Telothyria duvalierbricenoi 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 duvalierbricenoi Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0055913 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Cirilo Umana; individualID: DHJPAR0055913; individualCount: 1; sex: F; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASHYH2645-14, 14-SRNP-76251, BOLD:AAL7641; Taxon: scientificName: Telothyriaduvalierbricenoi; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Diptera; family: Tachinidae; genus: Telothyria; specificEpithet: duvalierbricenoi; 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: Quebrada Bambu; verbatimElevation: 109; verbatimLatitude: 10.9301; verbatimLongitude: -85.2521; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal; decimalLatitude: 10.9301; decimalLongitude: -85.2521; Identification: identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Crambidae, Salbiacassidalis; verbatimEventDate: 10-Jul-2014; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Female. Length: 5 mm (Fig. 19). Head (Fig. 19 b): frons narrow, 1/4 of head width; gena 1/10 of head height; three reclinate inner orbital setae uppermost reclinate orbital pair slightly convergent, and two proclinate orbital setae; ocellar setae absent; outer vertical seta present; fronto-orbital plate pale brassy-gold along upper third inclusive of ocellar triangle; fronto-orbital plate with short blonde hairs interspersed among frontal setae; parafacial brilliant silver, posterior half of gena concolorous silver tomentose; facial ridge bare; palpus apically clubbed and slightly upturned; arista brown, smoothly tapering to apical 1/8, microtrichia at most 1.5X as long as width of arista; pedicel orange, postpedicel orange over at most 30% of surface; postocular region behind margin of eye upper 1/3 gold, with lower 2/3 including gena silver tomentose; upper 1/3 of occiput gold tomentose. Thorax (Fig. 19 a, c): brassy-gold tomentose dorsally, grey laterally, with four distinct thoracic stripes outer pair broken across suture; thorax covered in dense plumose blonde hairs laterally, short black hairs dorsally; chaetotaxy: 4-5 postpronotal setae, basal setae arranged in a straight line; supra-alar setae 2:3; intra-alar setae 2:3; dorsocentral setae 3:3; acrostichal setae 3:3; katepisternum with three setae; meron lacking plumose hairs with 4-5 typical meral setae. Scutellum brassy-gold tomentose; two pairs of strong marginal setae (basal and subapical) and a small pair of crossed apical scutellar setae 1/8-1/10th as long as subapical scutellars; basal scutellar setae subequal in length to subapical setae; subapical setae straight; underside of scutellum bearing plumose blonde hairs below basal scutellar setae. Legs: foreleg with yellow ground color throughout; midleg and hindleg bearing yellow coxae with dark yellow-brown femur, tibia, and tarsal segments; anterior leg tibia with regular tapered fringe of equally spaced setae along basal 1/3 of anteroventral surface, at most 3-4 setae and one strong posterodorsal seta. Wings: basicosta beige, with slight darkening to pale brown towards wing insertion; all veins bare, with only one setula at base of R4+5; calypters pale white translucent with a pale beige fringe. Abdomen (Fig. 19 a, c): ground color mostly brown with yellow-orange present ventrolaterally; T1+2-T4 with gold tomentum at tergal margin changing to silver tomentum extending over up to 50% of tergite; T5 black marroon along anterior margin with yellow apically, tergite covered with silver tomentum along anterior 50%; marginal setae present on T4 and T5; median discal setae absent.

Male. Unknown at this time.

Diagnosis

Telothyria duvalierbricenoi sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Telothyria by the following combination of traits: ocellar setae absent, fronto-orbital plate mostly silver, pale brassy-gold along upper third inclusive of ocellar triangle, plumose hairs on thorax absent from disc of scutum, thorax brassy-gold tomentose dorsally, grey laterally, katepisternum with three setae, legs dark reddish-brown, abdominal ground color yellow-orange, and T5 black marroon along anterior margin with yellow apically, entirely covered in silver tomentum. Differentiates from Telothyria insularis Curran with its entirely silver gena, the presence of four thin dorsal stripes on the thorax, and the color of the coxae.

Etymology

Telothyria duvalierbricenoi sp. n. is named in recognition of Duvalier Briceño's outstanding work on managing the caterpillar and parasite inventory from his home and rearing barn in Brasilia, Alajuela Province. Costa Rica.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Alajuela Province, 109 m elevation.

Ecology

Telothyria duvalierbricenoi sp. n. has been reared once times from a single species of Lepidoptera in the family Crambidae : Salbia cassidalis ( Guenée, 1854), in rain forest.