Inventory of Macrolepidoptera and Other Insects in the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area

Mello, M. J. De

doi:10.1656/1092-6194(2005)12[99:iomaoi]2.0.co;2

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“…Oligia strigilis -Th is Eurasian species was fi rst recorded in North America at Quebec City, Quebec (Handfi eld 1999), subsequently exapnding south to the northeastern US (Mello 2005), and now as far south as New York City and as far west as southern Ontario.…”

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Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico

Lafontaine¹,

Schmidt²

2010

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An annotated check list of the North American species of Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) is presented, consisting of 3693 species. One-hundred and sixty-six taxonomic changes are proposed, consisting of 13 speciesgroup taxa accorded species status (stat. n. and stat. rev.), 2 revalidated genus-group taxa (stat. rev.), and 2 family-group taxa raised to subfamily. Sixty-nine species-group taxa are downgraded to junior synonyms or subspecies (stat. n., syn. rev., and syn. n.), and 6 genera relegated to synonymy. Sixty-seven new or revised generic combinations are proposed. No new taxa are described. Six non-native species now believed to be established in North America are documented for the fi rst time, namely Simplicia cornicalis (Fabricius, 1794) . Th e check list is arranged according to species membership in higher-level taxa (family, subfamily, tribe, subtribe), based on the most recent working hypotheses of a comprehensive phylogenetic framework for the Noctuoidea.

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Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico

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Schmidt²

2010

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“…As is the case for most national parks, however, relatively little is known about the natural resources which park managers are mandated to protect. While surveys for vascular plants and most vertebrates are ongoing, the largest component of biological diversity, the invertebrate fauna, has received little attention (with the exception of Lepidoptera ; Mello 2005 ).…”

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Carabid beetle diversity and distribution in Boston Harbor Islands national park area (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

Davidson¹,

Rykken²,

Farrell³

2011

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As part of an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Boston Harbor Islands national park area, an inventory of carabid beetles on 13 islands was conducted. Intensive sampling on ten of the islands, using an assortment of passive traps and limited hand collecting, resulted in the capture of 6,194 specimens, comprising 128 species. Among these species were seven new state records for Massachusetts (Acupalpus nanellus, Amara aulica, Amara bifrons, Apenes lucidulus, Bradycellus tantillus, Harpalus rubripes and Laemostenus terricola terricola—the last also a new country record; in passing we report also new state records for Harpalus rubripes from New York and Pennsylvania, Amara ovata from Pennsylvania, and the first mainland New York records for Asaphidion curtum). For most islands, there was a clear relationship between species richness and island area. Two islands, however, Calf and Grape, had far more species than their relatively small size would predict. Freshwater marshes on these islands, along with a suite of hygrophilous species, suggested that habitat diversity plays an important role in island species richness. Introduced species (18) comprised 14.0% of the total observed species richness, compared to 5.5% (17 out of 306 species) documented for Rhode Island. We surmise that the higher proportion of introduced species on the islands is, in part, due to a higher proportion of disturbed and open habitats as well as high rates of human traffic. We predict that more active sampling in specialized habitats would bring the total carabid fauna of the Boston Harbor Islands closer to that of Rhode Island or eastern Massachusetts in richness and composition; however, isolation, human disturbance and traffic, and limited habitat diversity all contribute to reducing the species pool on the islands relative to that on the mainland.

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Exploring the Microwilderness of Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area: Terrestrial Invertebrate All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory

Rykken

Farrell

2018

Northeastern Naturalist

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Inventory of Macrolepidoptera and Other Insects in the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area

Cited by 4 publications

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Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico

Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico

Carabid beetle diversity and distribution in Boston Harbor Islands national park area (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

Exploring the Microwilderness of Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area: Terrestrial Invertebrate All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory

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