A new species of Trismegistomya Reinhard (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica

By

Fleming, Aj
Wood, D. Monty
Smith, M. Alex
Dapkey, Tanya
Hallwachs, Winnie
Janzen, Daniel

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-04-10

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

7

Pages

1--14

Subjects

caterpillar , Dexiinae , Erebidae , Guanacaste , host specificity , parasitoid flies , tropical dry forest , tropical rain forest , Voriini

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e29130
eLocator: e29130

 

Abstract

The New World genus Trismegistomya Reinhard, 1967b (Diptera: Tachinidae) previously included only the type species Trismegistomyapumilis (Reinhard, 1967a) from Arizona, U.S.A.<br> We describe a new species of Trismegistomya, Trismegistomyajimoharai Fleming &amp;amp; Wood sp. n., from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica, reared from wild-caught caterpillars of Melipotisjanuaris (Guenée, 1852) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae). Our study provides a concise description of the new species using morphology, life history, molecular data and photographic documentation. In addition to the new species description, we provide a redescription of the genus, as well as of its type species Trismegistomyapumilis.