Abstract:
We describe 22 new species in the genus Hyphantrophaga Townsend, 1892 (Diptera:
Tachinidae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in north-western Costa Rica.
All species were reared from an ongoing inventory of wild-caught caterpillars spanning a
variety of families (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae, Crambidae, Depressariidae, Doidae,
Erebidae, Euteliidae, Gelechiidae, Geometridae, Hedylidae, Hesperiidae, Immidae,
Lasiocampidae, Limacodidae, Megalopygidae, Mimaloniidae, Noctuidae, Nolidae,
Notodontidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Phiditiidae, Pterophoridae, Pyralidae,
Riodinidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Thyrididae, Tortricidae and Zygaenidae). We provide
a morphological description of each species together with information on life history,
molecular data and photographic documentation. In addition to the new species, we provide a redescription of the genus, as well as the redescription of three previously
described species, which were also collected within ACG during this study:
Hyphantrophaga angustata (van der Wulp), Hyphantrophaga myersi (Aldrich) and
Hyphantrophaga virilis (Aldrich & Webber).
