Abstract
BackgroundWe describe nine new species in the genus Uramya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. All species were reared from an ongoing inventory of wild-caught caterpillars spanning a variety of families (Lepidoptera: Erebidae; Limacodidae; Megalopygidae; Lasiocampidae and Dalceridae). Our study provides a concise description of each new species using morphology, life history, molecular data, and photographic documentation. In addition to the new species the authors provide a redescription the previously described Uramya sibinivora Guimarães, which was also collected within ACG during this study. We also provide a redescription of the genus, and a revised key to species of Uramya occurring in Central and South America.New informationThe following nine new species of Uramya, all authored by Fleming & Wood, are described: Uramya albosetulosa Fleming & Wood sp. nov., Uramya constricta Fleming & Wood sp. nov., Uramya contraria Fleming & Wood sp. nov., Uramya infracta Fleming & Wood sp. nov., Uramya lativittata Fleming & Wood sp. nov., Uramya lunula Fleming & Wood sp. nov., Uramya nitida Fleming & Wood sp. nov., Uramya pannosa Fleming & Wood sp. nov., and Uramya penicillata Fleming & Wood sp. nov.The following are proposed by Wood as new synonyms of Uramya: Olinda Townsend, syn. nov. and Procleonice Townsend, syn. nov. The following new combination is proposed as a result of the new synonymies: Uramya brasiliensis Macquart, comb. nov. Procleonice prolixa Townsend is synonymized under Uramya brevicauda Curran, syn. nov.
Highlights
Tachinidae are the second most diverse family of Diptera (Belshaw 1993, O’Hara 2008), with almost 10,000 described species classified into over 1500 genera (O’Hara 2008, O’Hara 2014)
We describe nine new species in the genus Uramya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica
All species were reared from an ongoing inventory of wild-caught caterpillars spanning a variety of families (Lepidoptera: Erebidae; Limacodidae; Megalopygidae; Lasiocampidae and Dalceridae)
Summary
We describe nine new species in the genus Uramya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. In addition to the new species the authors provide a redescription the previously described Uramya sibinivora Guimarães, which was collected within ACG during this study. We provide a redescription of the genus, and a revised key to species of Uramya occurring in Central and South America. Nov., Uramya constricta Fleming & Wood sp. Nov., Uramya contraria Fleming & Wood sp. Nov., Uramya infracta Fleming & Wood sp. Nov., Uramya lativittata Fleming & Wood sp. Nov., Uramya nitida Fleming & Wood sp. Nov., Uramya pannosa Fleming & Wood sp. The following are proposed by Wood as new synonyms of Uramya: Olinda Townsend, syn. Procleonice prolixa Townsend is synonymized under Uramya brevicauda Curran, syn. Keywords tropical rain forest, tropical dry forest, cloud forest, parasitoid flies, host-specificity, caterpillars, ACG, Dexiinae, Uramyiini
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