28 research outputs found
First record of Plectromerus exis Zayas in the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Plectromerus exis Zayas (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Curiini) is recorded from the Dominican Republic for the first time
An anotated list of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of Dominica (excluding Scolytinae and Platypodidae)
Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of the West Indian island of Dominica are composed of 111 genera and 214 species and subspecies. Some of the species listed are morphospecies, or are known to be undescribed, but all are identified at least to genus. Previously the fauna was recorded as 31 species. Numbers presented herein represent a seven-fold increase in species diversity. Furthermore, the widespread nature of many species demonstrates that the supposedly endemic faunas of many West Indian islands may be based on collecting biases or a lack of people capable of providing species level identifications
An annotated checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) of the Cayman Islands, West Indies
A faunal list of 605 species of Coleoptera in 396 genera in 63 families is presented for the Cayman Islands. For most species, island and locality within island collecting information is provided
The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La DĂ©sirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles
The Guadeloupe Archipelago, the French overseas DĂ©partement de Guadeloupe, is a geographically associated group of islands and a natural biogeographic unit. The islands have been available for terrestrial colonization since the late Tertiary. From the viewpoint of beetle systematics and biodiversity, this is the most important set of islands of the Lesser Antilles because more species have been described or recorded from Guadeloupe than any other island or group in the Lesser Antilles. We present a summary of the 1338 beetle species recorded in the literature from the archipelago, in 60 families, and 719 genera. The families with the largest numbers of species are Curculionidae (420), Staphylinidae (153), Chrysomelidae (75), Cerambycidae (69), Scarabaeidae (64), and Tenebrionidae (59). Four hundred eighty two species are known only from one or more islands of the Guadeloupe group and likely speciated there. Guadeloupe is the type locality for an additional 59 species. At least 61 species have been accidentally introduced by human activities. A total of 261 species are known only from the Lesser Antilles including Guadeloupe. The remaining species are naturally more widespread in the Lesser Antilles, or the West Indies, and elsewhere in the New World. The actual number of species on the Guadeloupe Archipelago is estimated to be around 1850 or more species
An annotated checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) of the Bahamas
A faunal list of 996 species of Coleoptera in 552 genera in 74 families is presented for the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. For most species, island and locality within island collecting information is provided. Historically, the beetle fauna of the Bahamas has been very poorly known. Leng and Mutchler (1914) in their list of the beetles of the West Indies, recorded only 31 species specifically from the Bahamas. Blackwelder (1944-1957) listed 98 species from the Bahamas (Vaurie 1952b). In neither case did the authors include the names of the individual island for the records. The present list of 996 species in 552 genera in 74 families grew directly out of our experiences on Andros Island, where a list of the Cerambycidae (Thomas and Turnbow 2007) of that island grew into a list of Andros Coleoptera and finally into a checklist of the Coleoptera of the Bahamas as a whole. It should be seen as a preliminary list, as the Bahamas are still relatively poorly collected and the fauna is still poorly known, especially considering how close they are to the United States. Many specimens collected during our trips to Andros Island and Great Inagua remain unidentified. The publication of this checklist completes a set of checklists that also includes Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998) and Cuba (Peck 2005), which with the Bahamas comprise a natural biogeographic unit with much in common faunistically and floristically. The list provided here is a combination of literature records (referenced), new information based on our collecting on Andros Island in 2001, 2004, and 2006 and Great Inagua in 2007, and specimen records in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA). Literature records for “Bahamas” or “Bahama Islands” only (Blackwelder 1944-1957; Darlington 1953; Erwin and Sims 1984; Leng and Mutchler 1914; O’Brien and Wibmer 1982; Peck 2005; Triplehorn and Watrous 1982; Wibmer and O’Brien 1986; and Young 1954) have been omitted when more specific data have been located. Locality information is presented verbatim; corrections and emendations appear in brackets. The repositories of all specimens listed are supplied when known. Because the great majority of the species listed are new for the Bahamas, no attempt has been made to identify those as such. Many families are here newly reported from the Bahamas. However, it seems justified to mention the first Bahamian records of Heterobostrychus aequalis (Waterhouse) (Bostrichidae), an Asian powderpost beetle, and Aphanistichus cochinchinae seminulum (Obenberger) (Buprestidae), an Asian sugarcane pest. Both also are established in Florida. The family composition and arrangement of the list follows Arnett and Thomas (2001), with the following exceptions: Zopheridae include the old Monommatidae (Monommidae) and Colydiidae (see Ivie 2002) and Hybosoridae include Ceratocanthidae (Ocampo 2006), and Cybocephalidae (Smith 2007) and Bolboceratidae (Král et al. 2006) are recognized as distinct families. Families are listed alphabetically; genera are arranged alphabetically under family headings; species are arranged alphabetically within genera
The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La DĂ©sirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles
The Guadeloupe Archipelago, the French overseas DĂ©partement de Guadeloupe, is a geographically associated group of islands and a natural biogeographic unit. The islands have been available for terrestrial colonization since the late Tertiary. From the viewpoint of beetle systematics and biodiversity, this is the most important set of islands of the Lesser Antilles because more species have been described or recorded from Guadeloupe than any other island or group in the Lesser Antilles. We present a summary of the 1338 beetle species recorded in the literature from the archipelago, in 60 families, and 719 genera. The families with the largest numbers of species are Curculionidae (420), Staphylinidae (153), Chrysomelidae (75), Cerambycidae (69), Scarabaeidae (64), and Tenebrionidae (59). Four hundred eighty two species are known only from one or more islands of the Guadeloupe group and likely speciated there. Guadeloupe is the type locality for an additional 59 species. At least 61 species have been accidentally introduced by human activities. A total of 261 species are known only from the Lesser Antilles including Guadeloupe. The remaining species are naturally more widespread in the Lesser Antilles, or the West Indies, and elsewhere in the New World. The actual number of species on the Guadeloupe Archipelago is estimated to be around 1850 or more species
First record of \u3ci\u3ePlectromerus exis\u3c/i\u3e Zayas in the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
During revisionary work on the tribe Curiini LeConte, 1873, a new country record for Plectromerus exis Zayas was noticed. Plectromerus exis was described by Fernando de Zayas in 1975 from five specimens collected in several localities in Cuba (Zayas, 1975) and is listed as endemic to that island (Monné, 2005; Monné and Hovore, 2005; Peck, 2005). The senior author recently studied the holotype and type series of P. exis deposited in the Zayas Collection, La Habana, Cuba (Nearns, 2005)
Arrhenodini Lacordaire 1865
Arrhenodini Raphyrhynchus nitidicollis Gyllenhal, 1833: 328 Distribution. Costa Rica, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, South America (Blackwelder 1947; Peck 2006) Recent Dominica Collections. 4 km. SW Pont Cassé, VIII-14-1986, ca. 1900’, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. Paul Par., Pont Cassé, VI- 19-2004, R. Turnbow (CWOB); St. John Par., Cabrits Nat. Pk., bl trap, VI- 27-2004, R. Turnbow (CWOB and RHTC); ibid. VI- 28-2004 (CWOB and RHTC)Published as part of O'Brien, Charles W. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2011, An Annotated List of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of Dominica (Excluding Scolytinae and Platypodidae), pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (179) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.516102
Auletini Desbrochers des Loges 1908
Auletini Auletina Auletobius guadelupensis Hustache, 1929: 178 Distribution. Dominica (New Record), Guadeloupe (O’Brien and Wibmer 1982) Recent Dominica Collections. 4 mi. E Salisbury, VIII-19-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); 6 mi. E Salisbury, Morne Apion, 2500’, VIII-19-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); Morne Trois Pitons Nat’l. Pk., trail to Middleham Falls, 15 o 21.06’N 61 o 20.06’W, el. 2200 ft., V-20-2000, L. Benavides, E. Chavez, J. Dye & E. Kretsch, Malaise trap, 2000/010 (TAMU); Springfield Estates, Fifi Trail, el. 442 m., V-23- VI- 4-2003, coll. T. Decker & B. Wells, flight intercept trap, site 2 tropical deciduous forest (TAMU); St. Paul Par., Pont Cassé, 1900’, VI- 19-2004, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. Paul Par., Springfield Plantation, VI- 21-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC); St. Paul Par., 5 km. NE Roseau, Springfield Plantation, VI- 22-2004, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. George Par., 1.5-3.5 km. W Freshwater Lake, VI- 23-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC); St. George Par., 2.5-3.5 km. W Freshwater Lake, Morne Trois Pitons N. P., VI- 23-2004, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. Paul Par., Springfield Plantation, VI- 23-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC); St. John Par., Cabrits Nat. Pk., VI- 26-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC); St. Peter Par., ~1900’, Syndicate Falls Nature Trail, VI- 27-2004, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. Peter Par., Syndicate trailhead, VI- 28-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC)Published as part of O'Brien, Charles W. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2011, An Annotated List of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of Dominica (Excluding Scolytinae and Platypodidae), pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (179) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.516102
Peridinetini Lacordaire 1865
Peridinetini Palliolatrix lateropicta Prena, 2009: 53 Distribution. Dominica (Prena 2009) Recent Dominica Collections. ca 2600’, Morne Trois Pitons N. P., Freshwater Lake Rd., VIII-13- 1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); ca. 2600’, Morne Trois Pitons N. P., Freshwater Lake, VIII-21-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB)Published as part of O'Brien, Charles W. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2011, An Annotated List of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of Dominica (Excluding Scolytinae and Platypodidae), pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (179) on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.516102