scholarly journals An aberrant record of Hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin (Statius Muller, 1976) (Aves: Opisthocomidae) in Venezuela

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2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Galo Buitrón-Jurado
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Field Work ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Northern South America

I report an aberrant record of Hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin in the Andes of Lara, Venezuela. During field work in July 2011 in the Yacambú National Park, in an area of premontane cloud forest, I observed and photographed an individual of O. hoazin in El Blanquito reservoir. This is the first record of the species in Lara State, and apparently the highest record of the species in northern South America.

scholarly journals First record of Ramphocorixa rotundocephala Hungerford, 1927 (Hemiptera, Corixidae) for Colombia

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2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 503-506
Author(s):  
Mabel Giovana Pimiento-Ortega ◽  
Isabella González-Gamboa ◽  
Yimy Herrera-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Procambarus Clarkii ◽  
Aquatic Insect ◽  
First Record ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Northern South America ◽  
The Town

In the course of research conducted on Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) in Colombia, Ramphocorixa rotundocephala Hungerford, 1927 was collected in Güitoque Lake, outside the town of Gachantivá, Boyacá. The species was identified from the adult males found there. This species of aquatic insect occurs mostly in Central and North America, but there are also two records from Venezuela in South America. This is the first record of this species and its genus for Colombia. This finding increases this species’ known distribution on the continent and the diversity of hemipterans in northern South America.

scholarly journals New locality records of Rhagomys longilingua Luna & Patterson, 2003 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in Peru

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2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 2136 ◽  
Author(s):  
César E. Medina ◽  
Darwin R. Díaz ◽  
Kateryn Pino ◽  
Alexander Pari ◽  
Horacio Zeballos
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
National Park ◽  
Potential Distribution ◽  
Distribution Range ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Eastern Slope ◽  
Distribution Models ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Manu National Park

Rhagomys longilingua is one of the rarest sigmodontine rodents of South America, currently known from only 2 localities (4 individuals) in Peru and Bolivia. Here we report 3 additional localities in Peru, one of which extends the geographic distribution range of this species 613 km northeast from the type locality (Suecia, Manu National Park, Cusco department). Potential distribution models showed the presence of R. longilingua from Bolivia until Colombia along the eastern slope of the Andes.

scholarly journals First report of naturalization of Houttuynia cordata Thunb. 1783 (Piperales: Saururaceae) in South America

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2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruy José Válka Alves ◽  
Débora Medeiros ◽  
Ricardo Loyola de Moura ◽  
Luiza Carla Trindade de Gusmão ◽  
Nílber Gonçalves da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
National Park ◽  
First Record ◽  
Houttuynia Cordata ◽  
First Report ◽  
Houttuynia Cordata Thunb ◽  
Established Population

A relatively large and established population of Houttuynia cordata from Itatiaia National Park in Brazil represents the first record of naturalized Saururaceae in South America. Although the species is potentially invasive, unknown mechanisms have prevented its spread to other localities between 1940, when it was recorded in cultivation in Brazil, and the present. The nearest known naturalized population is situated 5,600 km away, in Costa Rica, Central America.

First record and a new species of Megarthrus Curtis (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae) from the Colombian Central Andes

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2916 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
MARGARITA M. LÓPEZ-GARCÍA ◽  
DIANA M. Méndez-Rojas ◽  
JOSÉ LUÍS NAVARRETE-HEREDIA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
First Record ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
Northern South America ◽  
A New Species

The genus Megarthrus Curtis 1829 with about 139 species described around the world, is the largest of the subfamily Proteininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) (Cuccodoro 2011). Megarthrus is distributed worldwide (Cuccodoro 1999) but it is apparently more diverse in the Holartic region (Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002). However, the South American fauna is underestimated because many of the collected specimens are not yet described (Cuccodoro 2011). Newton et al. (2005) cited the genus as probable in Colombia because some species are known from Central America and northern South America, but until now, no species has been published from Colombia. Therefore, M. andinus sp. nov. represents the first record of the genus and subfamily for this country.

A distinctive new species of wood lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from the Yanachaga Chemillen National Park in central Peru

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3109 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
PABLO J. VENEGAS ◽  
VILMA DURAN ◽  
CAROLL Z. LANDAURO ◽  
LESLY LUJAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
National Park ◽  
The Other ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Transverse Line ◽  
The Andes ◽  
A New Species

We describe a new species of Enyalioides from a mid-elevation premontane forest in central Peru. This represents the seventh species of Enyalioides known to occur east of the Andes in South America; the other six species are E. cofanorum, E. laticeps, E. microlepis, E. palpebralis, E. praestabilis, and E. rubrigularis. Among other characters, the new species is distinguished from other Enyalioides by the combination of an orange blotch on the antehumeral region (in adult males), 30 or fewer longitudinal rows of dorsals in a transverse line between dorsolateral crests at midbody, ventral scales strongly keeled, and caudal scales heterogeneous in size on each autotomic segment. The new species is most similar morphologically to E. cofanorum and E. microlepis.

scholarly journals Filling a gap in the distribution of Scinax rostratus (Peters, 1863) (Anura, Hylidae) in northern Brazil, with further data on its advertisement call

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2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 2150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davi Lee Bang ◽  
Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
First Record ◽  
Advertisement Call ◽  
Spectral Structure ◽  
Large Species ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Emission Pattern ◽  
Northern Brazil ◽  
Northern South America

Scinax rostratus is a large species of the S. rostratus group and has an extensive distribution throughout northern South America. We provide the first record of S. rostratus from the state of Roraima (municipality of Cantá), which fills a previously assumed gap in this species’ distribution. We also describe the species’ advertisement call from this locality, providing further notes on the call emission pattern and fine scale temporal and spectral structure.

scholarly journals First record of Parvalona parva (Daday, 1905) (Crustacea: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Colombia

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2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Fuentés
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Eichhornia Crassipes ◽  
Aquatic Macrophyte ◽  
First Record ◽  
Species Range ◽  
Northern South America

The cladoceran Parvalona parva (Daday, 1905) (Anomopoda: Chydoridae) was found associated with the aquatic macrophyte Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms in Ciénaga de Chilloa-Magdalena Department, Colombia. It represents the first record of this species in Colombia and this species’ range is extended to northern South America. A brief descriptions of this taxon based on Colombian material is given.

scholarly journals A new minute species of Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Craugastoridae) with a large head from the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park in central Peru, with comments on the phylogenetic diversity of Pristimantis occurring in the Cordillera Yanachaga

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Lehr ◽  
Jiří Moravec ◽  
Juan Carlos Cusi ◽  
Václav Gvoždík
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Large Head ◽  
Phylogenetic Lineages ◽  
Subadult Female

We describe a new minute species of the genus Pristimantis, P. boucephalus sp. nov., from the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park, Región Pasco, Peru. The description is based on a freshly collected male specimen found at 2950 m a.s.l. in a cloud forest and four previously unidentified museum specimens consisting of two adult males, one subadult female and a juvenile from the Yanachaga-Chemillén National Park. The new species is mainly characterized by a snout–vent length of 13.4–14.5 mm in adult males (n = 3), and 12.5 mm in the only known subadult female, and is compared morphologically and genetically with other taxonomically and biogeographically relevant species of Pristimantis. The new species is characterized by its small size, disproportionally large head with short snout, absence of a tympanic annulus and membrane, and reddish-copper iris. Phylogenetically it belongs to a speciose clade, an as yet unnamed species group, comprising both montane (Andes, Guiana Shield) and lowland (Amazon) taxa from the northern part of South America. The new species is genetically close to the sympatric P. cruciocularis. Species of Pristimantis occurring in the Cordillera Yanachaga region in the Andes of central Peru are members of six divergent phylogenetic lineages.

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