Discovered in 2009 at the Limones-Tuabaquey Ecological Reserve in Camaguey
and the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park located in the eastern part of
the island it lives exclusively in the water deposits of the curujeyes.

Curujeyes comes from the family of bromeliaceas epifita, and are shaped in a form of sword that lives mainly on top of the ceiba tree.

 
Biologist Orestes Carlos Bello Gonzalez, author of the discovery explained on the importance from the point of view of its conservation.

 
The population of this insect –with aspects similar to a mosquito- in the southeastern part of Florida practically disappeared due to the presence of an invading beetle whose larva destroy the insect´s natural habitat.

 
However, there are no reports in Cuba of any type of beetle which favors the environment of the insect, according to Bello Gonzalez.

 
This will favor the knowledge of Cuban biodiversity, while there are 300 species known to Florida, there are less than 10 in Cuba, said the researcher who is also member of the Youth Technical Brigades.

 
Yulianis Martin Castejon, President of the Brigades, highlighted the value of the discovery of the invertebrate as the most diverse group of the animal kingdom, representing 90 percent of its population.

 
The Alejandro Humboldt National Park is considered the largest biosphere reserve in the region and holds the name of a German scientist, geographer, naturalist, geologist, historian and one of the most eminent men of his time that visited the island in the 19th century.

 
Regarding the biodiversity of the Park found in the provinces of Holguin and Guantanamo, it has the largest richness on endemic resources of the island in addition to the remains of the mountain ecosystems conserved in Cuba guaranteeing the survival of humanity and its landscapes.

 
A good example is that it holds 2 percent of the flora species on Earth.