First high-altitude record of Bucculatrix mirnae Vargas and Moreira (Lepidoptera, Bucculatricidae) on a newly documented host plant: the importance of host plant distribution for conservation on the western slopes of the Andes mountains of northern Chile

AbstractEnvironmental limits of animal life are invariably revised upwards when the animals themselves are investigated in their natural habitats. Here we report results of a scientific mountaineering expedition to survey the high-altitude rodent fauna of Volcán Llullaillaco in the Puna de Atacama of northern Chile, an effort motivated by video documentation of mice (genus Phyllotis) at a record altitude of 6205 m. Among numerous trapping records at altitudes >5000 m, we captured a specimen of the yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse (Phyllotis xanthopygus rupestris) on the very summit of Llullaillaco at 6739 m. This summit specimen represents an altitudinal world record for mammals, far surpassing all specimen-based records from the Himalayas and elsewhere in the Andes. This discovery suggests that we may have generally underestimated the altitudinal range limits and physiological tolerances of small mammals simply because the world’s highest summits remain relatively unexplored by biologists.

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Ragonotia campodonicoi Cepeda (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) in the Andes Highlands of Northern Chile, Expanded Distribution and First Documented Host Plant

Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society ◽

10.18473/lepi.74i3.a6 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 74 (3) ◽

pp. 189

Author(s):

Héctor A. Vargas

Keyword(s):

Host Plant ◽

Northern Chile ◽

The Andes ◽

Lepidoptera Pyralidae

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Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses in Children Living at High Altitude in the Andes Mountains

High Altitude Medicine & Biology ◽

10.1089/ham.2012.1058 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 155-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

S. Allen Counter ◽

Leo H. Buchanan ◽

Fernando Ortega

Keyword(s):

High Altitude ◽

Andes Mountains ◽

Evoked Responses ◽

Auditory Evoked Responses ◽

The Andes

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Multi-objective optimization to balance thermal comfort and energy use in a mining camp located in the Andes Mountains at high altitude

Energy ◽

10.1016/j.energy.2020.117121 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 199 ◽

pp. 117121

Author(s):

Annelore Dietz ◽

Sergio Vera ◽

Waldo Bustamante ◽

Gilles Flamant

Keyword(s):

Thermal Comfort ◽

High Altitude ◽

Energy Use ◽

Andes Mountains ◽

Multi Objective Optimization ◽

Multi Objective ◽

The Andes

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Revision of the Solanum medians Complex (Solanum section Petota)

Systematic Botany ◽

10.1600/036364408785679905 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 579-588 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

David M. Spooner ◽

Diego Fajardo ◽

Alberto Salas

Keyword(s):

Andes Mountains ◽

Morphometric Study ◽

Herbarium Specimens ◽

Wild Potato ◽

Northern Chile ◽

Closely Related Species ◽

The Andes ◽

Morphological Variants ◽

Solanum Section Petota ◽

Section Petota

Solanum medians is a widely distributed species of wild potato (Solanum sect. Petota), growing along the coastal lomas and up the western slopes of the Andes Mountains from central Peru and northern Chile, from 200–3800 m elevation. Fertile diploid and sterile triploid cytotypes are common, are believed to be associated with morphological variants, and are formally named as subspecies. A morphometric study based on principal components and canonical discriminate analyses of characters obtained from herbarium specimens tests the circumscription of these subspecies and other currently recognized species that are very similar to S. medians. The results show so much overlap of these taxa that it is impractical to use morphology to define species or to provide reliable keys or identifications. We synonymize ten names under S. medians: S. medians var. angustifoliolum, S. medians var. majorifrons subvar. majorifrons, S. medians var. majorifrons subvar. protohypoleucum, S. medians var. autumnale, S. sandemannii, S. tacnaense, S. weberbaueri var. decurrentialatum, S. tacnaense f. decurrentialatum, S. weberbaueri, S. weberbaueri var. poscoanum. We also treat S. neoweberbaueri as a closely related species to S. medians. We consider the synonymy in S. medians to be part of a much larger need for reduction of names in sect. Petota.

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The northern river shrimp Cryphiops caementarius (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Research chronology between 1958 and 2008, I: distribution, population status, biology and life cycle

Crustaceana ◽

10.1163/15685403-00003259 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 86 (12) ◽

pp. 1441-1451 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maria C. Morales ◽

Jaime Meruane

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Embryonic Development ◽

Technological Development ◽

Natural Habitat ◽

Andes Mountains ◽

Controlled Environment ◽

Northern Chile ◽

Population Status ◽

The Andes ◽

Northern River

The present study is a review of the main inland water malacostracan species of northern Chile: Cryphiops caementarius (Molina, 1782). This species sustains the local fisheries in northern and central Chilean hydrographical basins. Cryphiops caementarius, in Chile known as the northern river shrimp, is endemic to rivers west of the Andes Mountains in Peru, and south from Chancay-Lambayeque River and the rivers in the northern Chilean littoral up to 32°55′S. Research on this species in its natural habitat consigned between 1958 to 2008 was directed to population knowledge, including mainly the existing populations in rivers in the Regions of Atacama and Coquimbo. Important advances were also made with regards to the study of the embryonic development, biology, life cycle and reproduction that serve as a basis for the technological development of juvenile production in a controlled environment.

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