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Lycaenidae: 34) Strymon martialis ♀; 35) Chlorostrymon maesites ♀; 36) Electrostrymon a. angelia ♂; 37) Strymon istapa cybira ♂; 38) Ministrymon azia ♂; 39) Strymon limenia ♀; 40) Strymon toussainti ♂; 41) Allosmaitia coelebs ♂; 42) Cyclargus ammon ♀; 43) Leptotes cassius theonus ♂; 44) Pseudochrysops bornoi yateritas ♀; 45) Hemiargus ceraunus filenus ♂; 46) L. cassius theonus ♀; 47) Brephidium exilis isophthalma ♂; 48) H. ceraunus filenus ♀.
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A synopsis of data for 41 butterfly species collected and observed at the United States Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during January 2012 is presented along with observations on habitat, nectar plants, and natural history. Data are also provided for specimens in the collections of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera which were collected on the b...
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... En adición, este paisaje está sometido a un intenso impacto ambiental de origen antrópico. Como tendencia, localidades cubanas en ambientes mejores conservados exhiben valores semejantes o superiores de riqueza de especies, cuya gama comprende, desde 41 (Matthews et al., 2012) hasta 117 especies (Bermúdez et al., 2016). ...
There were 59 butterfly species were found among 11 sites of playas del Este, from Tarará to Rincón de Guanabo. The dominant element of this landscape is the Vegetation Complex of Sandy Coast, with relict areas of wetlands, mangroove forests and terrains cover of flora basically sinantrope. The environmental matriz is characterized by urbanizations and intense tourist activities. There were acomplished 125 visits between September, 2014 and July, 2019. The lineal distance travelled among sites varied from 330 m to 1500 m. The richest species sites were Tropicoco (43), Boca Ciega Cancha (41) and Guanabo (32). The family with the greater number of species was Hesperiidae with 20, followed by Nymphalidae and Pieridae both with 15 species each. The best represented families at national level were Pieridae (42.9% of Cuba species total) and Hesperiidae (36.4%). The most frequent species (10 - 11 sites) were Agraullis vanillae, Anartia jatrophae, Calisto herophile, Eurema daira, Leptotes cassius, Phoebis sennae and Pyrisitia nise, and the most abundant Nathalis iole, E. daira and P. nise. Fill matrix was high (43 %), with high robustness (96 %) in the species/sites association. The general spatial pattern among sites exhibited a significant nested configuration, and also modular with four modules. There were distinguished two sources or nodal sites: Tropicoco and Boca Ciega Cancha, which support the highest combined species richness (89 %) and high complementarity, these contain the highest number of less frequent species (62 %) and share only 25 % of them.
... Barro et al. (2011) stated that P. demoleus was found in far eastern Cuba and was spreading along both coasts. Matthews et al. (2012) reported a single male collected on January 23, 2012 from the U.S. Guantánamo Bay Naval Base on the southern coast, Guantánamo Province. All of these records are from coastal areas of the eastern-most provinces of Cuba. ...
The Old World swallowtail Papilio demoleus Linnaeus was first reported in the Dominican Republic in March 2004 and was later discovered in Cuba
in June 2007. This conspicuous butterfly has been documented from coastal areas of the eastern-most Cuban provinces of Guantánamo, Holguín, and Santiago
de Cuba. The dispersal of the butterfly in Cuba has been relatively slow. In 2014 we found P. demoleus at sites further to the west and interior of the coast in Las
Tunas and Camagüey provinces. The immature stages are attacked by predators and parasitoids in Cuba and other islands of the West Indies and P. demoleus does
not appear to be much of a threat to citrus production or native citrus-feeding swallowtails.
... The strong Cuban affinities of the Bahamian biota are not confined to vertebrates. For example, of the 42 species of butterflies recorded at Guantanamo (southeastern Cuba), 37 also occur in the Bahamas (25). ...
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Among the 90 resident species of landbirds known from Bahamian fossils, 62 species (69%) have different distributions today from in the recent past, ranging from single-island extirpations to global extinction. Placing the modern bird communities in a deeper time perspective shows how dynamic geographic ranges are through time, including providing explanations for illogical modern distributions and apparent endemism in the Caribbean. The fragmented existing Bahamian bird communities have withstood 1,000 y of human impact, and thus represent species with some resiliency. They nevertheless face an uncertain future because the factors that have fueled extirpations and extinctions through time are still at play.
... Alayo and Hern andez (1987) mentioned another specimen collected in 1952 at El Papayo, Guam a, Santiago de Cuba Province, in the foothills of the southeastern Sierra Maestra. The most recent published record, by Matthews et al. (2012), is of a specimen collected in 1994 at Mina Amores, south of Baracoa, Guantanamo Province, in the extreme north-east of Cuba. There is no other information on the species. ...
... Distribution and phenology. Holguinia holguin is only known from Cuba where it has been recorded in a few localities at opposite ends of the main island (Fig. 16), from sea level and up to 400 m (Alayo & Hern andez, 1987;Evans, 1955;Fontenla, 1984Fontenla, , 1987Matthews et al., 2012;this study). Specimens have been collected in May, June, July, October. ...
We redescribe the Cuban endemic monotypic skipper genus Holguinia Evans and assess its phylogenetic position. Based on a 5640 bp dataset consisting of one mitochondrial and eight nuclear genes, we recovered Holguinia as a member of the Hesperiina, one of the subtribes of the mostly Neotropical Hesperiini, the largest tribe within the subfamily Hesperiinae. The ancestor of Holguinia split from continental relatives ∼15 Ma and likely reached the proto Cuban islands by dispersal over water. The genus seems to be one of the oldest Hesperiini lineages of our sampling and is not closely related to the other genera inhabiting the islands. Holguinia is also quite distinctive in its morphology. The underside of wings splashed with bright emerald scaling is unique among the Hesperiidae and the long ductus bursae of the female genitalia easily distinguish this genus from its close relatives.
... Unpublished reports submitted to the Department of the Navy include Alberts et al. (2001) on reptile management and Areces-Mallea (2010) on the effects of grazing on the base's flora. Formal research conducted at NSGB has encompassed a wide taxonomic scope and variety of biological questions: algal diversity (Humm and Jackson 1955), cactophilic Drosophila (Heed and Grimaldi 1991), coral reef diversity and health (Chiappone et al. 2001, Risk et al. 2014, bird molting patterns (Pyle et al. 2004), effects of feral ungulates (Lowney et al. 2005), a population study of Capromys pilorides (Say) (Desmarest's Hutia; Witmer and Lowney 2007), a butterfly inventory (Matthews et al. 2012), genetics of the resident Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmerman) (White-tailed Deer; Mathis et al. 2017), fossil corals (Muhs et al. 2017), a cyanobacterial bloom (Hall et al. 2018), manatee environmental DNA (Hunter et al. 2018), and an inventory of the base's plume moths (Matthews et al. 2019). Herpetological studies at NSGB have included species inventories (Lando andWilliams 1969, Lemm andAlberts 2000) and field studies on the endangered Cyclura nubila (Gray) (Cuban Iguana), Chilabothrus angulifer (Cocteau and Bibron) (Cuban Boa), and sea turtles (Alberts et al. 2001, Santos et al. 2006, Tolson and Henderson 1993. ...
Leiocephalus onaneyi (Guantánamo Striped Curlytail) is known only from its type locality, Loma de Macambo, a mountain in the Cuban province of Guantánamo. We report a second locality for this species, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, which is approximately 50 km southwest of the type locality. We used phenotype and DNA analyses to confirm identity. Habitat, elevation, and geology differ from the type locality. We observed juveniles over multiple years, indicating successful reproduction. We also provide data on the thermal environment, lizard community, and potential predators of L. onaneyi at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. The discovery of L. onaneyi, listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN and Cuba, at a second site is significant for the conservation of this species.
... We made two trips to the United States Naval Base (18-25 January 2012 and 3-10 October 2013) in order to inventory all lepidopteran taxa present. Initial results on the butterflies were reported by Matthews et al. (2012). Seven species of Pterophoridae were included in the 334 moth species encountered at the base. ...
... Pupae were placed directly in isopropanol, while larvae are first placed in boiling water to fix proteins. Numbered study sites are mapped and described by Matthews et al. (2012). All genitalia dissections were slide mounted in Euparal. ...
... Complete label data for all Cuban specimens examined are given below. This listing supersedes the data account given for C. ammon in Matthews et al. (2012), which erroneously included some C. thomasi specimens. Localities on labels are reproduced verbatim, while dates are standardized. ...
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... The specimens were quickly differentiated from other known Cuban Polyommatinae due to their tailed hindwings and the reduced size of underside pattern spots. The only other Cuban member of this subfamily having tails is Pseudochrysops bornoi yateritas Smith & Hernández, 1992 which is confined to the semi desert Southeastern coast of the Guantánamo province (Alayo & Hernández 1987;Smith & Hernández 1992;Matthews et al. 2012). Others lycaenids at the collecting site were Leptotes cassius theonus (Lucas), Hemiargus hanno filenus (Poey), Strymon limenia (Hewitson), Ministrymon azia (Hewitson), and remarkably Strymon martialis (Herrich-Schäffer) for which previous Cuban records were restricted to coastal areas (Alayo & Hernández 1987;Smith et al. 1994). ...
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