Revision of Belvosia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) and 33 new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to known North and Mesoamerican species
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Abstract
This revision is part of a continuing series of taxonomic work aimed at the description of new taxa and the redescription of known taxa of the Tachinidae of Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Here we describe 33 new species in the genusBelvosiaRobineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Tachinidae). All species described here were reared from this ongoing inventory of wild-caught caterpillars spanning a variety of families (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Eupterotidae, Noctuidae, Notodontidae, Saturniidae, and Sphingidae). We provide a morphological description of each species with limited information on life history, molecular data, and photographic documentation. In addition to the new species, the authors provide a redescription of the genusBelvosia, as well as provide a key to the identification of the species present in the Meso- and North-American fauna. The following 33 new species ofBelvosiaRobineau-Desvoidy, 1830, all authored by Fleming & Woodley, are described:Belvosia adrianguadamuziFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia anacarballoaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia angelhernandeziFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia brigittevilchezaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia alixtomoragaiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia carolinacanoaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia ciriloumanaiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia diniamartinezaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia duniagarciaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia duvalierbricenoiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia eldaarayaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia eliethcantillanoaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia freddyquesadaiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia gloriasihezaraeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia guillermopereiraiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia harryramireziFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia hazelcambroneroaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia jorgehernandeziFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia josecorteziFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia josepereziFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia keinoraragoniFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia luciariosaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia manuelpereiraiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia manuelriosiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia minorcarmonaiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia osvaldoespinozaiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia pabloumanaiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia petronariosaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia ricardocaleroiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia robertoespinozaiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia rostermoragaiFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia ruthfrancoaeFleming & Woodleysp. n.,Belvosia sergioriosiFleming & Woodleysp. n. Belvosia canalisAldrich, 1928 is reared and recorded from the inventory; new information relative to host is provided and the species is rediscribed. The following are proposed by Fleming & Woodley as new synonyms ofBelvosiaRobineau-Desvoidy, 1830:BrachybelvosiaTownsend, 1927syn. n.,BelvosiomimopsTownsend, 1935syn. n. The following three new combinations are proposed as a result of the new synonymies:Belvosia brasilensis(Townsend, 1927),comb. n.; andBelvosia barbiellinii(Townsend, 1935),comb. n. The authors also propose the following new synonymies:Belvosia brasilensis(Townsend, 1927) =Belvosia aurulenta(Bigot, 1888),syn. n.;Belvosia pollinosaRowe, 1933 =Belvosia borealisAldrich, 1928syn. n.;Belvosia weyenberghiana(Wulp, 1883) =Belvosia fuliginosa(Walker, 1853)syn. n.;Belvosia brasiliensisTownsend, 1927 =Belvosia fuliginosa(Walker, 1853)syn. n.;Belvosia luteolaCoquillett, 1900 =Belvosia ochriventris(Wulp, 1890)syn. n.;Belvosia socia(Walker, 1853) =Belvosia proxima(Walker, 1853)syn. n.;Belvosia chrysopyga(Bigot, 1887) =Belvosia unifasciata(Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)syn. n.;Belvosia chrysopygata(Bigot, 1888) =Belvosia unifasciata(Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)syn. n.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".