Journal
BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e68598
Keywords
tropical rain forest; tropical dry forest; cloud forest; parasitoid flies; host-specificity; caterpillars; ACG; Dexiinae; Voriini
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [BSR 9024770, DEB 9306296, 9400829, 9705072, 0072730, 0515699]
- Wege Foundation
- International Conservation Fund of Canada
- Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust
- Blue Moon Fund
- Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
- Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
- Permian Global
- University of Pennsylvania
- Government of Canada
- Genome Canada
- Biodiversity Institute of Ontario
- Ontario Genomics Institute [2008-0GI-ICI-03]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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The study revised the genus Metaplagia in northwestern Costa Rica, describing five new species and providing detailed descriptions of the new species, as well as a revised key to the genus and a new combination of a species within the genus.
Background We revise the genus Metaplagia Coquillett, 1895 and describe five new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. All new species were reared from an ongoing inventory of wild-caught caterpillars spanning a variety of species within the family Sphingidae (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). 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 of the genus and a revised key to the species of Metaplagia. New information The following five new species of Metaplagia are described: Metaplagia leandennisae Fleming & Wood sp. n., Metaplagia lindarobinsonae Fleming & Wood sp. n., Metaplagia paulinesaribasae Fleming & Wood sp. n., Metaplagia robinshervvoodae Fleming & Wood sp. n. and Metaplagia svetlanakozikae Fleming & Wood sp. n. The following is proposed by Fleming & Wood as new combination of Plagiomima Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891: Plagiomima latifrons (Reinhard, 1956) comb. n.
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