scholarly journals Filling gaps in the distribution of the four free-tailed bat species of the genus Nyctinomops Miller, 1902 (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Molossidae), with three new records for Guatemala

Check List ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 1747-1754
Author(s):  
Luis A. Trujillo ◽  
Raiza Barahona Fong ◽  
Sergio G. Pérez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Central America ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
New Records ◽  
First Record ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Northern Mexico

We found the four species of Nyctinomops Miller, 1902 living in sympatry in central Guatemala. All specimens were found dead under turbines of a wind farm. Nyctinomops femorosaccus (Merriam, 1889), was previously known from northern Mexico and southwestern United States, and this record extends its distribution at least 1150 km southward, representing the first record for Guatemala and Central America. Although N. aurispinosus (Peale, 1848) and N. macrotis (Gray, 1839) were already known from Central America (Honduras), and these are the first records for Guatemala.

scholarly journals First record of Western Gull, Larus occidentalis Audubon, 1839 (Charadriiformes, Laridae), for Honduras

Check List ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-784
Author(s):  
John van Dort
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Central America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
First Record ◽  
The United States ◽  
Larus Occidentalis ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
The Third ◽  
Western Gull ◽  
The Pacific

I present the first record for Honduras of Western Gull, Larus occidentalis Audubon, 1839, a species found on the Pacific coast of southern Canada, the United States and northern Mexico. An adult was present for at least two weeks at an estuary in the Gulf of Fonseca in southern Honduras. This observation represents the third record of this species for Central America.

scholarly journals New distribution records for amphibians and reptiles in eastern Chihuahua, Mexico

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2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Tomas Hernandez ◽  
Mark W. Herr ◽  
Skyler Stevens ◽  
Karlee Cork ◽  
Carolina Medina-Nava ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
High Quality ◽  
East Central ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
Reptile Species ◽  
Distributional Information ◽  
New Distribution

Distributions of amphibian and reptile species in northern Mexico are poorly understood when compared to adjacent areas of the southwestern United States. To address this gap in knowledge, we conducted a series of surveys in east-central Chihuahua, Mexico in 2014–2016. We documented 40 new municipality records for amphibian and reptile species by means of high quality digital photos. Photographic surveys offer a low-cost, highly accessible technique for accumulating distributional information.

Are We Collapsing? A Review of Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 1049-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott E Page
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Central America ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Dramatic Decline

Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking Penguin, 2005), tells the dramatic decline of past civilizations—the Easter Islanders, the Anasazi in the Southwestern United States, the Mayans in Central America, the Norse Vinland settlement in Greenland. These civilizations did not slowly fall apart; they suffered drastic reductions in population and productivity. In Diamond's account, their collapses result from mismanaged resources, lost friends, gained enemies, climate changes, and most tellingly, their cultures and beliefs. Diamond provides captivating histories and an engaging explanation of the sciences required to piece those histories together, but his logic and his prescriptions would benefit from greater familiarity with some basic principles of economics and a richer understanding of human nature.

New species and records of Liposcelis Motschulsky (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae) from Hawaii with first description of the male of Liposcelis bostrychophila Badonnel

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1766 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWARD L. MOCKFORD ◽  
PAUL D. KRUSHELNYCKY
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Woody Vegetation ◽  
Small Species ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
The Third ◽  
Liposcelis Bostrychophila ◽  
Group Ii

Sampling of arthropods in ground and woody vegetation habitats in highland areas on the islands of Hawaii and Maui revealed six species of psocids of the genus Liposcelis. Three are new and are here described. L. maunakea sp. n. and L. volcanorum sp. n. are closely related and form a small species complex together with L. nasus Sommerman and L. deltachi Sommerman from southwestern United States and northern Mexico. A key to the species of this complex is included. The third new species, L. kipukae sp. n., is a member of group II-C with only 5 ommatidia in the eye. A key to the known species of group II-C with fewer than 7 ommatidia in the eye is included. First Hawaiian records are presented for L. bostrychophila Badonnel, L. deltachi, and L. rufa Broadhead. The first known males of L. bostrychophila are reported and described. This species is very widespread, but generally parthenogenetic.

NEW BAETIDAE FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES AND NORTHERN MEXICO (EPHEMEROPTERA: INSECTA), WITH NOTES

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (12) ◽  
pp. 1095-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard K. Allen ◽  
Chad M. Murvosh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Nymphal Stage ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Distributional Limits

AbstractCollections of Baetis Leach, Baetodes Needham and Murphy, and Dactylobaetis Traver and Edmunds from the southwestern United States and northern Mexico included new species and new distribution records. The nymphal stages of Baetis sonora n.sp. and Dactylobaetis sinaloa n.sp. are described and figured. Species of Baetis nymphs that were given informal epithets, even though they were described, keyed, and their taxonomic characters figured, are named, or tentatively associated with a described adult. Baetis sp. “A” Morihara and McCafferty is tentatively associated as the nymphal stage of B. adonis Traver, Baetis sp. “B” Morihara and McCafferty is named B. libos, and Baetis sp. “C” Morihara and McCafferty is named B. notos. New collection records extend the known distributional limits of Baetis insignificans McDunnough, Baetodes edmundsi Koss, B. fuscipes Cohen and Allen, and Dactylobaetis mexicanus Traver and Edmunds.

scholarly journals Rainforest and cloud forest Scolytodes (Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Hexacolini) from the Arthropods of La Selva inventory in Costa Rica: new species, new synonymy, new records

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 863 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Bjarte H. Jordal ◽  
Lawrence R. Kirkendall
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
New Records ◽  
Cloud Forest ◽  
First Record ◽  
Related Genus ◽  
La Selva ◽  
Neotropical Forest ◽  
New Synonymy

Quantitative collecting efforts over the last several decades in Costa Rica have resulted in many new species of insects. The Arthropods of La Selva projects included collecting from a typical lowland Neotropical forest and up an altitudinal transect, and has provided many valuable samples of insects, spiders and mites potentially new to science. We describe 18 new species in the bark beetle genusScolytodesFerrari, 1867, 14 of which were collected during this project:S.angulusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.sufflatusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.squamatifronsJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.comosusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.spatulatusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.seriatusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.profundusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.catinusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.fimbriatusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.sulcifronsJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.planifronsJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.porosusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.mundusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.callosusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.parvipilusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.plenusJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.,S.nigerJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov., andS.simplexJordal & Kirkendall,sp. nov.One species,ScolytodesminutissimusSchedl, 1952, is redescribed to match the holotype. We give new Costa Rica records forS.costabilisWood, 1974, which is the correct name forS.obesusWood, 1975 (syn. nov.). We report Costa Rica as a new country record for six species:ScolytodesclusiacolensWood, 1967,S.crinalisWood, 1978,S.culcitatus(Blandford, 1897),S.libidusWood, 1978,S.reticulatus(Wood, 1961), andS.spadix(Blackman, 1943). From a closely related genus, we provide the first record for Central America (and only the second collection) ofPycnarthrumfulgidumWood, 1977.

scholarly journals Supplemental Material: Stratigraphic correlation chart of Carboniferous–Paleogene rocks of Mexico, adjacent southwestern United States, Central America, and Colombia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Lawton ◽  
et al.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Central America ◽  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Stratigraphic Correlation ◽  
Southwestern United States ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Sample Data

Three-sample data set, Table S1: Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of Todos Santos Formation, and Plate 1<br>

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