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

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.

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 ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2663.1.1 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2663 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

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

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent126125-1 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 126 (1) ◽

pp. 125-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

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 ◽

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.

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

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4658.3.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4658 (3) ◽

pp. 401-451 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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 ◽

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.

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

Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde ◽

10.1163/26660644-06302003 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 115-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Giuseppe L. Pesce ◽

Diana P. Galassi

Keyword(s):

West Indies ◽

The West ◽

New Localities ◽

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.

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

Invertebrate Systematics ◽

10.1071/it9920719 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 719 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

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

Latin American Antiquity ◽

10.7183/1045-6635.25.1.101 ◽

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

Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada ◽

10.4039/entm10381fv ◽

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 ◽

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.

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

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.2834.1.1 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2834 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

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.

The true Dythemis multipunctata Kirby, 1894, from the West Indies and proposed new taxonomic status (Odonata: Anisoptera: Libellulidae)

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3019.1.3 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3019 (1) ◽

pp. 51 ◽

Author(s):

FRANçOIS MEURGEY ◽

CELINE POIRON

Keyword(s):

West Indies ◽

Taxonomic Status ◽

Type Locality ◽

Lesser Antilles ◽

The West ◽

Range Distribution ◽

The true Dythemis multipunctata Kirby is illustrated and the female is described for the first time based on specimens from the type locality, St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles). The taxonomic status of the species is discussed, and notes on behavior, habitat, and range distribution are provided. D. multipunctata is to be considered a subspecies of D. sterilis (Hagen), and mainland populations previously known as multipunctata are now to be called D. nigra Martin.

New Data on Taxonomy and Zoogeography of Ingolfiellid Crustacea

Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde ◽

10.1163/26660644-04901006 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 81-96 ◽

Author(s):

Jan H. Stock

Keyword(s):

West Indies ◽

Limited Range ◽

The West ◽

Caribbean Islands ◽

Groundwaters (in wells, springs, caves, macroporous interstitia...) of 29 Caribbean islands have been investigated. Only on the four islands off the coast of Venezuela (viz., Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, and Margarita) members of the suborder Ingolfiellidea (Crustacea, Amphipoda) have been encountered, altogether six species, of which three are described here for the first time. The zoogeographical implications of this limited range in the West Indies is discussed.