A new species of Cordyligaster Macquart, reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica

By

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

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014-11-24

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

2

Pages

1--33

Subjects

caterpillar inventory , Cordyligaster , Crambidae , Diptera , host-specificity , parasitoid fly , Tachinidae , tropical dry forest , tropical rain forest

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e4174

 

Abstract

We describe a new species of Cordyligaster Macquart (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. Cordyligaster capellii sp. n., is described and photographed. All specimens of C. capellii were reared from Syngamia florella (Stoll, 1781) (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Spilomelinae), a leaf-rolling caterpillar collected in ACG rain forest. By coupling morphology, photographic documentation, life history and molecular data, we provide a clear and concise description of this new species. In addition the authors provide new distribution and host records for C. fuscipennis (Macquart) reared in ACG.