017768; individualCount: 1; sex: M; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 01-SRNP-11820, BOLD:AAE7382, ASTAR479-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydelladestituta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: destituta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Del Oro; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Mena Central; verbatimElevation: 345; verbatimLatitude: 11.0299; verbatimLongitude: -85.4536; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Ramphiaalbizona; verbatimEventDate: 20-Nov-2001; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017771 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Roster Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0017771; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 01-SRNP-11844, BOLD:AAE7382, ASTAR482-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydelladestituta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: destituta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Del Oro; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Mena Central; verbatimElevation: 345; verbatimLatitude: 11.0299; verbatimLongitude: -85.4536; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Ramphiaalbizona; verbatimEventDate: 20-Nov-2001; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0017776 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Roster Moraga; individualID: DHJPAR0017776; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: 01-SRNP-11820, BOLD:AAE7382, ASTAR487-07; Taxon: scientificName: Calolydelladestituta; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Calolydella; specificEpithet: destituta; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2016; Location: continent: Central America; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Del Oro; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Mena Central; verbatimElevation: 345; verbatimLatitude: 11.0299; verbatimLongitude: -85.4536; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the erebid moth, Ramphiaalbizona; verbatimEventDate: 20-Nov-2001; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 11a, b, c). Length: 8-9mm. Head (Fig. 11b): frontal setae extending beyond base of postpedicel; fronto-orbital plate gold, sparsely setulose throughout; parafacial silver along lower half. Thorax (Fig. 11a, c): gold on dorsal surface, silver laterally (>50% coverage); four regular thoracic vittae; postpronotum with four setae; 3:3 acrostichal setae; 2:3 dorsocentral setae; 2:3 intra-alar setae; 2:3 supra-alar setae; three katepisternal setae; anatergite with three or more hair-like setae, often in a small tuft; scutellar discal setae situated as wide apart as subapical setae. Wing vein R4+5 with at most three small setulae dorsally at base. Abdomen (Fig. 11a): ground color dark orange-brown, with uninterrupted transverse marginal pollinose bands, and with an orange spot lateroventrally at base of ST1+2; T3 lacking median marginal and discal setae; T4 with one pair of discal setae. Terminalia (Fig. 12): sternite 5 (Fig. 12c) with two small lobes and a wide U-shaped median cleft, 0.37X 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 medium-length setae, all of equal length. Cerci (Fig. 12b), in dorsal view, separated by a gap, widening at apex; each cercus long and very slightly tapering from its already narrow base; cercus, when viewed laterally, setose along basal half, slender and slightly arched, slightly upturned apically. Surstylus (Fig. 12a) 5/6 the length of cercus, slender and digitiform when viewed laterally, with a sharp pinch where basal section meets apical section, 2X as wide as cercus; surstylus with short setae along its entire length; tip of surstylus curved inwards when viewed dorsally.

Female (Fig. 11d, e, f). Length: 5-6mm. As male, except for the following characters: fronto-orbital plate 2X as wide as in male; and T3 with one pair of median marginal setae and one pair of discal setae.

Diagnosis

Calolydella destituta can be distinguished from all other species of Calolydella by the following combination of traits: anatergite with a small tuft of setae, pollinose bands on abdomen not interrupted by a dark median stripe, and T3 lacking median marginal setae.

Etymology

The specific epithet is derived from the Latin adjective " destituta ", meaning absent or lacking, in reference to the absence of median marginal setae on T3, a character state unique to this species.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, 345.

Ecology

Calolydella destituta has been reared four times from Ramphia albizona (Latreille, 1817) ( Lepidoptera : Erebidae ), in rain forest and dry-rain lowland intergrade.