New distribution record of Cybocephalus kathrynae (Coleoptera, Cybocephalidae) on Mona Island, Puerto Rico

New records of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from Mona Island, Puerto Rico

An inventory of the weevil fauna of Mona Island, Puerto Rico, is provided. Sixteen new records and 5-9 new species are reported, yielding a total of 28 species of Curculionoidea for the island. The distribution and natural history of each species are briefly reviewed. As many as nine species are endemics, whereas 15 species are shared with Puerto Rico which was the primary source region for Pli...

A New Hairstreak Butterfly ( Lycaenidae ) from Mona Island , Puerto Rico

Mouse-virulent Toxoplasma gondii isolated from feral cats on Mona Island, Puerto Rico.

Cats are essential in the life cycle of Toxoplasma gondii because they are the only hosts that can excrete the environmentally resistant oocysts. Samples of serum, feces, and tissues from cats from Mona, a remote island off the coast of Puerto Rico, were examined for T. gondii infection. Antibodies to T. gondii were assayed by the modified agglutination test and found in 16 of 19 (84.2%) of cat...

Biogeographical Affinities of the Butterflies of a 'forgotten' Island: Mona (puerto Rico)

David Spencer Smith Hope Entomological Collections and Department of Zoology. Oxford University, England Stuart J . Ramos Department of Biology, Mayaquez Campus, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Faustino McKenzie Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan Eugene Munroe Grani te Hill Farm, RR 2, Dunrobin. Ontario, Canada Lee D. Miller Allyn Museum of Entomology of the Flor...

A survey of the epibiota of Eretmochelys imbricata (Testudines: Cheloniidae) of Mona Island, Puerto Rico.

Epibiotic organisms inhabiting non-nesting hawksbill sea turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766), are described from Mona and Monito Islands, Puerto Rico. Epibiont samples from 105 turtles of shallow (< 40 m) water foraging habitats were collected and identified to the lowest possible taxon. This epibiotic assemblage consisting of at least 4 algal functional groups and 12 animal phyla ...