A food plant specialist in Sparganothini: A new genus and species from Costa Rica (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae)

Melaniphax suffusculus gen. et sp. nov. is described from Costa Rica, representing the 57th delphacid species recorded from the country to date. The new genus is superficially similar to Caenodelphax Fennah in general appearance in that the body is uniformly colored with the wings infuscated. Distinctive features of the new taxon include simple, forceps-like gonostyli, a broadly compressed aedeagus with large serrate lateral flanges, and the anal tube bearing a pair of short, stout, truncate, caudally-directed processes on the ventro-caudal margin and slender, elongate processes from the antero-ventral margin.

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

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1783.1.3 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1783 (1) ◽

pp. 31 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

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.

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A new genus and species of Sciomyzidae (Diptera) from the Neotropical Region

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.540.1.1 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 540 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

LUCIANE MARINONI ◽

MANUEL A. ZUMBADO ◽

LLOYD KNUTSON

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Type Species ◽

New Genus ◽

Neotropical Region ◽

Female Genitalia ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Male And Female

A new genus, Neuzina, is described from specimens collected in Brazil (Par ), Venezuela (Guarico) and Costa Rica (Guanacaste). The species Neuzina diminuta is described as the type species of the genus and based on the presence of the proepisternal seta and characters of male and female genitalia the genus is placed in the subfamily Sciomyzinae, tribe Sciomyzini.

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The new genus Acrocephalomyia, and a new species of Ropalomera from Costa Rica, with additional records for other Mesoamerican species (Diptera: Ropalomeridae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3478.1.44 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3478 (1) ◽

pp. 553-569 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

SERGIO IBÁÑEZ-BERNAL ◽

VICENTE HERNÁNDEZ-ORTIZ

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Central America ◽

New Taxa ◽

New Genus ◽

The Body ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

The Family ◽

Forward Projection ◽

A New Species

New taxa of the family Ropalomeridae from Costa Rica are described, and additional records of ropalomerid flies fromMexico and Central America are provided. The new genus and species Acrocephalomyia zumbadoi can be easily distin-guished from all other ropalomerid genera by the following combination of characters: angular forward projection of head,absence of ocelli, flat face, bare arista, long scutum, and scutellum triangular-shaped and dorsally flattened with only onepair of apical bristles with bases approximated. The new species Ropalomera aterrima can be recognized from congenersby remarkable differences of the head, the shape of the scutellum, the absence of scutal vittae, fumose wings, and by theblack coloration of the body, ocellar bristles large, one postpronotal bristle, scutum without pollinose vittae and flat scutellum. Lenkokroeberia chryserea Prado and Kroeberia fuliginosa Lindner are newly confirmed for Costa Rica.

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A new genus and species, Pilosimitra buckii (Sematophyllaceae, Musci), from Costa Rica

Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution ◽

10.11646/bde.26.1.5 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 19-22

Author(s):

Benito Tan ◽

Gregorio Dauphin

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

New Genus ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

The Family

A new genus and species, Pilosimitra buckii (Sematophyllaceae, Musci), from Costa Rica is described and illustrated. This new genus differs from all other members of the family in having an autapomorphic or derived character, densely hairy calyptra, plus a combination of several other characters not seen in other genera in the family.

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