cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scrobipalpa grisea Povolny 1969
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy
name: Nupponen, Kari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa grisea

description: Scrobipalpa grisea Povolný, 1969
Material examined. 1 ♂, Russia, Altai Mts., 50°16-20’N 87°50-55’E, Kuraisky hrebet, 2300 m, 13.vii.2001 (K. Nupponen) (NUPP); 3 ♂, Russia, Tuva rep., 50°45’N 94°29’E, E. Tannu-Ola Mts., 5 km ENE, Khol-Oozha, steppe slopes, 1250 m, 16–19.vi.1995 (Jalava & Kullberg) (gen. slide 313/16, O. Bidzilya) (FMNH); 2 ♂, Russia, S Buryatia, 51°28’N 106°33’E, 600 m, Gusinoozersk village 5 km NNE, lake Solyonoe, salt marsh/steppe, 26.vi.2002 (K. Nupponen) (gen. slide 243/16, O. Bidzilya) (NUPP).
Distribution. Russia: Penza region, South Ural, Novosibirsk region, Altai, Tuva (new record), South of Krasnoyarskiy krai, Buryatia (new record), Zabaikalskiy krai; Mongolia, South Korea (Bidzilya 2009; Huemer & Karsholt 2010).
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy & Nupponen, Kari, 2018, New species and new records of gelechiid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from southern Siberia, pp. 381-408 in Zootaxa 4444 (4) on page 398, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1309783
Ophiomorus persicus
Creators: name: Šmíd, Jiří
name: Moravec, Jiří
name: Kodym, Petr
name: Kratochvíl, Lukáš
name: Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Frynta, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Ophiomorus
Ophiomorus persicus

description: Ophiomorus persicus (Steindachner, 1867)
SYNTYPES. NMW 10398:1–2 and NMW 10399:1–2.
TYPE LOCALITY. Originally “ Persia ”; restricted to 5 km SE Pol-e Abgineh, Fars Prov., Iran by Anderson & Leviton (1966b).
DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.
DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 136. Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, Fars, and Kerman Prov.
HABITAT. The specimen collected by Kiabi et al. (1999) was found on sandy-clay soil near an Artemisia bush, under which it was trying to hide. The area represents a transitional zone between mountains and alluvial fans with very abundant Artemisia shrubs.
REMARKS. Ophiomorus persicus together with O. latastii Günther from the Levant and O. punctatissimus from the Balkans form a western group of Ophiomorus (Anderson & Leviton 1966b). Ophiomorus persicus is a basal lineage of the genus based on morphological and osteological characters (Greer & Wilson 2001).
REFERENCES. Anderson & Leviton (1966b); Anderson (1999); Kiabi et al. (1999); Greer & Wilson (2001).
description: Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701
Pheidole sperata Forel 1915
Creators: name: Katsuyuki Eguchi
name: Bui Tuan Viet
name: Emiko Oguri
name: Seiki Yamane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Pheidole
Pheidole sperata

description: Pheidole sperata Forel, 1915
Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) sperata Forel, 1915: 29 -31.
Type material examined: MHNG; Indonesia, Sumatra, Simalur, Sinabang; E. Jacobson leg.; ii/1913 [4 syntypes (2 majors, 2 minors), type images: CASENT0907770 and CASENT0907771 of AntWeb (http://www.antweb. org/)].
Nontype material examined: ACEG; Indonesia, West Java, Mt. Halimon, F. Ito leg. [FI96-259, -297, -283, -302; FI98-309], M. Kawamura leg. [No. 161; No. 10/16a (Accession No. LC 020540: voucher specimen No. Ext20130524-3)].
Distinction from P. leloi: In the major, ventrolateral face of vertexal lobe weakly and finely rugoso-punctate; lateral face of promesonotal dome, mesopleuron, metapleuron and dorsal face of propodeum punctate; first gastral tergite finely punctate over the surface or in anterior half to two thirds. In the minor, dorsum of mesosoma sparsely with relatively short standing hairs; dorsal faces of head and promesonotal dome punctate but not overlain with rugae; petiolar node in lateral view blunt at apex, and in posterior view not emarginate at apex.
description: Published as part of Katsuyuki Eguchi, Bui Tuan Viet, Emiko Oguri & Seiki Yamane, 2016, The first discovery of the " Pheidole quadricuspis group " in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), pp. 45-55 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.46289
Links between rural electrification and gendered off-farm employment in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Ezebuihe, Jessy Amarachi
name: Parlasca, Martin
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Gender
subject: Grid electricity
subject: Off-grid solar
subject: Rural Africa
subject: Rural jobs

description: We analyze the relationship between household electricity access and off-farm employment of women and men in rural Africa, using primary survey data from Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia. Estimating regression models, we find that access to electricity is positively associated with women's off-farm employment status, labor hours, and earnings. For men, access to electricity is significantly associated only with off-farm earnings. Further, we differentiate between the sources of electricity accessible to households and find gendered differences between grid electricity and off-grid solar home systems. While solar home systems are not significantly associated with any of the employment outcomes for men, they are positively and significantly associated with women's off-farm employment status and earnings. We explore differences in gendered time use between electrified and non-electrified households, and also analyze the main purposes of electricity use and perceived impacts on people’s lives to help explain the regression estimates. Our results suggest that electricity access and its sources have different implications for women’s and men’s daily routines and off-farm employment. The findings have relevance for policy, given that access to off-farm income is important not only for the wellbeing and resilience of rural households, but also for gender equity and female financial autonomy.
Gimnomera
Creators: name: Chagnon, Marie-Eve
name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Gimnomera

description: Gimnomera sp. A
(Fig. 18)
Material examined. CANADA. Alberta: Banff NP, 51°16′55.2′′N 115°56′38.4′′W, 20.vii.2012, BIOBus 2012 (Sample ID: BIOUG03495 -B01) (1♀, barcode-associated, CBG); Waterton Lakes NP, 49°3′54′′N 113°46′44.4′′W, 27.vii.2012, BIOBus 2012 (Sample ID: BIOUG04892 -F02) (1♀, barcode-associated, CBG). USA. Oregon: Marion Co., Silver Falls SP, North Falls, 44°53.074′N 122°37.219′W, 10.vii.2013, B.J. Sinclair (1♀, barcode-failed, CNC). Washington: Skamania Co., Gifford Pinchot NF, FR 23, mi 22, 46°19.901′N 121°43.213′W, 7.vii.2013, B.J. Sinclair, roadside streams (1♀, barcode-associated, CNC).
Remarks. Gimnomera sp. A is known only from females, all associated based on COI barcodes, which also helped to indicate that these specimens are genetically different from other Nearctic species of Gimnomera (Fig. 41). Males of this species are required for formal naming and description.
description: Published as part of Chagnon, Marie-Eve & Sinclair, Bradley J., 2020, Revision of the Nearctic species of Gimnomera Rondani (Diptera: Scathophagidae) with morphological phylogeny and DNA barcodes, pp. 369-403 in Zootaxa 4853 (3) on pages 394-395, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4410845
Scrobipalpa sinica Bidzilya & Li 2010
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy
name: Nupponen, Kari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa sinica

description: Scrobipalpa sinica Bidzilya & Li, 2010
Material examined. 1 ♂, Russia, Altai Mts., 50°16-20’N, 87°50-55’E, Kuraisky hrebet, 2300 m, 8.vii.2001 (K. Nupponen) (gen. slide 372/16, O. Bidzilya) (NUPP).
Distribution. China, Russia: Altai. New for Russia.
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy & Nupponen, Kari, 2018, New species and new records of gelechiid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from southern Siberia, pp. 381-408 in Zootaxa 4444 (4) on page 398, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1309783
Malesiathrips Palmer & Mound
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Malesiathrips

description: Malesiathrips Palmer & Mound
Malesiathrips Palmer & Mound, 1978: 196. Type-species M. malayensis Palmer & Mound, by original designation.
The genus Malesiathrips Palmer & Mound comprises three species, from Guam, the Solomon Islands, and Malaysia. The new species described below was found at several sites in the rain forests of North Eastern Australia in association with the dead stems and fronds of the scrambling palm, Calamus. In Java, many of the paratypes of the type species, M. malayensis, were also taken from dead palm fronds. These two thrips species are very similar in colour and structure, the new species differing as follows: sensoria on antennal segment III shorter, not extending beyond midpoint of segment IV; antennal segments III–V with apices of dorsal setae blunt, not expanded; pronotal anteromarginal, posteroangular and posteromedian discal major setae all small, less than 0.3 as long as epimerals and pointed.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2007, New Australian spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae), pp. 53-68 in Zootaxa 1604 on page 66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178750
Pomphopsilla Jaloszynski
Creators: name: Jałoszyński, Paweł
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pomphopsilla

description: Pomphopsilla Jałoszyński
Pomphopsilla Jałoszyński, 2011: 480. Type species: Pomphopsilla luhya Jałoszyński, 2011 (orig. des.).
Pomphopsilla is similar to Cephennomicrus and in dorsal view dry-mounted specimens cannot be unambiguously placed in genus, unless unique, internal prothoracic 'vesicles' or 'cavities' are visible as a pair of translucent areas near posterior pronotal corners. These enigmatic structures can be easily seen in transparent mounts or even in specimens stored in ethanol, or in water, after relaxing dry-mounted beetles. Cephennomicrus lacks the prothoracic 'cavities'. Moreover, in Pomphopsilla the prosternal process is long and curved posteroventrad and so strongly elevated that it extends ventrally beyond procoxae and is visible in the lateral view (short, subtriangular and weakly elevated in Cephennomicrus). Six species are known, two found in Kenya and four in DC Congo. Diagnostic characters were illustrated and all species treated by Jałoszyński (2011a, 2016).
One of species described by Scott (1922) as Neseuthia, and later listed as Cephennomicrus (Jałoszyński 2008), turned out to belong in Pomphopsilla.
description: Published as part of Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2019, Review of Cephennomicrus and Pomphopsilla of the Seychelles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), pp. 357-371 in Zootaxa 4568 (2) on page 368, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/2599382
Pheidole spinicornis Eguchi 2001
Creators: name: Katsuyuki Eguchi
name: Bui Tuan Viet
name: Emiko Oguri
name: Seiki Yamane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Pheidole
Pheidole spinicornis

description: Pheidole spinicornis Eguchi, 2001
Pheidole spinicornis Eguchi, 2001: 116 -117.
Type material examined: BMNH, MBD, MCZC, MSNG, NHMW, UMS; Malaysia, Sabah, Sepilok Forest; K. Eguchi leg. [Eg98-BOR-880 (Accession No. LC 020539: voucher specimen No. Ext20131029-1), type images: CASENT0901620 and CASENT0901621 of AntWeb (http://www.antweb.org/)].
Nontype material examined: ACEG; Malaysia, Sabah, Poring, 500 m alt., Kinabalu Park, H. Hirosawa leg., 20/ vii/1997, Poring, 600 m alt., T. Kikuta leg. [6x2906 -5- Bd], Sayap Kinabalu, ca. 1000 m alt., K. Eguchi leg., 15/vii/1996.
Distinction from P. leloi: In the major, promesonotal dome with a pair of spines which slightly or weakly curve backward, with a distinct transverse ridge on its posterior slope; first gastral tergite finely punctate over the surface. In the minor, propodeal spine horn-like, weakly downcurved; petiolar node in lateral view blunt at apex, and in posterior view not emarginate at apex.
description: Published as part of Katsuyuki Eguchi, Bui Tuan Viet, Emiko Oguri & Seiki Yamane, 2016, The first discovery of the " Pheidole quadricuspis group " in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), pp. 45-55 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.46289
Ophiomorus streeti Anderson & Leviton 1966
Creators: name: Šmíd, Jiří
name: Moravec, Jiří
name: Kodym, Petr
name: Kratochvíl, Lukáš
name: Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Frynta, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Ophiomorus
Ophiomorus streeti

description: Ophiomorus streeti Anderson & Leviton, 1966
HOLOTYPE. FMNH 141551.
TYPE LOCALITY. 11 mi [= 17.7 km] W of Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchistan Prov., Iran.
DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.
DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 137. Known from four localities lying within a 12 km radius.
HABITAT. There is no information about the habitat apart from that the species burrows in sand.
REMARKS. Collected in the same area as O. brevipes, perhaps even in the same habitat.
REFERENCES. Anderson & Leviton (1966b); Anderson (1999); Greer & Wilson (2001).
description: Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701
Caenohalictus Cameron
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Vaquero, Rocio Ana
name: Roig-Alsina, Arturo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Caenohalictus

description: Caenohalictus Cameron
Caenohalictus Cameron 1903: 231. Type species: Caenohalictus trichiothalmus Cameron 1903, monobasic.
Caenohalictus is defined among the genera of Caenohalictina by the following combination of characters: Body metallic dark green or blue, sometimes with a reddish tint, rarely black; compound eyes with conspicuous hairs; mesoscutum reticulate (Fig. 1); dorsal surface of metapostnotum microareolate, finely striate in some species; compound eyes emarginate, inner orbits converging below; female with dark apical band of clypeus extending along the inner orbits, with very inconspicuous punctures, usually reaching the level of the antennal sockets; female with inner hind tibial spur pectinate; male with pygidial plate surrounded by a carina; male genital capsule ventrally concave, gonostylus developed into several processes, directed ventrally.
Gonçalves and Melo (2009) recovered two synapomorphies for the genus: T1 and T2 with lateral carinae present (Fig. 2), also on T 3 in some species, and the male metapostnotum medially depressed. The lateral carinae, probably better described as sulci with slightly elevated margins (Fig. 2), are present on T1 and T 2 in Agapostemon chapadensis, A. nasutus, A. tyleri, Pseudagapostemon citricornis and P. pampeanus, species that were studied by Gonçalves and Melo (2009), although they reported that the lateral carinae are restricted to T 1 in these species. Gonçalves and Melo (2009) mentioned an S8 as long as wide as a synapomorphy of Caenohalictina. All the species examined herein had the S8 much broader than long, in contrast to the species of Caenohalictus they included. In this light, a revision including all the species of the genus and further studies about the genera related to Caenohalictus are needed to set new synapomorphies for this genus.
Rojas and Toro (2000) provided detailed descriptions for the species of Caenohalictus from Chile, as well as descriptions of the main features of the genital capsule of the male. Despite this, the illustrations of the capsules are difficult to interpret, and some steps in the key to the species for the females are hard to follow.
description: Published as part of Gonzalez-Vaquero, Rocio Ana & Roig-Alsina, Arturo, 2013, Revision of the species of the bee genus Caenohalictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) occurring in Argentinean Patagonia, pp. 493-515 in Zootaxa 3670 (4) on pages 495-496, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/248641
Warrumbungle Chandler 2001
Creators: name: Yin, Zi-Wei
name: Newton, Alfred F.
name: Zhao, Tie-Xiong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Warrumbungle

description: Genus Warrumbungle Chandler, 2001
[1 sp., Australia]
Warrumbungle Chandler, 2001: 461.
Type species: Warrumbungle orientalis Chandler, 2001 (by original designation).
Warrumbungle orientalis Chandler, 2001: 463.
TL: New South Wales, Warrumbungle National Park, 2 km NE on Siding Springs Observatory Road, 1000 m. TD: HT in ANIC. Distribution: Australia (New South Wales).
description: Published as part of Yin, Zi-Wei, Newton, Alfred F. & Zhao, Tie-Xiong, 2016, Odontalgus dongbaiensis sp. n. from eastern China, and a world catalog of Odontalgini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), pp. 567-579 in Zootaxa 4117 (4) on page 578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/266080
Cosmardia moritzella
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy
name: Nupponen, Kari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Cosmardia
Cosmardia moritzella

description: Cosmardia moritzella (Treitschke, 1835)
Material examined. 1 ♀, Russia, Tuva Rep., 52°04’N, 94°22’E, 670 m, Ust-Ujuk, steppe-hills, 3-5.vi.1995 (Jalava & Kullberg) (FMNH).
Distribution. Europe, Russia: European part to Ural Mountains, Tuva (new record). The record from Bunbui (Bidzilya 2002) must be referred to Irkutsk region rather than to Krasnoyarskiy krai.
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy & Nupponen, Kari, 2018, New species and new records of gelechiid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from southern Siberia, pp. 381-408 in Zootaxa 4444 (4) on page 401, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1309783
Hippasa Simon 1885
Creators: name: Wang, Lu-Yu
name: Li, Zong-Xu
name: Zhou, Ke-Xin
name: Zhang, Zhi-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Hippasa

description: Genus Hippasa Simon, 1885
Hippasa Simon 1885: 31; Pocock 1900: 249; Gravely 1924: 588; Dyal 1935: 142; Sinha 1951: 11; Tikader & Malhotra 1980: 272; Yin et al. 1997: 12; Alderweireldt & Jocqué 2005: 47.
Type species. Pirata agelenoides Simon, 1884, by original designation.
Diagnosis. This genus can be distinguished from other lycosid genera by the slender body, several chevronlike yellow white markings on the dorsum of opisthosoma and two-segmented posterior spinnerets with elongated basal segments (Figs 4 A–B, 6A–B, 8A–B). Male pedipalps have a hook-like, peaked terminal apophysis, membranous conductor, slender embolus and bifid median apophysis, of which the anterior arm is longer than the posterior one (Figs 3 A–B, 4C–D, 5A–B, 6D–E, 7A–B, 8C–D). Epigyne thickly covered with white setae, strongly extending backwards (Figs 4 E, 6F, 8E). A strong, posteriorly extended scape (Figs 3 C–D, 4E–G, 5C–D, 6F–G) or an obvious epigynal atrium (Figs 7 C, 8E–F) present. Stalk of spermathecae relatively slender and slightly curved and head of spermathecae ball-like (Figs 3 D, 4G, 5D, 6G, 7D, 8G). Additionally, Hippasa species spin funnel-like webs, although juvenile webs are more sheet-like (pers. obs.).
Distribution. Africa and Asia.
Composition and species groups division. In total, there are 37 described species. The Japanese species, H. babai Tanikawa, 2007 is synonymised with the newly revalidated H. lingxianensis Yin & Wang, 1980 in this paper. Based on the characters of male palps and female epigynes, 30 species can be assigned to two species groups: the Hippasa greenalliae- group and the Hippasa partita- group.
description: Published as part of Wang, Lu-Yu, Li, Zong-Xu, Zhou, Ke-Xin & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2015, Redescription of three Hippasa species from China (Araneae: Lycosidae), with a proposed species group-division and diagnosis, pp. 231-244 in Zootaxa 3974 (2) on pages 232-233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3974.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/243939
Ophiomorus tridactylus
Creators: name: Šmíd, Jiří
name: Moravec, Jiří
name: Kodym, Petr
name: Kratochvíl, Lukáš
name: Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Frynta, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Ophiomorus
Ophiomorus tridactylus

description: Ophiomorus tridactylus (Blyth, 1853)
SYNTYPES. ZSI 2526–29, ZSI 2531–32.
TYPE LOCALITY. Afghanistan.
DISTRIBUTION. E Iran, S Afghanistan, W Pakistan.
DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 138. Known from the Zabol area (Sistan and Baluchistan Prov.) and from isolated localities in South Khorasan and Hormozgan Prov. (BMNH specimen).
HABITAT. Loose sandy soil and sand dunes (Blyth 1853).
REMARKS. A sister species to O. raithmai Anderson & Leviton according to morphology (Greer & Wilson 2001). REFERENCES. Anderson & Leviton (1966b); Anderson (1999); Greer & Wilson (2001).
description: Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701
Lagenaria siceraria Standley 1930
Creators: name: Umoh, Omodot Timothy
name: Bassey, Margaret Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Cucurbitales
Cucurbitaceae
Lagenaria
Lagenaria siceraria

description: 5. Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standley (1930: 435) (Fig. 7)
Basionym:— Cucurbita siceraria Molina (1782: 133).
Synonyms:— Cucurbita lagenaria Linnaeus (1753: 1010).
Lagenaria vulgaris Seringe (1825: 16).
Local Name: —Iko ukod (Annang), Ukpok (Ibibio).
Common Name: —Bottle gourd.
Habitat: —Cultivated farmland.
Key: +++ (Abundant: 21–100 individuals per sampling point); ++ (Frequent: 6–20 individuals per sampling point); + (Rare: 1–5 individuals per sampling point); - (Absent) (according to classification by Shukla & Chandel 1972)
Description:— Herb, climbing and trailing by means of tendrils; monoecious. Stem herbaceous, climbing, angular, pubescent, 0.2–0.3 cm diam.; tendrils 2-fid, spirally coiled just above branching point. Leaves simple, alternately arranged, petiolate, exstipulate, scabrid, palmately lobed, deep green, apex acute, dentate, 4–15 × 5–15 cm; petiole cylindrical, 3–5 cm long, herbaceous, pubescent. Inflorescence axillary. Male flowers calyx tubular; corolla white, with 5 free petals, slightly hairy. Fruit round, cylindrical, sometimes irregular in shape, 5–15 cm diam., pedunculate, smooth, green.
Location in Akwa Ibom:— Essien Udim, Oruk Anam, Obot Akara, Ikot Ekpene, Ibiono, Ibesikpo Asutan, Mkpat Enin, and Eastern Obolo.
Abundance:— It existed in 47% of the sampling areas and was rare in these areas.
description: Published as part of Umoh, Omodot Timothy & Bassey, Margaret Emmanuel, 2021, Morphology and distribution of species of the family Cucurbitaceae in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, pp. 107-128 in Phytotaxa 508 (2) on pages 113-118, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.508.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5425837
Malesiathrips australis
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Malesiathrips
Malesiathrips australis

description: Malesiathrips australis sp n.
(Figs 24–27)
Apterous female. Brown to dark brown; head paler between eyes and with pair of submedian longitudinal paler areas; pterothorax and abdominal segment IX sometimes paler than blackish brown abdomen; tube yellowish red brown; legs and antennae dark brown, tarsi and basal pedicel of segment III yellow. Head projecting in front of rounded eyes (Fig. 24); cheeks convex, constricted behind eyes; interocular area reticulate, also a longitudinal row of reticulation posteromedially; ocelli small, postocellar and major postocular setae capitate. Antennae 8-segmented (Fig. 27), segment I with two large setae of which the outer is longer than the inner; III with two sensoria, IV with four sensoria, these sensoria on neither segment extending beyond midpoint of succeeding segment. Pronotal epimeral setae arise on prominent tubercles. Prosternal basantra transverse (Fig. 25), mesopraesternum entire. Mesonotum transverse, with no wing remnant (Fig. 26); metanotum reticulate, median setae small. Pelta transverse; tergal chaetotaxy and tube as in M. malayensis; tergite IX setae S1 and S2 broadly blunt, S3 finely acute.
Measurements of holotype female in microns. Body length 2550. Head, length 380; width 200; postocellar setae 50; postocular setae - inner 20, outer 55. Pronotum, length 155; width 280; major setae am 15, aa 55, ml 30, epim 80, pa 20. metanotal median setae 20. Tergite IX setae S1 90, S2 95, S3 90. Tube, length 320; anal setae 100. Antennal segments III–VIII length, 85, 70, 65, 50, 40, 30.
Apterous male. Similar to female but tube as dark as abdomen; with minute fore tarsal tooth.
Material studied. Holotype female, Queensland; Babinda, from Calamus dead frond, 11.viii.2004 (LAM 4474).
Paratypes: 6 females taken with holotype; Cape Tribulation, 1 female from Calamus dead frond, 9.vii.1995; Mt Spurgeon, 2 females 1 male by pyrethrum fogging, 17.x.1991; Daintree Ferry, 4 females, 4 males from Calamus dead fronds, 4.viii.2004.
Comments. This new species may eventually be demonstrated to be no more than the southern form of M. malayensis, should that species be shown to be more widely distributed on dead palm fronds across southern Indonesia.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A., 2007, New Australian spore-feeding Thysanoptera (Phlaeothripidae: Idolothripinae), pp. 53-68 in Zootaxa 1604 on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178750
Scincus Laurenti 1768
Creators: name: Šmíd, Jiří
name: Moravec, Jiří
name: Kodym, Petr
name: Kratochvíl, Lukáš
name: Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Frynta, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Scincus

description: Scincus Laurenti, 1768
Scincus scincus (Linnaeus, 1758)
HOLOTYPE. NHRM 141 a; Syntypes BMNH 1946.8.20.55–57 (ex. BMNH 79.8.15.1–3) (S. s. conirostris).
TYPE LOCALITY. “in montosis Lybiae, Aegypti, Arabiae petreae” [= in the mountains of Libya, Egypt, and Sinai].
DISTRIBUTION. North Africa from Algeria and Niger along the Mediterranean coast through Tunisia, Libya, Egypt to Israel, Syria, Jordan and western part of the Arabian Peninsula to SW Iran.
DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 139. Khuzestan and Bushehr Prov. There are enigmatic records in central Sistan and Baluchistan Prov. separated from other known localities by a distance of about 1000 km. Nevertheless, owing to that the voucher specimens are deposited in different collections (CAS, SUHC) and were collected by different people, the records seem reliable.
HABITAT. A typical sand-swimmer confined to loose sand habitat on sand dunes and windblown sandy patches.
REMARKS. The subspecies S. s. conirostris Blanford (type locality Tangyak, 7 miles south of Bushire [Bushehr], Bushehr Prov.) inhabiting the eastern portion of the Arabian Peninsula occurs in Iran.
REFERENCES. Arnold & Leviton (1977); Anderson (1999).
description: Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701
Hippasa
Creators: name: Wang, Lu-Yu
name: Li, Zong-Xu
name: Zhou, Ke-Xin
name: Zhang, Zhi-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Hippasa

description: Hippasa greenalliae- group
Diagnosis. In this species group, the bifurcation of the two arms of the median apophysis is usually located distally and the anterior arm (AA) is normally finger-like (Figs 3 A, 4C, 5A, 6D). The epigyne posesses a scape extending posteriorly (Figs 3 C–D, 4E–G, 5C–D, 6F–G).
Composition and distribution. Twelve species and one subspecies are included (Fig. 1).
Twelve of them from Asia:
H. afghana Roewer, 1960 (Roewer, 1960b, ♀, from Afghanistan) H. agelenoides (Simon, 1884) (♀♂, from India and Myanmar) H. charamaensis Gajbe, 2004 (♀♂, from India)
H. domratchevae Andreeva, 1976 (♀♂, from Tajikistan)
H. greenalliae (Blackwall, 1867) (♀♂, from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) H. holmerae Thorell, 1895 (♀♂, from India, China and Philippines) H. holmerae sundaica Thorell, 1895 (sex unknown, from Singapore) H. lingxianensis Yin & Wang, 1980 (♀♂, from China and Japan) H. loeffleri (Roewer, 1955) (♀, from Iran)
H. madhuae Tikader & Malhotra, 1980 (♀♂, from India)
H. madraspatana Gravely, 1924 (♀♂, from India)
H. pisaurina Pocock, 1900 (♀♂, from Iraq, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) One of them from Africa:
H. lamtoensis Dresco, 1981 (♀♂, from Ivory Coast)
Among this species group, the African species, H. lamtoensis is quite similar to H. greenalliae from South Asia (India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka).
description: Published as part of Wang, Lu-Yu, Li, Zong-Xu, Zhou, Ke-Xin & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2015, Redescription of three Hippasa species from China (Araneae: Lycosidae), with a proposed species group-division and diagnosis, pp. 231-244 in Zootaxa 3974 (2) on pages 233-234, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3974.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/243939
Pseudoparasitus missouriensis Ewing
Creators: name: Joharchi, Omid
name: Halliday, Bruce
name: Saboori, Alireza
name: Kamali, Karim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Laelapidae
Pseudoparasitus
Pseudoparasitus missouriensis

description: Pseudoparasitus missouriensis (Ewing)
Hyletastes missouriensis Ewing, 1909: 66.
Gymnolaelaps missouriensis.— Hennessey & Farrier, 1988: 30.
Hypoaspis (Laelaspis) misoriensis (sic).— Babaeian et al., 2010: 328. Pseudoparasitus obsoletus Berlese, 1916: 164 (synonymy by Hennessey & Farrier, 1988). Laelaspis austriacus Sellnick, 1935: 353 (synonymy by Hennessey & Farrier, 1988). Laelaspis austriacus.— Willmann, 1951: 113.
Gymnolaelaps austriacus.— Hunter, 1961: 680.
Pseudoparasitus austriacus.— Hunter, 1966: 9.
Hypoaspis austriacus.— Hirschmann & Bernhard, 1969: 132.
Hypoaspis (Euryaspis) austriacus.— Bernhard, 1971: 8.
Hypoaspis (Gymnolaelaps) austriacus.— Bregetova, 1977: 526.
Hypoaspis (Laelaspis) austriaca.— Tenorio, 1982: 264; Karg, 1979: 101; 1989a: 120; 1993: 161.
Specimens examined. Three females, Karaj, Shahrestanak, O. Joharchi coll., 18 September 2009, 35˚56’ N, 51˚22’ E, alt. 2330 m, in nest of Camponotus sp.
Notes. The synonymy presented above shows that this species has had a very unstable taxonomic history. Most of the information on this species has been published under the names Gymnolaelaps austriacus or Hypoaspis austriacus. Hunter (1961) placed this species in Gymnolaelaps, but later (Hunter, 1966) moved it to Pseudoparasitus. The species may be recognised by the podal plates behind coxa IV, which are narrower than for other species in the genus, the very long and narrow metapodal plates, the very wide rounded genito-ventral shield with four pairs of setae, including two pairs of ventral setae inserted well inside the shield, and a pair of opisthogastric setae in the soft skin between the genito-ventral and anal shields. We can confirm the observations by Sellnick (1935), Hunter (1966), Bernhard (1971) and Bregetova (1977), that this species has only a single tooth on the movable digit of the chelicera. Our specimens agree completely with Bregetova (1977, Figure 417), who showed that the fixed digit has a small distal tooth and a larger bifid proximal tooth. The illustration of the chelicera in Hennessey & Farrier (1988) is not detailed enough to allow this comparison.
description: Published as part of Joharchi, Omid, Halliday, Bruce, Saboori, Alireza & Kamali, Karim, 2011, New species and new records of mites of the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with ants in Iran, pp. 22-36 in Zootaxa 2972 on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.202824
Trachylepis Fitzinger 1843
Creators: name: Šmíd, Jiří
name: Moravec, Jiří
name: Kodym, Petr
name: Kratochvíl, Lukáš
name: Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Frynta, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Trachylepis

description: Trachylepis Fitzinger, 1843
A genus formerly included in the collective genus Mabuya. Honda et al. (1999) pointed out the paraphyly of the genus and later Mausfeld et al. (2002) split Mabuya into four genera with the Middle Eastern representatives being placed in the genus Trachylepis together with the African species (Bauer 2003). Nevertheless, as recent phylogenetic studies show, the Middle Eastern species are a monophyletic group deeply divergent from the African Trachylepis and deserve to be separated as an independent genus (Carranza & Arnold 2003; Mausfeld & Schmitz 2003; Sindaco et al. 2012; Pyron et al. 2013). Traditionally two species were recognized in the Middle East - T. vittata and T. aurata (Linnaeus), the latter forming three subspecies— T. a. aurata, T. a. transcaucasica Chernov and T. a. septemtaeniata. Moravec et al. (2006) restricted the range of T. aurata to Turkey and adjacent Greek islands and elevated T. a. septemtaeniata from NE Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Transcaucasia, Iraq, Iran, and S Turkmenistan to a species rank. This change is also supported by the degree of genetic divergence between both forms (Mausfeld & Schmitz 2003). As was also suggested by Moravec et al. (2006), the form transcaucasica distributed from Armenia, Azerbaijan, central and northern Iran to S Turkmenistan could, in fact, represent a subspecies of T. septemtaeniata. However its assignment is still not clear and most authors refer to it as a form of T. aurata (Faizi & Rastegar-Pouyani 2007; Rastegar-Pouyani & Faizi 2007; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2008; Fathinia et al. 2009, 2010). Here we follow Moravec et al. (2006) and Sindaco & Jeremčenko (2008) in recognizing T. s. transcaucasica.
description: Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701
Numin: Weighted-Majority Ensembles for Intraday Trading
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Aniruddha
name: Singhal, Rekha
name: Shroff, Gautam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the application of machine learning models for short-term intra-day trading in equities. We envisage a scenario wherein machine learning models are submitted by independent data scientists to predict discretised ten-candle returns every five minutes, in response to five-minute candlestick data provided to them in near real-time. An ensemble model combines these multiple models via a weighted-majority algorithm. The weights of each model are dynamically updated based on the performance of each model, and can also be used to reward model owners. Each model's performance is evaluated according to two different metrics over a recent time window: In addition to accuracy, we also consider a `utility' metric that is a proxy for a model's potential profitability under a particular trading strategy. We present experimental results on real intra-day data that show that our weighted-majority ensemble techniques show improved accuracy as well as utility over any of the individual models, especially using the utility metric to dynamically re-weight models over shorter time-windows.
description: Accepted at ACM ICAIF'24
Caenohalictus galletue Rojas & Toro
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Vaquero, Rocio Ana
name: Roig-Alsina, Arturo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Caenohalictus
Caenohalictus galletue

description: Caenohalictus galletue Rojas & Toro
(Figs. 6, 14–16, 29)
Caenohalictus galletue Rojas & Toro 2000: 175 –176. Holotype: male. Chile, Malleco, Termas de Manzanares. Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago.
Diagnosis. This species is very similar to C. opaciceps, with which it is sympatric. It can be distinguished by the less produced clypeus (Fig. 29) and the strong punctures of T1–T3 separated by 1–2 PD in the male (Fig. 6). Male genital capsule (Figs. 14–16): igp scarcely developed, slightly produced dorsally but not reaching the penis valve; penis valve without outer basal tooth; ogp with a few scattered short setae; mgl rounded, small; va slender, short. Unfortunately we do not have any females of this species, but according to the key of Rojas and Toro (2000) they can be identified by the weakly carinate pronotal lobe and the dark marginal zones of the terga, shiny greenish medially.
Variation. As in many Caenohalictus species, C. galletue varies in color, with the mandible of the male with either brown or yellow apex.
Comments. One of the male specimens examined was from the same locality and date of the specimens studied by Rojas and Toro (2000): “Malleco Chile /Cord. Lonquimay/ 2.ii.62 Lago Galletué ” (MLPA). This species visits flowers of Baccharis rhetinodes (Asteraceae).
Distribution in Argentinean Patagonia. Humid regions of Western Neuquén. Also found in Chile: Maule, Bío Bío and La Araucanía.
Examined material. ARGENTINA: Neuquén: 4M, Lago Moquehue, 28–I–2012, R. González Vaquero (MACN). 1M, Lago Moquehue, 3–II–2012, J.P. Torretta (FAUBA). 3M, Villa Pehuenia, 27–I–2012, R. González Vaquero (MACN). CHILE: La Araucanía: 1M, Lonquimay Lago Galletué, 2–II–1962 (MLPA).
description: Published as part of Gonzalez-Vaquero, Rocio Ana & Roig-Alsina, Arturo, 2013, Revision of the species of the bee genus Caenohalictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) occurring in Argentinean Patagonia, pp. 493-515 in Zootaxa 3670 (4) on page 503, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/248641
Caryocolum unicolorellum Bidzilya & Nupponen 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy
name: Nupponen, Kari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Caryocolum
Caryocolum unicolorellum

description: Caryocolum unicolorellum Bidzilya, sp. nov.
Figs 74–75
Type material. Holotype ♂, Russia, Buryatia, 54°55’N, 111°14’E, Barguzin valley, 600 m, Djirga st., Betula / mead., 10.vi.1996 (Jalava & Kullberg) (gen. slide 256/16, O. Bidzilya) (FMNH).
Diagnosis. The new species is easily recognizable eхternally by the comparatively broad and uniformly greyish-black forewings. Caryocolum mongolense Povolný, 1969 differs in the larger wingspan (17–18 mm), the narrower forewing, and dirty-white rather than greyish-brown head. The male genitalia are characterized by elongated, narrow, pointed lateromedial projections of the posterior margin of the vinculum separated by a very narrow incision in combination with very short lateral process. Caryocolum mongolense differs in the broader medial emargination of the posterior margin of vinculum, broader sacculus, and a saccus that is distinctly broadened in basal half.
Description. Adult (Fig. 74). Wingspan 15.1 mm. Head, thoraх and tegulae greyish-brown. Labial palpus light brown, inner surface of segment 2 light grey, antenna black grey ringed. Forewing comparatively broad, covered with grey black-tipped scales; two indistinct black points in the middle of the wing at 2/3 length; cilia grey, black-tipped. Hindwing and cilia light grey.
Male genitalia (Fig. 75). Uncus broad, rounded. Gnathos small; culcitula large, covered with numerous spinules. Tegumen broad, anteromedial emargination short and widely rounded. Cucullus slender, pointed. Sacculus 2–2.5 times broader and slightly shorter than cucullus. Vinculum long, posterior margin with deep, narrow V-shaped medial emargination; lateromedial projections of the posterior margin of the vinculum elongated, triangular, narrow and distally pointed; lateral processes short, hump-shaped. Saccus comparatively short, basally broad, gradually tapered towards rounded apeх. Phallus slightly longer than tegumen with uncus, stout; apical arm large, subovate, apeх rounded, caecum weakly inflated.
Remarks. C. mongolense and C. unicolorellum are characterized by plain, greyish-black forewings, which is unique among Caryocolum species (Huemer 1988). The male genitalia of both species are also reminiscent of each other, thus C. unicolorellum sp. nov. is placed in the mongolense species-group of Caryocolum.
Biology. Host plant unknown. The holotype was collected in June.
Distribution. Russia: Buryatia.
Etymology. Latin unicolor— unicolour. The species name alludes to the uniformly greyish-black forewings of the moth.
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy & Nupponen, Kari, 2018, New species and new records of gelechiid moths (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from southern Siberia, pp. 381-408 in Zootaxa 4444 (4) on pages 405-406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1309783
Bolbochromus
Creators: name: Krikken, Jan
name: Li, Chun-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Bolboceratidae
Bolbochromus

description: Accounts of Bolbochromus subgenera and species
description: Published as part of Krikken, Jan & Li, Chun-Lin, 2013, Taxonomy of the Oriental genus Bolbochromus: a generic overview and descriptions of four new species (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae), pp. 495-519 in Zootaxa 3731 (4) on page 502, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/248259
Bolbochromus (Bolbochromus) nigriceps Wiedemann 1823
Creators: name: Krikken, Jan
name: Li, Chun-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Bolboceratidae
Bolbochromus
Bolbochromus nigriceps

description: Bolbochromus (Bolbochromus) nigriceps (Wiedemann, 1823)
(Figs. 1–2, 37, 52–53)
Bolboceras sumatranus Lansberge, 1886 (synonym)
Identification. Common on Java, and there usually recognisable from infuscated elytral striae on a generally yellow to ochreous interstrial background; sides of pronotum usually with pair of contiguous yellow markings. However, elytra (and pronotum) of B. nigriceps may vary from completely (rufous) yellow to virtually completely black—possibly a populational phenomenon. On Sumatra the species may be more variable than on Java and appears much less common, inducing Lansberge (1886) to describe his B. sumatranus, with an entirely rufous pronotum (synonymy correct judged from external characters, type seen; other colour forms were seen from Peninsular Malaysia). The only tubercle on the head of B. nigriceps is always the small cone between the eye canthi; the clypeal apex may be slightly raised. Other congeners on Java and Sumatra have two medial protrusions, one on the clypeal apex and one on the postfrons (B. niger, B. catenatus, B. ludekingi, B. walshi), B. sulcicollis having also a clypeogenal tubercle on either side. Anterior declivity of pronotum of B. nigriceps usually more or less deplanate (any protrusions hardly distinct); anterolateral angle of pronotum (full-face view) distinct. Aedeagus very small, with pair of relatively simple, short, convex, apically blunt parameres. Elytra with 7 striae between suture and humeral umbone. Body length usually 8.0– 11.5 mm.
Distribution. Indonesia: Java, Sumatra, possibly Malay Peninsula.
description: Published as part of Krikken, Jan & Li, Chun-Lin, 2013, Taxonomy of the Oriental genus Bolbochromus: a generic overview and descriptions of four new species (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae), pp. 495-519 in Zootaxa 3731 (4) on page 506, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/248259
Pheidole quadricuspis Emery 1900
Creators: name: Katsuyuki Eguchi
name: Bui Tuan Viet
name: Emiko Oguri
name: Seiki Yamane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Pheidole
Pheidole quadricuspis

description: Pheidole quadricuspis Emery, 1900
Pheidole quadricuspis Emery, 1900: 683. Pheidole (Pheidolacanthinus) quadricuspis. ‒ Emery, 1921: 683.
Type material examined: MSNG; Indonesia, Sumatra, Si-Rambé; E. Modigliani leg.; xii/1890 - iii/1891 [3 syntypes (1 major, 2 minor), type images: CASENT0904267 and CASENT0905766 of AntWeb (http://www.antweb.org/)].
Nontype material examined: ACEG; Malaysia, Selangor, Ulu Gombak, F. Ito leg. [FI96- 604, -605; FI98-113, -114, -130, -188, -197], Pahang, Cameron Highlands, ca. 1000 m alt., F. Ito leg. [FI92MCH-16, -32], Malaysia, Sabah, Gunong Rara, K. Eguchi leg. [Eg96-BOR-315, -319, -320, -343A, -343B, -353, -370, -372; Eg97-BOR-530, -557, -558], Sepilok forest, K. Eguchi leg. [Eg97-BOR-495]. ‒ ACEG; Brunei, Tutong, Tasek Merimbun, K. Eguchi leg. [Eg99- BOR-039, 111, 112, 522, 585. ‒ ACEG; Eg00- BOR-037 (Accession No.: EF518393.1), 0 48, -057, -058], Temburong, Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, K. Eguchi leg. [Eg99-BOR-222]. ‒ ACEG; Indonesia, East Kalimantan, Kutai N. P.; Sk. Yamane leg., 13/ ix/1993, North Sumatra, Pulau Nias (Lotu), Sk. Yamane leg. [SU02-SKY-126, -134, -137], West Sumatra, Lubuk Gadang; Sk. Yamane leg., 21-23/viii/1985. ‒ ACEG; Philippines, Camarines Sur, Naga City, Panicuason Vill., D. General et al. leg., 7/iii/2003.
Distinction from P. leloi: In the major, anterior part of vertex longitudinally rugose. In the minor, head almost completely smooth, with a few standing hairs; dorsal face of promesonotal dome smooth dorsomedially, and weakly punctate anterodorsally, laterally and posterodorsally; mesosoma lacking standing hairs; petiolar node in lateral view blunt at apex, and in posterior view not emarginate at apex.
description: Published as part of Katsuyuki Eguchi, Bui Tuan Viet, Emiko Oguri & Seiki Yamane, 2016, The first discovery of the " Pheidole quadricuspis group " in the Indo-Chinese Peninsula (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), pp. 45-55 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.46289