Observations on Cotton Stainers (Dysdercus) in the West Indies

1939 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Squire
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Group ◽  
Cotton Stainers ◽  
Made In

The following observations on cotton stainers were made in the Eastern Group of the West Indies, or Lesser Antilles, which extend from Trinidad to the Virgin Islands. Some idea of their size and geographical relationships will be obtained from fig. 1.

Excavations in Jamaica

1953 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Dewolf
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Present Knowledge ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Greater Antilles ◽  
The West ◽  
Arbitrary Time ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Cross Dating ◽  
Made In

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of excavations conducted in 1933, as yet unreported, and to correlate the findings with present knowledge of Jamaican and other West Indian prehistory. Descriptions of the sites and specimens may be of value to archaeologists in this area.Since 1933 great strides have been made in archaeological knowledge of the West Indies. Irving Rouse has correlated known cultures in most of the Greater Antilles and in some of the Lesser Antilles. He has established seven arbitrary time periods, I, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, and IVb, for the area (Rouse, 1939, 1941, 1948, 1951, 1952) on the basis of stratigraphy, sedation of modes, establishment of style sequences, and cross-dating of trade objects. During these periods four cultures existed. The period I culture is preceramic and is associated with the Ciboney Indians who may have come from North America. The first ceramic culture, Igneri, is associated with the Arawak Indians, who pushed north and east from the Orinoco Valley in period II. It lacks the ceremonial complex which distinguishes the two later ceramic cultures, sub-Taino and Taino, which developed in the Greater Antilles during periods III and IV, the former as a simpler variant of the latter.

Gerald H. Thayer's ornithological work in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
American Museum ◽  
The West ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883–1939) was an artist, writer and naturalist who worked in North and South America, Europe and the West Indies. In the Lesser Antilles, Thayer made substantial contributions to the knowledge and conservation of birds in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thayer observed and collected birds throughout much of St Vincent and on many of the Grenadines from January 1924 through to December 1925. Although he produced a preliminary manuscript containing interesting distributional notes and which is an early record of the region's ornithology, Thayer never published the results of his work in the islands. Some 413 bird and bird egg specimens have survived from his work in St Vincent and the Grenadines and are now housed in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Four hundred and fifty eight specimens of birds and eggs collected by Gerald and his father, Abbott, from other countries are held in museums in the United States.

Factors influencing the Control of Cotton-Stainers (Dysdercus spp.)

1924 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Withycombe
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Cotton Lint ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Cotton Stainers

Cotton-stainers, Dysdercus spp., are most important factors affecting the growing of cotton in the West Indies and elsewhere, on account of the fact that they convey certain bacteria and the spores of various internal boll fungi which cause staining and rotting of the cotton lint.

scholarly journals The West Indian Peridinetini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Baridinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2210 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENS PRENA
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Greater Antilles ◽  
The West ◽  
Distribution Maps

Two genera and nine species of Peridinetini are recognised in the West Indies; four of the species are newly described. Peridinetus Schönherr is represented in the Greater Antilles by P. concentricus (Olivier), P. decipiens Prena sp. n., P. fuscosignum Prena sp. n., P. poeyi Jacquelin du Val stat. res., P. roeselii (Boheman) and P. sexguttatus (Fabricius) comb. n. and Palliolatrix Prena in the Lesser Antilles by P. insignis (Chevrolat), P. lateropicta Prena sp. n. and P. silacea Prena sp. n. Ephimerus Schönherr is synonymised with Peridinetus (syn. n.). The overlooked synonymy of Peridinetus signatus Rosenschöld with P. concentricus is reinstated. Habitus images, distribution maps and a key for identification are provided.

Additions to the bryophyte flora of Guadeloupe archipelago (Lesser Antilles)

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELISABETH LAVOCAT BERNARD ◽  
CATHERINE REEB
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
The West

13 liverworts, 6 mosses and 1 hornwort are newly reported from the Guadeloupe archipelago. Mytilopsis albifrons, Plagiochila gymnocalycina var. surinamensis, Prionolejeunea muricatoserrulata and Syrrhopodon cymbifolius, are reported as new from the West Indies.

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