New Hispaniola locality record for the endemic beetle Nicrophorus hispaniola Sikes & Peck, 2000 (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae)
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The endemic Hispaniolan beetle Nicrophorus hispaniola Sikes & Peck, 2000, is reported from the locality of Zapotén, Sierra de Bahoruco, Dominican Republic, a national park outpost near the border with Haiti. This species appears restricted to Sierra de Bahoruco and Sierra de Neiba in the southwestern corner of the Dominican Republic.
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Nicrophorus hispaniola, Silphidae, Sierra de Bahoruco, conservation
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Sikes, D. S. & S. B. Peck. 2000. Description of Nicrophorus hispaniola, new species, from Hispaniola (Coleoptera: Silphidae) and a key to the species of Nicrophorus of the New World. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93: 391-397.
Sikes, D. S. & C. Venables. 2013. Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 5522-565.
Smith, G., S. T. Trumbo, D. S. Sikes, M. P. Scott & R. L. Smith. 2007. Host shift by the burying beetle, Nicrophorus pustulatus, a parasitoid of snake eggs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 2359-2399.
León, Y. M., E. Rupp, Y. Arias, L. Perdomo, S. Incháustegui & E. Garrido. 2011. Estrategia de Monitoreo para Especies Amenazadas de la Reserva de Biosfera Enriquillo-Bahoruco- Jaragua. Grupo Jaragua, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. ii + 91 pp.
Sikes, D. S. & S. B. Peck. 2000. Description of Nicrophorus hispaniola, new species, from Hispaniola (Coleoptera: Silphidae) and a key to the species of Nicrophorus of the New World. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93: 391-397.
Sikes, D. S. & C. Venables. 2013. Molecular phylogeny of the burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 5522-565.
Smith, G., S. T. Trumbo, D. S. Sikes, M. P. Scott & R. L. Smith. 2007. Host shift by the burying beetle, Nicrophorus pustulatus, a parasitoid of snake eggs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 2359-2399.
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Perez-Gelabert, D. E. (2016). New Hispaniola locality record for the endemic beetle Nicrophorus hispaniola Sikes & Peck, 2000 (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorinae). Novitates Caribaea, (10), 92–95. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i10.33
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