cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scalenus fulvus
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajeev
name: Vitali, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 1. Scalenus fulvus (Bates, 1879)
Colobus fulvus Bates, 1879: 395.
Type locality: Bangladesh: Chittagong, Sylhet (HT ♀); MNHNP.
Nothopeus fulvus Gahan, 1906: 203 (Fauna); Gressitt & Rondon, 1970: 138 (Key); Hua, 2002: 219 (Cat.).
Coloborhombus fulvus Podaný, 1968: 44, 48.
Scalenus fulvus Löbl & Smetana, 2010: 150 (Cat.); Bentanachs, 2012a: 85 (Cat.).
Distribution: India (Sikkim: Mungphu; Assam; Khasi Hills; WB: Darjeeling Distr.), Bangladesh: Sylhet, Oriental Region & China: Guangdong.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Rajeev & Vitali, Francesco, 2017, The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India, pp. 1-317 in Zootaxa 4345 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044137
Tomares ballus AND
Creators: name: Krupitsky, Anatoly V
name: Shapoval, Nazar A
name: Schepetov, Dmitry M
name: Ekimova, Irina A
name: Lukhtanov, Vladimir A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Tomares
Tomares ballus

description: PHYLOGENY AND SYSTEMATICS OF T. BALLUS AND
T. MAURITANICUS
Within the T. ballus clade, three samples of T. ballus from Tunisia and one from Morocco showing a basal polytomy are detected. Their taxonomic status will remain unclear until specimens of probably extinct populations of T. ballus from north-east Africa and the Near East are analysed. They were widely known in the literature as subspecies T. ballus cyrenaica Turati, 1924 (type locality: Benghazi, Lybia), but Tshikolovets (2011) has pointed out that the name T. ballus mareoticus Graves, 1918 (type locality: Alexandria, Egypt) has priority over T. b. cyrenaica and should be attributed to disjoined populations previously known from southern Tunisia, Lybia, Egypt and Israel. Other specimens from Morocco, Algeria and Spain demonstrate no genetic differentiation and obviously represent the nominotypical subspecies.
Two units from Morocco are detected within the T. mauritanicus clade. They correspond to the subspecies T. mauritanicus antonius Brevignon, 1985 from the Middle Atlas Mountains and the subspecies T. mauritanicus amelnorum Tarrier, 1997 from the Anti-Atlas Mountains. One haplotype from Morocco recovered in two species delimitation analyses as a candidate species needs further exploration; probably, it represents an undescribed taxon.
description: Published as part of Krupitsky, Anatoly V, Shapoval, Nazar A, Schepetov, Dmitry M, Ekimova, Irina A & Lukhtanov, Vladimir A, 2022, Phylogeny, species delimitation and biogeography of the endemic Palaearctic tribe Tomarini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), pp. 630-646 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196 (2) on page 639, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab055, http://zenodo.org/record/7184341
Anochetus pubescens Brown, 1978, new species
Creators: name: Brown, WL Jr.,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Anochetus
Anochetus pubescens

description: [33] Anochetus pubescens new species
(figs. 10, 16)
Holotype, worker: TL 4.9, HL 1.13, HW 1.02, ML 0.60, WL 1.45, scape L 0.91, eye L 0.14 mm; Cl 90, MI 53.
Castaneous (medium orange-brown); posterior corners of head, antennae and legs lighter, more yellowish-brown; gaster very slightly darker brown.
Resembling the largest specimens of A. grandidieri, but with the following differences:
1) In full-face view, antennal scapes at rest surpass posterior borders of «occipital» lobes by nearly the apical scape thickness.
2) Eyes, though modest in size, distinctly larger than in grandidieri and related species. There seem to be about 33 ommatidia in each eye.
3) The frontal striation is very fine and close, giving the surface there a sericeous appearance at magnifications of about 25X; it extends all the way to the nuchal carina in a median band, but extends only part way out onto the «occipital» lobes, which are otherwise smooth and shining.
4) Pronotum densely rugulose-punctate in an ellipse around a very narrow median strip that is nearly smooth, with coarse punctures, and shining. Mesonotum finely transversely striolate, subopaque; propodeal dorsum rugulose in a more or less transverse direction. Gaster smooth and shining, without conspicuous punctures.
5) Erect pilosity largely suppressed, consisting only of a few fine erect hairs on anterior part of head, on mandibles, on underside of gaster, and near posterior margins of the second and succeeding gastric terga. Dorsal surfaces of body with abundant and conspicuous, short, appressed and subappressed pubescence, which also extends to appendages as a short, appressed to decumbent fuzz.
Funiculus rather robust, segments II through VIII thick, scarcely longer than broad; II and III together are slightly shorter than I, and II-IV are subequal in length; apical segment very long. The petiolar node, while narrow and sharply tapered as seen from the side, has the tip more blunt (fig. 16) than in grandidieri, and about as in punctaticeps.
Holotype (MCZ) the only known specimen, taken in the Vumba Mountains, near Umtali on the eastern border of Rhodesia, 11 March 1969 (W. L. Brown). The specimen came from under a rock in a grassy cleared sloping area along the main road through the mountains; a forest remnant was farther down the slope nearby.
This species should probably be counted as belonging to the grandldieri-punctaticeps group because of its modest size, compact build and the proportions of the funicular segments. In some ways, particularly the habitus of the head and mandibles, it resembles A. graeffei.
description: Published as part of Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., pp. 549-638 in Studia Entomologica 20 on pages 607-608
Helochares densus Sharp 1890
Creators: name: Gupta, Devanshu
name: Sonali, Shipra
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
name: Das, Priyanka
name: Jaiswal, Deepa
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Helochares
Helochares densus

description: Helochares densus Sharp, 1890
Helochares densus Sharp, 1890: 352; Ghosh et al. 2000: 47; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 410; Ghosh et al. 2016: 22; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Girón & Short 2021: 174; Ghosh 2022: 489; Przewoźny 2022: 27.
Helochares (Hydrobaticus) densus: d’Orchymont 1943a: 7, fig. 10; Hebauer 1995a: 4; Hansen 1999a: 166; Hebauer 2002a: 23; Hansen 2004: 52; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 62.
Type locality: Sri Lanka [«(Ceylon): Kandy; Dikoya; Bogawantalawa»] (Girón & Short 2021).
Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands), Andhra Pradesh (Chittor), Bihar (Nalanda), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Jharkhand (Konbir), Karnataka (Abiathi), Lakshadeep (Agatti, Kavaratti, Minicoy), Madhya Pradesh (Narmada River), Odisha (Satkosia and Basipally Wildlife Sanctuary, Chilika Lake), Tamil Nadu (Chennai “Madras”, Nagapattinam), Telangana, Tripura (South Tripura), Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand (Kumaon), and West Bengal.
Global distribution: China, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 5546 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14387438
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL VS. BLOCKCHAIN-BASED AUDITING SYSTEMS IN RWANDA
Creators: name: 1Mbonigaba Celestin, 2Abdourahman Farah, 3Liam Anderson & 4Ahmed Mansour
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: This study investigates the comparative effectiveness of traditional and blockchain-based auditing systems in Rwanda's financial sector, focusing on the period prior to 2016. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining qualitative insights from interviews with auditors and policymakers and quantitative data from surveys and statistical analysis. The research revealed significant inefficiencies in traditional systems, including an average audit time of 5 weeks (SD = 1.2), 45% data inaccuracy, and high costs (RWF 1,000,000 per audit). In contrast, blockchain systems demonstrated potential for transformative impact, with a projected 65% reduction in audit time, 95% data accuracy, and enhanced transparency (85%). However, barriers such as low awareness (80%) and high setup costs (RWF 500,000) were significant adoption challenges. The study concludes that blockchain technology offers a viable solution to modernize Rwanda’s auditing practices, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and transparency. Recommendations include increasing blockchain awareness, developing supportive regulatory frameworks, and piloting projects to showcase its benefits.
Helochares hiekei Hebauer 1995
Creators: name: Gupta, Devanshu
name: Sonali, Shipra
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
name: Das, Priyanka
name: Jaiswal, Deepa
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Helochares
Helochares hiekei

description: Helochares hiekei Hebauer, 1995a *
Helochares (Hydrobaticus) hiekei Hebauer, 1995a: 5, fig. 1; Hansen 1999a: 167; Girón & Short 2021: 178.
Type locality: India, Karnataka, Ablathi, 800m, 12.17N- 76.06E (Hebauer, 1995a).
Distribution in India: Karnataka.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 5546 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14387438
Scalenus hemipterus
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajeev
name: Vitali, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 2. Scalenus hemipterus (Olivier, 1795)
Cerambyx hemipterus Olivier, 1795: 127, pl. 23, fig. 181.
Type locality: Indonesia: Java (HT); MNHNP.
Stenocorus hemipterus Fabricius, 1801: 310; Zimsen, 1964: 173 (Type).
Colobus hemipterus Audinet-Serville, 1833: 555; Laporte de Castelnau, 1840: 437; White, 1855: 175
Nothopeus hemipterus Gahan, 1906: 203, fig. 78 (♀) (Fauna); Gressitt & Rondon, 1970: 139, fig. 24c (♀) (Fauna, P. n.); Jeniš, 2001: 49, pl. XXXV, fig. 266./230. (♂); Hua, 2002: 219 (Cat., P. n.).
Coloborhombus hemipterus Aurivillius, 1912: 298 (Cat.); Podaný, 1968: 44, 48; Podaný, 1971: 306, pl. I, fig. 1.
Scalenus hemipterus Löbl & Smetana, 2010: 150 (Cat.); Bentanachs et al., 2012: 13, 16, 53, fig. 68 (Distr.); Bentanachs, 2012a: 85, fig. 50 (Cat.)
Distribution: India (N-India), China: Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan; Myanmar, Thailand, Java, Malaysia, Oriental Region, Sumatra & Laos.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Rajeev & Vitali, Francesco, 2017, The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India, pp. 1-317 in Zootaxa 4345 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044137
Eotipula Handlirsch 1906
Creators: name: Oberprieler, Stefanie K.
name: Krzemiński, Wiesław
name: Hinde, Jack
name: Yeates, David K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Eotipula

description: Genus Eotipula Handlirsch, 1906
Eotipula Handlirsch, 1906: 491 (type species, by monotypy: Eotipula parva Handlirsch, 1906) Eotipulina Kalugina in Kalugina & Kovalev, 1985: 52 (type species, by original designation: Eotipulina sibirica Kalugina, 1985) syn.n.
Eotipuloptera Kalugina in Kalugina & Kovalev, 1985: 55 type species, by original designation: Eotipuloptera savtshenkoi Kalugina, 1985) syn.n.
The genus Eotipula was described by Handlirsch (1906) for two species from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Dobbertin, Germany, Eotipula parva Handlirsch, 1906 and Eotipula lapidaria Handlirsch, 1906. Eotipula parva was subsequently designated as the type species by Carpenter (1992). Handlirsch (1939) described four additional species in Eotipula, Eotipula defuncta, Eotipula mortua, Eotipula longa and Eotipula coarctata, all from the Dobbertin of Germany. The genus has not been revised since. A later study of the types of the species described by Kalugina in Kalugina & Kovalev (1985) in the genera Eotipulina (three species) and Eotipuloptera (one species) revealed that they all belong in Eotipula, and we therefore here synonymise the names Eotipulina and Eotipuloptera with Eotipula. A diagnosis of Eotipulinae and Eotipula is given by Kalugina (1985). A revision of Eotipula with description of several new species is in preparation (W. Krzemiński in prep.).
description: Published as part of Oberprieler, Stefanie K., Krzemiński, Wiesław, Hinde, Jack & Yeates, David K., 2015, First crane fly from the Upper Jurassic of Australia (Diptera: Limoniidae), pp. 178-186 in Zootaxa 4021 (1) on page 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/242726
title: Virtualization of Physical Experiments Using Real-Time Data Generation from a Computational Fluid Dynamics Code
Creators: name: Dharwadkar, Kaustubh A.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: This work presents a methodology for mapping physical experiments into real-time, web-based virtual experiments. The four broad elements included in the physical-to-virtual experiment transformation methodology are: (a) computer solution of conservation equations of mass and momentum to generate velocity and pressure (virtual) data that serve as the foundation for recreating the physical phenomenon in the virtual domain; (b) use of virtual pressure and velocity sensing devices to generate signals or readings from computed virtual data that can be observed and read on a computer screen; (c) use of visualization software such as Macromedia FLASH to create a highly interactive environment that closely mimics student interaction with a physical experiment; (d) creation of an interface that allows a learner to interact in real-time with the CFD code via the visualization software Macromedia FLASH.

The CFD code FLUENT has been used in the present study to create the real-time database for flow properties such as pressure and velocity. These numerically generated data are used for the operation of the experiment in the virtual domain. The connection between CFD code, Macromedia FLASH visualization software and the user is accomplished through a number of software codes developed in the programming language C. These programs facilitate transfer of input data from the user to the CFD code and output data from the CFD code to FLASH visualization interface that creates a highly dynamic and interactive environment for the virtual experiment.

In the present work two physical experiments from the thermo-fluids laboratory (ME 305) have been transformed into virtual experiments. The first virtual experiment (www.mern.odu.edu/dra .html) is designed to introduce students to pressure and velocity measurement techniques and use of the momentum integral method to calculate drag force and drag coefficient for two geometries, namely cylinder and flat plate. In order to determine lift and lift coefficient of airfoil, the module has been designed to measure pressure on its surface in the virtual domain. The objective of the second virtual experiment is to determine pressure recovery along the flow direction in the diffuser. (www.mern.odu.edu/diffuser.html).

A real-time interactive interface, use of graphics and animation in the virtual environment make these modules ideal for enhancing instructional methods in fluid mechanics courses and laboratories. For instance, these modules can be used as web-based pre-lab sessions to prepare students for physical experiments. The real-time, virtual experiment developed in this study represents an improvement over previous works that have used pre-calculated virtual data files to power virtual experiments.
Helochares lentus Sharp 1890
Creators: name: Gupta, Devanshu
name: Sonali, Shipra
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
name: Das, Priyanka
name: Jaiswal, Deepa
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Helochares
Helochares lentus

description: Helochares lentus Sharp, 1890
Helochares lentus Sharp, 1890: 352; d’Orchymont 1922: 626; Hendrich et al. 2004: 127; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 157; Ghosh et al. 2000: 48; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 40; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 454; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 410; Ghosh 2011c: 161; Ghosh 2014: 57; Das et al. 2014: 458; Ghosh & Mitra 2014: 67; Ghosh et al. 2016: 22; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Ghosh et al. 2021: 615; Girón & Short 2021: 180; Liu et al. 2021b: 302; Ghosh & Gupta 2022: 115; Ghosh 2022: 490; Przewoźny 2022: 27; Sonali et al. 2022: 341; Deb & Subramanian 2024: 225, fig. 3.
Helochares (Grapidelochares) lentus: Zaitzev 1908a: 381
Helochares (Hydrobaticus) lentus: d’Orchymont 1923a: 9; d’Orchymont 1943a: 3, figs., 3, 4; Hebauer, 1995a: 5, fig. 3; Hansen 1999a: 168; Hebauer 2002a: 23; Mukhopadhyay 2010: 330; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 62; Girón & Short 2021: 180.
Type locality: Sri Lanka [“(Ceylon)”], Dikoya (d’Orchymont 1943a).
Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Great Nicobar Island), Andhra Pradesh (Chittor), Assam (Dibrugarh), Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Himachal Pradesh (Kangra, Dharamshala), Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu), Jharkhand (Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary), Manipur (Loktak Lake, Bishnupur. Churachandpur, Imphal, Senapati), Odisha (Satkosia and Basipally Wildlife Sanctuary, Chilika Lake), Rajasthan (Jodhpur, Kailana Lake), Sikkim (Jorethang, Rongpo, Namchi), Tamil Nadu (Trivandrum: Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary), Telangana, Tripura (South Tripura), Uttarakhand (Kumaon), Uttar Pradesh (Sandi Bird Sanctuary), and West Bengal (Barrackpur, Kolkata, Purulia, Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, North 24 Parganas).
Global distribution: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 5546 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14387438
Scalenus tibialis
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajeev
name: Vitali, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 3. Scalenus tibialis (Ritsema, 1895)
Aphrodisium tibiale Ritsema, 1895: 168 (List); Ritsema, 1895: 159. Type locality: India: Meghalaya, Khasi Hills (HT ♂), MNHNP. Nothopeus tibialis Gahan, 204 (Fauna); Gressitt & Rondon, 1970: 138 (Key). Coloborhombus tibialis Podaný, 1968: 43, 44.
Scalenus tibialis Bentanachs, 2012a: 86 (Cat.)
Distribution: India (Assam: Khasi Hills; Sikkim).
Zonopterus Hope, 1843: 110 (type sp.: Zonopterus flavitarsis Hope, 1843); Zonopteroides Podaný, 1968: 105 (type sp.: Zonopterus diversus Gahan); Zonopterus (Zonopterus) Podaný, 1968.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Rajeev & Vitali, Francesco, 2017, The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India, pp. 1-317 in Zootaxa 4345 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044137
Anochetus faurei
Creators: name: Brown, WL Jr.,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Anochetus
Anochetus faurei

description: [35] A. faurei
remains known only from the type series from Nongoma, N Natal, South Africa. The collector was J. C. Faure, who customarily beat branches of trees and shrubs while searching for thrips, so it seems possible that faurei is at least partly an arboreal forager, like the somewhat similar members of the emarginatus group in the New World. It is not easy to decide whether the similarities are convergent ones, due mainly to evolution in similar niches, or are shared primitive traits retained from a distant common ancestor.
In Arnold’s description, no mention is made of the small denticles, 3-12 in number, often acute and oblique, that beset the inner margins of the mandibles in an irregular manner.
This is the largest of the African Anochetus species; it seems to have no really close relatives on that continent..
description: Published as part of Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., pp. 549-638 in Studia Entomologica 20 on page 609
Spinturnix faini Benoit 1959
Creators: name: Orlova, Maria V.
name: Halliday, Bruce
name: Anisimov, Nikolay V.
name: Kruskop, Sergei V.
name: Lavrenchenko, Leonid A.
name: Mishchenko, Vladimir A.
name: Vyalykh, Ivan V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Spinturnicidae
Spinturnix
Spinturnix faini

description: Spinturnix faini Benoit, 1959
Spinturnix faini Benoit, 1959: 25.
(Figs 2A–B)
Material: 1 female, ex female Miniopterus cf. arenarius, from Ethiopia, Zone of the Southern Nations, eastern shore of the lake Chamo, 05°47'N, 37°36'E, 1100 m asl, 23 April 2011, leg. Denis A. Vasenkov & Leonid A. Lavrenchenko (collection ID ZMMU S-189353).
Distribution: DR Congo (as Belgian Congo – Benoit 1959), Ethiopia (this study, new record).
Host species: Family Vespertilionidae: Pseudoromicia rendalli (Benoit 1959). Family Miniopteridae: Miniopterus cf. arenarius (this study, new record).
Non-chiropteran host: Unknown.
Medical significance: Unknown.
Notes: This is only the second published record of this species (Beron 2020).
description: Published as part of Orlova, Maria V., Halliday, Bruce, Anisimov, Nikolay V., Kruskop, Sergei V., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Mishchenko, Vladimir A. & Vyalykh, Ivan V., 2024, New records of ectoparasitic mites on bats in Ethiopia, pp. 150-159 in Ecologica Montenegrina 79 on pages 152-153, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.79.15, http://zenodo.org/record/14653565
Snitches get stitches: On the difficulty of whistleblowing
Creators: name: Ahmed-Rengers, M
name: Anderson, R
name: Halatova, D
name: Shumailov, I
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2020
Subjects: cs.CY
cs.GT
cs.SI

description: One of the most critical security protocol problems for humans is when you are betraying a trust, perhaps for some higher purpose, and the world can turn against you if you're caught. In this short paper, we report on efforts to enable whistleblowers to leak sensitive documents to journalists more safely. Following a survey of cases where whistleblowers were discovered due to operational or technological issues, we propose a game-theoretic model capturing the power dynamics involved in whistleblowing. We find that the whistleblower is often at the mercy of motivations and abilities of others. We identify specific areas where technology may be used to mitigate the whistleblower's risk. However we warn against technical solutionism: the main constraints are often institutional.
Eotipula grangeri Oberprieler, Krzeminski & Yeates, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Oberprieler, Stefanie K.
name: Krzemiński, Wiesław
name: Hinde, Jack
name: Yeates, David K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Eotipula
Eotipula grangeri

description: Eotipula grangeri Oberprieler, Krzemiński & Yeates, sp. nov.
(Figs 1 –3)
Type material. Holotype: F.139996 (part), F.139997 (counterpart). Talbragar Fish Bed (Upper Jurassic: Kimmeridgian–Tithonian (151 ± 4 Ma), Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia, December 14. xii.2013, collector Jack Hinde. Part and counterpart impressions of poor preservation state; visible body length 6.5 mm; lateral view of thorax, abdomen, wings and legs, though incomplete; head and halteres missing. Housed in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia.
Etymology. The species is named after the collector’s nephew, Charles Granger, who aided in its discovery and extraction.
Diagnosis. Sc ending opposite bifurcation of Rs on R2+3+4 and R5; Rs almost equal to R2+3+4; cell d 1/7 of wing length; cross vein m-cu just before bifurcation of M3+4 on M3 and M4.
Description. Relatively small limoniid, wing length 8.5 mm. Head, antennae and palpi not visible. Legs long, without visible tibial spurs. Vein Sc ending opposite bifurcation of Rs on R2+3+4 and R5; cross-vein sc-r twice its length before the end of Sc; R1 ending opposite 1/3 the length of R3; cross vein r-r (R2) twice its length before the end of R1; Rs almost equal to R2+3+4 and 1.5 × as long as R3; only three medial veins; cell d 1/7 of length of wing; cross vein m-cu just before bifurcation of M3+4 on M3 and M4; A2 straight.
description: Published as part of Oberprieler, Stefanie K., Krzemiński, Wiesław, Hinde, Jack & Yeates, David K., 2015, First crane fly from the Upper Jurassic of Australia (Diptera: Limoniidae), pp. 178-186 in Zootaxa 4021 (1) on page 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/242726
Anochetus haytianus
Creators: name: Brown, WL Jr.,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Anochetus
Anochetus haytianus

description: [37] A. haytianus
, A. tongispina and the new species A. kempfi, described below, comprise a probable superspecies. These are distinguished from the emarginatus superspecies and other species of the same group by their relatively shorter mandibles (MI <C 67) with fewer teeth and denticles along their inner preapical margins (less than 10, and usually 7 or 8 per mandible). Like A. testaceus, they are more or less yellow in color. The only known queens are highly ergatoid forms, distinguished from workers by their slightly more voluminous gasters. Males are still unknown. Probably all three species are nocturnal foragers.
A. haytianus is known from Manneville in eastern Haiti, and A. tongispina from the northeastern foothills of the Massif de La Hotte on the southwestern peninsula of Haiti at an elevation of about 1000 m or more. A. haytianus (4 syntype workers) measures HL 1.59-1.64, HW 1.26-1.33, ML 0.93-0.95 mm; Cl 79, MI 58-59. A worker syntype of A. tongispina measures HL 1.68, HW 1.34, ML 1.08 mm; Cl 80, MI 64. A. tongispina has very slender petiolar teeth over 0.25 mm long. A. haytianus has acute teeth, but these are not slender and are not much more than 0.1 mm long. A. haytianus has the head slightly broader across the vertex, and the outline of the anterior slope of the petiolar node more convex in side view, but these characters vary somewhat in both species.
Possibly both of these forms are more widespread on Hispaniola than we now know, but I failed to find them in the Dominican Republic during 3 weeks of intensive collecting there in 1976. The samples available are really inadequate to indicate the real status of these two forms, but I have chosen the hypothesis that they represent different species that replace each other geographically (and altitudinally?).
The following new species appears to be the Puerto Rican member of the superspecies:
description: Published as part of Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., pp. 549-638 in Studia Entomologica 20 on page 611
Zonopterus consanguineus Ritsema 1889
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajeev
name: Vitali, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 1. Zonopterus consanguineus Ritsema, 1889
Zonopterus consanguineus Ritsema, 1889: 10; Kolbe, 1894a: 10; Gahan, 1906: 191 (Fauna); Bentanachs, 2010: 7, 22, fig. 103 (ST ♀); Bentanachs, 2012a: 96 (Cat.).
Type locality: Himalaya (ST) (♀), MNHNP.
Zonopterus (s. str.) consanguineus Podaný, 1968: 105, 111, fig. 10-3 & pl. III, fig. 5.
Distribution: India (Himalayas (?); S-India; KA: Bangalore; Kerala; Assam), Bangladesh: Sylhet.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Rajeev & Vitali, Francesco, 2017, The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India, pp. 1-317 in Zootaxa 4345 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044137
Helochares minor d'Orchymont 1925
Creators: name: Gupta, Devanshu
name: Sonali, Shipra
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
name: Das, Priyanka
name: Jaiswal, Deepa
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Helochares
Helochares minor

description: Helochares minor d’Orchymont, 1925b
Helochares (Hydrobaticus) minor d’Orchymont, 1925b: 293; d’Orchymont 1943a: 9, fig., 16; Hansen 1999a: 169.
Helochares minor: Hendrich et al. 2004: 128; Girón & Short 2021: 187; Przewoźny 2022: 28.
Type locality: Vietnam [“Indo–Chine”], Cha Pa (d’Orchymont 1943a).
Distribution in India: Bihar (Purnia).
Global distribution: China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 5546 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14387438
Zonopterus flavitarsis Hope 1842
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajeev
name: Vitali, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 2. Zonopterus flavitarsis Hope, 1842
Zonopterus flavitarsis Hope, 1842a: 128; Hope, 1842b: 111, pl. X, fig. 7; White, 1853b: 145; Kolbe, 1894a: 10; Gahan, 1906: 191, fig. 75 (Fauna); Hua, 2002: 237 (Cat.); Bentanachs, 2010: 7, 21, 24, figs 49–50, 99 (♂), 100 (♀) & 101 (NT), 102; (NT); Bentanachs, 2012a: 96, fig. 58 (Cat.).
Type locality: Bangladesh: Sylhet (HT ♀); BMNH.
Zonopterus (s. str.) flavitarsis Podaný, 1968: 105, 109, fig. 10-1 & pl. III, fig. 4.
Distribution: India (Assam: Khasi Hills; Meghalaya: Shillong; Himalaya), Bangladesh: Sylhet, Thailand, Myanmar, China: Taiwan?, Yunnan & Laos.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Rajeev & Vitali, Francesco, 2017, The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India, pp. 1-317 in Zootaxa 4345 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044137
Anochetus kempfi Brown, 1978, new species
Creators: name: Brown, WL Jr.,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Anochetus
Anochetus kempfi

description: Anochetus kempfi new species (fig. 52)
Worker, holotype: TL 8.4, HL 1.61, HW 1.31, ML 1.05, WL 2.49, scape L 1.70, eye L 0.33 mm; Cl 81, MI 65.
Paratype workers: TL 7.4-8.1, HL 1.52-1.62, HW 1.25-1.31, ML 0.97- 1.05, WL 2.30-2.54, scape L 1.61-1.80, eye L 0.31-0.32 mm; Cl 81-82, MI 64-65 (based on 4 workers from Culebra I. and Cataño, Puerto Rico).
Belonging to the the A. haytianus superspecies, and very similar to A. tongispina, but differing from it and from A. haytianus in possessing well-developed, erect, acute propodeal teeth (fig. 52). The spines atop the petiolar node (L about 0.20 mm) are not quite as long and slender as those of tongispina, but are much longer than those of haytianus. The striation is also finer and more opaque (sericeous in some lights) than in tongispina or haytianus, especially on pronotum.
Ferruginous yellow in color; mandibles, appendages and petiole pale yellow.
Queen and male unknown; queen almost certainly will prove to be ergatoid.
Holotype (MCZ) and 5 paratype workers, 2 of them headless (MCZ, BMNH-London), from Culebra Island, Puerto Rico (W. M. Wheeler). According to the collector (Wheeler, 1908: 125), the Culebra samples, which he assigned to A. testaceus, came from "Several colonies nesting under stones in the shade of trees along the dry arroyos on the higher part of the island (Monte Resaca). The number of individuals in a colony varies from about thirty to one hundred". Probably more Culebra specimens exist in AMNH-New York. An additional paratype worker, slightly darker than the (possibly faded) Culebra sample, comes from Catafio, near San Juan, Puerto Rico (S. Peck), "from epigaean carrion trap # 10".
description: Published as part of Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., pp. 549-638 in Studia Entomologica 20 on pages 611-612
Eutrachytidae
Creators: name: Moraza, M. L.
name: Kontschan, J.
name: Sahoo, G.
name: Ansari, Z. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Eutrachytidae

description: Key to the genera of family Eutrachytidae
1. Anterior prolongation present on dorsal body..5
— Anterior prolongation absent on dorsal body.. 2
description: Published as part of Moraza, M. L., Kontschan, J., Sahoo, G. & Ansari, Z. A., 2016, A new species of Eutrachytes (Acari: Uropodina: Eutrachytidae) associated with the Indian mangrove (Avicennia officinalis), pp. 73-89 in Acarologia 56 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20162189, http://zenodo.org/record/4640182
Anochetus horridus
Creators: name: Brown, WL Jr.,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Anochetus
Anochetus horridus

description: [38] A. horridus
is a distinctive, gracile, testaceous species with very long, slender, sparsely toothed mandibles. The type, an ergatoid queen, was collected by Karol Lenko during our joint 1962 trip in Brasilian Amazonia, but only one of the other samples taken by our group on that excursion was mentioned by Kempf in the original description. Additional samples are from Pará, near Belém: Pirelli Rubber Plantation, Iriboca (Brown). Reserva Guamá (P. Dias). Instituto Agronomico do Norte (F. G. Werner). Amazonas, N and E of Manaus: Manaus-Itacoatiara Highway (Ruta 1), km 49 (Brown). Reserva Ducke (Brown). All localities were in lowland rain forest.
Workers were found singly in leaf litter, in or under a small rotten log, and in a small nest or nest fragment in a rotten branch in the leaf litter, with larvae.
Despite intensive collecting of the same kind we practiced at Belém and Manaus, Lenko and I failed to collect A. horridus during 3 weeks in the Benjamin Constant area of western Amazonas, and the species has yet to be collected in the Guyanas.
A. inca, the largest of all known Anochetus species, remains represented in collections only by the type series, from the Marañon Valley in northern Peru. It seems possible that more isolated species may await discovery in other Andean valleys and foothills.
description: Published as part of Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., pp. 549-638 in Studia Entomologica 20 on page 612
Zonopterus rugosus Aurivillius 1922
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajeev
name: Vitali, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 3. Zonopterus rugosus Aurivillius, 1922
Zonopterus rugosus Aurivillius, 1922a: 160; Bentanachs, 2010: 7, 21, 25, fig. 105; Bentanachs, 2012a: 96 (Cat.). Type locality: India: Meghalaya, Khasi Hills (HT ♂); MLB.
Zonopterus (s. str.) rugosus Podaný, 1968: 105, 109.
Distribution: India (Assam: Khasia Hills)
description: Published as part of Gupta, Rajeev & Vitali, Francesco, 2017, The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India, pp. 1-317 in Zootaxa 4345 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044137
Anochetus bispinosus
Creators: name: Brown, WL Jr.,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Anochetus
Anochetus bispinosus

description: [39] A. bispinosus
is a distinct species of the hylean region that is relatively rare in collections. The MCZ has samples from Guyana: Kaow I. (W. M. Wheeler); Forest Settlement, Rio Mazaruni (N. A. Weber); King Frederick William IV Falls (Weber). Brasil: Belém, Pará (P. Dias). Porto Velho, Rondonia (W. M. Mann). Colombia: Valle Dept., 19 km E Buenaventura (E. I. Schlinger and E. S. Ross). Kempf (1972) lists it also from the Brasilian states or territories of Amazonas and Amapá, and from Bolivia.
Kempfs 1964 species vexator (northeastern Mato Grosso) is still known only from the types. The paratype has been reviewed, and my measurements agree well with Kempf’s, except that I make
ML 1.10 mm instead of his 1.07 mm;, the MI is thus 74, while Cl is 79.
A. oriens, from Parque Sooretama in northern Espirito Santo State, Brasil, is known only from the holotype. My measurements differ slightly from Kempf’s: HL 1.53, HW 1.18, ML 1.11 mm (Cl 77, MI 73).
description: Published as part of Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., pp. 549-638 in Studia Entomologica 20 on page 612
Helochares negatus Hebauer 1995
Creators: name: Gupta, Devanshu
name: Sonali, Shipra
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
name: Das, Priyanka
name: Jaiswal, Deepa
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Helochares
Helochares negatus

description: Helochares negatus Hebauer, 1995a
Helochares (Hydrobaticus) negatus Hebauer, 1995a: 5, fig. 2; Hansen 1999a: 169; Hebauer & Ryndevich 2005: 46; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 62.
Helochares negatus: Girón & Short 2021: 188; Przewoźny 2022: 28; Deb & Subramanian 2024: 225, fig. 2.
Type locality: Bangaladesh ‘ East Pakistan ”, Dinjapur (Hebauer, 1995a).
Distribution in India: Manipur and Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Kanyakumari, Trivandrum: Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary).
Global distribution: Bangaladesh, India, and Nepal.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 5546 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14387438
Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell With 81.6% Fill Factor, Deposited by Physical Vapour Deposition Methods Only.
Creators: name: Ore, Erenn
name: Amaratunga, Gehan
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2020
Subjects: heterojunction
crystalline silicon
physical vapour deposition
solar cell

description: It is shown here that silicon (Si) based solar cells can be deposited by physical vapour deposition (PVD) methods only. These cells are called the PVD-Si cells. Their processing eliminates the deposition methods involving high temperature processing steps, and / or expensive, toxic and flammable gases used for processing conventional solar cells with Si absorbers. The PVD-Si cell design investigated has the structure of ITO | MoOx | c-Si | LiF | Al. When this cell is deposited on an untextured crystalline (c-Si) wafer, it has a fill factor value of 81.6% under the standard test conditions (STC). In order to improve the amount of short-circuit current density (Jsc) generated, this cell is also demonstrated on a textured c-Si wafer, achieving Jsc of 35.94 mA/cm2 under STC.
Cerambycini Latreille 1802
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajeev
name: Vitali, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae

description: Tribe: Cerambycini
Derolus Gahan, 1891: 26 (type sp.: Hammaticherus mauritanicus Buquet, 1840); Capnocerambyx Reitter, 1894: 356 (type sp.: Hammaticherus mauritanicus Buquet, 1840); Subsequent desg. Gahan, 1906: 135 (type sp.: Hammaticherus mauritanicus Buquet, 1840).
description: Published as part of Gupta, Rajeev & Vitali, Francesco, 2017, The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India, pp. 1-317 in Zootaxa 4345 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044137
MPEC 2024-X172 : 2024 XB6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 XB6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Helochares pallens
Creators: name: Gupta, Devanshu
name: Sonali, Shipra
name: Ghosh, Sujit Kumar
name: Das, Priyanka
name: Jaiswal, Deepa
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Helochares
Helochares pallens

description: Helochares pallens (MacLeay, 1825)
Enhydrus pallens MacLeay, 1825: 35.
Helochares parvulus Reiche & Saulcy, 1856: 359.
Philhydrus parvulus: Guillebeau, 1896: 226.
Helochares lewisius Sharp, 1873: 60.
Helochares dispar Sharp, 1903: 7.
Helochares laeviusculus Régimbart, 1906: 261.
Helochares pallens: d’Orchymont 1926b: 232; d’Orchymont 1943d: 8; Balfour-Browne 1939c: 293; Vazirani 1953: 427; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 157; Hansen 1999a: 162; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 41; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 453; Hansen 2004: 52; Hendrich et al. 2004: 128; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 410; Jaiswal et al. 2013: 24; Ghosh 2014: 58; Das et al. 2014: 458; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 62; Ghosh et al. 2015a: 107; Ghosh et al. 2015b: 25, Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Devi et al. 2017: 8; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Jia & Tang 2018: 15, figs., 3242, 52; Anamika et al. 2021: 185; Girón & Short 2021: 193; Liu et al. 2021a: 45; Dash & Ghosh 2022: 93; Ghosh 2022: 490; Ghosh & Gupta, 2022: 115; Przewoźny 2022: 28; Sonali et al. 2022: 341; Ghosh et al. 2023: 161; Shankar et al. 2024: 460
Helochares (Hydrobaticus) pallens: Hebauer, 1995a: 7; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 388.
Type locality: Indonesia, Java (Girón & Short 2021).
Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Island (Great Nicobar Island), Andhra Pradesh (West Godavari, Nellore), Assam, Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu), Jharkhand (Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur), Manipur (Loktak Lake, Keibul Lamjo National Park, Imphal), Odisha (Satkosia and Basipally Wildlife Sanctuary, Chilika Lake), Puducherry (Karaikal) Sikkim (Jorethang), Tamil Nadu (Salem), Telangana (Hyderabad, Durgam Cheruvu), Uttar Pradesh (Etawah, Rampur, Sultanpur, Shahjahanpur), and West Bengal (Kolkata, Murshidabad, Sagar Island, Sunderban Biosphere Reserve).
Global distribution: Australia, Bangladesh, Bennin, Botswana, Chad, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Israel, Japan, Labanon, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Singapore, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 5546 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14387438
Anochetus altisquamis
Creators: name: Brown, WL Jr.,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1978
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Anochetus
Anochetus altisquamis

description: [42] A. altisquamis
is a short, thickset species occurring in wet coastal and montane forests in SE Brazil and N Argentina. The SW limit of the range appears to fall in the Andean foothills W and SW of Tucumán. I took it there at Horco Molle and Cerro San Xavier in 1967, under stones in wet myrtaceous forest. A male taken separately at Horco Molle by L. Stange 3-10 April 1966, now in MCZ (figs. 62, 63) is almost certainly correctly associated with the female castes, since no other Anochetus species has been found in the area.
The workers of A. altisquamis have the subapical mandibular tooth rather short and thick, and it is sometimes worn down to a subtruncate condition somewhat resembling that of A. orchidicola. A detailed listing of localities is given by Kempf and Lenko (1976).
description: Published as part of Brown, WL Jr.,, 1978, Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. Part VI. Ponerinae, tribe Ponerini, subtribe Odontomachiti. Section B. Genus Anochetus and bibliography., pp. 549-638 in Studia Entomologica 20 on page 619
Derolus discicollis Gahan 1906
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajeev
name: Vitali, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 1. Derolus discicollis Gahan, 1906
Derolus discicollis Gahan, 1906: 136 (Fauna); Mitra et al., 2015: 5 (Distr.). Type locality: Pakistan: Karachi (HT); BMNH.
Distribution: India (WB) & Pakistan: Karachi.
description: Published as part of Gupta, Rajeev & Vitali, Francesco, 2017, The checklist of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from India, pp. 1-317 in Zootaxa 4345 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4345.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044137
OESense: Employing occlusion effect for in-ear human sensing
Creators: name: Ma, D
name: Ferlini, A
name: Mascolo, C
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2021
Subjects: cs.HC

description: Smart earbuds are recognized as a new wearable platform for personal-scale human motion sensing. However, due to the interference from head movement or background noise, commonly-used modalities (e.g. accelerometer and microphone) fail to reliably detect both intense and light motions. To obviate this, we propose OESense, an acoustic-based in-ear system for general human motion sensing. The core idea behind OESense is the joint use of the occlusion effect (i.e., the enhancement of low-frequency components of bone-conducted sounds in an occluded ear canal) and inward-facing microphone, which naturally boosts the sensing signal and suppresses external interference. We prototype OESense as an earbud and evaluate its performance on three representative applications, i.e., step counting, activity recognition, and hand-to-face gesture interaction. With data collected from 31 subjects, we show that OESense achieves 99.3% step counting recall, 98.3% recognition recall for 5 activities, and 97.0% recall for five tapping gestures on human face, respectively. We also demonstrate that OESense is compatible with earbuds' fundamental functionalities (e.g. music playback and phone calls). In terms of energy, OESense consumes 746 mW during data recording and recognition and it has a response latency of 40.85 ms for gesture recognition. Our analysis indicates such overhead is acceptable and OESense is potential to be integrated into future earbuds.