The economic Status of Indian Thysanoptera

1929 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. V. Ramakrishna Ayyar
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Insect Pests ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
The West ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Tropical Areas

In India the economic rôle played by insects of the order Thysanoptera, popularly known as “ thrips,” has not become so conspicuous as in some other parts of the world. The different kinds of thrips affecting specific crops such as wheat, oats, tobacco, fruits, onions, cacao and hot-house plants, in Europe, America, the West Indies and many tropical areas, are insects of established notoriety, and some of them cause severe and extensive damage to valuable crops from time to time ; but so far no species of Thysanoptera has as yet gained such prominence in India. Neither Lefroy in his book on “ Indian Insect Pests ” (1904), nor Fletcher in his publication on “ South Indian Insects ” (1914), has recorded any insect of this group as a definite pest among the numerous forms listed as injurious. In his other and more voluminous text-book, “ Indian Insect Life ” (1909), however, Lefroy, in the course of a brief chapter devoted to Thysanoptera, just refers to the three Indian species which were the only ones recorded till then, viz. : Idolothrips halidayi and Phloeothrips anacardii, described by Newman in 1856, and Panchaetothrips indicus, described by Bagnall in 1912 ; and only one of these, the last, had any economic importance, having been noted on turmeric in Madras.

Descriptions and Records of parasitic Hymenoptera from British Guiana and the West Indies

1931 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Myers
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
West Indies ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The West ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Parasitic Hymenoptera ◽  
Imperial Institute

The following notes are based almost entirely upon actual rearing records, the hosts in most cases being insects of economic importance. The greatest attention has been paid to parasites of the small moth-borers of sugar-cane (Diatraea spp.). The systematic work has been done entirely at the British Museum and would have been impossible without the facilities in literature and collections there, and the great help of Mr. D. S. Wilkinson and Dr. C. Ferrière, of the Imperial Institute of Entomology. Types of new species are in the British Museum.

scholarly journals The genus Sicoderus Vanin 1986 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Erodiscini) in the West Indies

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4497 (3) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT S. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Species Distributions ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
The West ◽  
History Information

The genus Sicoderus Vanin is revised for the West Indies. A total of 32 species are known with 18 new species described herein as follows: Sicoderus aeneus (Haiti), S. alternatus (Dominican Republic), S. bautistai (Dominican Republic, Haiti), S. beatyi (Cuba), S. bipunctiventris (Cuba), S. caladeler (Cuba), S. detonnancouri (Dominican Republic), S. franzi (Puerto Rico), S. guanyangi (Dominican Republic), S. humeralis (Dominican Republic), S. lucidus (Dominica), S. medranae (Dominican Republic, Haiti), S. perezi (Dominican Republic), S. pseudostriatolateralis (Dominican Republic, Haiti), S. striatolateralis (Dominican Republic), S. thomasi (Haiti), S. turnbowi (Dominican Republic), and S. woodruffi (Grenada). All species are described or redescribed, natural history information is summarized and a listing of locality data from all specimens examined is included. A key is provided to all West Indian species of the genus. All species distributions are mapped and all (excepting S. propinquus Vanin) are represented by habitus images and images of male genitalia. 

scholarly journals Biflorin: an o-naphthoquinone of clinical significance

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 1907-1914 ◽  
Author(s):  
GABRIELLE G.N.S. WISINTAINER ◽  
EVELYNE R.B. SIMÕES ◽  
TELMA L.G. LEMOS ◽  
SIDNEI MOURA ◽  
LUCIANA G.S. SOUZA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Activity ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Resistant Bacteria ◽  
Tumor Cell Lines ◽  
The West ◽  
Cytotoxic Effects ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
Characterization Studies ◽  
Isolated Compound ◽  
Mcf 7

Biflorin is an o-naphthoquinone with proven cytotoxic effects on tumor cells showing antimicrobial, antitumor and antimutagenic activities. Biflorin is an isolated compound taken from the roots of the plant Capraria biflora L. (Schrophulariaceae), indigenous of the West Indies and South America, which is located in temperate or tropical areas. This compound has shown to be strongly active against grampositive and alcohol-acid-resistant bacteria. It has been efficient in inhibiting the proliferation tumor cell lines CEM, HL-60, B16, HCT-8 and MCF-7. Recently, SK-Br3 cell line was treated with biflorin showing important cytotoxic effects. In this article, information related to the first structural characterization studies are presented, as well as the latest reports concerning the biological activity of this molecule.

scholarly journals TWO IMPORTANT WEST INDIAN SEED-INFESTING CHALCID WASPS

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Herbert L. Dozier
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The West

The following brief and incomplete notes are presented here in order to call attention to two seed-infesting chalcid wasps in the hope that they will be studied further by other workers as the opportunity occurs. Both are of much economic importance but the damage occasioned by them has heretofore been completely overlooked. Although our knowledge of the distribution of these species is extremely limited, they undoubtedly will prove to be present on most of the islands of the West Indies and, possibly, wherever their host plants occur.

Sustaining Faith

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-233
Author(s):  
Katherine Freedman
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The West ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
George Fox ◽  
British State

Abstract This article uses the case study of the small Quaker community on seventeenth-century Antigua, as well as sources from Quakers on Barbados and from Quaker missionaries travelling throughout Britain’s Atlantic empire, to question the role of Quakers as anti-slavery pioneers. Quaker founder George Fox used a paternalistic formulation of hierarchy to contend that enslavement of other human beings was compatible with Quakerism, so long as it was done in a nurturing way—an argument that was especially compelling given the sect’s desperate need in the seventeenth century to establish itself economically or risk its destruction by the post-Restoration British State. By exploring the crucial economic role that the slave-based economies of the West Indies played in establishing the Quakers as a powerful sect in the eighteenth-century North American colonies, this article demonstrates that it was impossible for Quakers to follow through in establishing a nurturing form of slavery, particularly within the brutal context of the West Indian sugar colonies.

Eleven new species of snakes of the genus Typhlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Hispaniola and Cuba

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1400 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD THOMAS ◽  
S. BLAIR HEDGES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
The West ◽  
Related Pair ◽  
Western Caribbean ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Morphological Differences

Here we describe 11 new species of blindsnakes of the genus Typhlops from the West Indies. Four of the new species are from southern Hispaniola and were previously confused with T. hectus Thomas. Seven other species are described from Cuba and are related to T. biminiensis Richmond. Diagnostic morphological differences distinguish all of these species, and at least three pairs are known to be sympatric. With these new taxa, 40 species of Typhlops are now recognized from the West Indies, all of which are endemic to the region. Nearly all species are found on single islands or island banks. We classify West Indian Typhlops into nine species groups, most of which exhibit geographic patterns. The West Indian species form two clades: the T. biminiensis Group with its 12 species is centered in the western Caribbean (Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba) and the remaining species, grouped into eight species groups, form a large clade (Major Antillean Radiation) centered in Hispaniola, but with a closely related pair of lineages in the Puerto Rico region (7 sp.) and northern Lesser Antilles (5 sp.).

scholarly journals Kolanut curing, storage and trade: Panacea for increased kolanut production in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 046-051
Author(s):  
Adejoke Adebusola Adelusi ◽  
Ayodele Oladipo Akinpelu ◽  
Qudus Adebayo Ogunwolu
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Insect Pests ◽  
The West ◽  
Storage Methods ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Desk Research ◽  
Kola Tree

The article examined kolanut curing, storage and trade. Kolanut thrives well in Africa, the Americas, Brazil and the West Indies. It is the fruit of the kola tree originating from the Cola genus. A desk research was employed using various published literatures on kolanut. It was unveiled that most farmers use chemical insecticides such as gammalin 20 and phostoxin in preventing kolanut from insect pests attack before storage, which is hazardous to the human body. Also, the methods used in extracting kolanuts from the pod, the methods used in curing and storage significantly determine the quality of the nuts. Furthermore, kolanut farmers can make more profits through exportation of the nuts rather than through domestic sales. Hence, efforts should be geared towards provision of better kolanut curing and storage methods and more awareness should be created about the benefits of exporting kolanuts to other countries.

The World of Alexander Campbell: An Eighteenth-Century Grenadian Planter

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-256
Author(s):  
Mark Quintanilla
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New World ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The West ◽  
Tropical Crops ◽  
The World ◽  
Alexander Campbell

In 1763 few Europeans doubted the enormous importance of their Caribbean possessions, a fact indicated by the ready willingness of the French to cede Canada in order to regain British-occupied Martinique. The British were no different, and in the West Indies they were in the process of establishing a New World aristocracy whose riches were based upon African slavery and the production of tropical crops. The British prized their Caribbean territories, especially since the sugar revolution that had begun during the mid-seventeenth century first in Barbados where the crop had become dominant by 1660 and then in Jamaica. British planters continued their success in the Leeward Island settlements of Antigua, St. Christopher, Nevis, and Montserrat, where entrepreneurs converted their lands to sugar cane by the early 1700s. West Indian planters became influential within the British Empire, and exercised profound social, political, and economic importance in the metropolis. By the eighteenth century they were the richest colonists within the empire; they were landed aristocrats who could have vied in wealth and prestige with their counterparts in Britain.

scholarly journals NOTES ON THE GENUS ANERISTUS HOWARD WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES (Hymenoptera: Chaleidoidea)

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Herbert L. Dozier
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Scale Insects ◽  
The West ◽  
Great Economic Importance ◽  
The Status ◽  
Host Relationships ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Available Information

The purpose of this paper is to establish as clearly as possible the status of the genus Aneristus Howard, to assemble all the available information concerning the habits and host-relationships of its members, and to make known three new species from the West Indies. So far as known all the species of Aneristus are primary parasites of the non-diaspine Coccidae or soft scale insects and are of great economic importance.

scholarly journals Pseudelephantopus spicatus (false elephant's foot).

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo A. Ventosa-Febles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Herbaceous Plant ◽  
The West ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Open Ground ◽  
Adventive Flora ◽  
Tropical Areas

Abstract Pseudelephantopus spicatus is a herbaceous plant native to the tropical areas in Mesoamerica, South America, the West Indies and Latin America; it has been introduced to Africa, Southeast Asia and some islands in the Pacific. It is reported to be naturalized in parts of Florida and Thailand. P. spicatus is regarded as a potentially pernicious weed of open ground.. As early as 1948 all available evidence then is said to have indicated that P. spicatus, however interesting as an addition to the adventive flora of the United States, is a potentially injurious weed which should be extirpated if possible before it becomes too thoroughly established.

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