Rosina Taveras-Macarrulla, M. Baena, Deymer Hidalgo-Jiménez
{"title":"Primer registro de Orius flaviceps (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) en República Dominicana, depredador de thrips en aguacate","authors":"Rosina Taveras-Macarrulla, M. Baena, Deymer Hidalgo-Jiménez","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.343","url":null,"abstract":"La especie Orius flaviceps (Poppius, 1909) es un antocórido poco conocido que ha sido registrado de México, Islas Caimán y la isla Guadalupe. Los aspectos de su biología, ecología e historia natural son prácticamente desconocidos. En este trabajo se registra esta especie por primera vez para República Dominicana, donde se encuentra ampliamente distribuida por todo el país y ha sido observada depredando trips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) en flores de aguacate (Persea americana Mill.) en cuyos peciolos coloca sus huevos. Se incluye información sobre aspectos biológicos, proporción sexual, distribución en el país, así como fotografías de ambos sexos y una diagnosis de la especie. Con este registro se aumenta a tres, el número de especies de Anthocoridae conocidas de La Española.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48011244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Salvador Rodríguez-Muñoz, Natalia Granados-Vargas, Vicencio de la Cruz-Francisco
{"title":"Análisis de la comunidad vágil y sésil del intermareal rocoso de cazones, Veracruz, México","authors":"Salvador Rodríguez-Muñoz, Natalia Granados-Vargas, Vicencio de la Cruz-Francisco","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.337","url":null,"abstract":"El intermareal rocoso de Cazones, Veracruz ya cuenta con información de la diversidad biológica, sin embargo, es necesario conocer la estructura comunitaria bajo un enfoque cuantitativo. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue caracterizar la comunidad biológica del intermareal alto, medio y bajo en tres sitios de muestreo. En cada sitio se tendieron dos transectos de 20 m de largo en el nivel alto, medio y bajo del intermareal, y en cada transecto se colocaron a cada 5 m, dos cuadrantes de 50 x 50 cm para estimar el porcentaje de cobertura de especies sésiles y la abundancia de las especies vágiles, así mismo, se estimaron índices de diversidad alfa (riqueza de especies, dominancia, y diversidad verdadera) y se determinaron diferencias significativas entre las franjas intermareales mediante análisis multivariados. Se registraron un total de 110 especies, las cuales están agrupadas en tres reinos: Chromista, Plantae y Animalia, este último reino presentó siete filos, Mollusca fue el más diverso con 22 especies registradas. La estructura comunitaria en el nivel alto fue homogénea y poco diversa en especies y prevaleció la dominancia; bivalvos, balanos y gasterópodos fueron los más conspicuos. Hacia el intermareal medio y bajo, la riqueza de especies fue mayor y la estructura comunitaria fue heterogénea; los pastos marinos y macroalgas presentaron mayor cobertura en el sitio 1 y 2 y disminuyó hacia el nivel bajo, en este lugar la comunidad vágil fue dominante caracterizada por la abundancia de erizos y anémonas. Mientras en el nivel medio y bajo del sitio 3 la comunidad fue equitativa y se caracterizó por presentar la mayor diversidad de especies, las macroalgas fueron el principal componente de la comunidad sésil. La estructura de las comunidades intermareales y las diferencias significativas encontradas en este estudio coinciden a lo reportado para otras costas rocosas.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48185282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New records of assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) for the Dominican Republic","authors":"D. Perez-Gelabert","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.340","url":null,"abstract":"The Hispaniolan fauna of Reduviidae is only partially known, as it has never been the subject of a comprehensive taxonomic or faunistic inventory. These species belong to Neotropical genera that have Caribbean, Central and South American distributions. In this contribution new records are given for 14 species of assassin bugs belonging to six subfamilies. Among these, seven species are first records from the Dominican Republic and the island of Hispaniola: Bactrodes spinulosus Stål, 1862 (Bactrodinae), Lophoscutus rideri Kormilev, 1988, Lophoscutus rugosipes (Guérin-Méneville, 1857) both belonging to Phymatinae, Leogorrus pallipes Stål, 1872 (Reduviinae), and the Saicinae species Oncerotrachelus nasutus (Bergroth, 1913), Tagalis drakkar Varela & Melo, 2017 and Tagalis grossi Gil-Santana, 2011. With these new records the reported extant fauna of Hispaniolan Reduviidae reaches a total of 46 documented species, which are classified in 25 genera and 10 subfamilies. Additionally, 13 fossil species have been reported from the Dominican amber.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49627942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nuevos registros de Peltidiidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) en el mar Caribe y Florida","authors":"Carlos Varela","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.341","url":null,"abstract":"Se amplía la distribución de cuatro especies de copépodos harpacticoides pertenecientes al género Peltidium en el mar Caribe y Florida (Estados Unidos de América) Dichas especies se conocían previamente solo de Las Bahamas, Cuba y México.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45594348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Viridiana R. Escartin-Alpizar, Vicente Anislado-Tolentino
{"title":"Nuevos registros de dos peces mesopelágicos, Taractichthys longipinnis y Ruvettus pretiosus (Scombriformes: Bramidae, Gempylidae), en el sur del golfo de México","authors":"Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Viridiana R. Escartin-Alpizar, Vicente Anislado-Tolentino","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.342","url":null,"abstract":"Se presenta el registro de dos especies de peces mesopelágicos capturados en el sur de Veracruz, golfo de México, a una profundidad cercana entre los 100 a 120 m. La presencia de la Golondrina, Taractichthys longipinnis (385 mm longitud patrón [LP]) y el pez nopal Ruvettus pretiosus (496 mm LP), es reflejo de sus hábitos mesopelágicos y la reciente explotación comercial como fauna incidental de la pesca de atún.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46043257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anfibios y reptiles de la meseta de San Felipe, Camagüey, Cuba","authors":"Irelis Bignotte-Giró, Karell Maure","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.339","url":null,"abstract":"En este estudio se presenta el inventario de los anfibios y reptiles de la meseta de San Felipe, situada en la provincia Camagüey, Cuba, un área pobremente estudiada hasta el momento. Se utilizó la metodología de registro de encuentros visuales con búsqueda activa de los animales, tanto de forma visual como auditiva, realizando muestreos diurnos y nocturnos. Como resultado se encontraron 20 especies, de las que nueve correspondieron a anfibios y once a reptiles, representando 12.7% y 6.9% de los totales de especies de Cuba, respectivamente. Se registran seis anfibios y cinco reptiles endémicos cubanos, así como dos especies de anfibios incluidas en la categoría Vulnerable de la Lista Roja de UICN. De las ocho formaciones vegetales estudiadas, cinco mostraron una riqueza total de 6–7 especies, en las otras tres se detectaron 3–5 especies y en dos de estas últimas no se registraron anfibios. En las dos plantaciones (de Eucalyptus sp. y de Pinus caribaea) solo se encontraron 1–2 especies de anfibios. La mayor riqueza de reptiles (cinco especies) se obtuvo en las vegetaciones con porte boscoso, las que presentaron los tres estratos vegetales bien desarrollados: arbóreo, arbustivo y herbáceo. La información obtenida en este estudio podrá servir como punto de partida para otros estudios y como base para la planificación de acciones de manejo de las áreas naturales de la meseta.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45397821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First finding of the family Amathillopsidae (Amphipoda: Amphilochidea) in the gulf of Mexico, with the description of a new species","authors":"C. Varela, D. Fenolio, H. Bracken-Grissom","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.335","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Amathillopsis Heller, 1875 represents a group of 13 species of amphipods that live predominantly in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Many amathillopsids inhabit both mesopelagic, bathyal, and abyssal zones. We describe Amathillopsis colemani n. sp., a new species of marine deepwater amphipod collected at 1200 meters depth. This is the first record of the family Amathillopsidae for the Gulf of Mexico. The new species possesses similar characteristics to other members of the genus. Still, it differs from all other species in terms of the presence of eyes, accessory flagellum of antenna 1 unarticulate, telson notched, and characters in the lacinia mobilis of the mandible. The finding of A. colemani n. sp., emphasizes that new species of amphipods exist in deep-sea habitats and that associations between crustaceans and deep-sea invertebrates need further investigation.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46097823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversidad de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) en el refugio de vida silvestre Laguna Cabral o Rincón, República Dominicana","authors":"Edwin P. Féliz, S. Navarro","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.338","url":null,"abstract":"Se realizó un inventario mirmecológico en el Refugio de Vida Silvestre Laguna Cabral o Rincón, un área protegida ubicada en la región suroeste de la República Dominicana. Se establecieron veinte estaciones de muestreo, utilizando un conjunto de métodos de recolecta en cada una de las estaciones. Se calcularon los índices de equidad de Shannon y dominancia de Simpson para estimar la diversidad, y se estimó la eficiencia del muestreo empleando curvas de acumulación de especies. Se recolectaron 4752 individuos pertenecientes a 40 especies, distribuidas en 5 subfamilias y 22 géneros. Las especies más abundantes fueron Paratrechina longicornis y Crematogaster steinheili. El valor de dominancia registrado para el área de estudio se considera bajo (λ = 0.132) y la diversidad media (H' = 2.457). Las curvas de acumulación sugieren que el muestreo fue representativo, obteniéndose hasta un 96% de la riqueza esperada. La diversidad encontrada no se considera un indicativo de un buen estado de conservación, debido al alto número de especies introducidas.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42668181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Rodríguez‐Durán, Natalie A. Nieves, Yadiamaris Avilés Ruiz, Y. Martínez, Kamile Andújar-Morales
{"title":"Population estimates of bat assemblages from hot caves in Puerto Rico","authors":"A. Rodríguez‐Durán, Natalie A. Nieves, Yadiamaris Avilés Ruiz, Y. Martínez, Kamile Andújar-Morales","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.336","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge about the number of bats roosting in caves is critical for their long-term conservation. These roosts may function as shelter from weather or predators, information and social centers, or as nurseries. We provide estimates of bat population from 12 hot caves in Puerto Rico, based on infrared reflectance technology. Populations ranged from a few thousands of individuals to several hundred thousand. At nine caves, estimates were performed twice at different periods during the reproductive cycle. Some caves showed notable variations in the size of the population. A database of caves used by bats throughout the island is also provided, as well as information on the species that have been identified at each cave.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46761207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. LANDESTOY T., Francis O. Reyes, Isabela Hernández-Rodríguez
{"title":"Observations of unusual behavior in two invasive carnivores in the Dominican Republic: arboreal foraging in the Small Indian Mongoose (Urva auropunctata) and semi-aquatic hunting in the Domestic Cat (Felis catus)","authors":"M. LANDESTOY T., Francis O. Reyes, Isabela Hernández-Rodríguez","doi":"10.33800/nc.vi22.344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi22.344","url":null,"abstract":"We report unusual foraging events in two of the most invasive terrestrial predators in the world that are well established in the Caribbean islands: the Small Indian Mongoose (Urva auropunctata), locally known as jurón, and the Domestic Cat (Felis catus). The former is well known to be a ground-dwelling species, whereas the latter usually avoids water. We documented tree-climbing in the mongoose and semi-aquatic hunting in a domestic cat. The observations were recorded in southern Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48801519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}