Pelignellus is resurrected from synonymy with Atissa and is revised. The genus and both included species—P. subnudus Sturtevant & Wheeler from the USA (California) and P. freidbergi n. sp. from Central America (Costa ...

We described four new gelechioid species from Costa Rica: Philtronoma cbdora Metz, new species; Tinaegeria carlosalvaradoi Metz, new species; Tinaegeria romanmacayai Metz, new species (Depressariidae: Tinaegeriinae revised ...

Los estudios fenológicos generan información que contribuye con el conocimiento de las relaciones entre especies y componentes abióticos de los ecosistemas, disponibilidad de alimento para animales y regeneración de cobertura ...

Jaguar (Panthera onca) predation on sea turtles occurs across the Americas; however, records are scattered and not frequently presented in terms of their potential effects on sea turtle populations. In this study, we ...

Premise Clouds have profound consequences for ecosystem structure and function. Yet, the direct monitoring of clouds and their effects on biota is challenging especially in remote and topographically complex tropical cloud ...

For decades the detection and monitoring of land cover have been performed by aerialtransported remote sensing and satellites. Detecting and quantifying land cover relays on sensor capacities and classification techniques, ...

The Mexican burrowing toad Rhinophrynus dorsalis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) is a widely distributed species with a range that spans from southern Texas to the northwest of Costa Rica (Savage, 2002; Köhler, 2011; Leenders, ...

Two new Costa Rican species of the braconid parasitoid wasp subfamily Cardiochilinae, Heteropteron kidonoi Dabek & Whitfield and Heteropteron hasagawai Dabek & Whitfield, are described and illustrated from dry forest in ...

Two new endemic species of scarab beetles are described from Costa Rica, Onthophagus humboldti sp. nov. and Uroxys bonplandi sp. nov. Onthophagus humboldti sp. nov. is also the tenth brachypterous Onthophagus species to ...

Spatial patterns of genetic variation can reveal otherwise cryptic evolutionary and landscape processes. In northwestern Costa Rica, an approximately concordant genetic discontinuity occurs among populations of several ...