Seven new species of Spathidexia Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
| Autor: | Daniel H. Janzen, D. Monty Wood, Winnie Hallwachs, Alan J. Fleming, M. Alex Smith |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Insecta Arthropoda Synonym parasitoid fly Tachinidae Biodiversity: Species Ecosystems & Conservation Biology tropical rain forest Genus Systematics Botany Animalia Life history lcsh:QH301-705.5 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Invertebrata Taxonomy Spathidexia Ecology Photographic documentation Diptera caterpillars Species Inventories South America biology.organism_classification lcsh:Biology (General) Central America and the Caribbean tropical dry forest Conservation Ecology host-specificity Taxonomic Paper Americas Host specificity |
| Zdroj: | Biodiversity Data Journal, Vol 3, Pp 1-97 (2015) Biodiversity Data Journal |
| ISSN: | 1314-2828 1314-2836 |
| Popis: | We describe seven new species of Spathidexia (Diptera: Tachinidae) reared from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica. All were reared from various species of ACG caterpillars during an ongoing inventory of caterpillars, their food plants and their parasitoids. By coupling morphology, photographic documentation, life history and molecular data, we provide a clear and concise description of each species. All are known to be previously undescribed as a result of a comprehensive study of the genus by DMW. Spathidexia atripalpus sp. n., Spathidexia juanvialesi sp. n., Spathidexia marioburgosi sp. n., Spathidexia luisrobertogallegosi sp. n., Spathidexia luteola sp. n., Spathidexia hernanrodriguezi sp. n. and Spathidexia aurantiaca sp. n. are all authored and described by Fleming and Wood. Minthodexiopsis Townsend is proposed by Wood as a new synonym of Spathidexia. A new combination proposed by Wood as a result of the new synonymy is S. flavicornis (Brauer & Bergenstamm) comb. n. |
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