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Sufis and Coffee Consumption
Authors: Mahamid Hatim , Nissim Chaim
Published: June 2019

From the tenth/sixteenth century, coffee consumption spread from Yemen northwards, mainly via the Sufis and their disciples, who claimed that drinking coffee helped their ritual activity. This caused an extended debate among the ulama of different schools, who viewed the Sufis’ coffee drinking as a negative innovation opposed to the sharīʿa. The controversy first focused on whether coffee was permitted, or rather forbidden, like wine. However, as coffee became widespread, the lack of religious proofs for its prohibition and the religious and political authorities’ inability to forbid it moved the debate to the moral aspects. The supporters of forbidding coffee drinking were mainly ulama in official positions such as judges. These ulama needed the help of rulers to enforce the prohibition. Due to Sufis, by the eleventh–twelfth/seventeenth–eighteenth centuries, coffee consumption became a social phenomenon both in homes and in public spheres, as coffeehouses.
Autonomous and Collective Sanctions in the International Legal Order
Authors: White Nigel D.
Published: June 2019

The UK government is currently proposing the enactment of a “Sanctions Act” upon the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in 2019, embodying a right to impose “autonomous sanctions” against other states and non-state actors, on the basis that the UK will no longer be able to benefit from the EU’s collective sanctioning competence. The spotlight is again on the nature and purposes of sanctions in international law. The article addresses the legal framework applicable to sanctions by, first of all, showing that the nature of sanctions is different in the international legal order to how it is conceived in domestic legal orders in that sanctions are primarily imposed in response to threats to or breaches of the peace and, in so doing, the analysis will distinguish sanctions from countermeasures and other non-forcible measures. It then proceeds to demonstrate that the values of peace and security that underpin sanctions are essentially normative and should be seen as part of the international legal order and enforceable through sanctions alongside other fundamental norms of international law. Whether viewed as responses to breaches of international law or not, the analysis shows that sanctions are collective measures exclusively within the competence of international organizations. Having established the conceptual and legal frameworks for understanding sanctions, the article considers sanctions imposed against states and non-state actors, and explores whether the move towards targeted sanctions is a form of collective response to violations of international law. The article finishes by considering that, in contrast to countermeasures and other measures of self-help, collective sanctions are inherently lawful, but can only be legally justified as measures adopted out of a necessity to prevent major ruptures to peace and international law.
A Critical Overview of the United Nations Architecture on Children and Armed Conflict: What Role for Sanctions?
Authors: Capone Francesca
Published: June 2019

The first comprehensive and systematic analysis of the impact of armed conflict on children has been submitted to the UN General Assembly in 1996. The UN has since adopted and implemented a large number of initiatives and resolutions, making up the basis for the enhancement of monitoring and accountability of all parties responsible for violations perpetrated against children. The efforts to quantify and monitor violations against children committed not only by States, but also by Armed Non-State Actors, are an important milestone in the attempt to improve the protection of children. Nonetheless, the current UN architecture on children and armed conflict presents a number of shortcomings, in particular the lack of effective enforcement mechanisms, which hinder its capability to increase the achievement of more concrete results. After presenting an overview of the UN architecture on children and armed conflict, lingering on its constitutive elements as well as on its current weaknesses, this article will question if and to what extent the imposition of sanctions against individuals and entities can enhance the comprehensive strategy to thwart the harmful impact of armed conflict on children and the long lasting consequences it has on durable peace, security, and development. Furthermore, the present article will identify possible ways forward to improve the current framework, by discussing, inter alia, how the wealth of information gathered through the UN Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism could be used to feed into a more integrated information platform within the UN and also to strengthen accountability in international criminal tribunals.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: a Promise, a Threat or a Flop?
Authors: Pedrazzi Marco
Published: June 2019

On 7 July 2017 a UN Conference, convened in New York by the General Assembly, adopted a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, providing for the first total ban on these weapons intended to be global in scale. The Treaty was opened for signature on 20 September 2017. The process and its outcome, were, however, firmly opposed by nuclear-weapon States and by NATO countries, including Italy: they refused to take part in the effort, fearing that it could definitively undermine the stability of the non-proliferation architecture built upon the 1967 Non-Proliferation Treaty. In reality, the Treaty is consistent with the ultimate purpose of the NPT regime, and the obligations assumed by States under the NPT remain untouched. Its main deficiencies relate to its verification apparatus, and it would be advisable to remedy them through future negotiations. Whether this instrument will enter into force is not clear, although it has the potential to acquire, and surpass, the fifty ratifications necessary. However, the absence of support from nuclear-weapon States risks rendering it irrelevant. Nevertheless, it seems plausible that broad support for this new regime, from non-nuclear-weapons States, as well as from civil society, could contribute to exerting pressure towards the adoption of concrete steps in the nuclear disarmament agenda.
After the Fall
Authors: Shields James Mark
Published: June 2019

Tsuji Zennosuke 辻善之助 (1877–1955), the dominant figure in Buddhist historical scholarship in Japan from the 1930s until the mid-1950s, is known to have employed a broad range of sources in order to provide a comprehensive analysis of his subject. This essay examines Tsuji’s conception of Buddhist history in relation to the emergence of both National Historical Studies (kokushigaku 国史学) and so-called State Shintō (kokka shintō 国家神道) and argues against the image of Tsuji as an “objective historian” resistant to nationalist trends in historical scholarship. In fact, Tsuji was involved in the creation of an alternative, “Buddhistic” national history, or bukkyōshugi kokushi 仏教主義国史的. In particular, comparisons are drawn between Tsuji’s conception of Buddhism and the earlier arguments of New Buddhism (shin bukkyō 新仏教) and the Daijō hi-bussetsuron 大乗非仏説論, in addition to his more general conception of the contributions of Buddhism to the humanitarian spirit of Japanese leaders—both emperors and military warlords. Can there be—should there be—an objective history of religion? What is the significance of sacred history—and the history of Buddhism more particularly—to the still-emerging “modern” nation of Japan? How does Buddhism, a pan-Asian and “borrowed religion,” fit with the “Japanist” ideology of national uniqueness? These are some of the questions posed by Tsuji in his writings.
Leveraging Legal Indeterminacy
Authors: Pill Shlomo C.
Published: June 2019

This article offers one response, rooted in traditional Jewish and Islamic perspectives of what it means to have a rule of law, to the problem of indeterminacy in Western jurisprudence. Some Jewish and Muslim scholars have conceptualized the rule of law not as a system of objective, democratic, prospective, stable, and equally applied substantive norms, but as the commitment of the legal community to be broadly and deeply engaged with studying, interpreting, and applying the materials and methods of their legal tradition as the principal source of normative conduct. This way of thinking about law, which I call “law-as-engagement,” has been deployed by Jewish and Muslim scholars to leverage the incidence of indeterminacy, disagreement, and judicial subjectivity in law for the purpose of reinforcing rather than undermining the rule of law.
The Rule of Law, Religious Authority, and Oaths of Office
Authors: Aroney Nicholas
Published: June 2019

The rule of law requires political office holders to exercise their powers in accordance with the law. Most societies, however, rely not only on the moral obligation to obey the law but also require office holders to take a religious oath or solemn affirmation. The divine witness to the oath of office stands in as a guarantor of the political order but also looms above it. As such, the oath represents a paradox. It guarantees the performance of official duties while also subjecting them to external judgement. The oath thus encompasses the large question of the relationship between religious conviction, personal fidelity, moral principle, and political power. It suggests that law and religion are as much intertwined as separated in today’s politics. By tracing the oath of office as a sacrament of power, much light can be shed on the relationship between law and religion in today’s liberal-democratic politics.
Commerce, Religion, and the Rule of Law
Authors: Oman Nathan B.
Published: June 2019

The rule of law and religion can act as commercial substitutes. Both can create the trust required for material prosperity. The rule of law simplifies social interactions, turning people into formal legal agents and generating a map of society that the state can observe and control, thus credibly committing to the enforcement of the legal rights demanded by impersonal markets. Religion, in contrast, embraces complex social identities. Within these communities, economic actors can monitor and sanction misbehavior. Both approaches have benefits and problems. The rule of law allows for trade among strangers, fostering peaceful pluralism. However, law breeds what Montesquieu called “a certain feeling for exact justice” that crowds out deeper forms of relation. Religious commerce fosters precisely such communities. Religious commerce, however, does not create bridges between strangers as effectively as the formal rule of law. Furthermore, the state tends to be suspicious of tight religious communities, particularly when they are commercially successful.
Walking Bridges: Placing the Liberal Arts and Sciences between Secondary and Higher Education
Authors: Volz Austin X.
Published: June 2019

When are the most appropriate times to receive a liberal arts and sciences education? The liberal arts and sciences model is meant to achieve aims that include general cognitive abilities, moral and social growth, and interdisciplinary understanding. This paper considers the case for studying the liberal arts and sciences in secondary school in comparison with studying them in college/university. Success in fostering cognitive skills such as critical thinking is used as a basis for comparison of these two settings. A review of empirical research suggests that general cognitive gains are not unique to the liberal arts and sciences nor to tertiary education, but that social and moral education may constitute a more unique advantage of the liberal arts. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for the justification of the liberal arts and sciences in China.
Variation in Student Success across Europe: Exploring the Relevance of System-Level Explanations
Authors: Hovdhaugen Elisabeth , Stensaker Bjørn
Published: June 2019

Student success is often defined as students completing their degree, preferably within the estimated time to degree. However, if we apply this definition, student success is quite varied if we compare countries in Europe (OECD Education at a Glance 2013, Vossensteyn et al. 2015). The article identifies and discusses some system-level factors that is often mentioned as possible explanations of these differences including costs, selection and admission system differences and the structuring of higher education offerings, and the relationship between higher education and the labour market. However, based on existing data, the identified system-level factors do not correlate with the empirical variation in student success, and the article ends with some reflections about future research needs to advance the knowledge about student success.
Vedic dāśvā́ṃs- ‘pious one’, Homeric ἀδηκότες ‘inattentive’, and the “long-vowel” perfects of Proto-Indo-European
Authors: Sandell Ryan
Published: June 2019

Although the morphological components of the Vedic noun dāśvā́ṃs- are, from the Indo-European point of view, relatively transparent (root */dek̑-/ ‘perceive’, perfect participle suffix */-u̯ós-/), the exact derivation of the form is disputed, insofar as its history is bound up with an understanding of Proto-Indo-European “long-vowel preterites” (Schumacher 2005, Jasanoff 2012). This article argues that a shallow synchronic derivation of dāśvā́ṃs- in Vedic Sanskrit encounters problems in both morphology and phonology that have been overlooked by proponents of such a derivation (Jasanoff 2012, LIV2: 110–111). The article then further proposes that a cognate of dāśvā́ṃs- is to be found in the isolated Homeric adjective, ἀδηκότες, previously without certain interpretation or etymology; here the gloss ‘inattentive, oblivious, unheeding’ is proposed. The etymological connection of dāśvā́ṃs- to Homeric (ἀ-)δηκότ(-ε/ας) thus supports the reconstruction of a Proto-(Nuclear)-Indo-European (PNIE) form *[dēk̑u̯ós-]; within the grammar of PNIE itself, such a form would be synchronically derived as a perfect participle /RED-dek̑-u̯ós-/, in which a “long-vowel” form surfaces in perfect stems whose zero-grade form is phonologically dispreferred and therefore repaired (cf. Schumacher 2005, Zukoff 2014, Sandell 2015a, Sandell 2015b: Ch. 8, Zukoff 2017a: Ch. 5, 7). The larger implication is at least some “long-vowel” preterites of PNIE can be explained as phonologically driven allomorphs of perfect weak stems.
Indigenous Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Authors: Harpur Paul , Stein Michael Ashley
Published: June 2019

This article analyses how disability human rights protections and processes under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (crpd) have responded to the heightened vulnerability created when disability intersects with indigeneity. It considers the evolution of international human rights law instruments for indigenous persons with disabilities. It further examines the drafting history of the crpd related to indigenous-specific content and examines the crpd Committee’s engagement with the human rights protections and violations of indigenous persons with disabilities. It demonstrates that the crpd Committee has advanced these rights by acknowledging the rights of indigenous persons in the general course of its work, but has fallen short of adequately recognising the special vulnerabilities that are created when disability and indigeneity intersect. This evaluation is illustrated by expounding on the crpd Committee’s recommendation in Noble v Australia, a communication brought by an indigenous person with a ‘mental and intellectual disability’ whose indigenous status was not engaged.
English Can Be Jewish but Hebrew Cannot: Code-switching Patterns among Yiddish-speaking Hasidic Women
Authors: Assouline Dalit
Published: June 2019

This article discusses why and how English was able to turn into a contemporary Jewish language among Yiddish-speaking American Hasidic Jews, in marked contrast to Israeli Hebrew (IH), which has not been similarly adjusted. One reason is that communal attitudes towards English are not as ideologically charged as compared to the “zealous” opposition to IH. Another reason is that English is able to undergo phonological and lexical modifications that enable Hasidic English to function as an ethnolect used within the community. This process, however, is linguistically more complex for IH, which thus remains an outsider language among Israeli Yiddish-speaking Haredim. The outsider status of IH versus the insider status of Hasidic English is reflected in the code-switching patterns attested among Yiddish public speakers, resulting in a common and effortless pattern of Yiddish-English switching among American speakers, as opposed to rare and marked instances of switches to IH among Israeli speakers.
American Hasidic Yiddish Pedagogical Materials: A Sociological and Sociolinguistic Survey of 50 Years of Post-War Publishing
Authors: Kutzik Jordan
Published: June 2019

After arriving in the United States after WWII, Hasidic Jews quickly established educational publishing houses in Yiddish in New York. How these publications developed and changed from the 1950s to the present day reveals a great deal about how Hasidim adjusted to American life, how their Yiddish changed during this period, and how competing linguistic ideologies emerged to address these changes. This article provides an overview of three generations of American Hasidic Yiddish pedagogical materials, using a sample of books, oral-medium games, and a family magazine’s children’s section. It uses close reading and sociolinguistic analysis to examine how the perception of Yiddish among Hasidim evolved into perceiving the language as a semi-holy tongue uniquely capable of transmitting religious and cultural values. This article will explore how this changing perception has caused Hasidic communities to reevaluate how they seek to transmit the language to future generations.
Kitāb al-Waṣāyā (The Book of Legacies) and the Works of Mathematician Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ b. Aslam
Authors: Stewart Devin J.
Published: June 2019

Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ b. Aslam al-Miṣrī (fl. 3rd/9th c.) was an important medieval algebraist and successor of Muḥammad b. Mūsā l-Khwārizmī (d. ca. 235/850). His major work on algebra, Kitāb fī l-Jabr wa-l-muqābala, commented on and expanded the work of al-Khwārizmī. Knowledge of Abū Kāmil’s contribution to the history of mathematics is based on three categories of sources: the extant manuscripts of his works, bibliographies such as the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm (d. 380/990) and Kashf al-ẓunūn of Ḥājjī Khalīfa (d. 1067/1657), and commentaries on and quotations from his works by later mathematicians. This study endeavors to clear up some uncertainties regarding Abū Kāmil’s bibliography, correcting views expressed in the history of secondary scholarship on Abū Kāmil and focusing on his work Kitāb al-Waṣāyā (The Book of Legacies).
The Fall of the Barmakids in Historiography and Fiction: Recognition and Disclosure
Authors: Kennedy Philip
Published: June 2019

This study traces a centuries-long development in, transformation of, and argues for a variegated rapport between a group of disparate texts, some historiographical, some fictitious. Classical historiographies recounting the Barmakid debacle (al-Ṭabarī through Ibn Khallikān), late medieval and pre-modern popular accounts of the Barmakid tragedy, tales that accompany these accounts, and others in the Arabian Nights that mention Jaʿfar the Barmakid and related ones that do not, are all analyzed by appealing to Aristotle’s concept of anagnorisis (recognition or discovery). Anagnorisis makes narrative and historiography read like fiction and is a structuring device in these texts, a window into narrative hermeneutics, and specifically, the feature that indicates significantly that these various texts are of a piece, according to both conscious and subliminal design. Anagnorisis reverberates with calamitous recognition built into the Barmakid story — one which unveils hard and tragic truths, and just as importantly preserves malignant secrecy, a secrecy that the Arabian Nights unconsciously transforms into felicity.
Meaning and Captivity in Classical Arabic Philology
Authors: Larsen David
Published: June 2019

This article takes a close look at the word maʿnā as analyzed by Abbasid-era authorities on the Arabic language, chiefly Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004). The word’s context-sensitivity and polysemy are well known; less well appreciated are the lexical and morphological preconditions for maʿnā’s diversity of meanings across the disciplines. Even less well studied (though widely quoted in lexicographical literature) is the anonymous basīṭ-meter couplet that Ibn Fāris cites in al-Ṣāḥibī fī fiqh al-lugha as a locus probans for the word. The speaker in these verses boasts of ransoming a bound captive (ʿānī), using maʿnā to refer to the captive’s abject state. There is evidence to suggest that the verses once featured in a lost work of the philologist Abū Naṣr al-Bāhilī (d. 231/855) called Kitāb Abyāt al-maʿānī. This was an anthology of verses framed like riddles whose interpretation hinged on double meanings and rare metaphors, and its form and content may be judged by numerous outtakes preserved in later anthologies and lexica. The affiliation of Ibn Fāris’s verses to Kitāb Abyāt al-maʿānī would confirm that the derivation of maʿnā truly is a puzzle with multiple answers. To contemplate its parameters is to uncover a paradigm for meaning in which noetic intention and phenomenological exposure are figurative correlates of bodily captivity and duress.
Odysseus and the Suitors’ Relatives
Authors: Ready Jonathan L.
Published: June 2019

The Odyssey ends with a battle between Odysseus’s household and the suitors’ relatives. This article first defamiliarizes the presence and course of the battle by reviewing relevant mythographic and folkloristic comparanda. It then argues that the battle makes two important contributions to the return of the Odyssey’s Odysseus.
Typhlocharis Dieck, 1869 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Anillini): a new species from the Iberian Peninsula, with notes about its relationships and the evolution of the diecki species group
Authors: ANDÚJAR CARMELO , LENCINA JOSÉ LUÍS , SERRANO JOSÉ
Published: June 2019

A new species of the genus Typhlocharis Dieck (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Anillini), T. martini, described from the upper Segura River (province of Albacete, southeast Spain), is included in the diecki group characterised by a series of 4 +3 setae in the lateral umbilical series and a reduced number of preapical and apical dentiform projections of the elytron. A key to the eight species of the diecki species group is included. The relationships of the new taxon and the hypotheses about the evolutionary history of Typhlocharis and the diecki species group are discussed.
Revision of the Eurybrachidae (XII). The Oriental genus Nicidus Stal, 1858 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha)
Authors: CONSTANT JEROME
Published: June 2019

The Oriental genus Nicidus Stål, 1858 (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Eurybrachidae) is redescribed and reviewed. Male and female genitalia are illustrated and photos of habitus, distribution maps and biological data are provided with the description of the species. Two species are placed in the genus: N. fusconebulosus Stål, 1858 and N. stali Schmidt, 1911. An identification key to the species is proposed. Lectotypes are designated for N. stali and Kandiana lewisi Distant, 1892.
New records of Erythmelus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from the Neotropical region, with description of a new species from Argentina
Authors: TRIAPITSYN SERGUEI V.
Published: June 2019

Several new records of the fairyfly genus Erythmelus Enock (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) are reported from Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala, since the review by Triapitsyn et al. (2007). Erythmelus (Erythmelus) yuzhanin Triapitsyn sp. n., is described from Córdoba Province, Argentina. A key to the clavatus species group of the nominate subgenus is provided.
A new Neotropical genus of the family Cunaxidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea)
Authors: HEYER JACOB DEN , DE CASTRO TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES
Published: June 2019

A new Neotropical genus and its species, Allocunaxa heveae gen. et sp. nov., is described and figured. The generic features are provided. The subfamily Cunaxinae is discussed and a key to it is provided.
Monogenean parasites of Carangidae and Sciaenidae marine fish on the Alvarado coast, Veracruz, Mexico, south Gulf of Mexico
Authors: MONTOYA-MENDOZA JESÚS , SALGADO-MALDONADO GUILLERMO , MENDOZA-PALMERO CARLOS A.
Published: June 2019

A total of 311 individual fish from 16 species, 10 Carangidae and 6 Sciaenidae, were examined between August 2004 and February 2007. Twenty one monogenean species from 18 genera and 12 families are reported. Four species, Cemocotylella elongata, Engraulicola cf. thrissocles, Rhamnocercus margaritae, and R. rhamnocercus are reported for the first time from the Gulf of Mexico; 16 of the parasite-host records are new. Each fish host family is parasitized by a particular set of monogenean species, genera and families not shared with the other.
Leptocoma Cabanis, 1851 (Aves: Nectariniidae) given priority over Chalcostetha Cabanis, 1851 on first reviser principle
Authors: STEINHEIMER FRANK D.
Published: June 2019

The sunbird genera Chalcostetha and Leptocoma were originally published in the same publication one page apart (Cabanis 1851: 103, 104, respectively). The former genus originally included two species, Nectarinia pectoralis Temminck, 1822: text to plate 138 (= Nectarinia calcostetha Jardine, 1843), and Cinnyris aspasia Lesson & Garnot, 1828: plate 30 (= Cinnyris sericeus Lesson, 1827). G. R. Gray (1855: 19, cit. in Rand 1967) subsequently designated calcostetha the type species of the genus. Shelley (1880: xxv) treated the genus Chalcostetha as monotypic, and was followed in this by Gadow (1884: 12–13) and others. Leptocoma originally included three nominal species: Nectarinia hasseltii Temminck, 1825: text to plate 376 (= Certhia brasiliana J. F. Gmelin, 1788); Certhia zeylonica Linnaeus, 1766; and Certhia sperata Linnaeus, 1766; hasseltii (= brasiliana = sperata) was designated by Cabanis (1851) as type species of the genus (cf. Rand 1967: 223, 236, 237, 240, 242; for availability of generic names see http://www.itis.gov/; http://www.ubio.org/ [both accessed 15 June 2008]; and Neave 1939a, 1939b).
Comparative morphology of internal reproductive systems in leaf beetles of the Donaciinae and Criocerinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and its implication for the phylogeny
Authors: MATSUMURA YOKO , SUZUKI KUNIO
Published: June 2019

We compared the morphology of the internal and external reproductive organs of both sexes among species of the leaf beetle subfamily Donaciinae and its sister taxon Criocerinae. Using nine characters of the reproductive system, we attempted to reconstruct the phylogenetic tree for the two subfamilies combined. For this study, we used 11 Japanese species (including 2 subspecies) of 2 genera in the Donaciinae and 16 Japanese species of 4 genera in the Criocerinae. Morphological comparison revealed that the internal reproductive system exhibits a large diversity even in each subfamily. In particular, the morphology of the spermathecal organ varies greatly among genera or subgenera. In the subgenus Lema, we found a marked apomorphic state, that is, an extremely extended spermathecal duct in females and a similarly extended filiform structure on the internal sac in males. Phylogenetic analysis yielded two most parsimonious trees, which differ in criocerine relationship. In seven of the nine characters, the evolution of an apomorphic state was consistent with previous phylogenetic hypotheses.
A critical review of the world catalogs of Empidoidea (Insecta: Diptera) by Yang et al. (2006, 2007)
Authors: SINCLAIR BRADLEY J. , BROOKS SCOTT E. , CUMMING JEFFREY M.
Published: June 2019

Many in the worldwide Diptera taxonomic community were surprised to see the recent publication of the “World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera)” by Yang, Zhu, Wang & Zhang (2006) and the “World Catalog of Empididae (Insecta: Diptera)” by Yang, Zhang, Yao & Zhang (2007). The rapid completion of both catalogs that together report to cover all of the world’s empidoid diversity, the apparent lack of peer review, and the higher classification schemes adopted in these works, appear to have created considerable scepticism and discussion on the extent of their usefulness by empidoid workers. As O’Hara (2008) recently stated “modern technological advances make it possible for just about anyone to compile names from the Zoological Record, to scan catalogues, and to gather information from secondary sources to produce an unimpressive world catalogue in record time”. In order to accurately assess the value of these two catalogs, especially for current and future users, we provide a critical review that touches on all aspects of these contributions. It is not our intention to give a page by page critique, but instead to provide a summary of the types of errors and omissions (illustrated with examples) we have encountered and to point out the limitations of these catalogs while also indicating which parts are useful in a general sense.
Zygoribatula colemani sp. nov (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatulidae) from Granite Outcrops in Georgia, USA, with a highly variable translamella
Authors: FRANKLIN ELIZABETH , NORTON ROY. A. , CROSSLEY, JR. D. A.
Published: June 2019

The oribatid mite Zygoribatula colemani sp. nov. (Oribatulidae) is described and illustrated based on adults collected from shallow soils in depression pits found in granitic outcrops of the Piedmont Plateau in Georgia (USA). By definition, members of Zygoribatula always possess a translamella on the prodorsum, the only feature distinguishing this genus from Oribatula. But Z. colemani shows a full range of variation, from having the translamella well developed to entirely absent; this brings the distinction of these genera into question and points out the need for a careful revision of generic concepts in Oribatulidae. Depending on the specimens examined, Z. colemani could be placed in either genus, but we tentatively include it in Zygoribatula, since in some specimens the translamella is complete and well delineated. A tentative diagnostic key to differentiate the species of Zygoribatula previously reported in the USA is included.
Two new genera and species of Eriococcidae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) with new data on the family in Turkey
Authors: KAYDAN M. BORA , KOZÁR FERENC
Published: June 2019

Two new genera, Borchseniococcus gen. nov. and Kotejacoccus gen. nov., and two new species, B. duzgunesae sp. nov., off an undetermined plant, and K. turcicus sp. nov., off Quercus sp., are described in the family Eriococcidae from Turkey. In addition, new faunistical data on 11 other eriococcid species from Turkey are given. In total, the number of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in Turkey is increased to 272, and the number of species in the family Eriococcidae to 25.
Twelve new species-group replacement names and further nomenclatural notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera)
Authors: LAMAS GERARDO
Published: June 2019

Twelve new species-group names in Lycaenidae are proposed to replace invalid ones due to primary or secondary homonymy: Arhopala ariana wanggu (for Arhopala ariana hainana Wang & Gu, 1997), Arhopala paraganesa felipa (for Arhopala paraganesa hayashii Schröder & Treadaway, 2002), Arhopala paraganesa insula (for Panchala paraganesa hainana Wang & Gu, 1997), Favonius leechina (for Thecla orientalis leechi Riley, 1939), Jamides cleodus sunadyl (for Lampides cleodus lydanus Fruhstorfer, 1916), Lycaena aditya charmesse (for Lycaena aditya churkini Charmeux & Desse, 2006), Lycaena alpherakii sergeii (for Thersamonia alpherakii zhdankoi Churkin, 2002), Megisba strongyle miskinigra (for Lycaena nigra Miskin, 1890), Plebejus (Agriades) glandon manitoba (for Plebeius aquilo var. lacustris Freeman, 1939), Plebejus (Albulina) orbitulus chaos (for Albulina tibetana D'Abrera, 1993), Plebejus (Vacciniina) fergana nikolaii (for Vacciniina fergana rubini Churkin, 2006), and Plebejus (Plebejides) pylaon tumultus (for Plebejus (Plebejides) pylaon forsteri Bálint, 1990). Nine oher junior secondary homonyms are discussed, but no new replacement names are proposed for them because they are no longer considered congeneric with their senior homonyms. Attention is called to three further junior primary homonyms in use which need to be referred to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for a ruling under its plenary power.
Description of the larva of Lauromacromia picinguaba Carvalho, Salgado & Werneck-de-Carvalho 2004, with a key to the genera of Corduliidae larvae occurring in South America (Odonata: Anisoptera)
Authors: CARVALHO ALCIMAR L. , SALGADO LUIZ GUSTAVO V. , FLECK GÜNTHER
Published: June 2019

The ultimate stadium larva of Lauromacromia picinguaba Carvalho, Salgado & Werneck-de-Carvalho is described and illustrated based on reared specimens from Picinguaba, Ubatuba, São Paulo state, Brazil, some of which belong to the type-series. All material is deposited in the Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro. General notes on larval biology and the breeding habitat are provided. A generic key for South American Corduliidae larvae is appended.
Ohanlonella, a new clerid genus from Mexico (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)
Authors: RIFKIND JACQUES
Published: June 2019

Mexico has an extremely diverse clerid beetle fauna, comprising within its borders representatives of at least 43 of the approximately 62 genera recorded from North and Middle America. Dozens of new species in several genera (particularly in Cymatodera Gray and Phyllobaenus Dejean) await description. In addition, collections possess many Mexican clerids that fall outside our conception of the morphological limits of the known genera. I describe a monotypic genus below, based on a new species from the Sierra de Juárez of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, an area known for endemism in both invertebrates and vertebrates.
Polycystididae (Rhabditophora: Rhabdocoela: Kalyptorhynchia) from the Indian Ocean, with the description of twelve new species
Authors: ARTOIS TOM J. , TESSENS BART S.
Published: June 2019

An overview of the Polycystididae from the Indian Ocean is presented, including the description of twelve new species. The taxonomical position of each of these species is discussed. Austrorhynchus kerguelensis n. sp., Paraustrorhynchus neleae n. sp., Paulodora ancora n. sp., P. contortoides n. sp., P. drepanophora n. sp., P. hamifer n. sp., P. porcellus n. sp., P. schockaerti n. sp., P. watsoni n. sp., Phonorhynchoides linguatus n. sp. and Polycystis elsae n. sp. can all be distinguished from their congeners on characteristics of the construction of the hard parts of the male system. The older records of Paulodora contorta (Schockaert & Karling, 1975) Artois & Schockaert, 1998 by Schockaert (1982) and Jouk & De Vocht (1989) are re-evaluated and the material is recognised as Paulodora drepanophora n. sp.. The subspecies P. felis asymmetrica Artois & Schockaert, 2001 is raised to the species level. Annalisella bermudensis Karling, 1978, Paraustrorhynchus elixus (Marcus, 1954) Karling & Schockaert, 1977 and Phonorhynchoides haegheni Artois & Schockaert, 2001 are recorded for the first time in the Indian Ocean. The new material of these species is discussed and compared with older descriptions. For Alcha evelinae Marcus, 1949, Cincturorhynchus karlingi Schockaert, 1982, Djeziraia pardii Schockaert, 1971 Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg, 1831, Paulodora subcontorta (Schockaert, 1982) Artois & Schockaert, 1998 and Polycystis ali Schockaert, 1982 new localities are given, and newly collected material is discussed. The discussion of P. ali leads to the split of the species into P. ali Schockaert, 1982 from the African East Coast and Galapagos and P. californica n. sp. from California. For some of the species, new records outside the Indian Ocean are also mentioned.
Description of a new subspecies of the crayfish Parastacus brasiliensis (Von Martens, 1869) from Sao Francisco de Paula, RS, Brazil (Decapoda, Parastacidae)
Authors: FONTOURA NELSON FERREIRA , CONTER MARIA-ROTRAUT
Published: June 2019

Parastacus brasiliensis promatensis subsp. n. is described from São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The animals were collected at an elevation of 850 m, representing the first record of Parastacidae at high altitude in Brazil. Subspecies recognition was performed through the analysis of morphometrical characters. Discriminant analysis was applied to compare P. brasiliensis promatensis subsp. n. with the known populations of P. brasiliensis (Von Martens, 1869) using residuals from 23 morphometric regressions (Canonical Correlation = 0.948). All variance was explained by function 1 (Pbrasiliensis promatensis centroid equal to 3.04; P. brasiliensis centroid equal to -2.78).
Hersiliola brachyplura Strand, 1913 belongs to Oecobius (Araneae: Oecobiidae)
Authors: FET VICTOR
Published: June 2019

Under the spider family Hersiliidae, Platnick (2008) lists as nomina dubia the following two taxa described from “Jaffa-Rehoboth [Rehovot]” in Israel:  Hersiliola brachyplura Strand, 1913 and H. brachyplura demaculata Strand, 1914. Platnick (2008) refers to Levy (2003: 25) but Levy, only commented that these taxa belong to the genus Oecobius (Oecobiidae), referring to “Victor Fet, in litt.” for that opinion, without making a formal transfer.
Two new species of the spider genus Poeciloneta Kulczyn'ski, 1894 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from China
Authors: ZHAI HUI , ZHU MING-SHENG
Published: June 2019

The genus Poeciloneta was erected by Kulczyn'ski (Chyzer & Kulczyn'ski, 1894) with Neriene variegata Blackwall, 1841 as the type species. Poeciloneta includes 15 species and two of them occur in China: P. variegata (Blackwall, 1841) and P. hengshanensis (Chen & Yin, 2000), which distribution in Xizang, Xinjiang and Hunan province. Whereas,there is no modern revision of the genus recently.
A new genus and three new species of Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with scarab beetles in Iran
Authors: KAZEMI SHAHROOZ , MORAZA MARQA L. , KAMALI KARIM , SABOORI ALIREZA
Published: June 2019

This paper describes a new genus and three new species of mites (Acari: Eviphididae) associated with scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in northeast Iran: Metacryptoseius gen. nov., M. persicus sp. nov., M. khorasanicus sp. nov. and Cryptoseius khayyami sp. nov. The new genus is similar to Cryptoseius Makarova. Additional descriptive information is provided for the genus Cryptoseius and its type species, C. petrovae Makarova, based on new characters including dorsal adenotaxy and poroidotaxy. Scamaphis guyimingi Ma is transferred to Metacryptoseius. A key to adults of the genus Metacryptoseius is presented.
Sipunculans along the Aegean coast of Turkey
Authors: AÇIK SERMIN
Published: June 2019

Faunistical analysis of benthic samples collected from different depths and biotopes (0–195 m) at 108 stations along the Turkish Aegean coast yielded 11 species and 5 subspecies of Sipuncula. Two species (Phascolion (Isomya) tuberculosum and Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) misakiensis) are new to the eastern Mediterranean fauna and 8 species are new to the Turkish fauna. Onchnesoma steenstrupii steenstrupii has the highest dominance and frequency index values in the study area. Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) elegans and Apionsoma (Apionsoma) misakianum are alien species. Of the biotopes examined, muddy sand was characterized by the highest number of species and specimens, whereas sponges and coralligenous substrata were characterized by the lowest number of species and specimens. The biometrical and reproductive features of the species are presented and discussed.
Recent thecideide brachiopods from a submarine cave in the Department of Mayotte (France), northern Mozambique Channel
Authors: SIMON ERIC , HILLER NORTON , LOGAN ALAN , THEUERKAUFF DIMITRI , MOTTEQUIN BERNARD
Published: June 2019

For the first time large numbers of thecideide brachiopods have been collected from the Mozambique Channel, more particularly from the western part of the Comorian Island of Mayotte (France). The moderately diverse brachiopod fauna is from a submarine cave situated on the second barrier reef encircling this island, with three different genera being found: Thecidellina, Ospreyella and Minutella. The last genus is represented by M. cf. minuta (Cooper, 1981), which was first discovered around Madagascar. Ospreyella is represented by a new species (O. mayottensis sp. nov.) as is Thecidellina, which is represented by T. leipnitzae sp. nov. This species is markedly distinct from T. europa Logan et al., 2015 from Europa Island in the southern Mozambique Channel (1,200 km south of Mayotte), providing an example of allopatric speciation in an isolated cryptic habitat.
Notes on the genus Parastasia Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from China, with description of a new species
Authors: ZHAO MING-ZHI
Published: June 2019

Parastasia qiului Zhao, new species is described and illustrated from southwest China. This new species is allied to P. akebono Wada, 2015 from India, but can be easily distinguished from the latter by the differences of color pattern and the shape of aedeagus. Parastasia sawadai Wada, 2003, P. alternata Arrow, 1899, and P. indica Ohaus, 1898 are reported new to Chinese fauna. Additional records for P. oberthueri Ohaus, 1900 and P. birmana Arrow, 1899 are provided. The knowledge of the natural history in this genus is improved.
Revision of the genus Sadoletus Distant, with description of new species from China and Australia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Heterogastridae)
Authors: GAO CUIQING , MALIPATIL M.B.
Published: June 2019

The species of genus Sadoletus are revised based on re-examination of the type material. A total of eighteen species are recognized in this genus, including five new species: Sadoletus abathonotus sp. nov., Sadoletus alphus sp. nov., Sadoletus biprotuberans sp. nov., and Sadoletus planus sp. nov. from China, and Sadoletus variabilis sp. nov. as the first representative of the genus from Australia, described in the present contribution. The following new subjective synonymy is proposed: Sadoletus validus Distant, 1903 = Sadoletus subpellucidus Ban, 2018 syn. nov. Sadoletus valdezi as treated in Ban & Ishikawa (2013) is proved to be a misidentification, now correctly described as Sadoletus planus sp. nov.. Three species, Sadoletus validus Distant, 1903, Sadoletus voluptarius Bergroth, 1918, Sadoletus melasmus Ban, 2018 are newly recorded from China. A key to all the known species of Sadoletus is provided. The lectotypes and paralectotypes are designated for S. validus Distant, 1903, S. pallescens Distant, 1909, S. valdezi Bergroth, 1918, S. voluptarius Bergroth, 1918, S. montanellus Bergroth, 1918 and S. montivagus Bergroth, 1918. Based on external and genitalia morphology, two “species groups” have been recognized amongst the species described in this genus until now. The main group, including 14 of the 18 known species, is confirmed as the typical Sadoletus (with type-species S. validus), for which a redefinition is provided. However the generic placement of the remaining four species is unclear at present, hence are tentatively retained under the present genus Sadoletus, pending further investigation involving other related heterogastrid genera, and using both morphological and molecular data.
A taxonomic review of Korean Atheta Thomson subgenus Atheta Thomson (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), with descriptions of two new species
Authors: LEE SEUNG-GYU , AHN KEE-JEONG
Published: June 2019

A taxonomic review of Atheta Thomson subgenus Atheta Thomson in the Korean Peninsula is presented. The subgenus is represented in Korea by eight species including two new species, A. (A.) prolixa Lee & Ahn, sp. nov. and A. (A.) vegrandis Lee & Ahn, sp. nov. Atheta (A.) sauteri Bernhauer is reported for the first time in South Korea. A key, descriptions, habitus photographs and illustrations of the diagnostic characters are provided.
Rediagnoses of the Asian genera Xylaplothrips and Mesandrothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae, Haplothripini), with keys to Australian species
Authors: MOUND LAURENCE A. , TREE DESLEY J.
Published: June 2019

The genus Xylaplothrips is re-diagnosed, 11 species are listed as appropriately included in this genus of which three are new combinations from Haplothrips (X. acaciae; X. collyerae; X. gahniae). A further six species are listed as incertae sedis within Xylaplothrips and a key is provided to the four species of this genus known from Australia including X. anarsius sp.n. The genus Mesandrothrips is recalled from synonymy with Xylaplothrips, and a list is provided of 20 appropriately included species of which 14 are new combinations from Xylaplothrips (M. caliginosus; M. clavipes; M. darci; M. dubius; M. emineus; M. flavitibia; M. flavus; M. inquilinus; M. montanus; M. pictipes; M. pusillus; M. reedi; M. subterraneus; M. tener), and one is a new combination from Haplothrips (M. inquinatus). A key is provided to 10 species of this genus known from Australia, including three species transferred from Haplothrips, together with M. austrosteensia sp.n., M. googongi sp.n., M. kurandae sp.n., M. lamingtoni sp.n. and M. oleariae sp.n. The type species, M. inquilinus, is widespread across Southeast Asia as an invader of thrips galls, and Haplothrips darci Girault based on a single female from Queensland is considered closely related.
A new micropterous winter species of Leuctra (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) and little known endemic stoneflies from the Greater Caucasus
Authors: TESLENKO VALENTINA A. , PALATOV DMITRY M.
Published: June 2019

A new micropterous winter emerging stonefly species, Leuctra abkhaziae sp. n. from Abkhazia and western Georgia in the Greater Caucasus is described and illustrated. Descriptions and illustrations are also provided for larvae of the little-known Caucasian endemic species Leuctra simplex and perlodid Bulgaroperla mirabilis caucasica.
The Use of Uncertainty Quantification for the Empirical Modeling of Wind Turbine Icing
Authors: Molinder Jennie , Körnich Heiner , Olsson Esbjörn , Hessling Peter
Published: June 2019

A novel uncertainty quantification method is used to evaluate the impact of uncertainties of parameters within the icing model in the modeling chain for icing-related wind power production loss forecasts. As a first step, uncertain parameters in the icing model were identified from the literature and personal communications. These parameters are the median volume diameter of the hydrometeors, the sticking efficiency for snow and graupel, the Nusselt number, the shedding factor, and the wind erosion factor. The sensitivity of these parameters on icing-related wind power production losses is examined. An icing model ensemble representing the estimated parameter uncertainties is designed using so-called deterministic sampling and is run for two periods over a total of 29 weeks. Deterministic sampling allows an exact representation of the uncertainty and, in future applications, further calibration of these parameters. Also, the number of required ensemble members is reduced drastically relative to the commonly used random-sampling method, thus enabling faster delivery and a more flexible system. The results from random and deterministic sampling are compared and agree very well, confirming the usefulness of deterministic sampling. The ensemble mean of the nine-member icing model ensemble generated with deterministic sampling is shown to improve the forecast skill relative to one single forecast for the winter periods. In addition, the ensemble spread provides valuable information as compared with a single forecast in terms of forecasting uncertainty. However, addressing uncertainties in the icing model alone underestimates the forecast uncertainty, thus stressing the need for a fully probabilistic approach in the modeling chain for wind power forecasts in a cold climate.