bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Morphometric analyses of Palaearctic Dasineura and Jaapiella species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae, Oligotrophini) developing in flower heads of Asteraceae, with description of four new species
Authors: Sylvén Edvard , Lindberg BO 
Published: July 2010

AbstractMorphometric studies of males and females of species of oligotrophine Cecidomyiidae reared from flower heads of seven genera of Asteraceae (Centaurea, Cirsium, Hieracium, Hypochoeris, Inula, Reichardia, and Saussurea) demonstrated, despite great overall morphological conformity, many instances of statistically significant differences between the species. Measurement values of structures in adult specimens were corrected for allometric deviations according to a procedure representing a further development of a method previously used for taxonomic purposes in gall midges. No galls produced by these midges have been observed. Beyond adults, also pupae and larvae were studied. Two Dasineura species and several Jaapiella species are represented. Four new species are described: Dasineura vulgatiformiae Sylvén, Jaapiella hypochoeridis Sylvén, Jaapiella pilosellae Sylvén, and Jaapiella reichardiae Sylvén.
The Tipula (Acutipula) bosnica species group, with the description of a new species from Turkey (Diptera: Tipulidae)
Authors: De Jong Herman , Koç Hasan , Hasbenli Abdullah 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe Tipula (Acutipula) bosnica species group is a small group of crane flies containing three known species, viz. T. (A.) aureola Mannheims, T. (A.) bosnica Strobl, and the newly described Turkish T. (A.) aktashi. The male, female, and male pupal skin of T. (A.) aktashi are described and illustrated. T. (A.) aktashi is compared with the other two species of the bosnica group; genital structures of aureola and bosnica are illustrated. A map showing the distribution of the three species is given. The phylogenetic position of the bosnica group in the Tipulidae is discussed; the group takes a rather isolated position within Acutipula and apparently represents an old western Palaearctic lineage.
Revision of the Nearctic Liodessus affinis (Say 1823) species group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Bidessini)
Authors: Miller Kelly B. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractNorth American members of the Liodessus affinis (Say 1823) species complex are revised. The species group comprises four species. Two new species are described: L. noviaffinis (type locality: Gainesville Forest Insect Lab, Alachua Co., Florida) and L. saratogae (type locality: Saratoga Springs, San Bernardino County, California). Liodessus obscurellus (LeConte 1852), formerly considered a junior subjective synonym of L. affinis, is given specific status. The following synonymies are established: L. affinis microreticulatus (Hatch 1928), L. charlottii (Clark 1862), L. emilianus (Clark 1862), L. erythrostomus (Mannerheim 1852), L. macularis (LeConte 1852), and L. nigrinus (Casey 1884) = L. obscurellus. All of these names were previously treated as junior subjective synonyms of L. affinis. Also, L. youngi (Larson & Roughley 1990) = L. abjectus (Sharp 1882). Lectotypes are designated for L. abjectus, L. charlottii, L. erythrostomus, L. emilianus, L. macularis, L. nigrinus, and L. obscurellus. A neotype is designated for L. affinis. Liodessus nanus (Aubé 1838) is considered a species name of uncertain status, but is probably a subjective synonym of L. affinis. A key is provided for the nine known species of North American Liodessus Guignot. The genus Liodessus is diagnosed, and its taxonomic history and questionable status as a natural group are discussed. The L. affinis complex is diagnosed, and its taxonomic history and natural history are discussed. Male genitalia are the only consistently useful structures known for differentiating species in the L. affinis complex. Females are not distinguishable based on currently known morphological features but may be identified using geographic information. Characters used previously, including coloration, punctation and general shape are too variable within and between species to be useful for species diagnosis or delimitation. For each species in the complex the following are provided: a bibliography of the species, discussion of type specimens, taxonomic history and synonymy, diagnosis, variation, etymology (for new species), geographic relationships, natural history, and geographic distribution. Distribution maps and illustrations of important structural features are provided for all species of the complex. For other Nearctic species of Liodessus the following are provided: a brief bibliography of the species, diagnosis, distribution, remarks about bionomics and/or taxonomy, and illustrations of important structural features.
The genera Velarifictorus, Modicogryllus and Mitius in Thailand (Ensifera: Gryllidae, Gryllinae)
Authors: Ingrisch Sigfrid 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA report on the species of the genera Velarifictorus, Modicogryllus and Mitius (Gryllidae, Gryllinae, Modicogryllini) from Thailand as conserved in the Zoological Museum Copenhagen, the Department of Agriculture Bangkok, and the authors collection is given. The collection comprised 16 species of Velarifictorus of which 15 are new to science (V. acutilobus, V. angustus, V. bicornis, V. bulbosus, V. confinius, V. gradifrons, V. horridus, V. minoculus, V modicoides, V. pui, V rectus, V. spinosus, V. sulcifrons, V. tenepalpus, V. triangularis) and one species, V. aspersus (Walker, 1869), is widespread in the Indo-Malayan region. Of the genus Modicogryllus, three species were found, M. consobrinus (Saussure, 1877), M. siamensis Chopard, 1961, and M. semiobscurus (Chopard, 1969). Previous authors often misidentified two of them making the following nomenclatorial corrections necessary: M. confirmatus Walker, 1859 is redescribed from the holotype; records from outside Sri Lanka should be verified. M. consobrinus (Saussure, 1877) is re-established as a valid species with the following synonyms: Gryllus lineiceps Walker, 1871 (= junior homonym of G. lineiceps Walker, 1869), Gryllus walkeri Chopard, 1961. A male from Teinzo (Burma) is fixed as lectotype. The following taxa become new synonyms of M. siamensis Chopard, 1961: M. confirmatus Bhowmik, 1977 (nec Walker, 1859), M. confirmatus Vasanth 1993 (nec Walker, 1859), M. pacificus Otte, 1994b. The genus Mitius is represented with two species, M. enatus Gorochov, 1994 and M. castaneus (Chopard, 1937). Information on stridulation of some Velarifictorus and Mitius species is given. The time pattern of stridulation of Mitius species is composed of diplo-pulses instead of single pulses as in other Gryllinae.
A marine water strider (Hemiptera: Veliidae) from Dominican amber
Authors: Andersen N. Møller , Poinar George O. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA fossil water strider, Halovelia electrodominica sp. n., is described from the Oligo-Miocene Dominican amber based upon a couple seemingly trapped while they were mating. This is the first fossil record of the genus Halovelia (Haloveliinae, Veliidae) and, since most living haloveliine water striders are marine, probably also the first record of a marine insect from amber. Extant haloveliines are confined to the Indo-West Pacific region and the Dominican amber species therefore represent another example of remarkable geographical extinction in the Caribbean during the late Tertiary.
Phylogeny of the South African species of restioid leafhoppers, tribe Cephalelini (Homoptera: Cicadellidae, Ulopinae)
Authors: Prendini Lorenzo , Linder H. Peter 
Published: July 2010

AbstractA cladistic analysis of the twenty-one South African species of restioid leafhoppers (Cicadellidae : Ulopinae: Cephalelini) is presented, based on fifty characters of the adult morphology. The results are largely congruent with Davies' (1986) subjective hypothesis. Monophyly of the genera Cephalelus Evans and Duospina Davies is supported. Two major clades are evident within the genus Cephalelus.
Friederia, a new Afrotropical tanytarsine genus (Diptera: Chironomidae)
Authors: Andersen Trond , Sæther Ole A. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractGeneric diagnosis to the male imago of the new genus Friederia is given. Friederia villosa sp. n. from the rain forest of Western Ghana is described as male imago. Parsimony analyses of the subtribe Zavreliina of the tribe Tanytarsini of the subfamily Chironominae show that Friederia forms the sister genus of the unambiguously monophyletic Stempellinella Brundin with Zavrelia Kieffer as the sister group of the two combined, Neostempellina Reiss as the sister group of all three, and otherwise confirm previous phylogenetic analyses.
Description of the larval stages of Heterosternuta diversicornis (Sharp) (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)
Authors: Alarie Y. , Fritz K. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractDescription of structures of all three larval instars of Heterosternuta diversicornis (Sharp) is presented. The chaetotaxy and porotaxy of the cephalic capsule, head appendages, legs, last abdominal segment, and urogomphi are discussed in detail. A close similarity between larvae of H. diversicornis, H. wickhami Zaitzev and H. cocheconis (Fall) is confirmed. All three species distinguish from the closely related species of the genus Neoporus Guignot by (i) a very short and constricted siphon, (ii) the primary setae FE8 and FE9 which are subequal in length to the maximum width of the metafemur (first instar), (iii) the absence of natatory setae on all tibiae and tarsi, and (iv) the contiguous position of the primary setae UR2 and UR3 on the urogomphomere 1.
Wanzia fako, a new genus and species of spider from Cameroon (Araneae: Cyatholipidae)
Authors: Griswold Charles E. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe new genus and species Wanzia fako (Araneac, Cyatholipidae) is described from Cameroon. It is related to the genera Isicabu (from southern and eastern Africa), Scharffa (from East Africa) and Alaranea (from Madagascar).
Karyotype differences and speciation in the gall wasp Andricus mukaigawae (s. lat.) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with description of the new species A. kashiwaphilus
Authors: Abe Yoshihisa 
Published: July 2010

AbstractAndricus mukaigawae (s. lat.) has been considered to consist of two 'host races' adapted to different host plant species. Karyotypes of unisexual females of both host races were investigated. The two races were found to have different karyotypes (2n = 10 and 2n = 12). Overall, the karyotype was uniform within each race, and no structural heterozygosity of chromosomes occurred in individuals from localities where the two races coexist. Thus, the two races are regarded as distinct species. In addition to the karyotype differences, the species are clearly distinguishable on the basis of the shapes of the unisexual galls. Judging from the original description and illustration, the name Andricus mukaigawae (s. str.) can be applied to one race, whereas the other race is here described as Andricus kashiwaphilus sp. n. The karyotype of one species is likely to have evolved from that of the other by centric fission or centric fusion. The basic numbers of n = 5 and 6 are new records for the Cynipoidea, which usually have larger numbers of chromosomes. A small number of chromosomes may be a synapomorphy for the studied species, since other Andricus species examined so far have n = 10.
A review of the Afrotropical and Palaearctic genera of Lomatiinae (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
Authors: Greathead D.J. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThe history of the genus Lomatia Meigen is reviewed in relation to the status of the Afrotropical species. A phylogenetic analysis of the Afrotropical and Palaearctic genera of Lomatiinae demonstrates that the Afrotropical species of Lomatia should be transferred to a new genus, Notolomatia gen. n. A key is given to these genera along with notes including short diagnoses, distribution and species contained in them. The synonymy of L. graeca Paramonov with L. luchesis is established. The zoogeography of the Lomatiinae is discussed in relation to the origin of the Palaearctic genera.
A review of the genus Morocus Hoffman, 1990, with two new species from the Ivory Coast (Diplopoda, Polydesmida: Oxydesmidae)
Authors: Alderweireldt Mark , Enghoff Henrik 
Published: July 2010

AbstractMorocus robustus and M. acutus, both from the Ivory Coast, are described as new. A modified diagnosis of the genus is given, as well as some phylogenetic considerations, a distribution map, and an updated identification key.
The Aesthetics of the Public Space
Authors: Szilágyi-Gál Mihály 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThese words of Victor Burgin serve as the motto of the first issue of the Review. In fact, the very same sentences can be taken as the motto also of this review of the Review. One of the authors in Idea's first issue, Boris Groys recalls Greenberg's words, that the avant-gard imitates art, and art imitates the world itself - the avant-gard imitates art because art is part of the world. Idea leaves the impression of a report of an avant-gard renaissance in the present art of the East-Central European and Balkan regions. It does not commit itself to any particular artistic current: its foci are the aesthetic phenomena of everyday life, and the concordant relationship between art and society.
The Archaeology of the Northwestern Slavs (Seventh To Ninth Centuries)
Authors: Brather Sebastian 
Published: July 2010

AbstractTwenty years ago things seemed to be quite clear: several different groups of Slavs had invaded East Central Europe at some point during the sixth century, and all archaeologically identifiable, cultural characteristics pointed to a Slavic 'homeland' in Eastern Europe. More recent research, however, has shown this to be a rather simplistic view of the past. This paper is intended as an overview of the current archaeological research on the early Middle Ages that is responsible for the radical change of view of the last decade or so. Dendrochronology, new approaches, and the critical assessment of the historiography of the problem contribute now to a different understanding. The material culture - pottery, hillforts, settlement features, burials - can now be explained in terms of the contemporary situation in East Central Europe, i. e., the consolidation of settlement patterns, economic structures, and society. Exactly what that means for the debate about the 'origins' of the western Slavs remains a matter of further research and discussion.
"Medicis for the Fatherland"? Artists and Cracow, 1879-1910
Authors: Dabrowski Patrice M. 
Published: July 2010

AbstractAbstract: This article focuses on the fascinating role played by several Polish artists in several Polish historical commemorations. These celebrations, held in the city of Cracow, took place in the last decades before the reestablishment of an independent Polish state. Painters felt moved to enter the public sphere during this period; in the process they became, or attempted to become, benefactors ("Medicis") of the nation. Although three artists - Henryk Siemiradzki, Jan Mate- jko, and Jan Styka - figured prominently in three large public commemorations of Polish historical anniversaries of the period (the 1879 jubilee of Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski, the 1883 bicentennial of the Relief of Vienna, and the 1910 quincen- tennial of the Battle of Grunwald, respectively), their projects did not always have the support of the Cracow notables, who seemed to place the interests of the municipality over those of the nation at large.
Die Stadt, Der Adel Und Das Theater. Prag Und Lemberg Im 19. Jahrhundert Im Vergleich
Authors: Ther Philipp 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThis article examines nobles' influence on the culture of cities in East Central Europe. In a follow-up to his latest book, the author compares the opera theatres in Lemberg and Prague, and considers how they positioned themselves vis-á-vis their respective cities. The article explains the rise and fall of aristocratic dominance that for a long time ran counter to the embourgeoisement of the opera stages of Western Europe. In East Central Europe, the aristocracy was vital in establishing public theatres which became the most significant competitors of court theatres in the first half of the nineteenth century. The article also analyses power struggles over the theatre between various social and political groups in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the intelligentsia increasingly questioned nobles' domination of the theatre. Although these power struggles destabilized the respective opera houses at times, they contributed to the identification of the two cities with them. The article ends by outlining how Prague and Lemberg fashioned themselves as "opera cities."
The Question of Urban Citizens' National Identity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Hungary
Authors: Czoch Gábor 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThis article examines the characteristics and problems of urbanization in mid-nineteenth century Hungary, analyzing contemporary debates on conditions in and the modernization of cities. The core of the argument focuses on the representation of cities in the political discourse determined by the liberal nobility in conflict with the Viennese court. Although the overall view of cities was negative, the points of criticism, notably, economic backwardness, small population, dependence on the central authorities) underwent considerable change from the end of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century. Most importantly, increasing stress was placed on the non-Hungarian (mainly German) provenience of the citizenry, which also reflected one of the key aspects of the emerging Hungarian nationalist discourse. It seems, however, that citizens' perceptions of the urban issues did not derive from their national identity. In cities inhabited by German or mixed populations, the ethnicity of citizens as a problem and as a marker determining social identity was imposed from outside as a result of political debates on a national level.
Camillo Sitte: Romantic or Realist? the Picturesque City Reconsidered
Authors: Moravánszky Ákos 
Published: July 2010

AbstractAustrian architect Camillo Sitte, author of the important treatise on urban design, Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen (1889), is known as the founder of romantic "picturesque" urbanism. One has to differentiate, however, between the two meanings of the German term das Malerische: "picturesque" and "painterly." Sitte is clearly connected with the representatives of modem picturesque urbanism. In his "Townscape Casebook," Gordon Cullen published a collection of photos and sketches to reinvigorate a picturesque way of seeing and thus set forth a basis for the design of the environment based on picturesque principles. Cullen proposed the concept of the townscape to develop a comprehensive "field of vision" that gathered heterogeneous elements into a unified whole - an idea that influenced the work of the American urban theorist Kevin Lynch. In fact, populist arguments could be detected in those representations of the picturesque as a way of seeing that corresponded to the supposed "national character." Sitte himself expected a "unified national work of art" to emerge as a result of the "popular synthesizing" of all the visual arts.
Der Städtebau Oder Methodisches Zur Sinnlichen Praxis
Authors: Reiterer Gabriele 
Published: July 2010

AbstractWhen, in 1889, Camillo Sitte's Städtebau came out in print in Vienna, it quickly became an unexpected sensation. Sitte's text is a manual for the spatial perception of cities. It was written at the time when intellectuals were feverishly searching for an adequate concept of space, and with this text Sitte de facto "invented" urban space, with all its broader implications. Städtebau is a masterpiece of inter- and transdisciplinary work that can only be understood in its totality but, above all, it is also a concise professional textbook in the conventional sense of the term. The span and complexity of ideas make the book unique, as this article underlines. Jede unserer Erkenntnisse beginnt bei den Empfindungen. Leonardo da Vinci
Gemeindeverwaltung Und Lokale Eliten in Den Böhmischen Läandern 1850-1918, Teilergebnisse Der Forschung in Der Tschechischen Republik
Authors: Kladiwa LukáŠ Fasora-Pavel 
Published: July 2010

AbstractAs opposed to German scholarship, the issue of municipal self-government and communal elites has not received much attention in Czech historiography. This represents a significant shortcoming: in the absence of an analysis of the mechanisms by which self-governing municipalities functioned, it is not possible to describe the constitution of modem civil society in the nineteenth century, including the development of national relations. This article provides an overview of relevant German and Austrian literature, proposes a methodology of research in the Czech environment, including an analysis of the use-fulness of individual types of archival sources, and offers preliminary results of the reviewers' research on the cities of Moravská Ostrava and Brno. Close attention is paid to the social-professional composition of communal elites, national and religious development, municipal economies with regard to communal companies, and the process of creating a modem state administration.
Ein Tourist in Prag Um Jahrhundertwende
Authors: Velek LuboŠ 
Published: July 2010

AbstractThis "re-review" deals with the tourist guidebook of Prague, first published in 1881 and later as a reprint in 2002. In this discussion, the reviewer deals with both the structure of the period guide-book - including themes considered relevant for the tourist of the time as well as the book's attempt to present the city in the best possible light to visitors. Of particular interest is the guidebook's presentation of the array of nationalities (Czechs, Germans, Jews) living in the city. Although Czech and German communities had already become isolated from one another and the first violent conflicts had appeared when the guidebook was originally published, these issues were not reflected in the book. Rather, its author stubbornly worked to prove the age-long "Czechness" of Prague based on "historical facts." The reviewer finds equally surprising the book's effort to delete "German" traces in the history of Prague, such as omitting information on Mozart's visits to the city.
Learned Societies and Academic Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Transylvania
Authors: Török Borbála Zsuzsanna 
Published: July 2010

AbstractProceeding on sub-state and transnational scales, the study inquires into the cultural contextualization of those marginal territories of Europe whose participation in the larger circulation of knowledge and goods had faced prolonged infrastructural, economic, and political hindrances. The author seeks an answer to the question whether such regions with unusual social fragmentation, economic backwardness, and exotic external image do still belong to the “European” realm. Comparing the divergent trajectories of local learned societies in the eastern province of the Habsburg monarchy, Transylvania, she inquires into the correlation of scholarly practice and the formation of collective identities with regard to internal and external constitutive factors, and patronage and political support from the state (or the lack of it). The essay ends with a mixed result; local practices carried the peculiarities of the immediate environment, and also the impact of a Central-European, that is, Austrian, and German academic tradition. This locality could, and indeed, did occasionally look outlandish to native critics and foreign travelers. However, at least at the level of elite culture and scholarship, this province also shared the general traits of the “Western” practice.