Journal
BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7863
Keywords
Tachininae; Tachinini; tropical rain forest; tropical dry forest; parasitoid flies; host specificity; Erebidae; Nolidae
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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
- Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
- University of Pennsylvania
- Government of Canada [2008-0GI-ICI-03]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
- Permian Global
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Background We describe a new species of Phosocephala Townsend, and provide a new collection record, and description of the previously unknown male, of Phosocephala metallica Townsend, from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica. All ACG specimens were reared from wild-caught Lepidoptera larvae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Nolidae). We provide a concise description of both species using morphology, life history, molecular data, and photographic documentation. The new species is authored and described by Fleming and Wood. New information Phosocephala alexanderi sp. n.
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