cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cataulacus taprobanae
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataulacus
Cataulacus taprobanae

description: 1. Cataulacus Taprobanae.
Cataulacus Taprobanae, Smith, Mon. Crypt. Trans. Ent. Soc. 2nd ser. ii. 225. 1. pl. 20. f. 10 [[worker]].
Hab. Ceylon.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 195
Burmapeza Grimaldi 2018, new genus
Creators: name: Grimaldi, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Platypezidae
Burmapeza

description: Burmapeza, new genus
DIAGNOSIS: (female only). Acrostichals numerous, scattered, not in rows; prescutellum present, scutellum setulose; wing membrane entirely covered with microtrichia; M 1 -M 2 fork short, asymmetrical; apices M 2, CuA 1, A 1 +CuA 2 incomplete; crossvein dm-cu 2.5× its length from wing margin. Tibiae and tarsi without bifid scales. Basal flagellomere subcircular, arista dorsal.
TYPE SPECIES: B. radicis, new species.
ETYMOLOGY: Referring to the country of origin, and - peza (“foot”), a common suffix for genera of Platypezinae.
COMMENTS: Like Electrosania in New Jersey amber, this is a basal, stem-group genus of Platypezidae (fig. 27), based on the numerous, scattered acrostichals; retention of a prescutellum; absence of dark, bifid scales on the legs; and metatarsi unmodified. It is placed in Platypezidae based on the C vein ending at the tip of M 1 (vs. being circumambient) and the short M 1 -M 2 fork. The short, subcircular basal flagellomere is unusual, though not unique in Platypezidae. Melanderomyia and Microsania also have a short basiflagellomere (though usually reniform); the dorsal arista in Burmapeza, however, is unique within the family, a feature commonly seen in Syrphidae, Platypezidae, Phoridae, and Schizophora. Burmapeza can be clearly excluded from any of those cyclorrhaphan groups, and the antennal structure is considered here to be convergent.
description: Published as part of Grimaldi, David A., 2018, Basal Cyclorrhapha In Amber From The Cretaceous And Tertiary (Insecta: Diptera), And Their Relationships: Brachycera In Cretaceous Amber Part Ix David A. Grimaldi, pp. 1-97 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (423) on pages 1-97, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-423.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4613008
Cataulacus guineensis
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataulacus
Cataulacus guineensis

description: 2. Cataulacus Guineensis.
Cataulacus Guineensis, Smith, Mon. Crypt. Trans. Ent. Soc. new ser. ii. 225. 2. pl. 20. f. 5 [[queen]].
Hab. Tropical Western Africa.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 196
Cataulacus parallelus
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataulacus
Cataulacus parallelus

description: 3. Cataulacus parallelus.
Cataulacus parallelus, Smith, Mon. Crypt. Trans. Ent. Soc. 2nd ser. ii. pl. 19. f. 6.
Hab. Cape of Good Hope.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 196
Oxypoda (Bessopora) xichangensis Pace, 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda xichangensis

description: Oxypoda (Bessopora) xichangensis n. sp.
(Figg. 30 e 124-126)
Materiale tipico:
Holotypus ♂, China, Sichuan mer., Dailang Shan, pass Xichang-Meigu vill., 12-14.VI.1998, Zhaojue vill. env, leg. Zd. Jindra & M. Trýzna (SDEI).
Paratypus: 1 ♀, stessa provenienza.
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2,4 mm. Corpo lucido e bruno, antenne brune con i due antennomeri basali giallorossicci, zampe rossicce con femori bruno-rossicci. Secondo antennomero più lungo del primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto lungo quanto largo, quinto a decimo trasversi. Occhi più corti delle tempie. Reticolazione del corpo assente. Granulosità dell’avancorpo fine e saliente, quella dell’addome fitta, fine ed evidente. Addome con pubescenza sericea fitta e aderente. Edeago figg. 124-125, spermateca 126.
Comparazioni:
L’edeago della nuova specie è simile a quello di O. salamannai Pace, 1999 pure del Sichuan. Se ne distingue per il minore sviluppo della «crista apicalis», larga 0,028 mm (0,056 mm in salamannai), per la presenza di un lungo flagello dell’armatura genitale interna dell’edeago (due pezzi falciformi dell’armatura genitale interna dell’edeago di salamannai) e per il quarto antennomero lungo quanto largo (fortemente trasverso in salamannai).
Etimologia:
La nuova specie prende nome dal toponimo Xichang.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2012, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Il Genere Oxypoda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 375-417 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (2) on pages 401-402, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.375-417, http://zenodo.org/record/5865985
Oxypoda (Bessopora) latesentiens Pace, 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda latesentiens

description: Oxypoda (Bessopora) latesentiens n. sp.
(Figg. 31 e 127-128)
Materiale tipico:
Holotypus ♂, China: S-Shaanxi, Qin Ling Shan, mountain range W pass on rd. Xi’an, Shagoujie, 45 km SSW Xi’an, 2675 m, 33°52'N 108°46'E, 26.VII.2001, leg. A. Smetana (SDEI).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2,4 mm. Corpo lucido e giallo-bruno, addome bruno, antenne brune con i quattro antennomeri basali giallo-rossicci, zampe giallo-rossicce. Secondo antennomero più lungo del primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto più lungo che largo, quinto lungo quanto largo, sesto a decimo trasversi. Occhi più corti delle tempie. Reticolazione del corpo assente. Granulosità del corpo saliente. Addome con pubescenza sericea fitta e aderente. Edeago figg. 127-128.
Comparazioni:
L’edeago della nuova specie presenta lati seghettati con pori sensoriali. Questo carattere è nuovo per le specie note della Cina e Nepal.
Etimologia:
La nuova specie ha nome che significa «Sensitiva ai lati». I lati sono quelli dell’edeago.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2012, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Il Genere Oxypoda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 375-417 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (2) on page 402, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.375-417, http://zenodo.org/record/5865985
Cataulacus granulatus
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataulacus
Cataulacus granulatus

description: 4. Cataulacus granulatus.
Formica granulata, Latr. Hist. Nat. Fourm. 275. pl. 12. f. 75.
Cryptocerus granulatus, St. Farg. Hym. i. 171. 2.
Cataulacus granulatus, Smith, Mon. Crypt. Trans. Ent. Soc. new ser. ii. 226. 4.
Hab. India.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 196
Canadopeza Grimaldi 2018, new genus
Creators: name: Grimaldi, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Platypezidae
Canadopeza

description: Canadopeza, new genus
DIAGNOSIS: (female only). Acrostichals in 2 even rows; 1 large pair dorsocentrals; M forked, slightly asymmetrical, M 2 very faint, almost spectral; cell dm short, dm-cu less than half the distance between M-Cu fork and wing margin; CuA 2 curved; microtrichia over entire surface of wing; legs without dark, bifid scales; metatarsus not inflated. With the exception of the spectral M 2 vein, these features are plesiomorphic for the Platypezidae.
TYPE SPECIES: C. biacrosticha new species.
ETYMOLOGY: Derived from Canada, the country of origin, and - peza (foot), a common suffix in the generic names of Platypezidae.
COMMENTS: The new genus occupies a basal position in Platypezidae (fig. 27), based on the biserial (vs. uniserial) acrostichals, lack of bifid scales on the legs, metarsus not flattened and expanded, the short dm cell, and vein CuA 2 curved. It is interesting to note that the two Cretaceous genera known from Laurasia (Canada, New Jersey) are very basal stem groups, along with Burmapeza, n. gen. Otherwise, other Creta- ceous genera, in amber from Lebanon and Myanmar, have a more derived position (fig. 27). It is possible that more basal taxa were sustained longer into the Cretaceous at higher paleolatitudes, or were relegated to higher latitudes, similar to what is seen today with Microsania, Melanderomyia, and Platypezina.
description: Published as part of Grimaldi, David A., 2018, Basal Cyclorrhapha In Amber From The Cretaceous And Tertiary (Insecta: Diptera), And Their Relationships: Brachycera In Cretaceous Amber Part Ix David A. Grimaldi, pp. 1-97 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (423) on pages 1-97, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-423.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4613008
Oxypoda (Bessopora) sinoexilis Pace, 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda sinoexilis

description: Oxypoda (Bessopora) sinoexilis n. sp.
(Figg. 129-132)
Materiale tipico:
Holotypus ♂, China: N-Yunnan, Xue Shan nr. Zhongdian, 3800 m, 26.VI.1996, leg. A. Smetana (MHNG).
Paratypi: 2 ♀♀, stessa provenienza.
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2,7 mm. Corpo debolmente lucido e bruno, capo nero-bruno, pigidio bruno-rossiccio, antenne brune con i due antennomeri basali giallo-bruni, zampe gialle. Secondo antennomero più lungo del primo, terzo poco più corto del secondo, quarto più lungo che largo, quinto lungo quanto largo, sesto a decimo trasversi. Occhi molto più corti delle tempie. Reticolazione dell’avancorpo superficiale. Granulosità di capo ed elitre evidenti, quella delle elitre poco saliente. Addome con pubescenza sericea fitta e aderente. Edeago figg. 130-131, spermateca fig. 132.
Comparazioni:
Per la dimensione e forma dell’edeago la nuova specie è comparabile con O. deprehendens Pace, 1999 del Sichuan. Se ne distingue per la presenza di un rilievo acuto e saliente presso la «crista apicalis» (poco sporgente e ottuso in deprehendens), per la differente armatura genitale interna dell’edeago e per la parte apicale dell’edeago larga 0,120 mm (parte apicale di deprehendens larga 0,095 mm).
Etimologia:
La nuova specie ha nome che significa «Esile della Cina ».
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2012, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Il Genere Oxypoda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 375-417 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (2) on pages 402-403, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.375-417, http://zenodo.org/record/5865985
Enhancing Classroom Acoustics
Creators: name: E Mahiban Ross
name: D Beula Jeba Malar
Publisher: name: AAER
Year: 2025
Subjects: Enhancing
Classroom
Acoustics
traffic
WHO
Noise
Sources

description: Noise levels exceeding WHO recommendations of 35–40 dBA in classrooms disrupt teaching and learning. Internal and external noise sources, such as traffic and adjacent classrooms, are prevalent in school environments. This summary discusses about enhancing classroom acoustics for better learning.
Oxypoda (Bessopora) antegranulosa Pace, 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda antegranulosa

description: Oxypoda (Bessopora) antegranulosa n. sp.
(Figg. 133-134)
Materiale tipico:
Holotypus ♀, China, Sichuan, Gongga Shan, Hailuogou, above camp 3, 3200 m, 7.VII.1996, leg. A. Smetana (MHNG).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 4 mm. Corpo lucido e bruno, capo e uroterghi liberi quarto e quinto neri, questi ultimi anche iridescenti, lati del pronoto bruno-rossicci, antenne brune con i due antennomeri basali e base del terzo rossicci, zampe giallo-rossicce. Secondo antennomero più lungo del primo, terzo poco più corto del secondo, quarto più lungo che largo, quinto lungo quanto largo, sesto a decimo trasversi. Occhi lunghi quanto le tempie. Reticolazione di capo e pronoto evidente, quella delle elitre superficiale. Granulosità di capo e pronoto evidente, quella delle elitre evanescente. Debole solco mediano del pronoto. Pubescenza dell’addome sericea, fitta sui tre uroterghi liberi basali, meno fitta sul quarto e rada sul quinto. Spermateca fig. 134.
Comparazioni:
La forma della spermateca avvicina la nuova specie a O. kashmirica Cameron, 1939, di cui ho esaminato l’holotypus ♂ di Gulmarg, raccolto da Cameron nel VI-VII.1931 (Museo di Londra) ed esemplari 2 ♂♂ e 2 ♀♀ del Nepal. Se ne distingue per l’introflessione apicale del bulbo distale della spermateca con base larga, di 0,040 mm, e non stretta, di 0,016 mm, come in kashmirica. Il pronoto della nuova specie è debolmente solcato sulla linea mediana, quello di kashmirica è senza solc.
Etimologia:
La nuova specie ha nome che significa «Granulosa in avanti».
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2012, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Il Genere Oxypoda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 375-417 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (2) on page 403, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.375-417, http://zenodo.org/record/5865985
Lebanopeza Grimaldi 2018, new genus
Creators: name: Grimaldi, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Platypezidae
Lebanopeza

description: Lebanopeza, new genus
DIAGNOSIS: (male only). Eyes holoptic, dorsal facets larger; small prescutellum present; acrostichals in short uniserial row; wing with microtrichia over entire surface; C ends at apex of R 4+5 (vs. M 1); crossvein dm-cu (cell dm) absent, CuP curved; M entirely spectral, branches of M 1 -M 2 fork virtually symmetrical; dark bifid scales lacking on legs; metatarsomeres not expanded; male terminalia lateroflexed to right. Except for the lack of crossvein dm-cu and the faint M vein, all these features appear plesiomorphic for the Platypezidae.
TYPE SPECIES: L. azari, new species.
ETYMOLOGY: From Lebanon, the country of origin, and - peza (foot), a common suffix for generic names in the Platypezidae.
COMMENTS: Lebanopeza appears to be an extinct stem group to Microsania + Melanderomyia (fig. 27). It lacks at least four features that define these two extant genera (chars. 3, 16, 17, 18; table 2), but shares with them the loss of crossvein dm-cu (cell dm), a distinctly shortened Sc vein and somewhat shortened R 1, and reduction in the medial veins. In Melanderomyia M 2 is lost; in Microsania the base of M 1 is lost; in Lebanopeza the entire stem and fork of M 1 -M 2 is extremely faint and unsclerotized.
The wing of Lebanopeza is similar to Mauritulus sospes Mostovski, preserved as a compression (along with portions of the body) in shale from the Early Cretaceous of Eurasia (Mostovski, 1995a). Both genera have a slender wing; membrane densely covered with microtrichia; R 1 straight, relatively short; C definitely (Lebanopeza) or apparently (Mauritulus) ending at the apex of R 4+5; M 1 -M 2 fork nearly symmetrical; and crossvein dm-cu (cell dm) absent. Lebanopeza differs from Mauritulus by having a shorter Sc cell (0.3× wing length, vs. 0.45×), cell cup with apical stem of CuP+A 1 (in Mauritulus these veins join virtually at the wing margin), and in having no metatarsomeres expanded (in Mauritulus the basitarsomere is slightly expanded).
description: Published as part of Grimaldi, David A., 2018, Basal Cyclorrhapha In Amber From The Cretaceous And Tertiary (Insecta: Diptera), And Their Relationships: Brachycera In Cretaceous Amber Part Ix David A. Grimaldi, pp. 1-97 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (423) on pages 1-97, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-423.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4613008
Oxypoda (Bessopora) victrix Pace, 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda victrix

description: Oxypoda (Bessopora) victrix n. sp.
(Figg. 135-137)
Materiale tipico:
Holotypus ♂, China: Sichuan, Gongga Shan, Hailougou for. above camp 2, 2800 m, 5.VIII.1998, leg. A. Smetana (MHNG).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2,7 mm. Corpo lucido e bruno, elitre bruno-rossicce, addome nero-bruno, pigidio giallo-rossiccio, antenne brune con antennomero basale giallo-bruno, zampe giallo-rossicce. Secondo antennomero più lungo del primo, terzo poco più corto del secondo, quarto a decimo trasversi. Occhi più corti delle tempie. Reticolazione di capo e pronoto superficiale, quella delle elitre evidente. Granulosità del capo forte e fitta, quella del pronoto fine e saliente, quella delle elitre evidente. Addome con pubescenza sericea fitta e aderente. Edeago figg. 136-137.
Comparazioni:
L’edeago della nuova specie è simile a quello di O. nigrolucens Cameron, 1939 dell’India, di cui ho esaminato l’holotypus ♂ etichettato Ghum distr., Tiger Hills, Oxypoda nigrolucens Cam., Type (Museo di Londra). La nuova specie se ne distingue per la stretta concavità ventrale dell’edeago, larga 0,037 mm, presso la «crista apicalis» (in nigrolucens medesima concavità larga 0,068 mm), per la «crista apicalis» poco sviluppata, larga 0,004 mm (in nigrolucens larga 0,01 mm) e per la robusta armatura genitale interna dell’edeago, con pezzi differenti da quelli dell’armatura genitale interna dell’edeago di nigrolucens.
Etimologia:
La nuova specie è chiamata «Vincitrice» a motivo della grande forma dell’edeago che suggerisce supremazia sulle altre Oxypoda della Cina.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2012, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Il Genere Oxypoda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 375-417 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (2) on pages 403-404, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.375-417, http://zenodo.org/record/5865985
Automating Survey Processes: Metadata Based Improvements to the NEPS Survey Life Cycle
Creators: name: Dickopf, Simon
name: Bela, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Beyond documentation, machine-actionable survey metadata offer a wide range of possibilities for more efficient and less error-prone survey management. We want to illustrate how the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) made use of metadata throughout the survey life cycle in its newly recruited Starting Cohort 8, a panel sample of 5th graders which started in 2022. With this new cohort, the NEPS consortium decided to implement a new technical backbone to its survey infrastructure, enabling us to take advantage of the centralized metadata storage at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi). We developed a fully automated process of generating survey instruments based on their reference metadata, eliminating the need for (manually produced) programming templates as well as the manual programming of the instruments itself. Putting survey’s metadata in the center of that infrastructure, it furthermore accelerates the survey testing procedures and ensures the coherence of the stored metadata with the content of the instruments and, ultimately, the disseminated data products. Future developments aim to extend these workflows beyond the scope of in-house software environments, so that NEPS' metadata can be exchanged by a DDI compliant transfer format that can be used e. g. by contracted field institutes.
Cataulacus horridus
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataulacus
Cataulacus horridus

description: 5. Cataulacus horridus. B.M.
Worker. Length 3 lines. - Black: the posterior angles of the head spinose, the margins of the head crenulated; the thorax armed posteriorly with two elongate, stout, acute spines; the an- tennae short, thick and clavate, their apex rufo-testaceous; the head reticulated, produced before the eyes and widely truncated anteriorly, the lateral angles of the truncation rounded, the lateral margins of the head with a short spine before the eyes; the pos- terior margin of the vertex emarginate its entire width, the lateral angles produced into long acute spines. Thorax ruggedly sculptured on the disk, narrowed to the apex of the mesothorax, which is separated from the hinder portion by a deep transverse incision, the posterior angles produced into long acute spines. The nodes of the peduncle rugose; the abdomen rounded, emar- ginate, and striated at the base; the entire insect sprinkled with short, erect, white setae.
Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 196
Oxypoda (Bessopora) tronqueti Pace, 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda tronqueti

description: Oxypoda (Bessopora) tronqueti n. sp.
(Figg. 138-140)
Materiale tipico:
Holotypus ♂, Chine: Guangxi, Massif du Miao’Er-Shan, 2000 m, tamisage litière, 16.VIII.1994, leg. M. Tronquet (IRSNB).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2,1 mm. Corpo lucido e bruno-rossiccio, capo nero-bruno, pronoto e pigidio giallorossicci, antenne giallo-brune con i due antennomeri basali giallo-rossicci, zampe brune con tarsi giallo-rossicci. Secondo antennomero lungo quanto il primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto a decimo trasversi. Occhi più corti delle tempie. Reticolazione del corpo assente. Punteggiatura del capo evidente. Granulosità di pronoto ed elitre fine e poco saliente. Addome con pubescenza sericea fitta e aderente. Edeago figg. 139-140.
Comparazioni:
Per la forma dell’edeago, la nuova specie è comparabile con O. bisinuata Pace, 1999 di Lanzhou. Se ne distingue per la più accentuata bisinuosità ventrale dell’edeago e per l’armatura genitale interna dell’edeago evanescente (forte in bisinuata).
Etimologia:
La nuova specie è dedicata al suo raccoglitore, lo studioso francese di Staphylinidae Marc Tronquet.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2012, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Il Genere Oxypoda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 375-417 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (2) on page 404, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.375-417, http://zenodo.org/record/5865985
Cataulacus reticulatus
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataulacus
Cataulacus reticulatus

description: 6. Cataulacus reticulatus.
Worker. Length 1 1/2 - 2 lines. - Black: finely reticulated, the abdomen very delicately so; the margins of the head and thorax crenulated, the latter armed with two long, stout, straight, parallel spines; the antennae short, thick and clavate; the clypeus widely emarginate, the lateral margins of the head with a minute angular spine or tooth before the eyes. Thorax: the anterior margin slightly rounded; the sides rounded, the margins with a short tooth anteriorly and posteriorly; the anterior tibiae and tarsi, and the apical joints of the intermediate and posterior tarsi ferrugi- nous. Abdomen ovate, margined at the sides and emarginate at the base.
Var. minor. The scape, apical joint of the flagellum, the head, before the eyes, and the legs, ferruginous.
Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on pages 196-197
Subtleties in the calculation of correlation functions for hot and dense systems
Creators: name: Töpfel, Sebastian
name: Geißel, Andreas
name: Braun, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss subtleties in the calculation of loop integrals in studies of hot and dense systems as they appear in both perturbative and non-perturbative approaches. To be specific, we address subtleties which appear in situations where the order of integration, differentiation, and limit processes plays a crucial role. For example, this applies to computations of the effective action and the computation of momentum-dependent correlation functions. In particular, the zero-temperature limit is delicate in systems with fermions because of the presence of discontinuities at the Fermi surface. We provide a general discussion of scenarios where the computation and evaluation of loop integrals in the context of relativistic theories requires particular attention as a change of the order of the involved mathematical operations may lead to a different result. Our general considerations are then illustrated with the aid of concrete examples, namely by the computation of masses from fully momentum-dependent correlation functions in the context of the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model and quantum electrodynamics.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures
Oxypoda (Bessopora) taibaimontis Pace, 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda taibaimontis

description: Oxypoda (Bessopora) taibaimontis n. sp.
(Figg. 32 e 141-142)
Materiale tipico:
Holotypus ♂, China: Shaanxi prov., Qin Ling Shan, Hou Zen Zi vill. to Taibai Shan 3500 m, 2-4.VII.1997, alpine meadows, leg. Z. Jindra, O. Šafránel & M. Trýzna (SDEI).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 3 mm. Corpo lucido e bruno, addome nero-bruno, antenne rossicce con i quattro antennomeri basali giallo-rossicci, zampe giallo-rossicce. Secondo antennomero più lungo del primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto più lungo che largo, quinto lungo quanto largo, sesto a nono trasversi, decimo debolmente trasverso. Occhi poco più corti delle tempie. Reticolazione del corpo assente. Granulosità di capo ed elitre fitta ed evidente, quella del pronoto finissima e superficiale, quella dell’addome forte e fitta. Edeago figg. 141-142.
Comparazioni:
Per l’edeago profondamente incavato al lato ventrale, la nuova specie è comparabile con O. subhsingicola Pace, 1999 del Sichuan. Se ne distingue per l’armatura genitale interna dell’edeago con una serie di squame apicali, assenti nell’armatura genitale interna dell’edeago di O. subhsingicola e per la parte apicale dello stesso edeago, in visione ventrale, assai stretta (larga in O. subhsingicola).
Etimologia:
La nuova specie prende nome dal Monte Taibai.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2012, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Il Genere Oxypoda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 375-417 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (2) on pages 404-405, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.375-417, http://zenodo.org/record/5865985
Cataulacus insularis
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataulacus
Cataulacus insularis

description: 7. Cataulacus insularis.
Male. Length 3 lines. - Black: the lateral angles of the vertex produced into stout acute spines; the metathorax bispi- nose. The head and thorax rugose; the antennae, eyes, mandibles, tibiae and tarsi, ferruginous; the eyes large and prominent; the clypeus produced, truncate anteriorly; the sides of the head behind the eyes serrated; beneath the lateral spines of the vertex are two smaller spines; the wings pale flavo-hyaline, the ner- vures scarcely discernible; the metathorax emarginate its entire width, with an acute spine at the lateral angles. The nodes of the abdomen rugose; the first node oblong-quadrate, the second nearly quadrate; the abdomen reddish at the base, and, as well as the nodes, thinly sprinkled with erect whitish hairs.
Hab. Borneo (Sarawak). (Coll. W. W. Saunders, Esq.)
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 197
Echinopla
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Echinopla

description: Genus 4. ECHINOPLA.
Echinopla, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 79 (1857).
Head transverse; eyes small, placed laterally, high on the head, on the top of short pedestals; antennae 12-jointed, inserted forwards on the head, wide apart; labial palpi 4-jointed, the three basal ones of about equal length, clavate, the apical joint as long as the two preceding joints united. Maxillary palpi 5- jointed, elongate, the three apical joints long and slender, the two basal ones much shorter and stouter. Mandibles short, stout, and of equal width throughout, armed with four teeth at the apex. Thorax oblong-quadrate; legs of moderate length; tarsi 5-jointed, each tibia armed with a single spine at the apex. Ab- domen globose; peduncle formed of a single node; the first segment very large, concealing the other segments beneath it.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 197
Microsania Zetterstedt 1837
Creators: name: Grimaldi, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Platypezidae
Microsania

description: Genus Microsania Zetterstedt
DIAGNOSIS: Male holoptic, female dichoptic; female frons with well-developed orbitals and
pair of interfrontals (latter sometimes present or visible in male); postoculars long, occiput setose. Face protruding (clypeus bulging) in female; basal flagellomere oval to subcircular; arista micropubescent. Acrostichals present, uniserial; dorsocentrals in two uniserial rows. Thorax short, deep; scutum in lateral view arched. Metabasitarsomere and tarsomere 2 (sometimes 3) laterally flattened, expanded; tarsomere 1 is longest of metatarsomeres; legs without dark, bifid scales. Wing with Sc, R 1 sclerotized, short, latter slightly over 0.5× length of wing. Pterostigma large, between entire R 1 and Sc and extends apically past R 1. Base of M 1 incomplete; wing with membrane entirely microtrichose. Cell cup small; crossvein dm-cu absent. Alula with flattened setae; male abdomen with longer setae, terminalia curled under abdomen.
COMMENTS: This is a global genus of some 23 named extant species: 5 Australia + New Zealand, 4 Asia, 2 Pacific Islands (Vanuatu, Fiji), 2 Africa, 8 Palearctic, and 2 New World. The North American specimens are in serious need of revision (there are more than just two species), and I have also seen new species from Mexico, Peru, and Chile. Species are rather uniform externally (males are best separated using genitalia), and females of some species cannot be distinguished with certainty (e.g., Chandler, 2001).
The female specimen in Baltic amber described below is the first fossil of the genus, and it is remarkably similar to modern species. A detailed comparison of the females of world species is needed to determine whether there are features of this fossil that allow diagnosing it as a species. In the meantime, I am deferring formally naming it, just noting the impressive morphological stasis of Microsania from the Eocene to the present. Surprisingly, this is also the only definitive platypezid known in Baltic amber (though an undescribed opetiid is known), despite the centuries of collecting and studying Baltic amber insects in Europe. Interestingly, the amber piece resided for more than a century in an old collection of darkened, crazed Baltic amber insect inclusions at the AMNH, which was purchased from Ward’s Scien- tific Establishment in Rochester, New York, in the early 1900s. It was originally labelled as an empidid. The deteriorated surfaces were removed, better revealing the fly. The fly is partially coated with a milky exudate, typical of the preservation of insects in Baltic amber.
description: Published as part of Grimaldi, David A., 2018, Basal Cyclorrhapha In Amber From The Cretaceous And Tertiary (Insecta: Diptera), And Their Relationships: Brachycera In Cretaceous Amber Part Ix David A. Grimaldi, pp. 1-97 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (423) on pages 1-97, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-423.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4613008
Oxypoda (Bessopora) microlutea Pace, 2012, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda microlutea

description: Oxypoda (Bessopora) microlutea n. sp.
(Figg. 33 e 143)
Materiale tipico:
Holotypus ♀, China: Shaanxi, Qin Ling Shan, above Houzhenzi, 115 km WSW Xi’an, 1450 m, 33°50'N 107°47'E, 5.VII.2001, leg. A. Smetana (SDEI).
Descrizione:
Lunghezza 2,5 mm. Corpo lucido e giallo-rossiccio, antenne giallo-brune con i cinque antennomeri basali gialli, zampe gialle. Secondo antennomero più corto del primo, terzo più corto del secondo, quarto lungo quanto largo, quinto a decimo fortemente trasversi. Occhi poco più corti delle tempie. Reticolazione del corpo assente. Granulosità dell’avancorpo fitta ed evidente. Addome con pubescenza sericea fitta e aderente. Spermateca fig. 143.
Comparazioni:
Per il colore del corpo e la forma della spermateca, la nuova specie è simile a O. rubra Cameron, 1939 dell’India, di cui ho esaminato la serie tipica di 1 ♂ e 1 ♀ (Museo di Londra). Se ne distingue per la larga e profonda introflessione apicale del bulbo distale della spermateca che in rubra è corta. Gli occhi della nuova specie sono poco più corti delle tempie, mentre in rubra sono assai ridotti. Il quarto antennomero della nuova specie è lungo quanto largo, mentre in rubra è fortemente trasverso.
Etimologia:
La nuova specie ha nome che significa «Piccola e gialla».
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2012, Biodiversità delle Aleocharinae della Cina: Il Genere Oxypoda (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 375-417 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 (2) on page 405, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.2.375-417, http://zenodo.org/record/5865985
HIDRÓXIDO DE CÁLCIO COMO MATERIAL FORRADOR EM CAVIDADES PROFUNDAS DE DENTES PERMANENTES: UTILIZÁ-LO OU NÃO?
Creators: name: Jaynna Karla Castro AGUIAR
name: Carla Isadora Frota de ARRUDA
name: Rauhan Gomes de QUEIROZ
name: Maria Luiza Leite dos SANTOS
name: Nicole França de VASCONCELOS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Forramento da Cavidade Dentária
Capeamento da Polpa Dentária
Hidróxido de Cálcio

description: RESUMO

O hidróxido de cálcio (HC) sempre foi considerado padrão-ouro no forramento pulpar, isso se deve à sua capacidade de induzir a remineralização dentinária e ação antimicrobiana. Porém, devido sua alta solubilidade, possíveis substitutos passaram a ser apontados. Com este estudo objetiva-se realizar uma revisão integrativa da literatura sobre a utilização do HC como material forrador em cavidades profundas de dentes permanentes, comparando suas vantagens e desvantagens com outras alternativas de materiais odontológicos. Desse modo, realizou-se uma busca por artigos publicados nos últimos cinco anos nas bases de dados online BVS, PubMed e SciELO. Nesta revisão, buscou-se por ensaios clínicos controlados e randomizados, estudos com delineamento experimental, estudos coorte e revisões sistemáticas com metanálises; foram desconsiderados trabalhos duplicados, teses, dissertações, revisões narrativas e integrativas, artigos de opinião, artigos incompletos e estudos repetidos das bases selecionadas, chegando a um número de 12 artigos. Nesse sentido, a literatura aponta que o HC ainda não pode ser contraindicado como material forrador. Contudo, alguns materiais têm se sobressaído, com destaque para os cimentos de silicato de cálcio: TheraCal LC®, que apresenta resultados clínicos superiores, possuindo uma menor solubilidade; o Biodentine®, o qual tem excelente biocompatibilidade e, por fim, o MTA, que apresenta formação de pontes de dentina eficientes. Entretanto, esses materiais possuem custo superior. Outras alternativas, como o cimento de ionômero de vidro e as restaurações herméticas, também apresentaram excelentes resultados. Conclui-se que, apesar de o HC não se sobressair às alternativas mencionadas, ele não possui contraindicação, e que o TheraCal LC® apresentou superioridade clínica.
Macroxenodes Silvestri 1948
Creators: name: Bueno-Villegas, Julián
name: Sierwald, Petra
name: De Ascenção, Antonio A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polyxenida
Polyxenidae
Macroxenodes

description: Genus Macroxenodes Silvestri, 1948
Macroxenodes meinerti (Silvestri, 1898)
Polyxenus Meinerti Silvestri, 1898. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 6: 53; HT (ZMUC); ST (USNM) [type species of Macroxenodes].
Polyxenus Meinerti — Silvestri 1903. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e di Anatomia Comparata R. Università di Torino, 18(433): 18.
Macroxenodes meinerti — Silvestri 1948. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria “Filippo Silvestri”, 8: 216.
Macroxenodes meinerti —Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & Geoffroy 2003. African Invertebrates, 44(1): 99.
Distribution in Venezuela: Caracas, Distrito Capital (former Distrito Federal), Miranda State (Silvestri 1898).
description: Published as part of Bueno-Villegas, Julián, Sierwald, Petra & De Ascenção, Antonio A., 2019, Check list of the Venezuelan millipedes species, pp. 151-201 in Zootaxa 4686 (2) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3490075
Echinopla melanarctos
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Echinopla
Echinopla melanarctos

description: 1. Echinopla melanarctos. B.M.
Echinopla melanarctos, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 79. 1 [[worker]].
Worker. Length 2 1/2 - 3 lines. - Black: body hispid; the palpi pale testaceous; on each side of the face anteriorly is a thin raised plate, beneath which the antennae are inserted; the sides of the head longitudinally and coarsely rugose; the head above, the thorax and abdomen, covered with short blunt spines, each of the spines having a long stiff hair at its apex; the node of the abdomen transverse, terminating on each side in a long sharp spine; the abdomen globose, beneath, smooth and shining.
Hab. Singapore.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on pages 197-198
Echinopla pallipes
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Echinopla
Echinopla pallipes

description: 2. Echinopla pallipes. B.M.
Echinopla pallipes, Smith, Proc, Linn. Soc. ii. 80. 2 [[worker]].
Worker. Length 2- 1/2 lines. - Black: body hispid; eyes prominent. Abdomen globose, node of the peduncle transverse, produced on each side into an acute spine; legs pale testaceous. Head and thorax rugose; the abdomen vermiculate, and covered with slight elevations placed in great regularity over the entire upper surface, each elevation terminating in a hair. The scape and the man- dibles ferruginous, the eyes very prominent, the palpi and legs pale testaceous, with the tarsi rufo-piceous. Abdomen obscurely rufo-piceous.
Hab. Borneo (Sarawak).
The sculpture of this insect is difficult to describe: the head and thorax are the most coarsely rugose, the rugosity being regularly interspersed with short blunt spines, each having a single hair springing from its summit.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 198
Towards absolutely stable ergodicity breaking in two and three dimensions
Creators: name: Stahl, Charles
name: Hart, Oliver
name: Nandkishore, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose new physically reasonable systems capable of avoiding ergodicity at infinite time in the thermodynamic limit, even with generic perturbations and when coupled to a heat bath. In two dimensions, the rainbow loop soup has (stretched) exponentially numerous absolutely stable nonergodic states with diverging energy but vanishing energy density. In three dimensions the rainbow membrane soup has (stretched) exponentially numerous nonergodic states with diverging energy barriers, leading to infinite-time robust ergodicity breaking that even survives coupling to a nonzero temperature heat bath. We describe our results in the language of exact emergent symmetries and demonstrate how the systems avoid common instabilities. Our construction naturally connects to quantum dimer models, topologically ordered systems, the group word construction, and Hamiltonians whose low-energy eigenstates exhibit anomalous entanglement entropy.
description: 4.25+2 pages, 3 figures
Echinopla striata
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Echinopla
Echinopla striata

description: 3. Echinopla striata. B.M.
Echinopla striata, Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. 80. 3 [[worker]].
Worker. Length 3 lines. - Black: head, thorax and abdomen longitudinally striated; thorax oblong-quadrate, the scale of the peduncle transverse. The head with an obscure blue tinge; the palpi pale testaceous. Thorax: the margins denticulate; the anterior margin rounded, the lateral ones narrowed to the middle, and again widened posteriorly; above very slightly convex; the division between the pro- and mesothorax distinctly marked by a suture; between the meso- and metathorax is a deep stran- gulation; the peduncle of the abdomen transverse, incrassate, and armed on each side with a straight stout spine. Abdomen orbiculate; the entire insect thinly sprinkled with erect black hairs.
Hab. Malacca.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 198
Calvopeza Grimaldi 2018, new genus
Creators: name: Grimaldi, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Platypezidae
Calvopeza

description: Calvopeza, new genus
DIAGNOSIS: (female only). Macrosetae absent from head, thorax, and abdomen (some fine setae/setulae on legs); fine, minute acrostichals present in 2–3 irregular, short rows. Scutum strongly arched; palp large, long. Vein M 1 arched strongly away from M 2; membrane of wing mostly with microtrichia, except in basal cells; A 1 +CuA 2 apically incomplete, A 2 spectral. Tibiae and tarsi with dark bifid scales; metatarsomeres 1–4 slightly flattened and expanded.
TYPE SPECIES: C. divergens, new species.
ETYMOLOGY: From calvus (L., “naked, bare”), in reference to the virtual lack of setae on the head and body, and - peza, a common suffix in genera of Platypezidae. The genus name is feminine.
description: Published as part of Grimaldi, David A., 2018, Basal Cyclorrhapha In Amber From The Cretaceous And Tertiary (Insecta: Diptera), And Their Relationships: Brachycera In Cretaceous Amber Part Ix David A. Grimaldi, pp. 1-97 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2018 (423) on pages 1-97, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-423.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4613008
Odontomachus bispinosus
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Odontomachus
Odontomachus bispinosus

description: 15. Odontomachus bispinosus. B.M.
Worker. Length 3 lines. - Black: the mandibles, antenna; and legs ferruginous. The head deeply emarginate behind, lon- gitudinally and finely striated, with the sides behind the eyes smooth and shining. The thorax rugose, with two minute spines on the metathorax. Abdomen smooth and shining, with the apex pale testaceous; the node of the peduncle armed above with two stout acute spines, directed outwards.
Hab. Brazil (Ega).
This very distinct species we have just received from Mr. Bates; at its side on the same piece of card is a specimen of a species of Cylistes, a genus of Histeridae; this seems to indicate some connexion between them; probably the Beetle was found in the nest of the Ant, but we have no information on the sub- ject.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 199
Anomma rubella
Creators: name: Smith, F.
Publisher: name: British Museum
Year: 1858
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Anomma
Anomma rubella

description: 3. Anomma rubella.
Anomma rubella, Savage, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. iv. 196 [[worker]] (1850).
Hab. Africa (West Coast of the Gaboon River).
At page 200 of the Proceedings of the Academy is a paper, which suggests the identity of Anomma with Dorylus; this is founded on the fact of Dr. Savage having found specimens of Dorylus in company with Anomma rubella; and in a small phial forwarded to the Society, containing the Anomma, were three spe- cimens of Dorylus planiceps, which Dr. Savage considers to he the perfect insect. Notwithstanding this opinion and the details which follow, I must state my doubts of there being any con- nexion between these insects; they were not found together in a nest, but on the ground; and I am at present ignorant of any such disparity in size, or even an approach to it, occurring in the whole group of the Formicidae, more particularly between males and workers. I must add, that I do not consider the evidence suffi- cient: I should certainly expect to find the male possessing the same number of joints in the palpi as the worker, which in this case is not so: Anomma has 2 joints in both the labial and max- illary palpi; in Dorylus I can only discover 1 labial and 2 max- illary joints. In India, where Dorylus is common, Anomma has not been discovered. Should, however, the opinion of Dr. Savage prove to be correct, we may reasonably expect that Labidus may prove to be the male of Eciton. I think it is more probably its parasite.
description: Published as part of Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London :British Museum on page 199