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Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica
- Source :
- Biodiversity Data Journal
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Background We describe two new species in the genus Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. Both species were reared from wild-caughtcaterpillars of Eois spp. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). We provide a concise description of each species using morphology, life history, molecular data, and photographic documentation. New information Erythromelana jimmychevezi Fleming & Wood sp. nov. Erythromelana glenriverai Fleming & Wood sp. nov.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Insecta
010607 zoology
Tachinidae
Exoristinae
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
tropical rain forest
cloud forest
Lepidoptera genitalia
Eois
Genus
Systematics
Blondeliini
Animalia
ACG
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Taxonomy
Cloud forest
Ecology
biology
Diptera
Hexapoda
caterpillars
biology.organism_classification
parasitoid flies
Central America and the Caribbean
tropical dry forest
host-specificity
Taxonomic Paper
Americas
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13142828
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biodiversity data journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....53e312326968b166c92238a6c69a7d3f