Three new species of Ametadoria Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

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

doi:10.3897/bdj.3.e5039

Abstract

We describe three new species in the genus Ametadoria Townsend from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica. All three were reared from wild-caught Zygaenidae and Lacturidae caterpillars. We provide a concise description of each species using morphology, life history and molecular data, with photographic documentation. The new species are authored and described by Fleming and Wood: Ametadoria karolramosae sp. nov., Ametadoria leticiamartinezae sp. nov., and Ametadoria mauriciogurdiani sp. nov. The following are proposed by Wood as new synonyms of Ametadoria Townsend: Adidyma Townsend syn. nov., and Abolodoria Townsend syn. nov. The following new combinations occur as a result of these new synonymies: Ametadoria abdominalis (Townsend) comb. nov., Ametadoria austrina (Coquillett) comb. nov., Ametadoria humilis (Wulp) comb. nov., Ametadoria misella (Wulp) comb. nov. Ametadoria adversa (Townsend) is proposed as a junior synonym of Ametadoria unispinosa Townsend, syn. nov.

Highlights

The tachinid genus Ametadoria Townsend, 1927 is a small New World genus in the tribe Eryciini of the subfamily Exoristinae (Diptera: Tachinidae) (O'Hara and Wood 2004)
We describe three new species in the genus Ametadoria Townsend from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica
This work builds on existing knowledge and describes three new species of Ametadoria Townsend, all reared from wild-caught caterpillars from Area de Conservacíon Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica

Summary

Introduction

The tachinid genus Ametadoria Townsend, 1927 is a small New World genus in the tribe Eryciini of the subfamily Exoristinae (Diptera: Tachinidae) (O'Hara and Wood 2004). This work builds on existing knowledge and describes three new species of Ametadoria Townsend, all reared from wild-caught caterpillars from Area de Conservacíon Guanacaste (ACG), Costa Rica. It is part of a series of papers describing reared specimens from the ongoing inventory being conducted in ACG (Janzen et al 2009, Fleming et al 2014a, Fleming et al 2014b, Fleming et al 2015). We build on the existing knowledge base of Ametadoria by providing new records relating to its distribution and confirming the host preference of the genus

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