Pontoniine Shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) of the Northwest Atlantic. III. Neopericlimenes thornei, New Genus, New Species, from Pine Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Heard ◽  
Stephen Spotte ◽  
Patricia M. Bubucis
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New Genus ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
Northwest Atlantic ◽  
Turks And Caicos Islands

A review of Antillocladius S ther, 1981; Compterosmittia S ther, 1981 and Litocladius new genus (Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 594 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUMBERTO F. MENDES ◽  
TROND ANDERSEN ◽  
OLE A. SÆTHER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Records ◽  
Single Species ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
Wing Membrane ◽  
North Central ◽  
Larval Habitats

A parsimony analysis of recently collected species sharing several features such as scalpellate acrostichals, often setae apically on the wing membrane and often strongly extended costa, together with 38 genera show that the collected species can be assigned to Antillocladius S ther, 1981, Compterosmittia S ther, 1981, and one new genus, Litocladius. Nine new species of Antillocladius are described and figured as male imagines: A. calakmulensis, A. herradurus and A. zempoalensis from Mexico; A. venequatoriensis from Ecuador and Venezuela; A. ubatuba from Brazil and Venezuela; and A. biota, A. folius, A. musci, and A. sooretama from Brazil. The female of A. musci, the pupae of A. antecalvus S ther, A. folius, and A. musci, and the larvae of A. folius and A. musci are also described and figured. New records of A. antecalvus S ther from Brazil and Venezuela; of A. arcuatus S ther from Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela; A. pluspilalus S ther from Ecuador and Mexico and of A. zhengi Wang and S ther from Thailand are given. The genus Antillocladius S ther, 1981, originally described from the British West Indies, now includes 15 species from North, Central and South America, Russia, China and Thailand. Keys to all known males, females, pupae and larvae are given. Four new species of Compterosmittia are described and figured as male imagines: C. aberrans from Costa Rica; C. croizati from Brazil and Venezuela; C. pittieri from Venezuela; and C. berui from Brazil. The genus Compterosmittia S ther, 1981, originally described from the British West Indies, now includes 8 to 10 species from North, Central and South America, Australia, Oceania and Southeast Asia. A key to male imagines is given. The new genus, Litocladius, includes a single species, L. mateusi, described as male, female and pupa. The immatures of all three genera are terrestrial or associated with phytotelmata, and notes on their biology and larval habitats are included.

A new oryzomyine (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from the Quaternary of Curaçao (West Indies)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3534 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
JELLE S. ZIJLSTRA
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Large Size

A collection of 17 isolated rodent molars from a cave in the eastern part of Duivelsklip, Curaçao, Dutch West Indies, isdescribed as Dushimys larsi, new genus and species. The new species is characterized by relatively large size, broad mo-lars, absence of mesolophid and presence of anterolophid and anterolabial cingulum on m3, absence of metaloph on M3,and m2 with three roots. Phylogenetic analysis could not conclusively resolve the position of the new species, and it isprovisionally regarded as a representative of an otherwise unknown oryzomyine genus. The material is likely middle Pleistocene in age.

Brazilian Diplosmittia Sæther: D. trifida sp. n. and new records of D. plaumanni Pinho, Mendes & Andersen, 2009 (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4885 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-142
Author(s):  
ERIKA MAYUMI SHIMABUKURO ◽  
CARLOS JOSÉ EINICKER LAMAS ◽  
LUIZ CARLOS PINHO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New Records ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
Mountainous Region ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Saint Lucia

Sæther (1981) erected the genus Diplosmittia based on a species from Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent in the British West Indies. The genus was revised by Pinho et al. (2009). To date, the genus comprises ten species: Diplosmittia harrisoni Sæther, 1981; D. carinata Sæther, 1985; D. recisus Sæther, 1988; D. beluina Andersen, 1996; D. forficata Andersen, 1996; D. plaumanni Pinho, Mendes & Andersen, 2009; D. boraceia Pinho, Mendes & Andersen, 2009; D. aragua Pinho, Mendes & Andersen, 2009; D. cerayma Pinho, Mendes & Andersen, 2009; and D. caribensis Wiedenbrug & Silva, 2016. Diplosmittia sasai Makarchenko & Makarchenko, 2005 was placed as a synonym of Pseudosmittia mathildae Albu, 1968 by Makarchenko & Makarchenko (2008). Except for D. carinata from Michigan, U.S.A., all species are Neotropical and mostly recorded from the Caribbean and northern part of South America. During field work in a remote mountainous region in the Brazilian Amazon, a unique new species with the gonostylus split into three parts was collected and is described and figured below. In addition, new records of D. plaumanni are provided. 

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