bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Big Data, Global Villages
Authors: Lepper Marcel
Published: May 2019

How should the field of philology react to the ongoing quantitative growth of its material basis? This essay will first discuss two opposing strategies: The quantitative analysis of large amounts of data, promoted above all by Franco Moretti, is contrasted with the canon-oriented method of resorting to small corpora. Yet both the culturally conservative anxiety over growing masses of texts as well as the enthusiasm for the ‘digital humanities’ and the technological indexation of large text corpora prove to be unmerited when considering the complexity of the problem. Therefore, this essay advocates for a third, heuristic approach, which 1) accounts for the changes in global text production and storage, 2) is conscious of the material-political conditions that determine the accessibility of texts, and 3) creates a bridge between close and distant reading by binding quantitative approaches to fundamental, qualitative philological principles, thus helping philologists keep track of the irritating, provocative, and subversive elements of texts that automated queries inevitably miss.
Textuality on the Brahmanical ‘Frontier’
Authors: Smith Travis L.
Published: May 2019

This article explores the unique textual dynamism of the Sanskrit Purāṇas, considering it as an essential feature of Purāṇa as a genre. While early textual scholars looked upon the extreme eclecticism and textual instability of this literature with disdain, the Purāṇas themselves were aware of their own fluctuation as a corpus, making efforts to justify it while also taming it, all the while boldly asserting Purāṇa’s canonical status and its ultimate coherence and authority. The complex and varied strategies that Purāṇa texts take in achieving these goals take on new significance in locating the origins of this genre in the new orthodox but inclusivist theistic movements of the early centuries of the Common Era, which operated on the frontiers of brahmanical culture. Purāṇa was a textual form conceived by such groups, and perfectly suited to the dissemination of their particular doctrines and practices. As such, Purāṇa was “frontier literature” in two senses: in the first place, it was composed and deployed primarily on the geographical margins of brahmanical orthopraxis; and secondly, the distinctive textual editability of Purāṇa texts made Purāṇa a site of constant sectarian and ideological contestation.
P. Intarapalit and his Pol Nikorn Kimnguan Comedy
Authors: na Pombhejara Vichitvong
Published: May 2019

The present paper briefly presents the life and works of Preecha Intarapalit with special reference to his immortal Pol Nikorn Kimnguan (PNK) comedy. Being acclaimed “the Peopleʼs writer”, P. Intarapalitʼs remarkable accomplishments as an author were not only for his voluminous work, but also for getting people into the habit of reading. However, the most valuable contribution of the PNK series was the recording of Thailandʼs social evolution over three decades in the form of an “oral history”.
Aspect in East and Mainland Southeast Asian Languages — A First Step
Authors: Bisang Walter
Published: May 2019

The present paper has two intentions. It wants to sketch a typological basis for describing aspect in individual languages and for cross-linguistic comparison and it wants to present some first ideas of how aspect works in languages of East and mainland Southeast Asia. Aspect will be defined in terms of a “selection theory of aspect”. Thus, aspect markers are understood as operators that select matching temporal phases provided by the temporal boundaries as they are determined (a) in the lexicon of verbs or (b) in additional, overt structures such as resultative verbs, markers of Aktionsart, quantified noun phrases and adverbials. Markers of perfective aspect highlight temporal boundaries, while imperfective markers present a state of affairs without reference to them. Languages of East and mainland Southeast Asia differ from prototypical aspect languages such as Russian, Bulgarian or Greek inasmuch as aspect marking is not obligatory and inasmuch as there is no binary opposition of perfective vs. imperfective. In spite of this, there are markers that interact with temporal boundaries and that show typologically remarkable properties not described for other languages. East and mainland Southeast Asian languages may thus contribute a number of new perspectives on the aspect properties.
A Glance into the Life of a Computerized Generation: A Case Study on Thai Teenagers Living in Bangkok
Authors: Thianthai Chulanee
Published: May 2019

In this fast paced world, computer and internet use have automatically become an essential part of metropolitan life. It is easy for those who were born in the older generation to notice the impact of computers and internet on themselves, but what about this young generation of Thai teenagers who are growing up in a computerized generation? What computer-related behavioral aspects do these teenagers find to be unique for their generation? In seeking the answer to this question, this study aims to explore six different areas. Topics of discussion concern: (1) Thai teenagers define their computerized generation; (2) The computerized generation’s daily life activities; (3) The symbolic meanings of computers and the feelings of being in cyberspace; (4) Characteristics and concepts Thai teenagers use to identify as computer and internet-related influences on their generation; (5) Responding to common false myths concerning teenagers and computer use in Thai society; (6) Foreseeing their future living with computers and advance technologies. Data were collected from among sixty male and female high school students, age 16-19, in four different public schools in Bangkok. Anthropological research methods, namely participant observation, survey questionnaire, and in-depth interviews were utilized in order to achieve these study objectives.
Comparing Two SEARCC Member Codes of Ethics: ACS and SCS
Authors: Wheeler Shirley
Published: May 2019

The South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) Code of Ethics provides standards for its members, and this includes the establishment of a congruent code of conduct for each member organization. The degree to which the Australian and Singaporean professional codes of ethics and conduct are reflective of the SEARCC Code of Ethics will be examined in this paper. A new systemic approach to applied ethics will be used for this exercise. Points of comparison and contrast between the two Member codes will be considered. Some implications for more global compatibility in IS-related codes of ethics are drawn.
Andaman Coast Muslim Social Circles and Friendship Networks
Authors: Anderson Wanni W.
Published: May 2019

On Nipa Island (a pseudonym), in a Thai Muslim community on the Andaman coast, childhood is a happy period as children are pampered and loved and spend long, happy hours in the company of their home-village friends. From these sustained social interactions develop long-lasting friendships that function importantly later on in adult life. Kloe-ship, another form of friendship is unique to Southern Thailand. Comparative human development, discourse analysis, kinesic analysis, and multiplexity of social networks form the theoretical approaches to the analysis of the ethnographic data.
The Spiritual Quality in Facilitating a Transformation Towards Integral Sustainability: The Case of Real Estate Development
Authors: Panthasen Tanapon , Motloch John , Horayangkura Vimolsiddhi
Published: May 2019

This study is intended to analyze and describe the relationship between the quality of spirituality and the quality of sustainability through the study of residential community developments in the real estate sector. Based on integral theories, this study explores three communities globally and three communities in Thailand. According to the data, gained mainly from in-depth interviews, questionnaires and observation, the findings show that an integral transformation towards a higher degree of sustainability has occurred, which embraces a spiritual, behavioral, cultural, social and environmental dimension. The findings also show that spiritual transformation has been the primary factor enabling this occurrence. Accordingly, this study offers suggestions for facilitating a transformation towards integral sustainability.
Names and Sub-Groups of the Palaung: A Preliminary Field Survey in Yunnan and Kengtung
Authors: Deepadung Sujaritlak
Published: May 2019

In this paper, names that other groups of people, as outsiders, have given to the Palaung and names that they use to call themselves are discussed based on the written records available and field surveys in the areas. The Palaung in China now are officially referred to as De’ang2 (Taang). From surveys in Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan, China, the De’ang nationality consists of 5 subgroups of people- the Liang (Ta-ang), the Pu-le(Ka-ang), the Rumai (Ru-mai), the Raokot (La-ang) and the Raojin (Na-ang). The classification of these 5 sub-groups is based on their autonyms and on names they use when they refer to other groups of Palaung. Based on the SEA word list, there are 3 dialects of the Palaung language in China: Raojin, Rumai-Raokot and Pu-le-Liang. In Myanmar, according to various written works by Western scholars, they are called Palaung or Pale and have at least three sub-groups: Darang (Scott and Hardiman 1900), Taang (Milne 1924, 1931; Shorto 1960) and Rumai (Davies 1909; Milne 1924, 1931; Diffloth 1991). From surveys in Kengtung, Shan State, Myanmar, all the Palaung in Kengtung identify themselves as Daraang. In Thailand, Dara-ang is the name this ethnic group uses to refer to itself and Thai people call them Palaung (Kasisopa 2003; Deepadung and Patpong 2010). Although, based on their names, the Daraang and Raojin are different sub-groups, linguistically, they speak the same dialect.
Women’s Fate and Faith as Told in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club
Authors: Tangapiwut Napat
Published: May 2019

Culturally, women, regarded as weak, submissive and emotional social entities, are destined to be silent and inferior to men in a patriarchal society; however, this long-established position for women has caused them shame which today has turned into angst, leading them to question traditions, breaking their silence, revealing their painful yet rebellious experience by means of storytelling, as well as encouraging and hoping for their descendants through self-assertion have a better future. The female Chinese American writer, Amy Tan, with her first renowned novel telling stories of Chinese diaspora in America, The Joy Luck Club (1989), expresses the writer’s faith in women’s better opportunities when they are able to articulate their needs and strengthen their self-determination. This paper discusses women’s fate and faith as shown through different Chinese-immigrant mothers’ life stories that are revealed to their American-born daughters who face a dilemma in life. The mothers’ stories aim to empower their daughters and help them find solutions. Storytelling is an important means for the Chinese-immigrant mothers to communicate with their daughters, inuring the children to back to their ethnic roots, to better knowing about themselves thereby ensuring them their right to choose for their own happiness. To sum up, even if women are fated to be born at a disadvantage, they can have faith in themselves if they struggle hard enough for the chance and change. More or less, women’s fate and faith are likely to go hand in hand like two sides of the same coin, as do sorrow and joy in a person’s life.
The Use of Appraisal Theory to Analyze Thai Newspaper Commentaries
Authors: Arunsirot Sudrutai
Published: May 2019

This study explores Thai newspaper commentaries focused on the disruption of the ASEAN Summit on April 11, 2009. The objective of the present study is to examine lexical strategies employed by appraisal theory, a tool to analyze the attitudes expressed in newspaper commentaries in greater depth. The data of this study was obtained from thirty-two newspaper commentaries retrieved from nine online newspapers: Banmuang, Dailynews, Khaosod, Komchadluek, Manager, Matichon, Naewna, Posttoday and Thaipost. The results reveal that the commentators made use of both positive and negative emotional responses through either adjectives, noun phrases or verb phrases in terms of affect, which deals with the expression of emotion. Under judgement, which deals with moral assessments of behavior, the commentators judged people’s behavior either positively or negatively through either adjectives, adverbs, noun phrases, verb phrases or metaphors as well as appreciation which deals with aesthetic assessments. With respect to attitude, a resource of language that enables commentators to express their attitude, the Thai newspaper commentaries examined contained predominantly negative evaluative lexis. Negative lexical items make the commentaries more intense and emotional for readers because of the news value of negativity, which focuses on political conflict in the Thai context. In the graduation category of appraisal, which is concerned with gradability, the explicit attitudes occurred with grading up rather than grading down. In the force subcategory, which relates to adjusting the degree of an evaluation, the commentators achieved intensification through isolation, infusion, repetition and metaphor, and achieved quantification through quantity, which is encoded as number and extent in time and space in order to enhance readers’ agreement with the commentators’ attitudes. Under focus, which relates to adjusting the boundaries of a categorical meaning, most stances represent a sharpening of the attitudinal entity rather a softening one.
Patterns of Language Choice in a Thai-Sikh Community in Bangkok
Authors: Dersingh Rachanee
Published: May 2019

This study determines the pattern of language choice in six domains among the Thai-Sikh people of Bangkok. The relationship between the patterns of language choice and various social variables are also examined. Data from a questionnaire survey of 40 participants from the Thai-Sikh community residing in a Thai-Sikh residential neighborhood was collected along with semi-structured interviews of 1-2 representatives of each age group. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicate that Thai is most commonly used in four out of the six domains; namely, family, friend, work, and market. English is most commonly used in the school domain and Punjabi in the temple domain. A significant relationship is observed between the patterns of language choice and 3 other variables including gender, age, and educational level.
A Centering Theory Analysis of Discrepancies on Subject Zero Anaphor in English to Thai Translation
Authors: Pathanasin Saranya , Aroonmanakun Wirote
Published: May 2019

Centering theory (CT) has been adopted in analyzing 84 zero anaphors in 50 informative texts. It is found that most zero anaphors occur in Continuation state both in English texts (source texts (ST)) and Thai translation (target texts (TT)). Zero anaphors in the TT outnumber those in ST and are found in more environments. In terms of translation, most zero anaphors in source texts remain in the same form in the target texts although some items are translated into different anaphor forms. Results indicate that zero anaphor is used to keep discourse coherence and to refer to the backward-looking center (Cb) of current utterances in both languages. Therefore, most zero anaphors in source texts are translated into zero anaphors in target texts when the CT transition state of utterances in source texts and target texts is Continuation, and are translated into other anaphors when the CT transition state in source texts is changed to another transition state in the target texts. Constraints in translation of zero anaphors can be explained in terms of anaphor interpretation, salience of entities, syntactic constraint, and naturalness of translation. However, this paper focuses only on one type of anaphor, namely subject zero anaphor; investigation of other types of anaphor will reveal other discrepancies in using and translating anaphors from this language pair.
Phonetic Sources of Sound Change: The Influence of Thai on Nasality in Pwo Karen
Authors: Kerdpol Karnthida , Dellwo Volker , Jenny Mathias
Published: May 2019

The phonetic realization of nasal vowels produced by Pwo speakers of different ages can vary. The present study investigated mid and low nasal vowels of Pwo speakers from Mae Hong Son province, Thailand. Due to the higher tendency of language contact with Thai, the younger group’s nasal vowels were expected to lose more nasality than the older group. The emergence of final nasal consonants was also expected in the younger group. The nasalization duration and consonant duration of both groups were analyzed. The results showed that, regardless of age, mid nasal vowels of some speakers had final nasal consonants, while low nasal vowels of all speakers did not. Furthermore, the older group had both longer nasalization duration and consonant duration than the younger group, suggesting their higher tendency to preserve nasality. The younger group had shorter nasalization duration and consonant duration, indicating the loss of nasality in vowels without compensatory final nasal consonants. The change might be due to the vowel quality. High vowels were fully denasalized with no compensatory final nasal consonants. Mid vowels were nasalized with the emergence of final nasal consonants. Low vowels remained nasalized without final nasal consonants. We could not confirm that the emergence of final nasal consonants was induced by Thai because it occurred in both groups. The existence of final nasal consonants in the younger group could not be used as evidence of an effect of contact.
Revision of the bee genus Thectochlora Moure (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Halictinae)
Authors: GONÇALVES RODRIGO B. , MELO GABRIEL A.R.
Published: May 2019

The genus Thectochlora Moure has been treated as containing only a single species. Based on morphological characters, five species are here recognized: T. alaris (Vachal, 1904), the type-species of Thectochlora; T. basiatra (Strand, 1910) new combination, previously placed in Pseudaugochlora; and three new species, T. brachycera new species (Brazil and Guiana), T. hamata new species (Brazil and Uruguay) and T. mixta new species (Brazil). A male syntype of Augochloropsis (Pseudaugochloropsis) basiatra Strand, 1910, from Paraguay (Villa Morra), is here designated lectotype in order to stabilize the taxonomy of the group. The species of Thectochlora are distinguished based mainly in the males; females of T. alaris and T. basiatra were considered indistinguishable. An identification key, cladistic analysis, maps of geographic records and illustrations are presented.
Drosophila bunnanda-a new species from northern Australia with notes on other Australian members of the montium subgroup (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
Authors: SCHIFFER MICHELE , MCEVEY SHANE F.
Published: May 2019

An unknown Drosophila montium subgroup species was collected on Cape York Peninsula in 1992, a live culture of the same species was established from flies collected in the vicinity of Lake Placid near Cairns in 2001. From these specimens we now have sufficient information to describe a new species—Drosophila bunnanda. It differs morphologically from the four other montium subgroup species already known from northern Queensland—D. serrata, D. birchii, D. kikkawai, and D. sp. cf. jambulina, and from one very similar species—D. dominicana—known from Papua New Guinea. Molecular data support the taxonomic findings. Additional information and a key for all Australian montium subgroup species is provided to allow clear differentiation between them and D. bunnanda.
A new stegelytrine leafhopper genus from China and Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)
Authors: ZHANG YALIN , WEI CONG , WEBB M. D.
Published: May 2019

A new Oriental stegelytrine leafhopper genus, Wyuchiva, and two new species, Wyuchiva elegantula (type species) from Thailand and Wyuchiva menglaensis from China, are described and illustrated. The taxonomic position of the new genus is discussed and phylogenetic remarks on this and a related genus, Temburocera Webb, 1999, are given.
A new species of Leptodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil, with remarks on the systematics of associated populations
Authors: DE PADUA ALMEIDA ANTONIO , ANGULO ARIADNE
Published: May 2019

Adults and tadpoles of a new species of the genus Leptodactylus are described from southeastern Brazil. Leptodactylus thomei sp.nov. can be found amidst the leaf litter within cocoa plantations along the northern coastal region of the state of Espírito Santo. It can be distinguished from other species of the Leptodactylus marmoratus group by its advertisement call, which is described, together with agonistic calls, and compared to advertisement calls of other species of the group that occur in southern and southeastern Brazil. The systematics of associated populations is discussed.
Discovery of a new basal relict lineage of Madagascan frogs and its implications for mantellid evolution
Authors: GLAW FRANK , HOEGG SIMONE , VENCES MIGUEL
Published: May 2019

Frogs of the subfamily Mantellinae (Amphibia: Anura: Mantellidae) are a species-rich and diverse lineage endemic to the Madagascan region. The major synapomorphy of this clade is a derived reproductive mode including an unusual mating behaviour (loss of strong mating amplexus, egg deposition outside of water) and associated morphological adaptations (evolution of femoral glands, loss of nuptial pads). However, the evolutionary steps towards this unique character complex remain obscure. We here describe a recently discovered new frog, Tsingymantis antitra gen. nov., sp. nov. from the moderately dry karstic massif Tsingy de Ankarana in northern Madagascar. The new species is not referable to any existing genus or species groups. A phylogenetic analysis, based on DNA sequences of four mitochondrial genes (12S and 16S rRNA, tRNAVal, cytochrome b) and one nuclear gene (rhodopsin) placed Tsingymantis without significant support as sister taxon of the Mantellinae which was found to be a well-defined monophyletic group (100% Bayesian and 99% bootstrap support). The position of Tsingymantis as the most basal clade of the Mantellinae is in agreement with several morphological and osteological characters, suggesting that this subfamily including Tsingymantis may be a monophyletic group whereas the Boophinae could represent the most basal clade of the Mantellidae. We therefore include Tsingymantis in the Mantellinae in a preliminary way, pending further study. In contrast to the large majority of recent mantellid species which are adapted to humid rainforests, the most basal clades of the three subfamilies show adaptations to relatively dry conditions, indicating that the climate during the early radiation of mantellids (probably in the Eocene) may have been drier than in recent times.
Revision of Lumbrineris de Blainville, 1828 (Polychaeta: Lumbrineridae)
Authors: CARRERA-PARRA LUIS F.
Published: May 2019

Lumbrineris is restricted and redefined, and species are redescribed based upon type materials. The generic diagnostic features are chaetae of three types: simple and compound multidentate hooded hooks, and limbate chaetae; the maxillary apparatus is labidognath with five pairs of maxillae, maxillae II are as long as maxillae I with wide connecting plate slightly developed along the base of maxillae II. Lumbrineris, as herein redefined includes L. albifrons, L. amboinensis, L. aniara, L. annulata, L. californiensis, L. cingulata, L. coccinea, L. crosnieri sp. nov., L. cruzensis, L. floridana, L. futilis, L. grandis, L. higuchiae sp. nov., L. imajimai sp. nov., L. index, L. indica sp. nov., L. inflata, L. inhacea, L. japonica, L. kerguelensis, L. knoxi sp. nov., L. latreilli, L. limicola, L. magalhaensis, L. mustaquimi sp. nov., L. nasuta, L. nishii sp. nov., L. nonatoi, L. oculata, L. oxychaeta, L. pallida, L. paucidentata, L. perkinsi, L. reunionensis sp. nov., L. setosa, L. vanhoeffeni. The taxonomic status of 21 other species originally described as Lumbrineris is discussed. A key to all valid species is included.
First record of the fig wasp genus Diaziella Grandi (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae) from the Asian mainland with description of two new species from China
Authors: VAN NOORT SIMON , PENG YAN-QIONG , RASPLUS JEAN-Y
Published: May 2019

Diaziella bizarrea van Noort & Rasplus sp. nov. is described from specimens reared from Ficus glaberrima and Diaziella yangi van Noort & Rasplus sp. nov. is described from specimens reared from Ficus curtipes in Xishuangbanna, China. Together with a new record of Diaziella macroptera Grandi from Thailand this is the first time the genus has been recorded from the Asian mainland. Previously the twelve described species of Diaziella were known from the islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Philippines. Images are provided for both sexes of the two new species and for the female of D. macroptera. A key is included to all described species of Diaziella. An online key is available at: http://www.figweb.org/Fig_wasps/Pteromalidae/Sycoecinae/Key/ Diaziella.htm. Host relationships and biology are discussed.
A new species of Parastenolechia Kanazawa (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) from Korea, with a check list of the genus
Authors: PARK KYU-TEK , PONOMARENKO MARGARITA G.
Published: May 2019

Parastenolechia suriensis, sp. nov., is described and illustrated, and P. asymmetrica Kanazawa is reported from Korea for the first time. A check list of the species of the genus is given.
Asciaporrectidae, a new family of Rotifera (Monogononta: Ploima) with description of Asciaporrecta arcellicola gen. et sp. nov. and A. difflugicola gen. et sp. nov. inhabiting shells of testate amoebae (Protozoa)
Authors: DE SMET WILLEM H.
Published: May 2019

A new family of monogonont rotifers, Asciaporrectidae, is proposed for Asciaporrecta arcellicola gen. et sp. nov., A. difflugicola gen. et sp. nov. and A. hyalina (Wulfert, 1939) comb. nov. for Pleurotrocha hyalina. The new family is characterized by its trophi organized for grasping, with long rod-shaped manubria bearing an axe-shaped head; unci lying in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the incus, with 2–3 large teeth and well developed subunci composed of 3–5 teeth; and the unci/subunci pivoting on the broad, not pointed tips of the flat rami. Asciaporrecta arcellicola gen. et sp. nov. has 3-teethed unci; rami tips straight cut off, slightly expanded outwardly; and right ramus bearing a series of small knobs on inner margin distally; inhabiting shells of live Arcella discoides Ehrbg. (testate amoebae). Asciaporrecta difflugicola gen. et sp. nov. has 2-teethed unci; rami tips blunt, concave, reinforced and knobbed inwardly; inner margins of rami smooth; inhabiting shells of live Difflugia spp. (testate amoebae).
New isophlebioid dragonflies (Odonata: Isophlebioptera: Campterophlebiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China
Authors: ZHANG BING-LAN , FLECK GUNTHER , HUANG DI-YING , NEL ANDRÉ , REN DONG , CHENG XIAO-DONG , LIN QI-BIN
Published: May 2019

Three new representatives of the Odonata Campterophlebiidae are described from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou (Inner Mongolia, China), i.e. Amnifleckia guttata n. gen., n. sp., Amnifleckia splendida n. sp., and Parabrunetia celinea n. gen., n. sp. Their close affinities with the genus Pternopteron (Dogger of Kirgizia) support a similar age for the Daohugou fauna.
New species of Hemilissopsis Lane, 1959 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Elaphidionini)
Authors: HOVORE FRANK T. , CHEMSAK JOHN A.
Published: May 2019

A new species, Hemilissopsis fernandezae, in the elaphidionine genus Hemilissopsis Lane, is described from Costa Rica and Panama (Type locality, COSTA RICA: Limón Province, Sector Cerro Cocori).
Review of Chinese species of the genus Embrikstrandia Plavilstshikov, 1931 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) with description of a new species
Authors: HUANG JIANHUA , ZHOU SHANYI , CHEN BIN
Published: May 2019

The longicorn beetle genus Embrikstrandia Plavilstshikov is reviewed with descriptions of four Chinese species including a new species, E. pubemaculata sp. nov. from Guangxi Province. A key to the four Chinese species of the genus is presented.
Systematics of the genus Scleroplax Rathbun, 1893 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
Authors: CAMPOS ERNESTO
Published: May 2019

The taxonomic status of the monotypic genus Scleroplax Rathbun, 1893, is evaluated and separated from other genera of the Pinnixa White, 1846, complex. Distinguishing characters of Scleroplax are a hard, subheptagonal and dorsally, highly convex carapace, and a third maxilliped with a propodus that extends to the end of the dactylus. The genera Scleroplax, Pinnixa, Austinixa Heard & Manning, 1997, Glassella Campos & Wicksten, 1997, Indopinnixa Manning & Morton, 1987, and Tetrias Rathbun, 1898, share a carapace than is wider than long and a distinct lateral exopod lobe on the third maxilliped, all of which may represent monophyletic characters. Updated information on the distribution and hosts of S. granulata Rathbun, 1893, indicate that the species now ranges from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada to El Coyote estuary, Punta Abreojos, Baja California Sur, México. It inhabits burrows of the echiuroid Urechis caupo Fisher & MacGinitie, 1928, and the mud shrimps Neotrypaea californiensis (Dana, 1854), N. gigas (Dana, 1852) (new host record), Upogebia pugettensis (Dana, 1852), and occasionally U. macginiteorum Williams, 1986 (new host record).
The oldest Vespinae from the Paleocene of Menat (France) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
Authors: NEL ANDRÉ , AUVRAY FRANCIS
Published: May 2019

Paleovespa menatensis sp. nov. is the oldest Vespinae to be described from the Paleocene of Menat (France). This subfamily could have diversified relatively recently, during the Late Paleogene, which could be congruent with its apparent absence in the Mesozoic.
Hyla vigilans Solano, 1971, a second species for the genus Scarthyla, redescription and distribution in Venezuela and Colombia
Authors: BARRIO-AMORÓS CÉSAR L. , DE PASCUAL AMELIA D. , MUESES-CISNEROS JONH J. , INFANTE EDWIN , CHACÓN ANDRÉS
Published: May 2019

Hyla vigilans, a poorly known hylinae from Venezuela and Colombia, is redescribed and assigned to the genus Scarthyla based on external morphology and osteology. The call is analysed from localities from both sides of the Andes. When adult, Scarthyla vigilans is indistinguishable externally from S. goinorum; only calls and larvae distinguish the two species.
A new species of the genus Zora from China (Araneae: Zoridae)
Authors: ZHU MING-SHENG , ZHANG BAO-SHI
Published: May 2019

A new species, Zora acuminata spec. nov. is described in both sexes from Mt. Baihua, Beijing City, China. The genital organs suggest its close relationship with Z. lyriformis Song, Zhu & Gao, 1993.
The species of Larinus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) described by J. Desbrochers : lectotype designations and new synonymies
Authors: GÜLTEKİN LEVENT , PERRIN HÉLÈNE
Published: May 2019

Based on a study of the types of species described by J. Desbrochers in the genus Larinus Dejean, several nomenclatural changes are proposed. Lectotypes are designated (or Holotypes recognized) for the following species names: Larinus stricticollis Desbrochers, L. interruptus Desbrochers, L. breviusculus Desbrochers, L. villosiventris Desbrochers, L. villosicollis Desbrochers, L. distinguendus Desbrochers, L. senilis (Fabricius) var. rubripes Desbrochers, L. crassiusculus Desbrochers, L. obesulus Desbrochers, L. sacer Desbrochers, L. hierolosymae Desbrochers, L. cribricollis Desbrochers, L. elegans Desbrochers, L. densicollis Desbrochers, L. akbesianus Desbrochers, L. rugithorax Desbrochers, L. tauricus Desbrochers. Eight new synonymies are proposed: Larinus ursus (Fabricius, 1792) [= Larinus senilis (Fabricius) var. rubripes Desbrochers, 1892 syn. n. ]; Larinus fucatus Faust, 1891 [= Larinus sacer Desbrochers,1896 syn. n. ]; Larinus brenskei Faust, 1890 [= Larinus akbesianus Desbrochers, 1897 syn. n.]; Larinus crassiusculus Desbrochers, 1895 [= Larinus khnzoriani Ter-Minassian, 1962, syn. n.]; Larinus lederi Faust, 1889 [= Larinus cribricollis Desbrochers, 1896, syn. n.]; Larinus sturnus (Schaller, 1783) [= Larinus rugithorax Desbrochers, 1897, syn. n.]; Larinus sibiricus Gyllenhal, 1836 [=Larinus distinguendus Desbrochers, 1892 syn. n.]; Larinus cardopatii Lucas, 1849 [=Larinus densicollis Desbrochers, 1897 syn. n. ]. The name of Larinus hierolosymae Desbrochers, 1896 is corrected and become Larinus hierosolymae Desbrochers, 1896 [emendation]. Larinus obesulus Desbrochers, 1896 is assigned to the subgenus Cryphopus Petri, 1907. Larinus villosicollis Desbrochers, 1892 and L. hierosolymae Desbrochers, 1896 are placed in the subgenus Phyllonomeus Gistel, 1856. Larinus tauricus Desbrochers, 1897 belongs to the subgenus Larinomesius Reitter, 1924. At the present time, the types of three species are not located : Larinus rufipes Desbrochers, 1870, Larinus numidicus Desbrochers, 1892 and Larinus minutus Gyllenhal var. minutissimus Desbrochers, 1891.
Two new species of Turleania McLaughlin, 1997 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, and a redescription of T. balli (McLaughlin & Haig, 1996)
Authors: OSAWA MASAYUKI , FUJITA YOSHIHISA
Published: May 2019

Two new hermit crab species of the family Paguridae, Turleania saliens n. sp. and T. tenebrosa n. sp., are described from coral reefs of the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan. Reexamination of the holotype of Turleania balli (McLaughlin & Haig, 1996) has shown that it has only nine pairs of quadriserial gills. This feature is also found in the two new species but does not fit with the original diagnosis of Turleania McLaughlin, 1997. Simple emendation of the genus Turleania is made for the number of gills to accommodate these three species. The two new species are quite similar to E. balli, but distinguished by the armature of the carpus of the right cheliped and anterior lobe of the sixth thoracic sternite. Turleania tenebrosa differs from T. saliens in the right chela having distinct spines on the dorsolateral surface, and meri of the second pereopods unarmed on the distal 0.3 of the ventral surface.
Classification, natural history, and evolution of Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VII. The genera Hapsidopteris Opitz, Iontoclerus Opitz, Katamyurus Opitz, Megatrachys Opitz, Opitzia Nemesio, Pennasolis Opitz, new genus, Pericales Opitz, new genus, Pteroferus Opitz, new genus, and Turbophloeus Opitz, new genus
Authors: OPITZ WESTON
Published: May 2019

This study deals with minimally speciose epiphloeine genera. Hapsidopteris, based on H. diastenus Opitz, (type locality: México: Jalapa), is the presumed sister taxon of Opitzia Nemésio [type species: O. chiapas (Opitz), type locality: México: Chiapas: 39 km NW Comitán] a bitypic genus that also includes O. apicula, new species (type locality: Bolivia: Santa Cruz: Amboro Road, above Achira Campo). Two species define Iontoclerus Opitz, I. humeralis (Klug) (type locality: Brazil: Parà) and I. sericeus (Klug) (type locality: Brazil: Rondonia: 62 km SE Ariquemes), whose presumed sister genus is the monotypic Pericales, new genus, based on P. albogilvus, new species (type locality: Haiti: Sud-Ouest: Massif de La Selle, Morne d’Enfer). The Middle American bitypic Katamyurus Opitz [type species: K. paxillus Opitz, type locality: Nicaragua: Cerro Chimborazo], which also includes K. albopaniculus, new species (type locality: México: Sinaloa: 14 km NE La Cap. del Taxte), is considered the sister taxon to Ellipotoma Spinola (type species: E. tenuiformis Spinola. Type locality: Colombia). Megatrachys Opitz (type species: Megatrachys paniculus Opitz (type locality: México: Chiapas: 8 km W San Cristóbal) contains two additional species, M. bibara, new species (type locality: Guatemala: Zacapa: 2 km San Lorenzo) and M. truncatia, new species (type locality: México: Chiapas: 47.5 km NW Comitán) and is the hypothesized sister taxon to Pennasolis, new genus [type species; P. merkeli (Horn), type locality: Arizona: Cochise County, South West Research Station, 8 km W Portal], which in addition to the type species also contains P. californica (Van Dyke) (type locality: California: Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley. The phylogenetic relationships of two South American monotypic genera have not been deciphered; these are Pteroferus, new genus, based on P. zolnerowichi, new species (type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia), and Turbophloeus, new genus, based on T. simplex (Schenkling) whose type locality is Bolivia: Santa Cruz: Amboro National Park, Los Volcanes. Lectotypes are designated for Pennasolis merkeli (Horn), Iontoclerus humeralis (Klug), I. sericeus (Klug), and Turbophloeus simplex (Schenkling). The latter binomial represents a new combination whose specific epithet was originally associated with Epiphloeus.
New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series
Authors: GUIL NOEMÍ
Published: May 2019

The present report describes the results obtained from a survey on the tardigrade communities of five microhabitats (leaf litter, and mosses and lichens on rocks and tree trunks) in the Sierra de Guadarrama (Madrid, Spain). Sampling design was conducted according to a spatially mixed stratified-random procedure. A list with new records for Europe, the Iberian Peninsula and Madrid is provided. I have added two species to the European check list, increased number of known species in the Iberian Peninsula from 118 to 131, and duplicated the number of species known in the Madrid Province. Besides, some variations in morphological characters have been observed within-species, the majority related to structures of the buccal-pharyngeal apparatus and claws. More within-species variability studies are needed to determine their validity as diagnostic characters. A specific discussion is made about morphological variability within the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, as a result of observations among and within species from the series.
A new species of Philophylla Rondani (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetini) from New Caledonia, recognized based on female postabdominal structure and molecular sequence data
Authors: HAN HO-YEON , NORRBOM ALLEN L.
Published: May 2019

Philophylla millei, n. sp., from New Caledonia is described and its relationship analyzed. This species was recorded previously as Anastrephoides sp. based on a single female, which closely resembles the eastern Palaearctic species Anastrephoides matsumurai Shiraki. Whether this similarity reflects the close relationship of these species or a case of convergent evolution was examined using morphology and molecular data. We examined both male and female specimens of the New Caledonian trypetine species and sequenced the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene of this species and related trypetine species. This new species is a member of the genus Philophylla Rondani based both on the female postabdominal structure as well as DNA sequence data.
A comparative analysis of the spatangoid echinoid genera Brissopsis and Metalia: a new genus and species of spatangoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Brissopsidae) from the Philippines and the reassignment of Brissopsis persica to Metalia
Authors: COPPARD SIMON E.
Published: May 2019

Brissalius vannoordenburgi gen. nov., sp. nov. occurs at depths of 200 meters off Siquijor Island in the Philippines and is typical of the family Brissopsidae in having specialised aboral tube feet in ambulacra III within the peripetalous fasciole used for funnel building. It is distinct from species of Brissopsis and Metalia in having a shield-shaped subanal fasciole in conjunction with confluent posterior petals. This species has a particularly diverse array of highly localised pedicellariae, with three distinct forms of globiferous pedicellaria (simple fistulate, fanged fistulate and fanged open-bladed), three forms of straight bladed tridentate (narrow-valved, spatulate and terminal-toothed) as well as typical spatangoid rostrate, ophicephalous and triphyllous pedicellariae. Brissopsis persica is the only species in the genus that has a shield-shaped subanal fasciole. However, this species has divergent posterior petals, simple (non-lobed) anterior aboral tube feet, enlarged tubercles along the anterior ambulacrum, no anal fasciole, and lacks both globiferous and ophicephalous pedicellariae. These findings demonstrate that this Brissopsis persica does not belong in Brissopsis but should be placed in Metalia.
A new species of Halophytophilus Brian, 1919 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Ectinosomatidae) from cold-water corals in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic)
Authors: GHEERARDYN HENDRIK , SEIFRIED SYBILLE , VANREUSEL ANN
Published: May 2019

The first deep-sea representative of Halophytophilus Brian, 1919 is described from samples of dead cold-water coral fragments, glass sponge skeletons and underlying sediment collected from the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic). Halophytophilus lopheliae sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by the dimensions of the P1 endopod and the position of the inner seta on its proximal segment. Moreover, we present the first description of a male in this genus. The occurrence of Halophytophilus and three other ectinosomatid genera with prehensile first legs is remarkable in the deep sea and an indication that the hard substrates of the coral degradation zone may provide an exceptional habitat. A key to the five species of Halophytophilus is included.
Review of the genus Coreodrassus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China
Authors: ZHANG FENG , ZHU MING-SHENG
Published: May 2019

The formerly monotypic spider genus Coreodrassus Paik, 1984, belonging to the family Gnaphosidae, is reviewed. A new species, Coreodrassus forficalus sp. nov., is described, and the type species, Coreodrassus lancearius (Simon, 1893) is redescribed.
New species and subspecies descriptions do not and should not always require a dead type specimen
Authors: DONEGAN THOMAS M.
Published: May 2019

Dubois & Nemésio (2007) recently considered that the present International Code for Zoological Nomenclature (“Code”) could reasonably be interpreted as requiring the deposition of dead vouchers for new species and subspecies descriptions. They considered that, to the extent that there is lack of clarity, the Code should be amended so as to require the deposition of a dead voucher. They doubted the utility of photographs and other materials for descriptions and suggested that ethical or moral concerns about the taking of dead type specimens were poorly supported. Dubois & Nemésio (2007)’s preferred interpretations of the current Code are not supported by members of the Commission. Possible reasons why the collection of a dead type specimen might not be necessary or recommended include the setting of a good example to communities in whose hands conservation action lies, government permit issues and the description of new taxa on the brink of extinction where collecting may impact populations. The Code should be liberal in relation to the nature of type specimens to enable taxonomists, who are the persons best placed to take decisions, to make appropriate judgments for particular descriptions.
A new species of Picicola Clay and Meinertzhagen, 1938 (Phthiraptera: Ischno-cera) parasitic on the Rufous-sided Broadbill (Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae) in Ghana
Authors: MEYER MATHYS J. , PRICE ROGER D. , JOHNSON KEVIN P.
Published: May 2019

Picicola donwebbi, a new species of chewing louse from the Rufous-sided Broadbill (Smithornis rufolateralis Gray, 1864) collected in Ghana, is herewith described and illustrated. This is the first species of Ischnocera recorded from the broadbills (Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae) and, based on morphology, is placed in the Picicola quadripustulosus species group recorded from the Pittidae (Passeriformes). To evaluate its genetic distinctiveness and phylogenetic position in the Degeeriella complex, sequences of nuclear (elongation factor-1α) and mitochondrial (cytochrome oxidase I) genes for Picicola donwebbi are compared to various other species. Although this new species is genetically distinct, its phylogenetic position within the larger complex is unclear.
Akodon cursor Winge, 1887 (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae): one or two species? New evidences based on molecular data
Authors: NOGUEIRA CRISTINA D. A. , FAGUNDES VALÉRIA
Published: May 2019

Akodon cursor Winge, 1887 (Rodentia, Muridae) occurs in dense rainforest in the Atlantic coast of Brazil, from northern (8 o S, Pernambuco and Paraíba) to southern (23-26 o S, São Paulo and Paraná) states. This species reveals high karyotype variability, ranging from 2n=16 to 14, and FN (number of autosomal arms) from 26 to 18. Previous cytogenetics studies suggested that each form (2n=14, 15 and 16) are distributed in a clinal pattern and represent polymorphisms in populations, with 2n=15 as an intermediate status (data from crossbreeding in laboratory). However, previous molecular analysis from literature revealed two reciprocal monophyletic clades, each of them composed by 2n=14-15 or 2n=16, suggesting the distinction of A. cursor (2n=14 and 15) from A. aff. cursor (2n=16). In this paper, we verified if the karyotype is the one-step characteristic to separate A. cursor and A. aff. cursor. We evaluated the divergence among northern and southern populations which accomplish 2n=14, 15 and 16 specimens in simpatry. Thus, we employed karyotype information and restriction fragment length polymorphisms analysis (PCR-RFLP) of mitochondrial gene cytochrome b in specimens with 2n=14, 15 and 16 from both northern and southern areas of occurrence. We observed two major clades (Φ ST >0.72), one including northern and the other southern populations, and all three karyotypes were clustered on both of them, revealing that the distinction of the populations are based on geographical level and not on karyotype structure. Previous contrasting molecular data were interpreted as a biased sample composition, since those samples included exclusively 2n=14 and 15 from southern and 2n=16 from northern populations. Thus, we proposed that 2n=14, 15 and 16 karyotypes belong to a single species, Akodon cursor.
False spider mites of the genus Pentamerismus McGregor (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Iran
Authors: KHANJANI MOHAMMAD , GOTOH TETSUO
Published: May 2019

One known species of the false spider mite genus Pentamerismus, P. judicious De Leon is redescribed. Two new species, P. ueckermanni sp. nov. and P. behsharicus sp. nov. are described and figured based on females collected from Juniperus polycarpus L. leaves, Mazandaran province, Iran. A key to all known species of this genus is given.
A new species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Pulau Perhentian Besar, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia
Authors: GRISMER L. LEE , ONN CHAN KIN
Published: May 2019

A new species of gekkoind lizard, Cnemaspis perhentianensis sp. nov., is described from Pulau Perhentian Besar, 21 km off the east coast of the state of Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. Cnemaspis perhentianensis is differentiated from all other Southeast Asian Cnemaspis in having a maximum SVL of 47.2 mm; the scales of the anterior portion of the forearm are keeled; the ventral scales are weakly keeled; there are no femoral pores; eight preanal pores; there is no linearly arranged row of tubercles on the flanks; there are paravertebral, longitudinal rows of caudal tubercles and lateral caudal rows anteriorly; the keeled subcaudals lack an enlarged median row; there are no large, shield-like subtibial or submetatarsal scales; 28–31 subdigital lamellae are on the fourth toe; distinct, large, dark spots occur on the neck and back that alternate with transverse, white markings; and there are white markings on flanks that alternate with dark blotches.