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Issue: Vol. 5437 No. 3: 15 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.3.6
Page range: 413-423
Abstract views: 113
PDF downloaded: 5

A new bot fly species of Cuterebra (Diptera: Oestridae) from Ecuador

R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology; University of California; Davis; CA 95616; USA; Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; 2100 Copenhagen; Denmark
Museum Koenig; Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels; Adenauerallee 127; D-53113 Bonn; Germany
Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; 2100 Copenhagen; Denmark
Diptera COI-barcode Cuterebrinae mimicry morphology Neotropics orchid bees taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of cuterebrine rodent bot fly, Cuterebra yanayacui sp. nov., is described from the cloud forest of Ecuador, and it is argued that the species mimics a range of aculeate hymenopterans, including euglossine orchid bees of the genera Eufriesea Cockerell and Eulaema Lepeletier and bumble bees of the subgenus Cullumanobombus Vogt. Montemyia bureni Dalmat, 1942 is proposed as a junior synonym of Cuterebra ornata Bau, 1928, syn. nov., and an updated identification key to the species of the Metacuterebra species group within Cuterebra Clark is provided. The 5’-end of the Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene is sequenced for the new species and compared with published Cuterebra sequences.

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