Description of an unusual new Costa Rican species of Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) with additional notes on Neotropical species of Dizygomyza (Diptera: Agromyzidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 993 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
STÉPHANIE BOUCHER
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Neotropical Species

Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) nigrihalterata sp. nov. is described from Costa Rica. This species is unusual in having black halteres, the presence of only one upper orbital seta and infuscated wings. Two additional species of Dizygomyza are newly recorded from the Neotropical region: Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) luctuosa (Meigen) and Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) scirpioides Zlobin. Two Neotropical species of Cerodontha previously assigned to Dizygomyza are reassigned to subgenus Butomomyza: Cerodontha (Butomomyza) puertoricencis Spencer new comb. and Cerodontha (Butomomyza) orcina Spencer new comb.

The Meniscus midges of Costa Rica (Diptera: Dixidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1575 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS GUILLERMO CHAVERRI ◽  
ART BORKENT
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Central American ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
High Elevations ◽  
Central American Species

A revision of the Dixidae of Costa Rica indicates that 10 named species of Dixella are present, eight of which are described as new (described stages indicated): D. fernandezae (%), D. hansoni (%),  D. hernandezi (%), D. jironi (%), D. lobata (%, &), D. maculata (%, &), D. suzukii (%, &), D. woodi (%).  Two named species were previously known from Costa Rica: D. shannoni Lane (%, &) and D. venezuelensis Lane (%, &).  A key to the species of Costa Rica is provided and other similar Neotropical species discussed.  An overview of all Central American species is given.  Five of the 10 Costa Rican species were collected above 1200 meters in elevation, indicating that further collecting, especially at high elevations will reveal further species.  Five additional species from Costa Rica remain unnamed because they are represented only by females.  A total of 15 species of Dixella are therefore present in this country.

Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4938 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
OLAVI KURINA ◽  
HEIKKI HIPPA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Caribbean Island ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Southern Caribbean

The Neotropical species of the genus Manota Williston are studied, based on material of 146 specimens from French Guiana, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Dominica and the Dominican Republic. Four new species are described, viz. M. corniculata sp. n. (French Guiana), M. pseudocavata sp. n. (French Guiana), M. truuverki sp. n. (French Guiana) and M. vladi sp. n. (Dominican Republic). Manota defecta Williston, 1896, the type species of the genus, is listed from Dominica, representing the first record since its description more than a century ago from a Southern Caribbean Island, St. Vincent. New records of 13 additional species are provided: M. acutistylus Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 (Dominica), M. aligera Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017 (French Guiana), M. digitata Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017 (French Guiana), M. iota Hippa & Kurina, 2013 (French Guiana), M. micula Hippa & Kurina, 2013 (French Guiana), M. nordestina Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2018 (French Guiana), M. parva Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 (Nicaragua), M. pauloides Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017 (Ecuador), M. perplexa Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2017 (Nicaragua), M. rotundistylus Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 (Ecuador), M. serrulata Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017 (French Guiana), M. spinosa Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 (French Guiana), M. subaristata Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2017 (Ecuador). The number of Neotropical Manota species has risen to 96. 

scholarly journals Lobomyia neotropica, a new genus and species of Tachinidae (Diptera) from the Neotropical Region

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1783 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
NORMAN E. WOODLEY ◽  
PAUL H. ARNAUD, JR.
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Cypress Trees

A new genus and species, Lobomyia neotropica gen. nov., sp. nov., (Diptera: Tachinidae) is described from material from Colombia (type locality), Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Trinidad. The Colombian material was reared from Glena bisulca Rindge (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), a defoliator of introduced cypress trees. Costa Rican material was reared from several species of Lepidoptera: Notodontidae.

Prasmodon zlotnicki, a new Neotropical species of the genus Prasmodon Nixon (Braconidae: Microgastrinae) from Costa Rica, with the first host records for the genus

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1016 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEJANDRO A. VALERIO ◽  
JOSEPHINE J. RODRIGUEZ ◽  
JAMES B. WHITFIELD ◽  
DANIEL H. JANZEN
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Leaf Rolling ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Forest Habitats

Prasmodon zlotnicki, a new Costa Rican species of the genus Prasmodon Nixon, is described and illustrated. In addition, the first host records for the genus are included along with an updated key to differentiate Prasmodon zlotnicki from P. eminens Nixon. Prasmodon is now known to attack several species of leaf-rolling and leaf-webbing Crambidae (Lepidoptera) in rain forest habitats.

scholarly journals A taxonomic study of Costa Rican Leptodrepana with the description of twenty-four new species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae)

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 750 ◽  
pp. 59-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samin D. Dadelahi ◽  
Scott R. Shaw ◽  
Helmuth Aguirre ◽  
Luis Felipe V. de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
North American ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Character State ◽  
Taxonomic Study ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Female Antenna

The genus Leptodrepana Shaw was described in 1983, but prior to the current study only one Neotropical species had been described from Mexico and none were named from Costa Rica. In this paper twenty-four new species are described and named from Costa Rica: L.alexisae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.atalanta Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.conda Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.conleyae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.demeter Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.eckerti Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.gauldilox Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.hansoni Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.kimbrellae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.lorenae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.munjuanae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.ninae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.pamelabbas Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.ronnae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L. rosanadana Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.schuttei Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.scottshawi Dadelahi, sp. n., L.shriekae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.sohailae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.sorayae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.soussanae Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.stasia Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., L.strategeri Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n., and L.thema Dadelahi & Shaw, sp. n. A key to Costa Rican species of Leptodrepana is provided. The flagellum of all female Leptodrepana described in this work is reduced to only 17 flagellomeres. This character state is also found in two North American species described by Shaw (1983), L.opuntiae Shaw and L.oriens Shaw. It is hypothesized that a female antenna with 17 flagellomeres is a synapomorphy for a species-group comprising all the Costa Rican Leptodrepana species as well as two of the Mexican and North American species, L.opuntiae and L.oriens.

Review of Gonatocerus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in the Neotropical region, with description of eleven new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2456 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
SERGUEI V. TRIAPITSYN ◽  
JOHN T. HUBER ◽  
GUILLERMO A. LOGARZO ◽  
VLADIMIR V. BEREZOVSKIY ◽  
DANIEL A. AQUINO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Species Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Distribution Ranges ◽  
Species Groups

The described Neotropical species of the common and speciose fairyfly genus Gonatocerus Nees ab Esenbeck (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) are reviewed and re-diagnosed. Eighty-four valid species are recognized including 11 newly described ones. Illustrated identification keys are provided to identify the 5 subgenera recognized in Gonatocerus and to females of each subgenus. The keys include 79 of the treated species, the other five species are known from males only. The known distribution ranges of the species, including new records of extralimital specimens examined, are given. Host associations of the treated species are also given, with emphasis on those species that parasitize eggs of proconiine sharpshooters (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae: Proconiini), all of which belong to the ater and morrilli subgroups of the ater species group of G. (Cosmocomoidea Howard), stat. rev. The other four recognized subgenera within Gonatocerus are the nominate subgenus, G. (Gonatocerus) (= sulphuripes species group of authors), G. (Lymaenon Walker), stat. rev. (= litoralis and straeleni species groups of authors), G. (Gastrogonatocerus Ogloblin), stat. rev. (= membraciphagus species group of authors), and G. (Gahanopsis Ogloblin), syn. n. & stat. n. (= deficiens species group of authors). Newly treated as synonyms of G. (Lymaenon) are Rachistus Foerster, Oophilus Enock, Agonatocerus Girault, Gonatoceroides Girault, and Decarthrius Debauche, all syn. n. Two species groups are recognized within G. (Cosmocomoidea) in the New World: the ater group, to which most Neotropical species belong (with the ater, bucculentus, morrilli, and the newly defined chusqueicolus subgroups) and the masneri group, with two described species from the Dominican Republic. The 11 new species described are G. (Gahanopsis) arkadak Triapitsyn sp. n. (Colombia), G. (Cosmocomoidea) barbos Triapitsyn sp. n. (Costa Rica and Mexico), G. (Cosmocomoidea) blefuscu Triapitsyn sp. n. (Costa Rica), G. (Cosmocomoidea) cuscus Triapitsyn sp. n. (Peru), G. (Cosmocomoidea) garchamp Triapitsyn sp. n. (Argentina), G. (Cos- mocomoidea) gerasim Triapitsyn sp. n. (Mexico), G. (Cosmocomoidea) hispaniolus Triapitsyn & Huber sp. n. (Dominican Republic), G. (Cosmocomoidea) kiskis Triapitsyn sp. n. (Argentina), G. (Cosmocomoidea) logarzoi Triapitsyn sp. n. (Argentina), G. (Cosmocomoidea) mumu Triapitsyn sp. n. (Argentina), and G. (Cosmocomoidea) rakitovi Triapitsyn sp. n. (Costa Rica). Seven new synonymies are proposed: Gonatocerus h-luteum (Ogloblin) syn. n. under G. (Cosmoco- moidea) nigriflagellum (Girault); G. enicmophilus Huber syn. n. and G. necator (Ogloblin) syn. n. under G. (Cosmoco- moidea) bonariensis (Brèthes); G. dimorphus (Ogloblin) syn. n. and G. monrosi (Ogloblin) syn. n. under G. (Gastrogonatocerus) margiscutum Girault; and G. setulosus (Ogloblin) syn. n. and G. dorsiniger (Ogloblin) syn. n. under G. (Gastrogonatocerus) membraciphagus Ogloblin. Litus maculipennis Ashmead, Gahanopsis deficiens (Ogloblin), and Gahanopsis straeleni (Debauche) are transferred to Gonatocerus as, respectively, G. (Cosmocomoidea) maculipennis (Ashmead) comb. n., G. (Gahanopsis) deficiens (Ogloblin) comb. n., and G. (Lymaenon) straeleni (Debauche) comb. n. Lectotypes are designated for the following 23 species: G. (Gahanopsis) acanophorae (Ogloblin), G. (Gahanopsis) aethalionis (Ogloblin), G. (Cosmocomoidea) annulicornis (Ogloblin), G. (Gastrogonatocerus) anomocerus Crawford, G. (Gonatocerus) appendiculatus (Ogloblin), G. (Gonatocerus) bonaerensis (Ogloblin), G. (Cosmocomoidea) caudatus (Ogloblin), G. (Cosmocomoidea) concinnus (Ogloblin), Lymaenon (Gastrogonatocerus) dimorphus Ogloblin, G. (Gona- tocerus) excisus (Ogloblin), G. (Cosmocomoidea) gracilicornis (Ogloblin), G. (Cosmocomoidea) grandis (Ogloblin), Lymaenon h-luteum Ogloblin, G. (Cosmocomoidea) inauditus (Ogloblin), G. (Gastrogonatocerus) juvator Perkins, G. (Gastrogonatocerus) margiscutum Girault, G. (Cosmocomoidea) metanotalis (Ogloblin), G. (Cosmocomoidea) nasutus (Ogloblin), Lymaenon necator Ogloblin, G. (Cosmocomoidea) nigrithorax (Ogloblin), G. (Lymaenon) pratensis (Ogloblin), G. (Gonatocerus) stenopterus (Ogloblin), and G. (Gonatocerus) urocerus (Ogloblin).

Revision of the Neotropical species of Trichacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), with description of 24 new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3337 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
TANIA MILENA ARIAS-PENNA ◽  
LUBOMIR MASNER ◽  
THIBAUT DELSINNE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Males And Females

The hymenopteran genus Trichacis is presumed to be endoparasitoid of Cecidomyiidae. Only three species of this genuswere hitherto recognized in the Neotropical region. Here, twenty four (24) new species are described based on 145 specimens: T. acarinata (Costa Rica), T. acuminata (Bolivia), T. acuta (Colombia), T. clypeata (Costa Rica), T.colombiana (Colombia), T. concavata (Costa Rica), T. corrugata (El Salvador, Mexico), T. costaricana (Costa Rica), T.delsinnei (Costa Rica), T. depressa (Costa Rica), T. dianae (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela), T. fernandezi (Ecuador), T.hansoni (Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama), T. kaulbarsi (Mexico), T. magnifica (Mexico), T. mexicana (Mexico),T. panamana (Panama), T. pecki (Ecuador), T. procera (Mexico), T. proximata (Costa Rica), T. punctata (Brazil), T.sculpturata (Mexico), T. transversata (Costa Rica), and T. triangulata (Mexico). A key for males and females of the 27 Neotropical species is provided.

Revision of the Costa Rican species of Elachiptera (Diptera: Chloropidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1754 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIA J. MLYNAREK ◽  
TERRY A. WHEELER
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Additional Species

The Costa Rican species of the genus Elachiptera are revised. There are seven described species in the region: Elachiptera attenuata (Adams); E. coniotrigona Duda; E. fucosa sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: Santo Domingo de Heredia); E. melinifrons sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: San José); E. queposana sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: Quepos); E. rubida Becker and E. sacculicornis (Enderlein). An additional species (Elachiptera sp. A) is known from a single female specimen and is not formally described. Only one of these species (E. attenuata) had previously been recorded from Costa Rica.

scholarly journals Review of the New World genus Nanium Townes, 1967 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ctenopelmatinae), with two new species from the Neotropical region

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Reshchikov ◽  
Ilari E. Sääksjärvi ◽  
Marc Pollet
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Parasitoid Wasp ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Two New Species

Nanium Townes, 1967 is a small New World parasitoid wasp genus in the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Previously, it comprised five species: one from North America and four from Costa Rica. The current study reviews the Neotropical species of the genus, and includes descriptions of two new species, N. medianum Reshchikov & Sääksjärvi sp. nov. from Ecuador and N. atitlanensis Reshchikov & Sääksjärvi sp. nov. from Guatemala. A key to the species is provided.

The fishes from the Coto River basin, Pacific coast, Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4751 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
ARTURO ANGULO ◽  
JORGE SAN GIL-LEÓN ◽  
ALEJANDRO OVIEDO-SOTO ◽  
JUAN I. ABARCA-ODIO ◽  
GERARDO UMAÑA-VILLALOBOS
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Fish Species ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
New Records ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Freshwater Species ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Total Diversity

A checklist of the fishes of the Coto River basin, southern Pacific, Costa Rica, compiled from field and museum surveys is presented. A total of 61 species, representing 48 genera, 26 families and 11 orders are listed. Peripheral species were dominant (44.3%), whereas secondary and primary freshwater species represented 32.8% and 23.9% of the total diversity. The orders Cyprinodontiformes (12 spp.) and Perciformes (11) and the families Poeciliidae (8) and Cichlidae (7) were the most diverse. Two species (Lutjanus guttatus and Polydactylus approximans) were new records for Costa Rican freshwaters and ten additional species were found to have expanded geographical ranges. An identification key and a complete photographic album of all fish species recorded are presented. This investigation provides a framework for future studies on fishes from this area complementing previous efforts seeking to increase our knowledge about the freshwater ichthyofauna of the central and southern Pacific regions of Costa Rica. 

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