scholarly journals No greens in the forest? Note on the limited consumption of greens in the Amazon

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Katz ◽  
Claudia L. Lopez ◽  
Marie Fleury ◽  
Robert Miller ◽  
Valeria Payê ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
French Guiana ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Aromatic Plants ◽  
Cassava Leaves ◽  
Introduced Plants ◽  
Wild Fruit ◽  
Amazonian Indians ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Written Sources

The consumption of greens is reported as being very minor among Amazonian Indians. The authors of this article present a new review of this subject, based on fieldwork with Amerindians and other populations in different parts of the Brazilian Amazon and French Guiana. Written sources on Brazilian, Peruvian, Columbian and Venezuelan Amazon were also reviewed. The consumption of cultivated, semi-cultivated and wild species of greens was taken into account here, as the data specific to wild greens is very scarce. It is confirmed that greens are not commonly eaten among native Amazonians and that some ethnic groups do not consume them at all. The consumed species are usually young shoots of weeds or cassava leaves. Common in the Belém region are some specific aromatic plants, which have been diffused to other parts of the Amazon, together with introduced plants such as kale and coriander. Migrants from Northeastern Brazil settled in the Amazon consume some cultivated greens, especially aromatic plants. Maroons are the ones who use more greens in their diet. Native Amazonian people, who supplement agriculture with game and fish, follow a hunter-gatherer pattern, preferring wild fruit and tubers to greens.

The tadpole of Amazophrynella teko (Anura: Bufonidae) from the eastern Amazon, Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4830 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-596
Author(s):  
MARCELO MENIN ◽  
MARCOS ROBERTO DIAS-SOUZA ◽  
CARLOS EDUARDO COSTA-CAMPOS
Keyword(s):  
French Guiana ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
The State ◽  
Taxonomic Classification ◽  
Nominal Species

The genus Amazophrynella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, is represented by 12 nominal species and distributed in the Amazon region of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, and Venezuela (Frost 2020). In the last eight years, ten species from this genus have been described. However, despite the wide distribution and diversity of these species, only the tadpole of Amazophrynella manaos Rojas, Carvalho, Ávila, Farias, and Hrbek from the Brazilian Amazon (Menin et al. 2014) and A. siona Rojas, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek from Ecuador have been formally described (Duellman & Lynch 1969; Rojas et al. 2018). Literature about tadpole morphology, reproduction, and bioacoustics of Amazophrynella is scarce and necessary to a comprehensive taxonomic classification (Kaefer et al. 2019). Herein, we describe the tadpole of the recently described species Amazophrynella teko Rojas, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, found in the northeastern Amazon, in the State of Amapá, Brazil, and in French Guiana. 

A new species of Passiflora subgenus Passiflora series Quadrangulares (Passifloraceae) from the Brazilian Amazon

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANA KELLY KOCH ◽  
ANDRÉ LUIZ DE REZENDE CARDOSO ◽  
ANNA LUIZA ILKIU-BORGES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Related Species ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Brazilian State ◽  
Small Complex ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Passiflora is described from reforested post bauxite-mined area in the National Forest of Saracá- Taquera in the Brazilian state of Pará. The species is illustrated and its affinities with related species are discussed, and a key to the species of supersection Laurifoliae, series Quadrangulares is presented. The series Quadrangulares is composed of four species that constitute a small complex of large-flowered and large-fruited passionflowers with 3–4- angulate-winged stems that occurs naturally in the moist lowlands from Nicaragua to Brazil and French Guiana. However, among the four species of the series, Passiflora trialata is closely related to the new species by the 3-angular stems, the color and shape of sepals and petals, the 3-angular petioles and peduncles, and the single operculum.

scholarly journals Diversity of mites (Acari) on medicinal and aromatic plants in India*

Zoosymposia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
SALIL K. GUPTA ◽  
KRISHNA KARMAKAR
Keyword(s):  
Predatory Mites ◽  
Mite Species ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
Aromatic Plants ◽  
Medicinal And Aromatic Plants ◽  
Pesticides Residues ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Synthetic Pesticides ◽  
Different Parts

Despite the diverse and frequent use of medicinal and aromatic plants throughout the world, they have received poor attention regarding the mites and insects that they harbor. Here we summarize the diversity of phytophagous and predatory mites recorded on medicinal and aromatic plants in India, including first-hand information obtained by the authors in regular observations of plants growing in different parts of India between 2002 and 2009 as well as information reported in previous works conducted in the country. In total, 267 mite species of 93 genera and 18 families were found or have been reported on these plants in India.Most of these species (208) belong to families constituted mostly by phytophages, but quite a large number of species (56) belong to families constituted predominantly by predators. Despite the wide array of phytophagous species, relatively few have behaved as major pests, which may be at least in part due to the effect of the predatory mites with which they have been found. We consider 17 species as major pests of medicinal and aromatic plants and 11 species as main predators. The search for prospective predatory mites and the study of the feasibility of their use for the control of mite pests on medicinal and aromatic plants is worthwhile, given that a considerable proportion of people interested on the use of medicinal plants are adverse to the ingestion of synthetic pesticides residues, which could be found on those plants if the pests were controlled with the use of those products.

ICRC Medical Mission to the Brazilian Amazon Region

1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (123) ◽  
pp. 301-310
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
The West ◽  
Medical Mission ◽  
Brazilian Amazon Region ◽  
Amazonian Indians ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Cost

It will be recalled that, with the agreement of the Brazilian Ministry of the Interior and in close collaboration with the League of Red Cross Societies and the Brazilian Red Cross, the ICRC sent a team to Brazil in May 1970 to study the situation and needs of the Amazonian Indians. The team was led by Mr. S. Nessi, ICRC Delegate-General for Latin America, and comprised three doctors, B. Aakerren, S. Bakker and R. Habersang (who were loaned to the International Red Cross by the West German, Dutch and Swedish Red Cross Societies, which agreed also to meet the cost of the expedition) and a Swiss ethnologist, Mr. R. Fürst. They were joined in Rio de Janeiro by Dr. A. Borges dos Santos, a Brazilian Red Cross doctor. As they penetrated deep into the country, we published information on their journey, on the aid that they gave and on the medical centres that they set up.

scholarly journals Taxonomic revision of the Canthidium Erichson, 1847 species of the gigas group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edrielly Carvalho de Santa ◽  
Thaynara L. Pacheco ◽  
Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽  
Brazilian Cerrado ◽  
Three New Species

The gigas species group of the subgenus Canthidium (Neocanthidium) is defined and described. This species group is composed of three described species [C. gigas Balthasar, 1939, Brazilian Atlantic Forest, including intrusions into Cerrado, C. bokermanni (Martínez et al., 1964), Chaco and western Cerrado in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina, and C. kelleri (Martínez et al., 1964), Brazilian Cerrado and neighbouring open areas] and three new species: Canthidium stofeli sp. nov. from the western and southern regions of the Brazilian Amazon, Canthidium feeri sp. nov. from French Guiana, and Canthidium ayri sp. nov. from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. We present descriptions and redescriptions, illustrations, an identification key and comments on the distributions of the species of the gigas group.

scholarly journals A new species of Paralithoxus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Ancistrini) from the highlands of Serra da Mocidade, Roraima State, Brazilian Amazon

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lúcia Rapp-Py-Daniel ◽  
Andreza S. Oliveira ◽  
Douglas A. Bastos ◽  
Priscila Madoka M. Ito ◽  
Jansen Zuanon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
Mountain Chain ◽  
Flowing Stream ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Small Tributary ◽  
Pelvic Fin

ABSTRACT A new species of Paralithoxus is described from the Ajarani River, a small tributary of the Branco River basin, Roraima State, Brazilian Amazon. The genus Paralithoxus comprises species described from the Essequibo drainage in Guyana, Approuague and Maroni in French Guiana, Suriname River in Surinam, and more recently, from Jari and Amapá rivers, in Brazil. Despite occurring in a rock-bottomed fast-flowing stream as the other species of Paralithoxus, this is the first species of the genus collected at 900 m altitude, in the Serra da Mocidade highlands, an isolated and poorly accessible small mountain chain at the southern border of the Guiana Shield. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by having truncate teeth, color pattern with green spots on dark olive-brown background, alternating dark and light blotches on fins and by the pelvic fin being as long as or longer than the pectoral fin. Sex dimorphism of the species is described. Comments on morphology and osteology are provided and compared with congeners.

Dry leaf or twig mantis? A new genus and species of Acanthopidae with sexually dimorphic cryptic strategies (Insecta: Mantodea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4560 (2) ◽  
pp. 331 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTONIO A. AGUDELO R. ◽  
CAROLINE MALDANER ◽  
JOSÉ A. RAFAEL
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Compound Eye ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
The Many

Praying mantises (Mantodea) are distinct for their rich diversity of cryptic adaptations. Among the many strategies, dry-leaf mimicry have evolved multiple times in unrelated lineages from different zoogeographic regions, among them the Neotropical Acanthopidae. Here we describe Metacanthops fuscum n. gen. et n. sp. based on male and female specimens from the Brazilian Amazon. The recognition of this new acanthopid lineage revealed that Acanthops amazonica Beier, 1930 (currently assigned to Metilia Stål) is a member of Metacanthops and thus we transfer this species, now referable to as Metacanthops amazonica (Beier, 1930) n. comb., redescribe the holotype, and provide new data on its distribution in Brazil and French Guiana. Metacanthops is closely related to Metilia, from which its number of forefemoral posteroventral spines, head and compound eye shape, pronotal configuration, wings features, and the entirely brown habitus of males, can distinguish it. We highlight some aspects of sexual dimorphism in Metacanthops fuscum in relation to their dimorphic cryptic strategies, where males resemble a dry leaf and females a lichenous twig. We additionally establish five recently published names under genus Metilia as nomina nuda. 

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