Belvosia manuelriosi Fleming & Woodley, 2023

Fleming, AJ, Woodley, Norman, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H, 2023, Revision of Belvosia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) and 33 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to known North and Mesoamerican species, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103667-103667 : 103667

Belvosia manuelriosi Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001246 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualID: DHJPAR0001246; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC181-05, 92-SRNP-2997, BOLD:ACE4203; occurrenceID: F56C4200-10F0-5C55-A93D-897554B2B0DD; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia manuelriosi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: manuelriosi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Vado Cuajiniquil ; verbatimElevation: 275; verbatimLatitude: 10.9404; verbatimLongitude: -85.6804; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.9404; decimalLongitude: -85.6804; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Noctuidae , Diopa furculaDHJ02; verbatimEventDate: 07-Aug-1992; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0001247 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs; individualID: DHJPAR0001247; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC189-05, CR1000-344397,; occurrenceID: 3120394C-1DF4-5822-B89A-C015F4F299DE; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia manuelriosi; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: manuelriosi; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: unknown; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 75), length: 11mm. Head: head wider than thorax; vertex 1/4 head width; gena 1/5 of head height, 1/4 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate brilliant gold, dark brown at vertex and along posterior edge of eyes but returning to gold posterior to ocellar triangle, with 2 irregular rows of frontal setae, populated with short black hair-like setulae intermingled with setae; ocellar setae absent; two pairs of proclinate orbital setae present, along with one pair of posterior reclinate orbital setae. Parafacial light yellow in ground color, densely covered in gold tomentum, entire surface reflective and brilliant appearance; almost bare along parafacial outside facial ridge, with only 2-4 setulae extending just below lowest frontal setae; facial ridge setose along 4/5 of its length; gena covered in black setulae. Antenna, pedicel orange, contrasting postpedicel; postpedicel dark brown with orange accent, 4X as long as pedicel; arista bare gradually tapering to a point at tip. Palps, orange throughout and densely covered in short black setulae; tapering to a sharp point apically, somewhat oar-like devoid of setulae apically. Vibrissa approximately 3 pedicel lengths from facial margin. Thorax: black ground color throughout, with light grayish gold tomentum throughout, except around post-alar callus where it is lighter gray tomentose; scutellum ground color light brown almost yellow, distinctly lighter than scutum, gray tomentose; scutum with four thick pronounced dorsal vittae, one outer pair, one inner pair, unbroken across suture; lateral surface of thorax densely covered in long hair-like setulae, these setulae all black; chaetotaxy: 3 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line, acrostichal setae 3:4; dorsocentral setae 3:4; intra-alar setae 3:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; 4 katepisternal setae; scutellum, with 4-5 pairs of long marginal setae of subequal length; apical scutellar setae absent; one complete row of scutellar discal setae just posterior to marginal setae, approximately 1/2 length of scutellar marginal setae. Wing: pale infuscate, slightly darkened gray at wing base, basicosta brilliant orange; both upper and lower calypters white translucent, blushing to infsucate brown along central portion gradually transitioning to pale white along margins; wing vein R4+5 setose, bearing only 2-3 setulae at base; halteres orange stalk with dark black/brown capitulum. Legs: black overall, lightly covered in shimmering silver tomentum, coxa on midleg and hindleg covered in black setulae; tarsal claws yellow-orange with black tips, with burnt umber pulvilli shorter than length of tarsal claws; anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia not regularly sized or fringelike, with several longer stronger setae at least 2X as long as others. Abdomen: medium (compared to other congeneric species), rounded globose, black ground color; silver tomentum present on posterior 50% of T1+2, T3 with only a solid covering of silver-gold tometum throughout, pale gold tomentum covering posterior 90% of surface of T4, densely gold tomentose throughout T5; ventral surfaces of T3-T5 with no distinct sex-patches present, but with light gold tomentum throughout; middorsal depression on ST1+2 reaching to hind margin of tergite; ST1+2 with no median marginal setae, one pair of median marginal setae present on T3, and complete rows of setae on T4 and T5.

Female: unknown at this time.

Diagnosis

Belvosia manuelriosi sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate brilliant gold, males with proclinate orbital setae, pilosity of gena, anepisternum, katepisternum black, basicosta brilliant orange, abdomen with dark ground color, and median marginal setae absent from syntergite 1+2.

Etymology

Belvosia manuelriosi sp. n, is named in honor of Sr. Manuel Rios in recognition of his decades of being part of the Parataxonomist Program of Area de Conservación Guanacaste (http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr) in northwestern Costa Rica ( Janzen and Hallwachs 2011). Interim species-specific name included in previously circulating databases and publications, Belvosia Woodley12.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, 275-305m elevation.

Ecology

Belvosia manuelriosi sp. n. has been reared two times from two species of Lepidoptera in the family Notodontidae , Diopa furcula DHJ02 (N=1), Nycterotis placida (Schaus, 1892), in dry forest.