scholarly journals The genus Neocyclops Gurney in the West Indies: an update including the description of Neocyclops (Protoneocyclops) geltrudeae n. sp. (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopidae)

1993 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe L. Pesce ◽  
Diana P. Galassi
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
New Localities ◽  
First Time

Neocyclops (Protoneocyclops) geltrudeae n. sp. is described from the marine interstitial of Curaçao. Neocyclops (Neocyclops) medius Herbst, 1955 and N. (Neocyclops) vicinus Herbst, 1955 are for the first time recorded from the West Indies. New localities for Neocyclops (Protoneocyclops) stocki Pesce, 1985 from the West Indies are reported.

Keys to the genera and species of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the West Indies and description of a new species of Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2663 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERRY WHITWORTH
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Species Distributions ◽  
The West ◽  
Blow Flies ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Key Characters

Keys to 11 genera and 21 species of Calliphoridae found or likely to be found in the West Indies are given. Species distributions and key characters are discussed. Lucilia fayeae sp. nov. is described from numerous specimens from Dominica, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent. Calliphora maestrica Peris et al. is redescribed and the male of the species is described for the first time.

STREPSIPTERA OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE BAHAMAS WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND NEW SPECIES OF CORIOXENIDAE

1994 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeyaraney Kathirithamby ◽  
Stewart B. Peck
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
New Record ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Fire Ants ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Andros Island ◽  
First Time

AbstractEight species of Strepsiptera have been reported so far from Florida, but none from the Bahamas. This study reports five species from southern subtropical Florida, and one species from Andros Island, the Bahamas. Of these, Floridoxenos monroensis gen.nov., sp.nov. Kathirithamby and Peck (Corioxenidae: Corioxeninae) is described and added to the subfamily Corioxeninae based on the 4-segmented tarsi without claws; Strichotrema beckeri (Oliveira and Kogan) (Myrmecolacidae) of Brazil is reported from the United States for the first time; a second record for Elenchus koebelei Pierce (Elenchidae) from Florida is reported; and Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce (Myrmecolacidae) is a new record for Bahamas. This latter species is generally a widespread parasite of fire ants in the southern parts of North America, in the West Indies, and in the northern Neotropics.

scholarly journals Phelister Marseul, 1854 in Cuba: first West Indies records of Phelister completus Schmidt, 1893, and notes on other Cuban species (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Histerinae)

Check List ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Yoandri S. Megna ◽  
Yunier Lamoth-Mayet ◽  
Michael S. Caterino ◽  
Tomáš Lackner
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Taxonomic Composition ◽  
The West ◽  
First Time

We present a key to the three species of the genus Phelister Marseul, 1854 (Coleoptera, Histeridae), occurring in Cuba along with diagnoses and habitus drawings. All three species are newly recorded for the cadaveric fauna in Cuba. In addition, we address the taxonomic composition and distribution of the genus Phelister in the country. Phelister completus Schmidt, 1893 from the West Indies is recorded for the first time from Cuba.

scholarly journals New records of vascular plants in the West Altai

Turczaninowia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-139
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Smirnov ◽  
Aleksey A. Kechaykin ◽  
Vladislav S. Tenigin ◽  
Ilja A. Shestakov ◽  
Alexander I. Shmakov
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
New Records ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
The West ◽  
Red Data Book ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Data Book ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
First Time

The article presents new data on the distribution in the territory of Western Altai of 20 species of vascular plants from the families Asteraceae, Betulaceae, Boraginaceae, Crassulaceae, Huperziaceae, Grossulariaceae, Lamiaceae, Onagraceae, Orchidaceae, Papaveraceae, Polygonaceae, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae, Saxifragaceae и Violaceae. All of them were collected in the highlands of the Korgon Range within the Altai Territory. Of these, Potentilla crebridens is reported for the first time for the Altai Territory and Western Altai; for other species, new localities are indicated. For the first time for the Korgon Range within the Altai Territory, Saxifraga terektensis, Viola tigirekica are presented, and the exact location of Potentilla nivea is noted. New localities of rare and protected species were discovered: Callianthemum sajanense, Huperzia appressa, Pyrethrum alatavicum, Saussurea baicalensis, Scutellaria altaica. For each species, the general distribution, ecology data are given, for some species, notes on the difference and differentiation of them from the closest taxa are indicated. If necessary, the locations of the species previously registered in the Western Altai are indicated. For the species included in the “Red Data Book of the Altai Territory”, we provide an information on the approximate number of individuals in the found populations. Based on the analysis of herbarium material, we exclude Potentilla nervosa from the list of flora of the Altai Territory.

Nylanderia of the World Part III: Nylanderia in the West Indies

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4658 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN S. LaPOLLA ◽  
ROBERT J. KALLAL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Introduced Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Sem Images ◽  
World Species ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

The diversity of the formicine ant genus Nylanderia is currently underestimated and largely undescribed. This includes the faunas of tropical regions where species richness is typically high. Here, the taxonomy of the West Indian Nylanderia fauna is revised for the first time. Fourteen new species are described, bringing the total number of species known from the region to 22. The new species are: N. bibadia, sp. nov., N. caerula, sp. nov., N. coveri, sp. nov., N. disatra, sp. nov., N. esperanza, sp. nov., N. fuscaspecula, sp. nov., N. lucayana, sp. nov., N. metacista, sp. nov., N. pini, sp. nov., N. semitincta, sp. nov., N. sierra, sp. nov., N. wardi, sp. nov., N. xestonota, sp. nov., and N. zaminyops, sp. nov. There are several introduced species in the region including the globally widespread Old World species N. bourbonica. Other introduced species are N. fulva, N. pubens, N. guatemalensis, and N. steinheili. The following new synonyms are proposed: fulva Mayr 1862 (= fulva cubana Santschi 1930); steinheili Forel 1893 (= steinheili minuta Forel 1893). An identification key is provided for the workers of Nylanderia found in the West Indies. Photomontage images are provided for the worker of each species and when available photomontage and SEM images are provided for males. This work represents another step forward in understanding the diversity of this widespread and commonly encountered ant genus.

First record of Thermosbaenacea (Crustacea) from the Southern Hemisphere: a new species from a cave in tropical Western Australia

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 719 ◽  
Author(s):  
GCB Poore ◽  
WF Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
West Indies ◽  
First Record ◽  
The West ◽  
Saline Waters ◽  
First Time ◽  
Cave Habitat ◽  
A New Species

The crustacean order Thermosbaenacea is reported for the first time from the Southern Hemisphere, from almost fresh water in a cave habitat in tropical Western Australia. Halosbaena tulki, sp. nov. belongs to a genus previously known only from saline waters in the West Indies, Columbia and Canary Is. The discovery is consistent with a very ancient origin of the order and distribution of the genus by plate movements following the breakup of Pangaea.

Recent Archaeobotanical Findings of the Hallucinogenic Snuff Cojoba (Anadenanthera Peregrin A (L.) Speg.) in Precolonial Puerto Rico

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez ◽  
Lisabeth A. Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Starch Grains ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
First Time ◽  
Habitation Site

Archaeological starch grains consistent with those produced and stored in modern cojoba (Anadenanthera peregrina) seeds were identified, for the first time in the West Indies, in a coral milling base recovered in a small precolonial habitation site of Eastern Puerto Rico, in a context dated to A.D. 1150-1250. Ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and previous archaeological data on cojoba from the West Indies and South America were surveyed in order to form plausible sociocultural interpretations of the findings. After experimentally assessing some ethnographic protocols that possibly replicate various ancient ways of processing cojoba seeds for producing hallucinogenic powders related to the so-called ritual de la cojoba, this report proposes that cojoba seeds were processed and used here mainly as an hallucinogenic complement to the healer for the divination of illness.

A REVISION OF THE ALLECULIDAE (COLEOPTERA) OF THE WEST INDIES

1971 ◽  
Vol 103 (S81) ◽  
pp. 7-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Lesser Antilles ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The West ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

AbstractEleven genera and 70 species of West Indian Alleculidae are revised. All known taxa of the family from the Bahama Islands, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and the Cayman Islands are included. Five new genera (Parahymenorus, Latacula, Notacula, Obesacula, and Punctacula) are described and three genera are recorded from the West Indies for the first time (Cteisa, Pseudocistela, and Allecula). All five of the described subgenera of Lobopoda are recorded from the region, Glabrilobopoda for the first time. Forty-seven new species and one new subspecies are described in the genera Pseudocistela, Lobopoda, Allecula, Hymenorus, Parahymenorus, Latacula, Notacula, Obesacula, and Punctacula. Cistelopsis striatus Pic is transferred to the genus Hymenorus.Keys to the genera, subgenera, species, and subspecies are presented. All taxa are described or redescribed and major diagnostic characters are illustrated. Habitus illustrations are included for each genus. A zoogeographic discussion of the taxa, including distributional tables, is presented.

The first record of Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) in Europe with notes on its distribution in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Svyatoslav S. Knyazev ◽  
Pavel Yu. Gorbunov ◽  
Sergey F. Melyakh ◽  
Svetlana V. Nedoshivina ◽  
Nikolai D. Grebennikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Distribution ◽  
West Siberia ◽  
First Record ◽  
South Urals ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
New Localities ◽  
First Time

First record of the nemoral Eastern Palaearctic species Catocala helena Eversmann, 1856 is reported from Samara Region as new to Europe. New localities in the South Urals and West Siberia are reported for the first time. The present records expand the species distribution for more than 2500 km to the west. The general species’ distribution and bionomics is provided. Species’ habitats in the South Urals are illustrated.

Sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps (Alpheidae: Synalpheus) of Barbados, West Indies, with a description of a new eusocial species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2834 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTIN M. HULTGREN ◽  
KENNETH S MACDONALD III ◽  
J. EMMETT DUFFY
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
The West ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Snapping Shrimps ◽  
First Time ◽  
One New Species ◽  
Eusocial Species

Sampling of eight sites along the west coast of Barbados, West Indies, yielded 14 species of sponge-dwelling shrimps in the gambarelloides group of the genus Synalpheus, including one new species described here as Synalpheus microneptunus n. sp. The new species is a member of the S. paraneptunus Coutière species complex and is distinguished from other species in that group by the combination of four carpal segments in the second pereopod, uropodal exopod with 2 nd distolateral tooth smaller than the other two teeth and set in line with movable spine, and a small blade on the scaphocerite. Synalpheus microneptunus n. sp. is the smallest species in the complex (2.2-2.9 mm CL) and lives in small colonies, usually with fewer than 10 individuals, often with a single breeding female. Synalpheus thele Macdonald, Hultgren & Duffy is reported for the first time from outside its type locality in Jamaica. Sampling in Barbados produced fewer species than did similar efforts in Jamaica and Curaçao, possibly due to the relatively isolated position of the island at the eastern (windward) edge of the Caribbean Sea.

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