scholarly journals Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Costa Rica including new records for fourteen species

Check List ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen F. Sanborn
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
New Records ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
The Family ◽  
A Current

A current checklist of the Costa Rican cicada fauna is provided. The first Costa Rican records of Zammara calochroma Walker, 1858, Diceroprocta pusilla Davis, 1942, Diceroprocta ruatana (Distant, 1891), Ollanta modesta (Distant, 1881), Pacarina puella Davis, 1923, Pacarina schumanni Distant, 1905, Majeorona truncata Goding, 1925, Procollina medea (Stål, 1864), Carineta verna Distant, 1883, Carineta viridicollis (Germar, 1830), Herrera ancilla (Stål, 1864), Calyria cuna (Walker, 1850), Selymbria pluvialis Ramos & Wolda, 1985, and Conibosa occidentis (Walker, 1858) are provided. Diceroprocta digueti (Distant, 1906) and D. vitripennis (Say, 1830) are removed from the Costa Rican cicada fauna. The new records increase the known cicada diversity 45% bringing the total number of cicada species reported in Costa Rica to 45 species in 17 genera representing nine tribes and two subfamilies of the family Cicadidae.

scholarly journals Registro de Diradops bionica Ugalde y Gauld, 2002 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Banchinae) para México y de otras dos especies para Oaxaca

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Ruíz-Cancino ◽  
Andrey Ivanovich Khalaim ◽  
Juana María Coronado-Blanco ◽  
Víctor Hugo Toledo-Hernández ◽  
Angélica María Corona-López
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
New Record ◽  
New Records ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
The State ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Endemic Genus ◽  
The Family

Diradops is an endemic genus of the family Ichneumonidae in the American Continent; the majority of its species in the Neotropical Region. Seven species are present in Mexico, including a new record for Mexico, D. bionica Ugalde & Gauld, 2002 (previously recorded only from Costa Rica); D. hyphantriae Kasparyan & Pinson, 2007 and D. pulcher Kasparyan, 2007 are new records for the State of Oaxaca.

scholarly journals Revision of the larval morphology (Zoea I) of the family Hippolytidae (Decapoda, Caridea), with a description of the first stage of the shrimp Hippolyte obliquimanus Dana, 1852

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2624 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIANA TEROSSI ◽  
JOSE A. CUESTA ◽  
INGO S. WEHRTMANN ◽  
FERNANDO L. MANTELATTO
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Intraspecific Variability ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Zoeal Stage ◽  
Morphological Aspect ◽  
Ventral Margin ◽  
Larval Morphology ◽  
Anal Spine ◽  
The Family

The aim of this study was to summarize the available data on larval morphology of the first zoea of the family Hippolytidae and describe the first zoeal stage of H. obliquimanus from two geographically distinct populations, Brazilian and Caribbean in order to discuss interand intraspecific variability. Ovigerous females of Hippolyte obliquimanus were collected at Cahuita (Limón, Costa Rica) and at Ubatuba (São Paulo, Brazil). We compiled the published descriptions of all available hippolytid Zoea I (66 spp., 21%), and all zoeae share several characteristics. However, such morphological features cannot be used to distinguish the first zoeae of Hippolytidae from other caridean larvae. Historically, the presence of an exopodal seta at the maxillule and the absence of the anal spine/papilla have been considered as characteristic for the Zoea I of the genus Hippolyte. The results of our revision, however, did not support these conclusions: although H. obliquimanus showed an exopodal seta at the maxillule, four congeners did not bear such structure; moreover, H. obliquimanus as well as one other congener have an anal spine/papilla. All morphological characters observed in the first zoeal stage of H. obliquimanus are shared with others species of the family Hippolytidae. Intraspecific variability in Hippolyte obliquimanus was detected in one morphological aspect: the first zoea had four denticles on the ventral margin of the carapace in the Brazilian population, while specimens from the Costa Rican population had three.

scholarly journals Echinoderm diversity of a tropical estuary in the largest river basin of the Costa Rican Pacific, Eastern Tropical Pacific

Check List ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 2113
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano ◽  
Sebastián Mena ◽  
Juan José Alvarado ◽  
José Leonardo Chacón-Monge ◽  
Tayler M. Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
River Basin ◽  
New Records ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Tropical Pacific ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Eastern Tropical Pacific ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Soft Bottoms

Echinoderms within the Eastern Tropical Pacific have mainly been studied in association with coral reefs. Investigations on echinoderms associated with soft-bottoms and estuaries are still scarce. The present study reports on the echinoderm species inhabiting the soft-bottom sediments of shallow-brackish waters adjacent to the largest river basin along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Térraba-Sierpe wetland. Nine species were recorded, three of them new records for Costa Rica: Luidia columbia, L. latiradiata, and L. superba. The most common species were L. columbia, Astropecten armatus, A. regalis, and L. latiradiata. This contributes towards current knowledge on the biodiversity of Térraba-Sierpe wetland and should be considered as a baseline upon which to monitor the effects of future impacts on this important mangrove area.

scholarly journals Clave dicotómica para la identificación de Apendicularias en el PacíficoTropical Oriental y Mares Interamericanos, con un listado de especies para Costa Rica

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1-1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Marco Corrales-Ugalde ◽  
Iván Castellanos-Osorio ◽  
Álvaro Moráles-Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
New Records ◽  
Zooplankton Community ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Taxonomic Resolution ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Pacific Waters ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Primary Consumers

Although appendicularians are relevant primary consumers and are part of every zooplankton community, there is a lack of information on the species present in different ocean regions. Thus, regional identification guides are useful to develop datasets with high taxonomic resolution. Appendicularian species were identified in 33 epipelagic samples of zooplankton collected in several locations of Costarican waters. Eighteen appendicularian species were identified, of which 15 were found in the Pacific and only three in the Caribbean. Seven species are new records for Costa Rican Pacific waters (Appendicularia sicula, Fritillaria charybdae, F. cf. pacifica, F. tenella, F. pellucida f. omani, Oikoipleura fusiformis f. cornutogastra and Pelagopleura verticalis). Data for each species distribution in Costa Rica is presented together with a key for the identification of appendicularian species recorded in the Inter-American seas and the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

scholarly journals New records of the Costa Rican Snaileater, Sibon lamari Solorzano 2001 (Squamata: Dipsadidae), from Alajuela Province, Costa Rica

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-435
Author(s):  
Jorge Campos-Villalobos ◽  
Gerald Pereira-Castillo ◽  
Víctor Serrano-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
New Records ◽  
Costa Rican

Neotropical Rubiaceae: Synthesis of Chromosome Data from Costa Rican Taxa, with Insights on the Systematics of the Family

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-458
Author(s):  
Michael Kiehn ◽  
Andreas Berger
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Basic Information ◽  
Chromosome Counts ◽  
Molecular Systematic ◽  
Plant Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Infraspecific Taxa ◽  
Systematic Framework

Recent molecular systematic studies have significantly improved our understanding of the large, complex, and cosmopolitan plant family Rubiaceae, comprising about 13,000 species. Besides the obvious importance of DNA phylogenetic data, cytological studies have long added important basic information on the circumscription of clades and relationships within the family. In light of recent changes affecting a large number of tribes and genera, the current knowledge on the systematics of Neotropical Rubiaceae is reviewed with a focus on Costa Rica, which harbors an exceptionally rich Rubiaceae flora including most of the genera and biogeographic elements present in the Neotropics. Based on this systematic framework, previously published chromosome counts on Costa Rican taxa are reviewed and 49 new chromosome counts are reported. In total, 110 accessions of 75 species or infraspecific taxa representing 36 genera of Costa Rican Rubiaceae are discussed and supplemented by new counts for extraterritorial taxa when appropriate. Altogether the present study includes the first chromosome counts reported for the tribes Cordiereae and Hillieae, as well as for 10 genera and 27 species, providing new aspects of Rubiaceae systematics.

scholarly journals New species and records of orchidaceae from Costa Rica. III

Lankesteriana ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melania Fernández ◽  
Adam P KarreMans ◽  
Daniel Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
New Records ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Educational Purpose ◽  
The 19Th Century

The establishment in Costa Rica of the great naturalist Charles H. Lankester in the 19th century brought a tremendous increase in the knowledge of Costa Rican Orchidaceae. His desire to leave the collections kept at his farm for a scientific and educational purpose was finally accomplished in 1973 with the foundation of Lankester Botanical Garden (JBL). Since then, JBL has followed Lankester’s legacy with its consolidation as a leading center for the study of Neotropical orchids, resulting among others in more than 180 new Costa Rican species and records in the last 12 years. This manuscript includes the description of four new species and seven new records, as part of JBL’s contribution to the completion of the Costa Rican orchid inventory.

scholarly journals Checklist of the cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Paraguay including new records for six species

Check List ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen F. Sanborn
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
The Family ◽  
Five Tribes ◽  
A Current

A current checklist of the Paraguayan cicada fauna is provided. The first records of Fidicina torresi Boulard and Martinelli, 1996, Proarna dactyliophora Berg, 1879, Proarna praegracilis Berg, 1881, Dorisiana drewseni (Stål, 1854), Ariasa nigrovittata Distant, 1905, and Chonosia crassipennis (Walker, 1858) for Paraguay are given. The new records increase the known cicada diversity 37.5% bringing the total number of cicada species reported in Paraguay to 22 species in 12 genera representing five tribes and three subfamilies of the family Cicadidae. There are currently no known endemic species.

scholarly journals New records of heterobranch sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Isla del Coco National Park, Costa Rica

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly García-Méndez ◽  
Yolanda E. Camacho-García
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
Tropical Pacific ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Eastern Tropical Pacific ◽  
Sea Slugs ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Molluscan Fauna ◽  
First Time

<p>The molluscan fauna of Isla del Coco has recently been well documented, but the heterobranch sea slugs, traditionally called “opisthobranchs”, remain poorly known. We report 13 new records, increasing the total to 40 species. Of the 13 newly discovered species, the following species had not been previously recorded along the Pacific Costa Rican mainland: <em>Berthella californica </em>(Dall, 1900), <em>Peltodoris rubra</em> (Bergh, 1905), <em>Dendrodoris albobrunnea </em>Allan, 1933, <em>Doriopsilla</em> cf. <em>spaldingi </em>Valdés &amp; Behrens, 1998, <em>Glaucus</em> cf. <em>marginatus</em> (Reinhardt &amp; Bergh, 1864), and <em>Flabellina</em> sp. Additionally, we report <em>Peltodoris rubra</em>, previously known from the Indo-Pacific, for the first time in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.</p><div> </div>

scholarly journals Fishes from the Tusubres River basin, Pacific coast, Costa Rica: checklist, identification key and photographic album

Check List ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1666
Author(s):  
Arturo Angulo Sibaja ◽  
Alex Molina Arias ◽  
Atsunobu Murase ◽  
Yusuke Miyazaki ◽  
William Albert Bussing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
New Records ◽  
Freshwater Fishes ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Fish Diversity ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Total Fish

A checklist of the fishes of the Tusubres River basin, Pacific coast of Costa Rica, compiled from field and museum surveys is herein presented. A total of 54 species, representing 47 genera and 27 families, were recorded. Peripheral species were dominant (64.8%), followed by secondary freshwater fishes (20.4%); primary freshwater fishes accounted only for 14.8% of the total fish diversity. Eleotridae (6 spp.), Gobiidae (6 spp.), Poeciliidae (5 spp.) and Characidae (4 spp.) were the most diverse. Two species (Caranx sexfasciatus, Carangidae; and Opisthonema libertate, Clupeidae) were new records for Costa Rican freshwaters, and two species (Gymnotus maculosus, Gymnotidae; and Lebiasina boruca, Lebiasinidae) was found to have expanded ranges. An identification key and a complete photographic album of all fish species recorded in the basin are presented. The results of this investigation provide a framework for future studies on biogeography, ecology and conservation on fishes from this area.

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