Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica

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 s...

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Autores principales: Fleming, AJ, Wood, D. Monty, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie, Janzen, Daniel, Dapkey, Tanya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2016
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Taxonomic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4867687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27226745
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7386
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author Fleming, AJ
Wood, D. Monty
Smith, M. Alex
Hallwachs, Winnie
Janzen, Daniel
Dapkey, Tanya
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-48676872016-05-25 Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica Fleming, AJ Wood, D. Monty Smith, M. Alex Hallwachs, Winnie Janzen, Daniel Dapkey, Tanya Biodivers Data J Taxonomic Paper 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. Pensoft Publishers 2016-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4867687/ /pubmed/27226745 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7386 Text en AJ Fleming, D. Monty Wood, M. Alex Smith, Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel Janzen, Tanya Dapkey http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Taxonomic Paper
Fleming, AJ
Wood, D. Monty
Smith, M. Alex
Hallwachs, Winnie
Janzen, Daniel
Dapkey, Tanya
Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica
title Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica
title_full Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica
title_fullStr Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica
title_full_unstemmed Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica
title_short Two new species of Erythromelana Townsend, 1919 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica
title_sort two new species of erythromelana townsend, 1919 (diptera: tachinidae) from area de conservación guanacaste in northwestern costa rica
topic Taxonomic Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4867687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27226745
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7386
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