Phylogeny and temporal diversification of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) with an emphasis on the Neotropical fauna

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Lorenz ◽  
João M.P. Alves ◽  
Peter G. Foster ◽  
Lincoln Suesdek ◽  
Maria Anice M. Sallum
Keyword(s):  
Neotropical Fauna

Partial revision of the genus Robinsonia Grote 1866: description of five new species for the Neotropical fauna (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Phaegopterina)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4990 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
MICHEL LAGUERRE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Dna Barcode ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Neotropical Fauna ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Partial Revision

The genus Robinsonia Grote, 1866 is partially reviewed following a large DNA barcode campaign. In the Robinsonia praphoea Dognin, 1906 group three new species are described: R. simulans sp. n. from French Guiana, up to now confused with R. praphoea itself and then R. decaensi sp. n. and R. maranhensis sp. n. both from the lower Amazon. R. drechseli sp. n. is described from Paraguay and R. inexpectata sp. n., a species close to R. mera (Schaus, 1910) from Costa Rica, is described as new from Peru and Bolivia. Finally the full species status is confirmed for R. flavicorpus Dognin, 1910 which is found to be differentiable from R. marginata Rothschild, 1909. All types are figured along with the male genitalia for most and some female genitalia for all studied species.

scholarly journals Propuesta de corredores ecológicos para la restauración del hábitat de Guanta y Guatusa en Pacoche

2020 ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Scarlet Josefina Cartaya Ríos ◽  
Víctor Manuel Montalvo Párraga ◽  
Carmen Carola Chiriboga Erazo
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Restoration ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Humid Forest ◽  
Coastal Marine ◽  
Ecological Corridor ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Potential Habitats ◽  
Neotropical Fauna ◽  
Wildlife Reserve ◽  
Marine Wildlife

Proposal of ecological corridors for habitat restoration of Guanta and Guatusa in Pacoche Resumen El hábitat de la Guanta (Cuniculus paca) y Guatusa (Dasyprocta punctata) en la Reserva de Vida Silvestre Marino Costera Pacoche, en la provincia de Manabí, ha experimentado presiones antrópicas que colocan en peligro su existencia. Con la finalidad de conservar la fauna neotropical, se propone identificar hábitats óptimos para estas especies, que tienen un rol fundamental en la cadena trófica. La metodología consistió en emplear el programa Maxent como el predictor de hábitats potenciales; el análisis de parámetros geográficos para identificar zonas con la mejor aptitud territorial y el análisis de rutas óptimas combinada con los parámetros propuestos por Bentrup en 2008, para definir la potencial ubicación de los conectores funcionales, apoyados en un Sistema de Información Geográfica. Resultó que las condiciones naturales donde se localizan los sitios óptimos son sectores donde predomina bosque húmedo con cuerpo de aguas cercanos, baja densidad de población y vías de primer orden. Se concluye, que el hábitat óptimo está muy intervenido, pese a estar dentro de un área protegida, por ello se propone como medida de regeneración ambiental, el diseño de conectores verdes y zonas de amortiguamiento. La herramienta Maxent es un predictor confiable ya que su AUC de 0.96. Palabras clave: corredor ecológico; hábitat; intervención; restauración ambiental. Abstract The habitat of Guanta (Cuniculus paca) and Guatusa (Dasyprocta punctata) in the Pacoche Coastal Marine Wildlife Reserve, in the province of Manabí, has experienced anthropic pressures that endanger its existence. With the purpose of conserving the Neotropical fauna, identify optimal habitats for these species, which have a fundamental role in the food chain. The methodology consisted of using the Maxent program as the predictor of potential habitats; the analysis of geographic parameters to identify areas with the best territorial aptitude and the analysis of optimal routes combined with the parameters proposed by Bentrup in 2008 to define the potential location of the functional connectors with the use of Geographic Information Systems. It turned out that the natural conditions where the optimal sites are located are sectors where humid forest predominates with a body of nearby waters, low population density and first-order roads. It is concluded that the optimal habitat of the species is highly intervened, despite being within a protected area; therefore, it is proposed as a measure of environmental regeneration the design of green connectors and buffer zones. The Maxent tool with a reliable predictor since its AUC of 0.96. Keywords: ecological corridor; habitat; intervention; environmental restoration.

scholarly journals Arctiini Leach, [1815] (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) of the Brazilian Amazon. V - Subtribes Arctiina Leach, [1815], Callimorphina Walker, [1865] and Spilosomina Seitz, 1910

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Teston ◽  
Viviane G. Ferro
Keyword(s):  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Neotropical Fauna

Abstract The Arctiina, Callimorphina and Spilosomina moths comprise 340 species in the neotropics. Here we provide a list of Arctiina, Callimorphina and Spilosomina species from the Brazilian Amazon. The list was produced from specimens deposited in the most important Brazilian collections and from literature data. We registered 17 species of Arctiina, two of Callimorphina and 16 of Spilosomina. The proportion of Brazilian Amazon Callimorphina (28.6%) and Arctiina (19.1%) in relation to Neotropical fauna were nearly to those found for other Arctiini subtribes in the Brazilian Amazon. However, the Spilosomina records were extremely low, corresponding to only 6.6% of the Neotropical species. Belém, Fonte Boa and Santarém were the municipalities with the highest number of registered species, with 14, 9 and 8, respectively. As this is the last article on the fauna of the Arctiini subtribes of the Brazilian Amazon, we summarize the main patterns observed for the tribe and identify the main knowledge gaps regarding this taxon.

Effects of forest fragmentation on neotropical fauna: current research and data availability

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly L. Offerman ◽  
Virginia H. Dale ◽  
Scott M. Pearson ◽  
Robert V. O'Neill ◽  
Richard O. Bierregaard Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fragmentation ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Forest Patches ◽  
Neotropical Fauna ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Spatially Explicit Data ◽  
Biological Dynamics

Tropical deforestation often produces landscapes characterized by isolated patches of forest habitat surrounded by pasture, agriculture, or regrowth vegetation. Both the size and the distribution of these forest patches may influence the long-term persistence of faunal species. There is, therefore, a pressing need to understand faunal responses to patterns of forest fragmentation in tropical systems. The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) provides a wealth of autecological information and spatially explicit data describing habitat use and movement of fauna between Amazonian forest fragments. Using data from the BDFFP and other studies in the Amazon Basin, this paper reviews the information available on tropical insects, frogs, birds, primates, and other mammals that can be used to identify and classify species most at risk for extirpation in fragmented forests.Key words: Amazonia, habitat fragmentation, rainforest, fauna, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragmentation Project.

Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocesphalinae)—Subgeneric classification and Revision of the New World species

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3370 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
OWEN LONSDALE ◽  
STEPHEN A. MARSHALL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Species Level ◽  
World Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
Neotropical Fauna ◽  
Species Groups

Sobarocephala Czerny is divided into nine newly erected species groups: the S. archisobarocephala (4 spp.), S. erwini (3spp.), S. flava (8 New World spp.; 2 Old World spp.), S. flaviseta (86 New World spp.; 1 Old World sp.), S. interrupta (86spp.), S. isla (25 spp.), S. latipennis (16 spp.), S. plumicornis (9 Old World spp.), and S. ruebsaameni (11 spp.) groups; 1species (S. setulocetra spec. nov.) remains unplaced. There are 240 species of Sobarocephala in the New World, including17 Nearctic (2 extend into the Neotropical Region) and 170 new species, some of which were previously considered va-rieties of S. humeralis Melander & Argo. The Neotropical fauna is here described, illustrated, keyed, and placed in a phy-logenetic context. Sobarocephala peruana Soós stat. nov., formerly a subspecies of S. nigronota Melander & Argo, israised to the species level, S. imitans Curran syn. nov. and S. diversipes Curran syn. nov. are synonymized with S. liturataMelander & Argo, S. annulata albiventris Soós syn. nov. is synonymized with S. annulata Melander & Argo, S. albitarsisCzerny syn. nov. is synonymized with S. humeralis, and S. pruinosa pallidor Steyskal syn. n. is synonymized with S. pru-inosa Soós. Lectotypes are designated for S. bistrigata (Kertesz) , S. lumbalis Williston, S. plumicornis Lamb and S. variegata Melander & Argo. The egg of S. uberis spec. nov. is described.

New species and new distributional records of Neotropical Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4413 (2) ◽  
pp. 295 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADRIAN ARDILA-CAMACHO ◽  
ARLEY CALLE-TOBÓN ◽  
MARTA WOLFF ◽  
LIONEL A. STANGE
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
New Information ◽  
Neotropical Fauna ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time

The Neotropical fauna of Mantispidae is currently composed of 106 species. We provide new distributional records of Mantispidae from Colombia and Panama. Three new species are described, one in Symphrasinae from Colombia, and two in Mantispinae from Colombia and Panama. Haematomantispa nubeculosa (Navás, 1933) and Leptomantispa axillaris (Navás, 1908) are reported from Colombia for the first time, the former being the first record of the genus in the country. New locality records for other species previously known from Colombia are also given. For Panama, we report Anchieta fasciatella (Westwood, 1867) and Trichoscelia iridella (Westwood, 1867) for the first time, the former is herein newly transferred from Plega to Anchieta. Three names Mantispa confluens Navás, 1914, n. syn., Buyda apicata Navás, 1926, n. syn., and Mantispa neotropica Navás, 1933, n. syn., are here synonymized with Buyda phthisica (Gerstaecker, 1885). Updated keys for the genera of Mantispinae, and species of genera Trichoscelia, Buyda, and Climaciella from Colombia are included. With this new information, the known species richness of Mantispidae from Colombia increases from 21 to 26, and from 16 to 19 species in Panama. 

scholarly journals First record of the larvae Byrsopteryx Flint, 1981 (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (171) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Manuel Vásquez Ramos ◽  
Diana Paola Osorio-Ramírez ◽  
Clara Inés Caro-Caro
Keyword(s):  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Riparian Vegetation ◽  
First Record ◽  
Clay Loam Soil ◽  
Open Canopy ◽  
Neotropical Fauna ◽  
Loam Soil ◽  
New Research ◽  
First Time ◽  
High Diversity

Hydroptilidae is one of the most diverse families of the order Trichoptera in the world. Neotropical fauna has 36 genera. In Colombia, 14 have been reported in the larval stage and 11 in the adultstage. In the present study, a Byrsopteryx larva is registered for the first time in Colombia. The larvawas found in the Orotoy River (919 MASL), a stream from the foothills of the eastern flank of the country’s Eastern Cordillera (Orinoquia) characterized as waterfall current with riffle on rocks and pebbles, preserved riparian vegetation with open canopy, and clay-loam soil. The water temperature was 19.7 ºC, pH 5.8, conductivity 15.6 uS/cm, and dissolved oxygen 9.1-9.7 mg/lO2. Given the high diversity of aquatic ecosystems and the limited knowledge of Hydroptilidae genera in Colombia, we hope to open the way for new research and discovery of more species in the country.

scholarly journals First caddisfly species from Mexican amber (Insecta: Trichoptera)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1378 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILFRIED WICHARD ◽  
MÓNICA M.S. KRAEMER ◽  
CLAUS LUER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Greater Antilles ◽  
Dominican Amber ◽  
Neotropical Fauna

The first 4 new species of caddisflies (Trichoptera) are described from Mexican amber: Culoptila aguilerai n. sp. (Glossosomatidae), Plectropsyche alvarezi n. sp. (Hydropsychidae), Antillopsyche mexicana n. sp. (Dipseudopsidae), and Xiphocentron chiapasi n. sp. (Xiphocentronidae). Culoptila, Plectropsyche, and Xiphocentron are typical members of the Neotropical fauna and the fauna of Mexico; they now are also represented in Miocene Mexican amber. The genus Antillopsyche, previously known from the Greater Antilles and from Dominican amber, is now reported from Mexican amber.

Phylogeny and classification of Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera) with an emphasis on Neotropical fauna

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 415-429
Author(s):  
Marina Monjardim ◽  
Roberta Paresque ◽  
Frederico F. Salles
Keyword(s):  
Neotropical Fauna
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