Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds Author Suárez, William text Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 2022 2022-03-11 142 1 247 248 journal article 10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3 2513-9894 4C9216EC-E822-4CC7-A163-6E96CFB3078F 19. † Buteogallus irpus Suárez & Olson, 2021 Wolf Hawk (Gavilán Lobo) Buteogallus irpus Suárez & Olson, 2021 , Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl . 141: 259. Titanohierax gloveralleni : Woods 1980: 8 (part) [Hispaniola]. Titanohierax sp. : Olson & Hilgartner 1982: 28 [Hispaniola]. Amplibuteo sp. : Suárez & Arredondo 1997: 100 [ Cuba ]. Amplibuteo woodwardi : Suárez 2004a: 121 [ Cuba ]. History .— 24 April 1978 : Charles Woods (UF) collects the holotype in a cave deposit in the Dominican Republic ( Suárez & Olson 2021: 260 ; see Olson & Hilgartner 1982: 28 ). July 1980 : material of large Accipitridae from Hispaniola referred to Titanohierax gloveralleni Wetmore by Woods (1980: 8) . 5 August 1982 : holotype identified as ‘ Titanohierax sp. ’ by Olson & Hilgartner (1982: 28) . 2 March 1995 : paratype collected in a cave deposit in western Cuba ( Suárez & Olson 2021: 259 ; see Suárez 2004a: 121 ). Winter 1997 : mentioned for Cuba as ‘ Amplibuteo sp. ’ by Suárez & Arredondo (1997: 100–101) . April 2004 : Cuban material compared with continental fossil taxa and identified as A . woodwardi L. Miller , but shows some differences interpreted as individual variation ( Suárez 2004a: 122 ). 10 September 2021 : original description of Buteogallus irpus published ( Suárez & Olson 2021 ) based on fossils from Hispaniola and Cuba , with the extinct genus Amplibuteo Campbell, 1979 , treated as synonym of Buteogallus . Holotype .—Left tarsometatarsus lacking proximal end, USNM PAL 299573 ( Suárez & Olson 2021 : figs. 1: A [anterior], B [medial], C [distal], D [posterior], E [lateral], 2: A [anterior]). Collected on 24 April 1978 by Charles Woods, under 60 cm of red earth, at the type locality ( Suárez & Olson 2021 ; see also Olson & Hilgartner 1982: 28 ). Other material .— Partial skeleton : WS 365 (see Suárez 2004a : Figs. 1–2 ), including: one cervical (axis) and three thoracic vertebrae, seven fragments of ribs, fragmentary pelvis (fig. 2E [lateral]), proximal fragmentary right humerus (fig. 2A [palmar], B [anconal]), distal fragments of left humerus (fig. 2C [palmar]), segment of shaft of left ulna (fig. 2D [palmar]), left fragmentary femur without distal end (fig. 2G [anterior]), proximal and distal fragmentary ends of right femur (fig. 2F–F’ [anterior]), shaft of left tibiotarsus (fig. 2I [posterior]), proximal right fibula (fig. 2H [internal]), left tarsometatarsus lacking inner calcaneal ridge, part of the metatarsal facet, wing of trochlea II , and posterior surface of trochlea III (fig. 1A [anterior], fig. 2J [anterior], K [proximal], L [posterior], Suárez & Olson 2008 : fig. 1C [anterior], 2021: fig. 2B [anterior]), left digit I, phalanx 1 (fig. 2M [dorsal]) and phalanx 2 (fig. 2N [lateral]), left digit III , phalanx 2 and phalanx 3, right digit III , phalanx 4 (fig. 2O [lateral]), right digit IV , phalanx 4. Collected on 2 March 1995 by WS. Cited figures are from Suárez (2004a) , other than where indicated. Type locality .—Cueva de las Abejas ( 18°01’N , 71°67’W; elevation c . 20 m ), near Cabo Rojo, 8 km south-east of Pedernales , Pedernales province , Dominican Republic . Quaternary, probably late Pleistocene, but not directly dated ( Suárez & Olson 2021: 260 ; see Olson & Hilgartner 1982: 28 , Steadman et al . 2019: 321 ). Distribution .—Cave deposit in west Cuba (see Appendix). Artemisa . Caimito: ASA ([Sandoval III low deposit, see Suárez 2000b: 67–68 ] Suárez & Arredondo 1997: 100–101 [‘ Amplibuteo sp. ’], Suárez 2004a: 121 [‘ Amplibuteo woodwardi ’], Suárez & Olson 2021: 259 [‘ Buteogallus irpus , sp. nov. ’]). Direct 14 C dating .—None. Notes .—Very rare, known from a single cave deposit in west Cuba and the type locality in south-central Hispaniola ( Suárez & Olson 2021 ). B. irpus possesses a tarsometatarsus within the size range of the extinct continental species B. woodwardi (L. Miller, 1911 ) and B . hibbardi ( Campbell, 1979 ) , but relatively shorter and more robust, with reduced trochleae ( Suárez & Olson 2021 ). Although currently synonyms of the genus Buteogallus , both Harpyhaliaetus Lafresnaye and Heterospizias Sharpe were incorrectly cited in place of the former by Suárez & Olson (2021: 259) when listing characters 9 and 10 of ‘ Amplibuteo ’ described by Campbell (1979: 77) . These characters of the distal tarsometatarsus (trochleae) are of specific value and their presence is variable in living and extinct species currently in Buteogallus , as partially described by Campbell (1979: 74) . The extinct genus Titanohierax , described from the Bahamas ( Wetmore 1937 ) and currently unknown outside those islands ( Suárez & Olson 2008 , Suárez 2020a), was erroneously considered to be more widely distributed in the West Indies ( cf . Woods 1980 , Olson & Hilgartner 1982 , Morgan 1977a ,b, 1994, Morgan et al . 2019 ). See Buteogallus borrasi . A re-evaluation of some fossils representing large members of Accipitridae from continental deposits in North America probably will shed more light on the taxonomy and distribution of T . gloveralleni .