Revision of Telothyria van der Wulp (Diptera: Tachinidae) and twenty-five new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to Mesoamerican species
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We describe 25 new species in the genusTelothyriavan der Wulp, 1890 from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. All species herein described were reared from an ongoing inventory of wild-caught caterpillars spanning two families (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, and Tortricidae). Our study provides a concise description of each new species using morphology, life history, molecular data, and photographic documentation; a redescription of the genus, and its type species as well as a revised key to species ofTelothyriaoccurring in the Mesoamerican region. We also suggest seven new synonymies resulting in 11 new combinations. The following 25 new species ofTelothyriaare described:T. aidanisp. n.,T. alexanderisp. n.,T. auranticrussp. n.,T. auriolussp. n.,T. bicuspidatasp. n.,T. carolinacanoaesp. n.,T. clavatasp. n.,T. cristatasp. n.,T. diniamartinezaesp. n.,T. duniagarciaesp. n.,T. duvalierbricenoisp. n.,T. eldaarayaesp. n.,T. erythropygasp. n.,T. fimbriatasp. n.,T. fulgidasp. n.,T. gloriashihezaraesp. n.,T. griseasp. n.,T. harryramirezisp. n.,T. incisasp. n.,T. manuelpereiraisp. n.,T. obscurasp. n.,T. omissasp. n.,T. osvaldoespinozaisp. n.,T. peltatasp. n., andT. ricardocaleroisp. n. The following are proposed by Fleming & Wood as new generic synonyms ofTelothyria:ComatactaCoquillettSyn. n.,FloradaliaThompsonSyn. n.,PtilomyiaCurranSyn. n.,PtilomyiopsisTownsendSyn. n.,PtilomyoidesCurranSyn. n.,EuptilomyiaSyn. n.,EutelothyriaTownsendSyn. n. The following new combinations are proposed as a result of the new synonymies:Telothyria bequaerti(Curran, 1925)Comb. n.,Telothyria cruenta(Giglio-Tos, 1893)Comb. n.,Telothyria frontalis(Townsend, 1939)Comb. n.,Telothyria insularis(Curran, 1927)Comb. n.,Telothyria itaquaquecetubae(Townsend, 1931)Comb. n.,Telothyria major(Thompson, 1963)Comb. n.,Telothyria micropalpus(Curran, 1925)Comb. n.,Telothyria minor(Thompson, 1963)Comb. n.,Telothyria nautlana(Townsend, 1908)Comb. n.,Telothyria plumata(Curran, 1925)Comb. n.,Telothyria trinitatis(Thompson, 1963)Comb. n.,Telothyria variegata(Fabricius, 1805)Comb. n.Musca tricinctaFabricius is synonymized underTelothyria variegataFabricius,Syn. n. Telothyria schineriFleming & Woodnom. n.is proposed as a replacement name forMiltogramma brevipennisSchiner. Additionally we provide redescriptions of two previously named species: the type speciesTelothyria cupreiventris(van der Wulp) due to its being the type species, andTelothyria relicta(van der Wulp) due to its having been reared as an outcome of the inventory.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".