Metaplagia robinsherwoodae Fleming & Wood, 2021

Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel, 2021, Revison of Metaplagia Coquillett (Diptera: Tachinidae) with description of five new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 68598-68598 : 68598

Metaplagia robinsherwoodae Fleming & Wood sp. n.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018640 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1287-07| 92-SRNP-2162| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Cafetal ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 10.8583; verbatimLongitude: -85.6109; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 03-Jul-1992; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018629 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Ruth Franco; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1276-07| 98-SRNP-8635| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Cebollines ; verbatimElevation: 270; verbatimLatitude: 10.8222; verbatimLongitude: -85.6434; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 24-Jul-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018632 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1279-07| 98-SRNP-8715| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 22-Jul-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018633 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1280-07| 93-SRNP-1643| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 03-Jul-1993; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018634 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1281-07| 93-SRNP-1659| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 26-Jun-1993; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018635 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1282-07| 92-SRNP-2162| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Cafetal ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 10.8583; verbatimLongitude: -85.6109; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 03-Jul-1992; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018636 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1283-07| 93-SRNP-1643| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 03-Jul-1993; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018637 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1284-07| 91-SRNP-1170| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque Humedo ; verbatimElevation: 290; verbatimLatitude: 10.8514; verbatimLongitude: -85.608; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 28-Jul-1991; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018638 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1285-07| 90-SRNP-647| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 04-Nov-1990; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018639 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1286-07| 92-SRNP-2162| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Cafetal ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 10.8583; verbatimLongitude: -85.6109; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 03-Jul-1992; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018628 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1275-07| 98-SRNP-9161| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 31-Oct-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018713 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Daniel H. Janzen; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1360-07| 98-SRNP-8704| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 07-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018714 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1361-07| 98-SRNP-8687| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Cebollines ; verbatimElevation: 270; verbatimLatitude: 10.8222; verbatimLongitude: -85.6434; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 08-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018715 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Elieth Cantillano; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1362-07| 98-SRNP-8707| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 08-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018716 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Ruth Franco; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1363-07| 98-SRNP-8815| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Cafetal ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 10.8583; verbatimLongitude: -85.6109; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 08-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018717 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1364-07| 98-SRNP-8789| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Chiringon ; verbatimElevation: 250; verbatimLatitude: 10.8388; verbatimLongitude: -85.601; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 08-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018718 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Adrian Guadamuz; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1365-07| 98-SRNP-9068| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Cafetal ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 10.8583; verbatimLongitude: -85.6109; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 07-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018719 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1366-07| 98-SRNP-8893| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Laguna Escondida ; verbatimElevation: 285; verbatimLatitude: 10.8487; verbatimLongitude: -85.6305; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 08-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018720 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Ruth Franco; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1367-07| 98-SRNP-8635| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Quebrada Cebollines ; verbatimElevation: 270; verbatimLatitude: 10.8222; verbatimLongitude: -85.6434; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 24-Jul-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018725 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1372-07| 98-SRNP-9161| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 31-Oct-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018726 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1373-07| 98-SRNP-9080| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Cafetal ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 10.8583; verbatimLongitude: -85.6109; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 28-Mar-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018728 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Guillermo Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1375-07| 98-SRNP-8715| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 22-Jul-1998; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018729 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Manuel Pereira; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1376-07| 98-SRNP-8789| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Chiringon ; verbatimElevation: 250; verbatimLatitude: 10.8388; verbatimLongitude: -85.601; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 08-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018730 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Elieth Cantillano; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1377-07| 98-SRNP-8707| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Bosque San Emilio ; verbatimElevation: 300; verbatimLatitude: 10.8439; verbatimLongitude: -85.6138; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 08-May-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0018731 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Ruth Franco; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASTAI1378-07| 98-SRNP-8815| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Cafetal ; verbatimElevation: 280; verbatimLatitude: 10.8583; verbatimLongitude: -85.6109; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 15-Apr-1999; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0060291 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Tanner Frank; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA6712-17| 16-SRNP-10177| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: DHJPAR0062861 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Erasmo Coronado; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ACGBA9195-18| 17-SRNP-10052| BOLD:AAB3286; Taxon: scientificName: Metaplagia robinsherwoodae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Metaplagia ; specificEpithet: robinsherwoodae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Wood, 2021; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica ; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Area Administrativa ; verbatimElevation: 295; verbatimLatitude: 10.8376; verbatimLongitude: -85.6187; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal degrees; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2021; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larva of the Sphingidae , Manduca rustica; verbatimEventDate: 09-Jun-2018; Record Level : language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects ; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Male (Fig. 9), head (Fig. 9 c, d): fronto-orbital plate wide, coloration silver with gold tomentum over uppermost 50%, appearing as pale brassy gold along upper 25% of occipital margin of eye; frontal vitta wide, 1/5 width of fronto-orbital plate almost entirely covered in gold tomentum; ocellar setae strongly proclinate slightly divergent; with 3 proclinate orbital setae (middle proclinate orbital seta most often almost hair-like reduced) and 1 reclinate orbital seta fronto-orbital plate with only a sparse few short black setulae interspersed amongst frontal setae; sparse fronto-orbital setulae extending below lower margin of the pedicel (very few), these not intermingled with those in angle of parafacial; parafacial wholly silver tomentose with a single row of parafacial setulae mid-way along parafacial near facial ridge; palps slightly spathulate at tips almost oar-shaped, apically acutely inwardly curved, setulose along outer margins, inner margin appearing bare; arista dark brown-black. Thorax (Fig. 9 a, b): black ground color with pale grey with a slightly brassy tinged tomentum, laterally this color transitions to a darkened grey tomentum; 4-5 postpronotal setae; supra-alar setae 2:3; intra-alar setae 3:3; dorsocentral setae 3:3-4; acrostichal setae 3:3; katepisternum with 3 setae. Infrasquamal setae absent. Scutellum black ground color, with tomentum concolorous with disc of thorax; with four pairs marginal setae; apical scutellar setae absent; basal scutellar 2/3 length of subapical setae; subapical setae convergent, lateral scutellar setae strongly divergent. Legs: black ground color; mid tibia with 2-3 strong anteroventral setae; tarsal claws and pulvilli shorter than last tarsomere. Wings: R1 bare, R4+5 setulose from node slightly beyond crossvein r-m. Abdomen (Fig. 9 a, b): ground color black; ST1+2 glabrous black, pale silver tomentum occupying anterior 60% of T3-T5; tomentum extending to ventral surface of abdomen on T4 and T5; median marginal setae present on T3 and complete rows on T4 and T5.

Terminalia (Fig. 10): posterior margin of sternite 5 with a deeply excavated and sculptured U-shaped median cleft (Fig. 10 d); lateral lobes of sternite apically rounded, widened at mid-point and tapering again towards base, with a vestiture of short setae along disc, 3x as long along caudal margin; basal section slightly less than 1/5 the length of apical lobes. Cerci, in posterior view, medially separated, with a few short setae along entire length, setae lengthening posteriorly towards anal operculum (Fig. 10 a). In lateral view, bowed and sharply tapered apically (Fig. 10 b, c). Surstylus well-developed, stout basally in lateral view, like a broadly rounded triangle, appearing like a rounded ellipsoid leaf shape; in posterior view, basally enlarged and apically straight.

Female (Fig. 11) as in male, except in the following aspects: head (Fig. 11 c, d): fronto-orbital just under 1/2 of head width, vitta 1/4 width of fronto-orbital plate; ocellar setae lateraloclinate; post-pedicel slightly orange along basal 1/5. Legs (Fig. 11 b): mid-tibia with 3-4 irregularly-sized strong anteroventral setae.

Diagnosis

Metaplagia robinsherwoodae sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Metaplagia by the following combination of traits: fronto-orbital plate at least 75% gold, with a silver parafacial and setulae on vein R4+5 extending well beyond crossvein r-m. Metaplagia robinsherwoodae sp. n. can be separated from M. Metaplagia leahdennisae and M. Metaplagia paulinesaribasae by the presence of setulae on R4+5 extending well beyond crossvein r-m and it is separated from M. facialis and M. cordata by the presence of gold on its fronto-orbital plate. Metaplagia robinsherwoodae sp. n. is clearly distinguished by its COI sequence clustered within the Barcode Identification Number (BIN) BOLD:AAB3286.

Etymology

Metaplagia robinsherwoodae sp. n. is named in honor of Robin Sherwood for her many years of coordinating and administrating a plethora of problems and events in the Academic Office of the Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG, Guanacaste Province, 250-300 m elevation.

Ecology

Metaplagia robinsherwoodae sp. n. has been reared 28 times from one species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae : Manduca rustica (Fabricius, 1775), in dry forest.