@article {1450, title = {Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2021}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {5}, year = {2022}, month = {Feb-23-2022}, pages = {27-45}, abstract = {

This is a supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography covering taxa described or recorded during 2021, plus a few earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2021, 2,198 species were recorded from Kachin amber of which 337 were named in 2021. Five species were named or recorded from older Hkamti amber.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2834, 2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.1.4}, url = {https://mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.5.1.4}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {1391, title = {Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2020}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {4}, year = {2021}, month = {26/02/2021}, pages = {57{\textendash}76}, abstract = {

This is a supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography covering taxa described or recorded during 2020, plus a few earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2020, 1,859 species were recorded from Kachin amber of which 362 were named in 2020, which is the highest number of species named from any kind of amber in one year. Two species were also named from older Hkamti amber.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, fungi, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, protists, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.1.11}, url = {https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.4.1.11}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {1390, title = {Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2019}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {3}, year = {2020}, month = {26/02/2020}, pages = {103{\textendash}118}, abstract = {

This is a supplement to Ross (2019) covering all taxa described or recorded in Burmese amber during 2019, plus a few earlier records that were missed previously. Up to the end of 2019, 1,478 species were recorded from Burmese (Kachin) amber of which 276 were named or recorded in 2019.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, fungi, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, protists, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.1.14}, url = {https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.3.1.14}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {1389, title = {Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography 2018}, journal = {Palaeoentomology}, volume = {2}, year = {2019}, month = {28/02/2019}, pages = {22{\textendash}84}, abstract = {

A list of all known taxa described or recorded from Burmese amber from the published literature up to the end of 2018 is given, along with a comprehensive bibliography. The history of the study of inclusions is summarised, and demonstrates that the number of species has risen exponentially over the past two decades. The first three species were named in 1916 and by the end of 1920 a total of 42 species had been named by T.D.A. Cockerell. Only three more species were named by 1999 though by the end of 2018 the total had risen to an incredible 1,192 species, of which over half were named in the past three years. Some 320 species were named in 2018, the highest number described from one type of amber in any one year in the entire history of amber studies.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, Burmese amber, Cretaceous, fungi, insects, invertebrates, Myanmar, plants, protists, vertebrates}, issn = {2624-2826}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.1.5}, url = {https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.2.1.5}, author = {Ross, Andrew J.} } @article {1168, title = {Artr{\'o}podos (Arthropoda: Arachnida e Insecta) asociados a los nidos de Neotoma mexicana (Mammalia: Rodentia) de San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, M{\'e}xico}, journal = {Acta Zool{\'o}gica Mexicana (nueva serie)}, volume = {35}, year = {2019}, month = {16/08/2019}, pages = {1-9}, abstract = {

Resumen: Los nidos de roedores son el refugio de distintas especies de artr\ópodos como pueden ser: \ácaros, pulgas, chinches, piojos y pseudoescorpiones, entre otros. Algunos de ellos son de importancia m\édica y veterinaria porque son vectores de diversas enfermedades que pueden trasmitir al ser humano, animales dom\ésticos y silvestres. Se recolect\ó un nido de Neotoma a partir del cual se identificaron 148 artr\ópodos de tres \órdenes: Acari, Pseudoscorpiones (Arachnida) (Shultz, 2007) y Siphonaptera (Insecta). La especie m\ás abundante fue el \ácaro Cheyletus eruditus (Acari: Prostigmata: Cheyletidae) con 126 ejemplares. Tectocepheus velatus (Acari: Oribatida: Tectocepheidae) es un nuevo registro para los nidos de Neotoma. Los pseudoescorpiones representan el primer registro para Guanajuato, siendo Parachernes un nuevo registro para este microh\ábitat. Del orden Siphonaptera Tunga monositus es un nuevo registro para Guanajuato.

Arthropods (Arathropoda: Arachnida and Insecta) associated with the nests of Neotoma mexicana (Mammalia: Rodentia) from San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

Abstract: The nests of rodents are the refuge of different species of arthropods such as mites, fleas, bugs, lice, and pseudoscorpions, among others. Some of them are of veterinary and medical importance because they are vectors of diverse diseases that can be transmitted to a human, domestic and wild animals. A nest of Neotoma mexicana was collected, from which 148 arthropods of four orders were found: Acari, Pseudoscorpiones (Arachnida), and Siphonaptera (Insecta). The most abundant species of mites was Cheyletus eruditus (Acari: Prostigmata: Chayletidae) with 126. Tectocepheus velatus (Acari: Oribatida: Tectocepheidae) is a new record for Neotoma nests. The pseudoscorpions represent the first records for Guanajuato, being Parachernes a new record for this microhabitat. Whilst for the order Siphonaptera Tunga monositus is a new record for Guanajuato.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, ar{\'a}cnidos, insectos, insects, nests, nidos, rodents, roedores}, issn = {2448-8445}, doi = {10.21829/azm.2019.3502217}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.21829/azm.2019.3502217}, author = {Mart{\'\i}nez Hern{\'a}ndez, Mariana S. and Hern{\'a}ndez Hern{\'a}ndez, Zaira and Villegas Guzm{\'a}n, Gabriel A. and Gaona Ram{\'\i}rez, Salvador} } @article {68, title = {Towards a synthesis of the Caribbean biogeography of terrestrial arthropods}, journal = {BMC Evolutionary Biology}, volume = {20}, year = {2020}, month = {24/01/2020}, abstract = {

Background: The immense geologic and ecological complexity of the Caribbean has created a natural laboratory for interpreting when and how organisms disperse through time and space. However, competing hypotheses compounded with this complexity have resulted in a lack of unifying principles of biogeography for the region. Though new data concerning the timing of geologic events and dispersal events are emerging, powerful new analytical tools now allow for explicit hypothesis testing. Arthropods, with varying dispersal ability and high levels of endemism in the Caribbean, are an important, albeit understudied, biogeographic model system. Herein, we include a comprehensive analysis of every publicly available genetic dataset (at the time of writing) of terrestrial Caribbean arthropod groups using a statistically robust pipeline to explicitly test the current extent of biogeographic hypotheses for the region.

Results: Our findings indicate several important biogeographic generalizations for the region: the South American continent is the predominant origin of Caribbean arthropod fauna; GAARlandia played a role for some taxa in aiding dispersal from South America to the Greater Antilles; founder event dispersal explains the majority of dispersal events by terrestrial arthropods, and distance between landmasses is important for dispersal; most dispersal events occurred via island hopping; there is evidence of \‘reverse\’ dispersal from islands to the mainland; dispersal across the present-day Isthmus of Panama generally occurred prior to 3 mya; the Greater Antilles harbor more lineage diversity than the Lesser Antilles, and the larger Greater Antilles typically have greater lineage diversity than the smaller islands; basal Caribbean taxa are primarily distributed in the Greater Antilles, the basal-most being from Cuba, and derived taxa are mostly distributed in the Lesser Antilles; Jamaican taxa are usually endemic and monophyletic.

Conclusions: Given the diversity and deep history of terrestrial arthropods, incongruence of biogeographic patterns is expected, but focusing on both similarities and differences among divergent taxa with disparate life histories emphasizes the importance of particular qualities responsible for resulting diversification patterns. Furthermore, this study provides an analytical toolkit that can be used to guide researchers interested in answering questions pertaining to Caribbean biogeography using explicit hypothesis testing.

}, keywords = {Arachnids, BioGeoBEARS, biogeography, Central American seaway, insects, Islands, Isthmus of Panama, Probabilistic inference}, issn = {2730-7182}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1576-z}, url = {https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-019-1576-z}, author = {Crews, Sarah C. and Esposito, Lauren A.} }