scholarly journals Termites of the West Indies: The Bahamas, and Bermuda

1969 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Island ◽  
North Coast ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Island

Many of the termites of the West Indies are endemic, and so far as known, have a very limited distribution, often recorded from only a few islands. Kalotermes mona Banks is endemic to Mona Island and is found nowhere else. By contrast, many of the termites occuring in Cuba are also found in the United States, those of Jamaica in Panamá and Central America, and those of Trinidad in South America. The truly tropicosmopolitan Cryptotermes brevis (Walker) and Nasutitermes costalis (Holmgren) readily become established in new localities, islands or countries in which the environmental conditions are at all suitable. The comparatively large island of Trinidad, close to the mainland of South America and mostly with a continental fauna, has the largest number of species of termites of any of the West Indies: 31. The island of Curacao, also near the coast of South America, but small and arid has but 2, and none is recorded from Aruba, Margarita or the other smaller islands off the north coast of Venezuela. The comparatively small island of Tobago, northeast from Trinidad, has 8 species of termites recorded, and Barbados 7, but none is listed from St. Vincent, and most of the other Lesser Antilles have at most but 3 or 4. None is reported from Nevis, Saba, or St. John, but St. Croix of the U. S. Virgin Islands has 10, St. Thomas 5, and Culebra and Vieques 1 each. Fifteen species of termites are recorded from Puerto Rico, and 4 from Mona. In the large island of Hispaniola, only 8 species of termites are recorded from the eastern portion: the Dominican Republic, while 18 are known from Haiti. Sixteen species of termites are known in Jamaica, and 9 from the widely dispersed islands of the Bahamas. The large island of Cuba, closest of any to continental North America, has 22; the comparatively minute, and most distant Bermuda has 4. All recorded species may be identified by means of keys based on the characters of the soldiers, or of the winged adults.

XVI. Magnetical observations made in the West Indies, on North Coast of Brazil and North America, in the years 1834, 1835, 1836, and 1837, by Captain Sir Everard Home, Bart. R. N. F. R. S. Reduced by the Rev. George Fisher, M. A. F. R. S

1838 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 343-349
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Coast ◽  
The West ◽  
Magnetic Forces ◽  
The North ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Times ◽  
Made In

It was the object in the experiments recorded in this paper, to determine the relative magnetic forces soliciting both the dipping, and horizontal needles, by observing the times of their completing a given number of vibrations at the various places visited during a period of three years, on the North American and West India Station, in Her Majesty’s Ship Racehorse. The dipping instrument used was one of modern construction by Dollond. Each observation for the dip consisted of an equal number of readings of the positions of the needle, with the face of the instrument east and west, before and after the inversion of the poles, and a mean of all the readings taken for the true dip. The instrument had two needles fitted to it, one of which being used solely for the purpose of observing its vibrations, its magnetism was therefore never interfered with, and this needle in this paper is distinguished by the letter B. The other needle was kept for the purpose of determining the dip, and the results obtained with it are given in Table I.

scholarly journals I. Report of the observations of the total solar eclipse of August 29, 1886, made at Carriacou

1887 ◽  
Vol 42 (251-257) ◽  
pp. 316-318
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Total Solar Eclipse ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
The West ◽  
The North

Carriacou is a small island situated about twenty miles to the north of the island of Grenada, the chief of the Windward group, and furnished an excellent site for the observation of the last solar eclipse. Most of the observers sent by the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society to the West Indies in August of last year remained at Grenada, or on the small islands in its immediate vicinity, whilst Mr. Maunder and myself occupied the more distant northern station, where the totality was slightly diminished in duration. The work proposed for Mr. Maunder was to secure a series of photographs of the corona, with exposures of 40s. and under, and also to obtain two photographs of the spectrum of the corona with the longest exposures possible.

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.

Itchgrass–Stop the Trains?

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Hall ◽  
David T. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
North Central ◽  
Rottboellia Cochinchinensis

Itchgrass [Rottboellia cochinchinensis(Lour.) Clayton ♯ ROOEX] is a large aggressive annual in the Poaceae. This weedy grass is native to Southeast Asia. It now occurs also in tropical and subtropical areas of Australia and Africa and has been introduced into the West Indies and North, Central, and South America. It apparently was introduced into the United States at Miami, Fla. and Lafayette, La. in the early 1900s (1, 6, 7).

A REVISION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF LESCHENAULTIA SENS. LAT. (DIPTERA, LARVAEVORIDAE)

1946 ◽  
Vol 78 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 169-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
North American ◽  
West Indies ◽  
North American Species ◽  
The West ◽  
The North

This paper is a revision of the North American species of the genera Leschenaultia Robineau-Desvoidy, Parachaeta Coquillett and Rileymyia Townsend as they occur north of Mexico. Eight species have been recovered from this area and many more occur in Mexico, the West Indies and South America.

Systematics and distribution of the living and fossil small barn owls of the West Indies (Aves: Strigiformes: Tytonidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4830 (3) ◽  
pp. 544-564
Author(s):  
WILLIAM SUÁREZ ◽  
STORRS L. OLSON
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
New Combination ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Barn Owls

After reviewing the systematics and distribution of the living and fossil small West Indian taxa of Tytonidae (Tyto), we reached the following conclusions: (1) Strix tuidara J. E. Gray, 1827, type locality of Brazil, is the earliest available and correct name to be used in a binomen for New World mainland barn owls; (2) the North American mainland subspecies Tyto tuidara pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838), new combination, is resident in the Bahamas (“Tyto perlatus lucayanus” Riley, 1913, is a synonym), where it probably did not colonize until after the European introduction of Rattus Fischer, in Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) where it became established in the 20th century, and subsequently in Puerto Rico; (3) Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827) of Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is a different species restricted to its insular distribution, with “T. alba niveicauda” Parkes & Phillips, 1978, of the Isle of Pines (now Isla de la Juventud) as a synonym; (4) the distinct species Tyto glaucops (Kaup, 1852), now endemic to Hispaniola, once occurred in Puerto Rico, as the fossil species “T. cavatica” Wetmore, 1920, is here shown to be a synonym; (5) the smallest taxon Tyto insularis (Pelzeln, 1872) of the southern Lesser Antilles is treated as a separate species, in which the nominate subspecies T. i. insularis (St. Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines) differs slightly but consistently in coloration from T. i. nigrescens (Lawrence, 1878) of Dominica; (6) another barn owl, Tyto maniola, new species, of this group of small tytonids from the West Indies inhabited Cuba during part of the Quaternary, and is here named and described. 

The hero of Lefkandi

Antiquity ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 56 (218) ◽  
pp. 169-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervyn Popham ◽  
E. Touloupa ◽  
L. H. Sackett
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Major City ◽  
Persian Wars ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Island

The large island of Euboea, which lies along the north coast of Attica and Boeotia, was little known archaeologically until recent years (FIG. 1). Nor, apart from its involvement in the Persian Wars, then as a victim of Athenian imperialism and later as a step in the expansionism of Philip of Macedon, does it play any prominent role in the accounts of ancient historians. Yet, they have left hints of its former greatness in an early period of which little was remembered. The island was known to have sent out the first colonies to Italy and Sicily in the eighth century BC and to have settled the region of North Greece, still known as Chalcidice, after the name of one of Euboea's main cities, Chalcis. They remembered something, too, of a war between Chalcis and Eretria, the other major city of the island, in which their respective allies took part, and it is this conflict which seems to have exhausted both sides and led to the eclipse of the island's pre-eminence.

scholarly journals STRUKTUR KOMUNITAS VEGETASI MANGROVE DI PESISIR UTARA PULAU MENDANAU DAN PULAU BATU DINDING, KECAMATAN SELAT NASIK KABUPATEN BELITUNG

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Irma Akhrianti ◽  
Franto Franto ◽  
Eddy Nurtjahya ◽  
Indra Ambalika Syari
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Small Island ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Line Transect ◽  
Mangrove Species ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Island ◽  
The Status

Mendanau Island and Batu Dinding Island are part of small island groups that have a high diversity and density of mangroves. Based on administratively, Mendanau Island is located in the coastal area of Simpang Pesak District, Belitung Regency, which consist of one large island (Mendanau Island) and 1 small island (Batu Dinding Island). The lack of data about potential, diversity, and community structure of mangroves on the north coast of Mendanau Island and Batu Dinding Island, therefore this research is needed as a database for planning, sustainability management of mangroves at the coastal area and small island. The data of mangrove vegetation was taken by purposive sampling method, with using line transect plot (LTP). Ilustration of sampling design is each line transect have 3 plot / kuadratic transect sized 10 m x 10 m (capling), 5 m x 5m (sapling), 1m x 1 m (seedling). The result showed that there are 12 (twelve) mangrove species were found: jenis S. alba, R. apiculata, R.  stylosa, R. mucronata, B. gymnorhiza, X. granatum, L. littorea. S. hydrophyllacea, S. taccada, H. tiliaceus, Pandanus, dan I. pes-caprae.  Mangrove community structure and mangrove condition on the North Coast of Mendanau Island, at several observation stations, was damaged (poor conditions), while the status of the mangrove conditions on Pulau Batu Dinding was still relatively good

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