[Odonata-l] question about Jamaican Odonata

[Dennis Paulson]

Hello, all.

Has anyone on this list visited Jamaica since 1960 to collect,  
observe, and/or photograph Odonata there? At this time we are in the  
dark about the status of two presumably rare forest species there -  
Hypolestes clara and Diceratobasis macrogaster. Jamaica has fewer  
endemic species than the other two large Greater Antillean islands,  
Cuba and Hispaniola, but there might be more such species there than  
we know. It does hold populations of Erythrodiplax bromeliicola,  
another very poorly known species shared with Cuba. Both the  
Diceratobasis and the Erythrodiplax breed in bromeliads, the  
Hypolestes on forest streams. All may be restricted to the mountains.

Thanks for any information if you have it.

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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