Review of Costa Rican Venadicodia, with descriptions of two new spedes ami localities for V. ruthea (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae)

• Corrales, Jorge F ^[1] ; Epstein, Mare E ^[2]
  1. [1] Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (lNBio)
  2. [2] Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution
• Localización: Revista de Biología Tropical, ISSN 0034-7744, Vol. 45, Nº. 3, 1997 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Volume 45 – Regular number 3 – September 1997; 971–977)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Review of Costa Rican Venadicodia, with descriptions of two new spedes ami localities for V. ruthea (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae)
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    We provide descriptions of the males and females of four species of the Latín American genus Venadicadia that occur in Costa Rica. Two species, V. paguei and V. caneti, are new, while three species are known exclusively from Costa Rica at this time. V. ruthea, described without a type locality and previously of unknown distribution, is fouad to occur in Costa Rica. We give the first descriptions of the genitalia and (he smooth larva of Venadicadia, which places trus genus in the Prolimacodes complex. Larvae of V. canetí are found on the hostplant Ocotea veraguensis (Lauraceae) and are parasitized by Austrophorocera sp. (Tachinidae).

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    We provide descriptions of the males and females of four species of the Latín American genus Venadicadia that occur in Costa Rica. Two species, V. paguei and V. caneti, are new, while (hree species are kncwn exclusively from Costa Rica at this time. V. ruthea, described without a type locality and previously of unknown distribution, is fouad to occur in Costa Rica. We give the first descriptions of the genitalia and (he smooth larva of Venadicadia, which places trus genus in the Prolimacodes complex. Larvae of V. canetí are found on the hostplant Ocotea veraguensis (Lauraceae) and are parasitized by Austrophorocera sp. (Tachinidae).