Ligia baudiniana Milne-Edwards, 1840

Fig. 1

Ligia baudiniana Milne-Edwards, 1840: 155 .

Ligia (Hirtiligia) baudiniana – Van Name 1936: 58, figs 5a, 14.

Ligia baudiniana – Ríos & Ramos 1990: 93, fig. 7. — Schmalfuss 2003: 124. — Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz 2007: 226. — López-Orozco et al. 2014: 196, figs 1–3.

Additional references

Jackson (1922); Schultz (1984); Kensley & Schotte (1989); Leistikow (1997); Leistikow & Wägele (1999); Espinosa-Pérez & Hendrickx (2001); Santamaria et al. (2014).

Material examined

COLOMBIA – Bolívar, Cartagena de Indias, Islas del Rosario, Isla Grande • 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀; El Silencio, Laguna del Silencio; 10°10′34.8″ N, 75°44′26.6″ W; 24 Aug. 2017; C.M. López-Orozco, R. Borja-Arrieta and Y.M. Carpio-Díaz leg.; CUDC-CRU 141 • 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 10°10′35″ N, 75°44′26.4″ W; CUDC-CRU 142 • 1 juv.; same collection data as for preceding; 10°10′35.4″ N, 75°44′26.2″ W; CUDC-CRU 143 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 10°10′34.3″ N, 75°44′26.7″ W; CUDC-CRU 144 • 1 ♂; same locality and collectors as for preceding; 10°10′32.9″ N, 75°44′27.3″ W; 25 Aug. 2017; CUDC-CRU 145 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 10°10′32.3″ N, 75°44′27.2″ W; CUDC-CRU 146 • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 10°10′32.5″ N, 75°44′27.1″ W; CUDC-CRU 147 • 1 ♀; Caño Ratón, Laguna Palmar; 10°10′24.5″ N, 75°44′39.7″ W; 24 Nov. 2017; same collectors as for preceding; CUDC-CRU 148 • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; El Silencio, Laguna del Silencio; 10°10′35.4″ N, 75°44′26″ W; 24 Nov. 2017; same collectors as for preceding; CUDC-CRU 149 • 1 ♀; same locality and collectors as for preceding; 10°10′48″ N, 75°43′39.3″ W; 25 Aug. 2017; CUDC-CRU 150 • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 10°10′34″ N, 75°44′26.8″ W; CUDC-CRU 151 • 1 juv.; same collection data as for preceding; 10°10′47.74″ N, 75°43′39.93″ W; CUDC-CRU 152 • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 10°10′35″ N, 75°44′26.9″ W; ICN- CR-is 260 • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; Caño Ratón; 10°10′44.91″ N, 75°44′53.01″ W; 24 Nov. 2017, same collectors as for preceding; ICN-CR-is 261 • 1 juv.; Paraíso Secreto; 10°10′15.9″ N, 75°44′38.8″ W; 4 Apr. 2018, C.M. López-Orozco, R. Borja-Arrieta and K. Meza leg.; CUDC-CRU 222 .

Previous records

Valle del Cauca: Bahía Málaga (Pacific); Bolívar: Cartagena de Indias (Caribbean); Magdalena: Santa Marta (Ríos & Ramos 1990; Lazarus-Agudelo & Cantera-Kintz 2007; López-Orozco et al. 2014; Santamaria et al. 2014).

Distribution

This species was originally described from Veracruz, Mexico (but see Discussion). Molecular phylogenetic analyses, however, revealed that what has been denominated as this species corresponds to a clade composed of highly divergent lineages (probably a complex of cryptic species), distributed in southern Florida, across the Caribbean Sea, Bahamas, Bermuda, and probably in northern Brazil, and the Pacific coast from Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, probably to Ecuador (Santamaria et al. 2014). Although this species has been reported in the Gulf of California and California, extensive sampling for phylogeographic studies conducted by some of us suggest that these previous records are likely misidentifications (Hurtado et al. 2010; Eberl et al. 2013; Hurtado et al. 2018).