Recent Archaeobotanical Findings of the Hallucinogenic Snuff Cojoba (Anadenanthera Peregrin A (L.) Speg.) in Precolonial Puerto Rico

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.

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 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2663 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Moss inhabiting flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) of the West Indies II: Menudos, a new genus from Puerto Rico and description of methods to collect moss inhabiting flea beetles

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4786 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADELITA M. LINZMEIER ◽  
ALEXANDER S. KONSTANTINOV
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Species Identification ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The West ◽  
Flea Beetles ◽  
First Time

Menudos Linzmeier & Konstantinov, a new genus of moss inhabiting flea beetles, containing five species, three of them are new (M. illariosus, M. maricao, and M. toronegro—the type species of the genus), from Puerto Rico is described and illustrated. The new genus is compared to Aedmon Clark, Apleuraltica Bechyne, Andersonaltica Linzmeier & Konstantinov, Distigmoptera Blake and Ulrica Scherer. Aedmon barberi (Blake, 1943b) and Distigmoptera chamorrae Konstantinov & Konstantinova, 2011 are transferred to Menudos. A key to Menudos species identification is provided. Methods for collecting moss inhabiting flea beetles and other arthropods are described in detail for the first time. 

TWO RECORDS OF AGROMYZIDAE FROM CHILE AND EASTER ISLAND (DIPTERA)

1967 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. E. Shewell
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Easter Island ◽  
Leaf Miner ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
The West ◽  
Leaf Miners ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
First Time

Leaf-miners associated with common cultivated plants are especially liable to become esrahlished in new areas through transportation with their hosts, and this possibility should always be considered when the agrommyzids of poorly-known faunal regions are studied, so that redescription of such species as new forms may he avoided. One of the species here recorded for thc first time from both Chile and Easter Island is a case in point. Phytobia maculosa (Malloch), known as a leaf-miner in cultivated Chrysanthemum in the U.S.A. since 1896 (though not correctly recognized and described until 1913), has since been redescribed from the same host plant in southern Brazil. Its known hosts now include 13 genera of Compositae and it is evidently widespread in the U.S.A., in the West Indies, and in temperate South America. It also occurs in Hawaii. Although not so far reported in Canada it almost certainly will be found in southern Ontario and British Columbia. Horticulture, both private and commercial, must have greatly assisted its spread in North America and elsewhere.

scholarly journals THE INSECTS OF PUERTO RICO - COLEOPTERA

1969 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
George N. Wolcott
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Not Given ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third

The very latest authoritative names for the beetles of Puerto Rico are included in the "Checklist of Coleopterous Insects of Mexico, Central America, the "West Indies and South America", compiled by Dr. Richard E. Blackwelder. This is Bulletin No. 185 of the United States National Museum, of which two parts appeared in 1944, the third in 1945, the fourth in 1946, while the fifth and concluding part was received late in 1947. As indications of generic transfers are not given in this list, none is included in the following pages. His changes in the gender of specific names are followed in the first citation even of economic insects, but often not subsequently.

The Parasites of the Coffee Leaf-Miners (Leucoptera spp.) in Africa

1936 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. Ferrière
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The West ◽  
Leaf Miners ◽  
The World ◽  
Leucoptera Coffeella

The coffee leaf-miners of the genus Leucoptera, Hübner, are serious pests of coffee wherever it is cultivated and they have often caused great anxiety to planters in many parts of the world. Leucoptera coffeella, Guér., is known from the West Indies, Central and South America, Central Africa, Madagascar, Réunion and Ceylon. Another species, L. daricella, Meyr., seems to be responsible for still more damage in Africa.

The milliped family Platyrhacidae (Polydesmida: Leptodesmidea) in the West Indies: Proposal of Hoffmanorhacus n. gen.; description and illustrations of males of Proaspis aitia Loomis, 1941; redescription of Nannorrhacus luciae (Pocock, 1894); hypotheses on origins and affinities; and an updated New World familial distribution

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3626 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROWLAND M. SHELLEY ◽  
DANIELA MARTINEZ-TORRES
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New World ◽  
The West ◽  
Insular Populations

In the New World, the milliped family Platyrhacidae (Polydesmida) is known or projected for Central Americasouth of southeastern Nicaraguaand the northern ¼ of South America, with disjunct, insular populations on Hispaniola(Haiti), Guadeloupe(Basse-Terre), and St. Lucia. Male near-topotypes enable redescription of Proaspis aitia Loomis, 1941, possibly endemic to the western end of the southern Haitian peninsula. The tibiotarsus of its biramous gonopodal telopodite bends strongly laterad, and the medially directed solenomere arises at midlength proximal to the bend. With a uniramous telopodite, P. sahlii Jeekel, 1980, on Guadeloupe, is not congeneric, and Hoffmanorhacus, n. gen., is erected to accommodate it. Nannorrhacus luciae (Pocock, 1894), onSt. Lucia, is redescribed; also with a biramous telopodite, its tibiotarsus arises distad and diverges from the coaxial solenomere. The Antillean species do not comprise a clade and are only distantly related; rather than introductions, they plausibly reflect ancestral occurrences on the “proto-Antillean” terrain before it rifted from “proto-SouthAmerica” in the Cretaceous/Paleocene, with fragmentation isolating modern forms on their present islands. Existing platyrhacid tribes are formally elevated to subfamilies as this category was omitted from recent taxonomies. Without unequivocal evidence to the contrary, geographically anomalous species should initially be regarded as indigenous rather than anthropochoric.

Phaeoisariopsis bataticola. [Distribution map].

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Central America ◽  
Sweet Potato ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Phaeoisariopsis bataticola (Cif. & Bruner) M.B. Ellis. Host: sweet potato (Ipomoea spp.). Information is given on the geographical distribution in NORTH AMERICA, USA, Florida, CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, SOUTH AMERICA, Venezuela.

Xanthomonas campestris pv. vasculorum. [Distribution map].

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
South America ◽  
Central America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Xanthomonas Campestris ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Saccharum Officinarum ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Xanthomonas campestris pv. vasculorum (Cobb) Dye. Hosts: Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum). Information is given on the geographical distribution in AFRICA, Ghana, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Reunion, South Africa (Natal), Swaziland, Zimbabwe, ASIA, AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA, New Guinea, NORTH AMERICA, Mexico, CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina (Tucuman), Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana.

Mycena citricolor. [Distribution map].

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Central America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Mycena citricolor (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Hosts: Coffee (Coffea spp.) and others. Information is given on the geographical distribution in NORTH AMERICA, Mexico, USA (Florida), CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martiniq, caragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Salvador, Trinidad, SOUTH AMERICA, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French, Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela.

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