INSECTS OF WESTERN CANADA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CERTAIN CARABIDAE (COLEOPTERA): PRESENT DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS AND THEIR ORIGINS

1980 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 1129-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Kavanaugh
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Cascade Mountains ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mountain Systems ◽  
Present Distribution

AbstractMunroe (1956) summarized knowledge of the distribution patterns and history of the Canadian insect fauna; and a general synthesis beyond his conclusions is not yet possible. Results of studies on Nearctic Nebria taxa illustrate present distribution patterns and provide clues to the history of the montane fauna of western Canada. Nebria species and subspecies diversity is greatest in the Coast/Cascade Mountains just south of Canada and decreases northward. Major centers of endemism are located south of Canada, in the Coast/Cascade and southern Rocky Mountain systems, with minor centers found in western Alberta and the Queen Charlotte Islands. Species and subspecies vicariance patterns link Coast/Cascade and Rocky Mountain systems across the Okanagan lowland; and subspecies vicariance patterns link (1) Coast and Cascade mountains across Puget lowland/Georgia Strait and (2) central Canadian Rocky Mountains and Rocky Mountains of western Wyoming. These and other data presented on Nebria distribution patterns and faunal similarities among different mountain ranges and systems suggest that the present montane fauna of western Canada is derived from two source areas—one in the Coast/Cascade Mountain region, one in the Rocky Mountain region, each just south of the Canadian/U.S. border—which were separate and distinct during and after Wisconsinan time. Northern (e.g. Beringian) Wisconsinan refugia apparently did not contribute significantly to the present montane fauna.

NOTES ON PLANT DISTRIBUTION IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF ALBERTA

1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1091-1094 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. T. Ogilvie
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Storm Track ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Plant Distribution ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
Climatic Effects ◽  
Southern Area ◽  
Rocky Mountain Region ◽  
Number Of Plant Species

Three kinds of variability in the Rocky Mountain flora of Alberta are considered. The flora is composed of species with two gross distribution patterns: the boreal element and the cordilleran element. There are minor floristic differences from valley to valley; such differences involve the sporadic occurrence of certain species in different valleys. Main consideration is given to another type of floristic variability which involves a major floristic difference between the southern part of the mountain region and the northern part.The Crowsnest–Waterton area in the southern part of Alberta is distinctive climatically and phytosociologically from the rest of the Rocky Mountain region of Alberta. Moreover, a large number of plant species and some animal taxa occur in Alberta only in this area. Two possible features are suggested as being responsible for the distinctiveness of the southern area: the climatic effects of the occurrence of the area within a major storm track; and the existence of an adjacent unglaciated area which, during Pleistocene, could have served as a refugium for taxa which subsequently expanded in the southern area.

scholarly journals Analysis of distribution patterns of selected ephemeral wetland species in Western Pomerania (NW Poland, NE Germany)

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Popiela ◽  
Dorota Nalepka ◽  
Andrzej Łysko
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Ephemeral Wetland ◽  
Ne Germany ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Present Distribution ◽  
Wetland Species ◽  
Distribution In Europe ◽  
Nw Poland

Analysis of distribution patterns of selected ephemeral wetland species in Western Pomerania (NW Poland, NE Germany)Phytogeographical conditions of the occurrence of 13 selected ephemeral wetland species of theIsoëto-Nanojunceteaclass in Western Pomerania are analysed and discussed on the basis of distribution in Western Pomerania (maps are provided), distribution in Europe, general distribution range, taxonomic relations and palynological data. Present distribution patterns of the analysed taxa in Western Pomerania can thus be permanent not for a very long time and reflect the history of the settling of Pomerania by these species.

REVIEW OF THE NEW WORLD EYELESS WEEVILS WITH UNCINATE TIBIAE (COLEOPTERA, CURCULIONIDAE; MOLYTINAE, CRYPTORHYNCHINAE, COSSONINAE)

1992 ◽  
Vol 124 (S162) ◽  
pp. 3-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne T. Howden
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Central United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Present Distribution ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
New Synonymy

AbstractThe majority of the species of the New World litter-inhabiting eyeless weevils belong to groups possessing uncinate tibiae: Molytinae, Cryptorhynchinae, and Cossoninae. The remaining species are Raymondionymini (Erirhininae) and are not included in this work.Eight genera and 40 species with uncinate tibiae are diagnosed and keyed. Caecossonus Gilbert (four species) is revised and the following new species are described: C. continuus (Mexico); C. sylvaticus (Belize). Decuanellus Osella (10 species) is revised and the following new species are described: D. bahamensis (Bahama Islands); D. brevicrus (Virgin Islands); D. iviei (Virgin Islands); D. longirostris (Puerto Rico); D. muchmorei (Virgin Islands). The new genus Kuschelaxius is proposed and the type species K. tomentosus (Puerto Rico) is described from Puerto Rico. The new species K. discifer is described from Hispaniola. No new species are described in the remaining genera: Howdeniola Osella (two species, Colombia); Lymantes Schoenherr (five species, central United States, El Salvador); Neotorneuma Hustache (one species, Chile); Pseudoalaocybites Osella (15 species, Cuba, Jamaica, Colombia, and Venezuela); Pseudocaecocossonus Osella (one species, Cuba). There are many undescribed species in Lymantes and Pseudoalaocybites, and problems precluding much-needed revisions of these genera are detailed.New combinations and a new synonymy are as follows: Bordoniola Osella is transferred to Raymondionymini; Howdeniola is transferred to Cossoninae; Caecossonus negreai Osella is transferred to Pseudoalaocybites (Pseudoalaocybites); Pseudoalaocybites (Pseudoalaocybites) venezuelanus Osella is transferred to P. (Croizatius); Pseudoalaocybites (Croizatius) montanus Osella is a junior synonym of P. (C.) latithorax Osella.Both the geological history of the Caribbean and dispersal by overwater rafting influenced the present distribution patterns of Caecossonus and Decuanellus.

‘A Turrible Looking and Furious Anamal’: Comparative Psychology in the Rocky Mountains from Lewis and Clark to Washoe

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Howard Gray
Keyword(s):  
Animal Behavior ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Comparative Psychology ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
Laboratory Studies ◽  
Preliminary Attempt ◽  
Complete Enumeration ◽  
Rocky Mountain Region ◽  
Lewis And Clark

A preliminary attempt is made to identify the progress of the study of animal behavior, from native bears to imported apes, in the Rocky Mountain region. The survey includes naturalistic encounters, ethological observations, and laboratory studies, but is not a complete enumeration of animal research in the Rocky Mountains.

An examination of some Hexarthra species (Rotatoria) from western Canada and Nepal

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henri J. Dumont ◽  
Marc Coussement ◽  
R. Stewart Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Saline Lake ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Diagnostic Character ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Lake Van ◽  
High Altitudes ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Low Salinity

Four species of Hexarthra are reported from ponds and lakes in western Canada. Two Rocky Mountain forms are described as new subspecies: Hexarthra bulgarica canadensis n.subsp., at high altitudes, and Hexarthra polyodonta jasperina n.subsp. The nominate subspecies of the latter is known only from saline Lake Van, Turkey. Hexarthra polyodonta jasperina occurs in low salinity lakes and differs morphologically from the nominate subspecies in having a moderately developed ventro-anterior lip. Hexarthra bulgarica bulgarica is a true high-mountain rotifer known from the Rila Mountains, Bulgaria (nominate subspecies), from the Himalayas (H. bulgarica nepalensis n.subsp.), and from the Rocky Mountains (H. bulgarica canadensis n.subsp.). The Nepalese subspecies differs from the nominate subspecies and from H. bulgarica canadensis in having a well developed ventro-anterior lip. Hexarthra bulgarica canadensis differs from the nominate subspecies in having more teeth on the unci, more spines on the ventral arm, and more filaments on all arms. The pair of spines on the dorsolateral arm is the main diagnostic character of the H. bulgarica group. Hexarthra mira (Hudson) occurred at intermediate and lower altitudes, and Hexarthra fennica (Levander) was identified from a saline lake in Saskatchewan where specimens were unusually large, but otherwise typical.

Distribution and Life History of the Lodgepole Needle Miner (Recurvaria sp.) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

1954 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Stark
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
National Park ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Yosemite National Park ◽  
Canadian Rocky Mountains ◽  
History Of

General. The life history of the lodgepole needle miner in Yosemite National Park, California, has been described (24). The Canadian outbreak was discovered in 1942 but intensive investigations were not commenced until 1948. Many differences have been noted between the Canadian and Californian life histories since the discovery of the outbreak.It is the purpose of this paper to bring together all information collected by the author and staff of the Laboratory of Forest Zoology at Calgary, Alberta, concerning the life history of the lodgepole needle miner in the Canadian Rocky mountains.

AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE INSECT FAUNA OF DOUGLAS FIR (PSEUDOTSUGA MUCRONATA RAFINESQUE) IN THE NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION

1938 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 188-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Bedard
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Douglas Fir ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
Dendroctonus Pseudotsugae ◽  
Forest Insect ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
Coeur D'alene ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Field Laboratory ◽  
Rocky Mountain Region

This list is a record of insects which have been found in or on Douglas fir in the northern Rocky Mountain region by personnel of the Forest Insect Field Laboratory at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It comprises insects which feed upon the tree, as well as the parasites and associates of these insects. Of the 153 species listed, 102 were collected by the writer while making a study of the Douglas fir beetle (Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopk.). The remainder are listed in the laboratory records and were collected by J. C. Evenden, R. E. Balch, H. J. Rust, and D. DeLeon.

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