cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Oxyceroides Yang, Rozkošný & Ya, 2015, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Yang, Zai-Hua
name: Rozkošný, Rudolf
name: Ya, Mao-Fa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Oxyceroides

description: Key to the known species of Oxyceroides gen. nov.
1. Eyes touching, males.................................................................................. 2
- Eyes separated by a broad frons, females.................................................................. 4
2. Scutellar spines shorter than scutellum (Figs 1–2, 16); gonostylus bicuspid (24–25).................. O. sinica sp. nov. ♂
- Scutellar spines longer than scutellum (Figs 5, 26, 28); gonostylus with another shape, never bicuspid (Figs 25, 32)....... 3
3. Last flagellomere longer than penultimate one (Fig. 10); gonostylus bilobate, lobes of phallic complex broad in apical third, distal projections of reaching the apical margin of lateral lobes (Fig. 13).......................... O. gracilis sp. nov. ♂
- Last flagellomere about as long as penultimate one (Fig. 29); gonostylus simple, turned inwardly and sharp apically, phallic complex narrow in distal third and only trifid, parameral sheath not projected distally (Fig. 32).......... O. tangi sp. nov. ♂
4. Scutellar spines longer than scutellum in middle (Fig. 6), whitish lateral stripes along inner eye margin exceeding the insertion of antennae, frons without longitudinal middle groove, frontal hair patch not at the base of antennae (Fig. 4)................................................................................................. O. gracilis sp. nov. ♀
- Scutellar spines shorter than scutellum in middle (Fig. 17), whitish lateral stripes along inner eyes margin reaching at most the level of antennal insertion, frons with longitudinal middle groove, frontal hair patch at the base of antennae (Fig. 15)............................................................................................ O. sinica sp. nov. ♀
description: Published as part of Yang, Zai-Hua, Rozkošný, Rudolf & Ya, Mao-Fa, 2015, A new genus and three new species of tribe Oxycerini (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) from Oriental region in Zootaxa 4057 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/243320
Clinocerinae
Creators: name: Ivković, Marija
name: Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen
name: Sainz-Bariaín, Marta
name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae

description: Clinocerinae
Clinocera appendiculata (Zetterstedt, 1838)
Literature references: Waterfalls in upper part of Genil valley (Strobl 1909); N slope Mt. Veleta (Vaillant & Chvála 1973, as C. schremmeri (Vaillant)); Sierra Nevada Highway (Sinclair 1999). New records: Río Monachil, Fuente Alta (33); Río Guarnón, Corral del Veleta (34). Distribution. Europe.
Clinocera nigra Meigen, 1804
Literature reference: Waterfalls in upper part of Genil valley (Strobl 1909). New records: Sierra Nevada Highway (CNC). Distribution. Europe and Asia.
Clinocera stagnalis (Haliday, 1833)
Literature references. Upper valley of Genil (Strobl 1909); Río Lanjaron, 9 km SW Orgiva (Vaillant & Chvála 1973).
Distribution. Europe, North Africa, Asia, and northern North America.
Dolichocephala guttata (Haliday, 1833)
Literature reference. Lanjaron, Olive Garden (Strobl 1909) [record requires verification]. Distribution. Europe.
Kowarzia barbatula Mik, 1880
Literature reference. Waterfalls in upper part of Genil valley (Strobl 1909). New records. Fuente, Barranco de los Pasillos (25); Río Aguas Blancas, Área Recreativa (32). Distribution. Europe.
Kowarzia bipunctata (Haliday, 1833)
Literature references. Waterfalls in upper part of Genil valley (Strobl 1909); Barranco de Algarrobo, 12 SW Orgiva (Vaillant & Chvála 1973).
New records. Fuente, Barranco de los Pasillos (25); Barranco de los Tejos, Aldeire (26); Río Aguas Blancas, Área Recreativa (32).
Distribution. Europe and North Africa.
Kowarzia madicola (Vaillant, 1965)
Literature reference. Stream east from Melina-Bombarón (Wagner 1995). Distribution. Central and southern Europe.
Kowarzia nevadensis Sinclair & Ivkoviċ, sp. nov. New record. Barranco Frío, Hoya Carlos (4). Distribution. Spain (Sierra Nevada).
description: Published as part of Ivković, Marija, Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen, Sainz-Bariaín, Marta & Sinclair, Bradley J., 2014, Aquatic Empididae (Diptera: Hemerodromiinae and Clinocerinae) of the Sierra Nevada, Spain, with the description of five new species, pp. 541-556 in Zootaxa 3786 (5) on pages 551-552, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/231442
Osmylidia donnae Makarkin & Archibald & Mathewes 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Makarkin, Vladimir N.
name: Archibald, S. Bruce
name: Mathewes, Rolf W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Osmylidae
Osmylidia
Osmylidia donnae

description: Osmylidia donnae sp. nov.
Fig. 2
Type material. Holotype Q-0317, collected by RWM, October 2001; deposited in SFU. A rather well-preserved almost complete hind wing.
Type locality and horizon. Quilchena, British Columbia, Canada; Eocene (mid-Ypresian).
Etymology. From the first name of Donna Mathewes, for her support of fieldwork at Quilchena.
Diagnosis. May be distinguished from hind wings of other species of the genus by long distal crossvein between posterior branch of MA, MP [other species: this crossvein short or lacking as these veins fused for short distance], and membrane slightly infuscate [other species: hyaline].
Description. Hind wing 13.5 mm as preserved (estimated complete length about 14 mm), 4.3 mm wide. Costal space relatively narrow, with simple, relatively closely spaced subcostal veinlets. Sc fused with RA far from wing apex. Sc+RA veinlets simple, closely spaced. Subcostal space narrow; crossveins not detected. RA space relatively narrow, with four widely spaced crossveins. RP with 10 branches, RP8 deeply forked, other branches shallowly forked. Basal crossvein 1r-m preserved fragmentarily, near RP. M forked near base wing, slightly proximad origin of RP. MA deeply forked, proximad level of proximal crossvein between RP1, RP2. All crossveins in radial, radiomedial spaces arranged in three gradate series: proximal series with two crossveins; intermediate series with five crossveins; outer series with eight preserved crossveins (region partly missing or damaged). Anterior branch of MA pectinately branched with four branches; posterior branch of MA with terminal fork, one incompletely preserved branch. MP pectinately branched with two branches. Two crossveins (one fragmentarily preserved) between MA, MP proximad forking of MA; three crossveins between anterior, posterior branches of MA, between posterior branch of MA, MP (including long distal crossvein, i.e., posterior branch of MA, MP not fused). CuA strongly pectinately branched, with seven preserved branches (probably eight in life). CuP relatively short, forked once distally. Two crossveins between CuA, CuP. 1A with two pectinate branches. Membrane mostly slightly infuscate (as preserved; perhaps uniformly infuscate in life?).
description: Published as part of Makarkin, Vladimir N., Archibald, S. Bruce & Mathewes, Rolf W., 2021, New Protosmylinae (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) from the early Eocene of western North America, with taxonomic remarks, pp. 142-156 in Zootaxa 4980 (1) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4883181
Noodtorthopsyllus Lang 1965
Creators: name: Huys, Rony
name: Kihara, Terue Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Harpacticoida
Canthocamptidae
Noodtorthopsyllus

description: Genus Noodtorthopsyllus Lang, 1965
Synonym. Cristacoxa Huys, 1990 syn. nov.
Diagnosis. Sexual dimorphism in antennule, P1 endopod, P3 endopod, P5, P6 and in genital segmentation; occasionally in endopod of P2 and P4. Rostrum triangular, completely defined at base. Fusion of female genital double-somite demarcated by almost continuous internal transverse chitinous rib, and by surface ornamentation both laterally and dorsally. Caudal ramus seta V bi-articulated, consisting of styliform proximal part and flagelliform distal part.
Antennule with posterior spinous process on segment I and small or rudimentary process on segment II. Maxillary syncoxa with 2–3 endites; when present, praecoxal endite represented by 1 seta; endopod represented by 2–3 setae.
P1 with well developed serrate crests on praecoxa and coxa; enp-1 with or without inner seta (when present then sexually dimorphic in size). Coxa with crest around outer margin in P2–P3, and sometimes with lobate extension in P4. P2 with 2-segmented endopod; with inner seta on exp- 2 in Ƥ, sometimes absent in 3. P3 with inner seta on exp-2; endopod with or without outer spine in Ƥ; endopod subdivided in 2 pseudosegments in 3, bearing long, sigmoid, inner apophysis on proximal pseudosegment (homologous with proximal inner seta of Ƥ) and one long pinnate apical seta and 1–2 vestigial elements on distal pseudosegment. Spine and setal formula as follows (variation shown in brackets):
P5 not bilobate, with 8 elements in both sexes. P6 Ƥ with 1 pinnate seta. Type species: Orthopsyllus psammophilus Noodt, 1955 [= Noodtorthopsyllus psammophilus (Noodt, 1955), by original designation].
Other species: Cristacoxa petkovskii Huys, 1990 [= N. petkovskii (Huys, 1990) comb. nov.; N. tageae sp. nov.]
description: Published as part of Huys, Rony & Kihara, Terue Cristina, 2010, Systematics and phylogeny of Cristacoxidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida): a review, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2568 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197323
Epanerchodus multiprocessus Mikhaljova 2001
Creators: name: M, E L E N A V.
name: Va, I K H A L J O
name: Lim, Kil-Young
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Polydesmidae
Epanerchodus
Epanerchodus multiprocessus

description: Epanerchodus multiprocessus Mikhaljova, 2001
Epanerchodus multiprocessus Mikhaljova & Lim, 2001: 21 –22, 21: figs 9–14.
Remarks. This species is known only from the original description from Gyeongsangbukdo, South Korea (Mikhaljova & Lim, 2001).
Distribution. South Korea.
description: Published as part of M, E L E N A V., Va, I K H A L J O & Lim, Kil-Young, 2006, The millipede genus Epanerchodus Attems, 1901 in the Korean Peninsula, with a description of a new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae), pp. 45-53 in Zootaxa 1350 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174510
Towards trustworthy large language models
Creators: name: Hua, Wenyue
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: Language models, playing a pivotal role in human-centered AI, are extensively utilized in various applications, including recommendation systems and real-life agents, to aid human decision-making processes. However, despite their impressive capabilities, language models can also result in unintended consequences for users, platforms, and society as a whole. These consequences include diminished user trust due to lack of transparency, unfair treatment of different groups, and safety concerns when agents interact with the physical environment. These challenges highlight the urgent need for the development of Trustworthy Language Models to mitigate or eliminate such negative impacts and risks. In this thesis, we investigate four crucial dimensions of trustworthiness in language models: explanability, fairness, safety, and trustworthy evaluation. While these aspects do not encompass all facets of trustworthiness, they represent significant and widely discussed topics in the literature, closely linked to the trustworthiness of intelligent systems such as language models. To tackle this multi-faceted problem, we approach it from four distinct angles: Explanability: We introduce an automatic slice detection benchmark, ``Discover, Explain, Improve (DEIm)'', and a new slice detection model, $Edisa$, to enhance the interpretability of language models by identifying underperforming groups of datapoints and uniting them under human-understandable concepts. Fairness: We examine unfairness in large language models (LLMs) used for recommendation systems and propose an Unbiased P5 (UP5) foundation model based on Counterfactually-Fair-Prompting (CFP) techniques to improve fairness while maintaining high recommendation performance. Safety: We present TrustAgent, an Agent-Regulation-based framework designed to enhance the safety of LLM-based agents by employing pre-planning, in-planning, and post-planning strategies to ensure agents adhere to safety protocols when interacting with the physical environment. Trustworthy Evaluation: We address trustworthiness challenges in current evaluation benchmarks, such as data contamination and bias. We introduce NPHardEval, a dynamic benchmark with automatic question generation and answer verification, ensuring fresh questions for each use to counter the issue in data contamination of current benchmarks as existing benchmarks are susceptible to overfitting due to their public and static nature. We also present Contexthub, a benchmark that contextualizes logic problems to better assess LLMs' practical reasoning abilities, to counter the issue of bias in data Our proposed methods in this thesis have demonstrated superior performance compared to several state-of-the-art methods on numerous real-world datasets. The experimental results showcase the effectiveness of the proposed methods in achieving satisfactory language model performance while ensuring trustworthiness across the dimensions of explanability, fairness, safety, and evaluation.
Kowarzia tenella Wahlberg 1844
Creators: name: Ivković, Marija
name: Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen
name: Sainz-Bariaín, Marta
name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Kowarzia
Kowarzia tenella

description: Kowarzia tenella (Wahlberg, 1844)
Literature reference. N slope Mt. Veleta (Vaillant & Chvála 1973). Distribution. Western Europe and North Africa.
Phaeobalia lyneborgi (Vaillant & Chvála, 1973)
Literature reference. Near Albergue Universitario on road from Granada to Mt. Veleta (Vaillant & Chvála 1973). Distribution. Spain (Sierra Nevada).
Wiedemannia (Chamaedipsia) lota Walker, 1851
Literature reference. Barranco de Algarrobo, 12 SW Orgiva (Vaillant & Chvála 1973). New records. Río Sucio, Las Barreras (Órgiva) (1); Río Chico, Soportújar (2); Río Poqueira, Central eléctrica (Pampaneira) (5); Río Laroles, Laroles (17); Río Aguas Blancas, Cenes de la Vega (18). Distribution. Widespread in Europe and Asia.
Wiedemannia (Philolutra) angelieri Vaillant, 1967
New records. Río Genil, debajo del Barranco San Juan (22); Río Monachil, Fuente Alta (33). Distribution. Spain, France and Montenegro (Ivkoviċ et al. 2013).
Wiedemannia (Philolutra) aquilex (Loew, 1869)
Literature reference. Waterfalls in upper part of Genil valley (Strobl 1909) [record requires verification]. Distribution. Europe.
description: Published as part of Ivković, Marija, Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen, Sainz-Bariaín, Marta & Sinclair, Bradley J., 2014, Aquatic Empididae (Diptera: Hemerodromiinae and Clinocerinae) of the Sierra Nevada, Spain, with the description of five new species, pp. 541-556 in Zootaxa 3786 (5) on pages 552-553, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/231442
Euthyonidiella Heding & Panning 1954
Creators: name: Martins, Luciana
name: Souto, Camilla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Holothuroidea
Dendrochirotida
Sclerodactylidae
Euthyonidiella

description: Genus Euthyonidiella Heding & Panning 1954
Type species. Euthyonidiella kyushuensis Heding & Panning 1954; by original designation.
description: Published as part of Martins, Luciana & Souto, Camilla, 2015, Taxonomic review of four western Atlantic dendrochirotids (Holothuroidea) with the description of a new Brazilian cucumariid species and designation of neotypes, pp. 362-374 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/243332
Wiedemannia (Philolutra) fallaciosa Loew 1873
Creators: name: Ivković, Marija
name: Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen
name: Sainz-Bariaín, Marta
name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Wiedemannia
Wiedemannia fallaciosa

description: Wiedemannia (Philolutra) fallaciosa (Loew, 1873)
Literature reference. Río Grande de los Berchules (Wagner 1995).
New records. Río Sucio, Las Barreras (Órgiva) (1); Río Chico, Soportújar (2); Río Trevélez, Molino Altero (Trevélez) (7); Arroyo de Palancón, Posada de los Arrieros (9); Río Laroles, Área Recreativa Laroles (10); Río Nechite, Las Piedras del Márquez (11); Río Válor, Cortijo de la Sacristía (12); Río Mecina, Área Recreativa Las Chorreras (13); Río Grande de los Bérchules, Cortijo de Las Jeromillas (14); Río Mecina, Mecina-Bombarón (15); Río Laroles, Laroles (17); Río Genil, La Fabriquilla (19); Río Genil, Debajo del Barranco San Juan (22); Barranco de los Pasillos, Los Pasillos (24); Barranco del Gallego, Aldeire (27); Río del Pueblo, La Cabañuela (28); Arroyo del Alcázar, Área Recreativa La Tizná (29).
Distribution. Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Wiedemannia (Philolutra) veletica Vaillant & Chvála, 1973 Literature reference. N slope Mt. Veleta (Vaillant & Chvála 1973). Distribution. Spain (Sierra Nevada).
description: Published as part of Ivković, Marija, Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen, Sainz-Bariaín, Marta & Sinclair, Bradley J., 2014, Aquatic Empididae (Diptera: Hemerodromiinae and Clinocerinae) of the Sierra Nevada, Spain, with the description of five new species, pp. 541-556 in Zootaxa 3786 (5) on page 553, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/231442
Nannopodidae Brady 1880
Creators: name: Huys, Rony
name: Kihara, Terue Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Harpacticoida
Nannopodidae

description: Family Nannopodidae Brady, 1880
Synonym. Huntemanniidae Por, 1986a
Diagnosis. Same as in Por (1986a: 421)
description: Published as part of Huys, Rony & Kihara, Terue Cristina, 2010, Systematics and phylogeny of Cristacoxidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida): a review, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2568 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197323
Axinidris kakamegensis Shattuck 1991
Creators: name: Snelling, R. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Axinidris
Axinidris kakamegensis

description: Axinidris kakamegensis Shattuck
Axinidris kakamegensis Shattuck, 1991: 115; figs. 17 - 19, 35 (w). KENYA, Kakamega Forest (A. E. Stubbs) (BMNH) examined.
Worker diagnosis. Scape and pronotum without erect hairs; head broader than long and vertex without erect hairs; distance between spines greater than PPW.
Worker measurements (mm) (n = 1). HW 0.97; HL 0.96; SL 0.69; EL 0.24; OVD 0.37; PNW n / a; PPW 0.40; WL 1.10. Indices. CI 102; CNI 161; OI 24; SI 71.
Worker description. The worker has been adequately described by Shattuck (1991).
Queen and male unknown.
DISCUSSION
Known only from the worker type specimen from an unspecified locality in the Kakamega Forest.
description: Published as part of Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., pp. 551-579 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on pages 562-563
Wiedemannia (Roederella) ouedorum Vaillant 1952
Creators: name: Ivković, Marija
name: Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen
name: Sainz-Bariaín, Marta
name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Wiedemannia
Wiedemannia ouedorum

description: Wiedemannia (Roederella) ouedorum Vaillant, 1952
New records. Río Sucio, Las Barreras (Órgiva) (1); Río Genil, La Fabriquilla (19); Río San Juan, Desembocadura río Genil (21); Río Genil, Debajo del Barranco San Juan (22); Río Monachil, Cortijo de Diéchar (23); Barranco de los Tejos, Aldeire (26); Barranco del Gallego, Aldeire (27); Río del Pueblo, La Cabañuela (28); Arroyo del Alhorí, Central eléctrica (30).
Distribution. North Africa, France (Corsica), Spain (Sierra Nevada).
Wiedemannia (Wiedemannia) nevadensis Wagner, 1990 Literature reference. Río Trevélez by Trevélez (Wagner 1990). New records. Río Genil, La Fabriquilla (19); Río Maitena, Desembocadura (20); Río Genil, Debajo del Barranco San Juan (22).
Distribution. Spain (Sierra Nevada).
Wiedemannia darioi Sinclair & Ivkoviċ, sp. nov. New record. Río Aguas Blancas, Cenes de la Vega (18). Distribution. Spain (Sierra Nevada).
Wiedemannia horvati Ivkoviċ & Sinclair, sp. nov. New record. Río Guarnón, Corral del Veleta (34) Distribution. Spain (Sierra Nevada).
Wiedemannia vedranae Ivkoviċ & Sinclair, sp. nov.
New records. Río Chico, Puente Palo (3); Fuente Agria, Pórtugos (6); Barranco Moja Caco, Antes de llegar al Puerto de la Ragua (8); Arroyo de Palancón, Posada de los Arrieros (9); Río Laroles, Área Recreativa Laroles (10); Río Válor, Cortijo de la Sacristía (12); Río Mecina, Área Recreativa Las Chorreras (13); Río Grande de los Bérchules, Cortijo de Las Jeromillas (14); Río Mecina, Mecina-Bombarón (15); Río Nechite, Mecina-Alfahar (16); Barranco de los Pasillos, Los Pasillos (24); Barranco de los Tejos, Aldeire (26); Barranco del Gallego, Aldeire (27); Río del Pueblo, La Cabañuela (28), Arroyo del Alhorí, Central eléctrica (30); Río Aguas Blancas, Área Recreativa (32); Río Monachil, Fuente Alta (33).
Distribution. Spain (Sierra Nevada).
description: Published as part of Ivković, Marija, Zamora-Muñoz, Carmen, Sainz-Bariaín, Marta & Sinclair, Bradley J., 2014, Aquatic Empididae (Diptera: Hemerodromiinae and Clinocerinae) of the Sierra Nevada, Spain, with the description of five new species, pp. 541-556 in Zootaxa 3786 (5) on page 553, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/231442
Philoctetes Abeille
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Wei, Na-Sen
name: Notton, David
name: Xu, Zai-Fu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Philoctetes

description: Genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879
Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879: 26. Type species: Holopyga cicatrix Abeille, 1879 (= Philoctetes micans (Klug, 1835)), by subsequent designation of Ashmead 1902.
Ellampus (Philoctetes): Mocsáry 1889: 107 (part.); Semenov-Tian-Shanskij 1932: 7 (part.).
Philoctetes: du Buysson 1892: 153 (part.); Bischoff 1913: 10 (part.); Trautmann 1927: 44 (part.); Mingo 1994: 85 (part.); Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 251; Rosa 2006: 119.
Omalus (Philoctetes): Linsenmaier 1959: 20 (part.), 1994: 151 (part.), 1999: 20 (part.); Arens 2014: 569 (part.).
Diagnosis. The most relevant characteristics of Philoctetes sensu Kimsey & Bohart (1991) are combined short malar space not bisected by genal carina and punctures on mesosoma mostly clumped along notauli. These two characteristics well separate Philoctetes from the similar genera Holophris, Omalus and Pseudomalus.
Description. Representative of the genus Philoctetes can be identified for the following characteristics: malar space usually short (<1 MOD) and not bisected by curved genal carina; genal carina usually faint or not sharply elevated; pronotum more or less concave laterally, and punctate medially; mesoscutum with punctures clumped along notauli, or more evenly distributed, but anyway gathering together toward notauli; Mesopleuron extending at an oblique angle toward venter, ecarinate and not strongly projecting on juncture between omaulus and scrobal carina; metanotum usually conical, project backward in few species, or distinctly mucronate, spine-like; fore wing with medial cell asetose, medial vein strongly arched, stigma short; fore femur often carinate ventrally; tarsal claw with 1–3 subsidiary teeth.
Biology. The species of Philoctetes are known as nest parasites of Crabronidae (Pemphredoninae) (Trautmann 1927; Krombein 1963; Kimsey & Bohart 1991; Rosa 2006).
Distribution. The genus Philoctetes is distributed in the Holarctic Region, with an unusual species in the Afrotropical Region. It is not yet collected from the Oriental Region.
description: Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-Sen, Notton, David & Xu, Zai-Fu, 2015, The genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 from China, with description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), pp. 433-444 in Zootaxa 4040 (4) on page 434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/233986
Acuticoxa Huys & Kihara, 2010, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Huys, Rony
name: Kihara, Terue Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Harpacticoida
Nannopodidae
Acuticoxa

description: Genus Acuticoxa gen. nov.
Diagnosis. Nannopodidae. Body cylindrical; slightly depressed dorsoventrally; somites with finely incised hyaline frills and dense setular surface ornamentation; genital double-somite Ƥ completely fused. Rostrum prominent, triangular. Anal operculum moderately developed, spinulose. Caudal ramus long and rectangular; with 7 setae; seta V longest, typically composed of swollen proximal and setular distal part.
Antennule without spinous processes; 4-segmented in female; segment I elongate, segments III–IV oriented posteriorly and with aesthetasc. Antenna with abexopodal seta on allobasis; exopod absent or represented by minute unisetose segment; endopod with 6 distal (3 geniculate and 3 simple) and 2 medial elements. Mandible biramous with unisetose exopod fused to basis and 1-segmented trisetose endopod; basis with 2 setae. Maxillule with 2 elements on coxal endite; basal endites represented by 2 and 3 setae, respectively; endopod incorporated into basis and represented by 2 setae; exopod absent. Maxillary syncoxa with 2 endites bearing 2 and 3 elements, respectively; allobasis with claw and 1 accompanying seta; endopod represented by 2 setae. Maxillipedal syncoxa and basis unarmed; endopod 1-segmented with long geniculate claw and typically 1 accompanying seta.
P1 with strong unguiform outer spinous process on coxa; basis with inner and outer seta; exopod 2- segmented, exp-1 with or without outer seta, exp-2 with 5 setae; endopod prehensile, enp-1 without inner seta, enp-2 with 1 claw and 1 basally reinforced seta. P2–P4 with outer spinous projection on coxa; P2–P3 exopods 1- (A. ubatubaensis) or 2-segmented (A. biarticulata); P4 exopod 1-segmented; P2–P4 endopods 1-segmented with single apical element. Spine and setal formula as follows:
P5 exopod and baseoendopod fused in Ƥ, forming single plate with 8 setae/spines; intercoxal sclerite discernible. Genital field Ƥ with large median copulatory pore; P6 represented by 2 short setae. Type species: Acuticoxa ubatubaensis gen. et sp. nov.
Other species: Laophontisochra sp. sensu George (2002) [= Acuticoxa biarticulata sp. nov.]
Etymology. The generic name is derived from the Latin adjective acutus, meaning pointed, sharp, and the Latin noun coxa, meaning hip, and refers to the pointed projection found on the coxae of at least legs 2–4. Gender feminine.
description: Published as part of Huys, Rony & Kihara, Terue Cristina, 2010, Systematics and phylogeny of Cristacoxidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida): a review, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2568 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197323
Osmylidia undetermined
Creators: name: Makarkin, Vladimir N.
name: Archibald, S. Bruce
name: Mathewes, Rolf W.
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Year: 2021
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Osmylidia
Osmylidia undetermined

description: Osmylidia sp.
Fig. 4
Material. Specimen RBCM P1567, collected by SBA July 23, 2001; deposited in RBCM. A poorly preserved incomplete hind wing on a piece of shale with a heteropteran (Hemiptera), a syrphid (Diptera), and two nematoceran pupae (Diptera).
Locality and horizon. Ootsa Group shale exposed at Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada; Eocene (mid-Ypresian).
Description. Hind wing 10.9 mm long as preserved (estimated complete length about 11.5 mm), ca. 5 mm wide (actual width probably less, wing deformed). Costal space relatively broad, with simple, relatively closely spaced subcostal veinlets. Sc fused with RA far from wing apex. Subcostal space incompletely preserved, narrow distally; crossveins not detected. RA space relatively narrow for most length, basally broadened, with three detected crossveins in proximal half. RP with 11 branches, all probably shallowly forked (their deep forks absent, distal portions not preserved). Fork of M not detected. MA probably deeply forked, MP probably pectinate (both fragmentarily preserved). Nearly all preserved crossveins in radial, radio-medial spaces arranged in intermediate, outer gradate series (both series incomplete) or single crossvein in position of proximal gradate series in other Protosmylinae; one crossvein in intermediate series adventitiously forked. Two preserved crossveins between posterior branch of MA, MP. CuA strongly pectinately branched, with eight branches. CuP relatively short, forked twice distally.
Remarks. Although it differs from other species by its arrangement of crossveins between RA and RA, this incomplete specimen lacks many potentially diagnostic characters (e.g., the configuration of M), and we, therefore, do not name a species based on it.
description: Published as part of Makarkin, Vladimir N., Archibald, S. Bruce & Mathewes, Rolf W., 2021, New Protosmylinae (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) from the early Eocene of western North America, with taxonomic remarks, pp. 142-156 in Zootaxa 4980 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4883181
Philoctetes
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Wei, Na-Sen
name: Notton, David
name: Xu, Zai-Fu
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Philoctetes

description: Key to Chinese species of the genus Philoctetes
1. Head blue to black; pronotum, mesonotum and metanotum golden-red, rest of mesosoma blue; metasoma golden-red, T1 and T2 medially black (Fig. 1 A); apex of T3 without median notch................. P. simulator Rosa, Notton & Xu, sp. nov.
- Differently coloured; apex of T3 with median notch......................................................... 2
2. Body green or bluish-green, with golden reflections on mesoscutellum, metanotum and T3 (Figs 3 D, 3F).............. 3
- Body red or golden red, with or without dark or black areas on head and mesosoma (Figs 2 C, 2D).................... 4
3. Female mesoscutum with large punctures (Fig. 4 D) and erected setae; male flagellomeres elongated (Fig. 3 B)............................................................................... P. longiflagellis Rosa, Wei & Xu, sp. nov.
- Female mesoscutum with smaller punctures and inclined setae; male unknown................. P. mordvilkoi (Semenov)
4. Metanotum with large flat medial projection with apex U-shaped (Fig. 2 C); head and mesosoma with large dark or black areas (Figs 2 C, 2D); T3 with median notch deeply incised (Fig. 2 F)............................ P. mongolicus (du Buysson)
- Metanotum conical to slightly projected backward; head and mesosoma with uniform colouration, without black areas (Fig. 1 A); T3 with median notch shallowly incised (Fig. 1 C)........................................................ 5
5 Metanotum conical, not projected backward (Fig. 1 A), shorter than mesoscutellum dorso-medially (Fig. 1 B); tegula with metallic reflection; T2 with sparse punctuation dorsally (Fig.1 B).............................. P. deauratus (Mocsáry)
- Metanotum conical and with apex slightly projected backward, as long as mesoscutellum dorso-medially; tegula brown without metallic reflection; T2 with dense punctuation all over the tergum........................... P. horvathi (Mocsáry)
description: Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-Sen, Notton, David & Xu, Zai-Fu, 2015, The genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 from China, with description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), pp. 433-444 in Zootaxa 4040 (4) on pages 434-435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/233986
Axinidris kinoin Shattuck 1991
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Axinidris
Axinidris kinoin

description: Axinidris kinoin Shattuck
Axinidris kinoin Shattuck, 1991: 115 - 116; figs. 20 - 22, 35 (w). NIGERIA, " specific locality not given, probably Gambari Experiment Station) (B. Taylor) ” (BMNH) examined.
Worker diagnosis. Pronotum with erect hairs and scape with 1 or 2 short erect hairs; mesonotum without rugae; medial carina present; distance between spines less than PPW; head and body reddish brown.
Worker measurements (mm) (n = 2). HW 0.75 - 0.76; HL 0.83 - 0.86; SL 0.68 - 0.69; EL 0.22; OVD 0.26 - 0.28; PNW n / a; PPW 0.37 - 0.38; WL 1.01. Indices. CI 88 - 91; CNI 128 - 131; OI 29; SI 91.
Worker description. The worker has been adequately described by Shattuck (1991).
Queen and male unknown.
DISCUSSION
This species remains known only from the two type specimens from an unspecified locality in Nigeria, but assumed to be the Gambari Experiment Station (Shattuck, 1991). It is most similar to A. denticulata from which it differs as noted in the key.
description: Published as part of Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., pp. 551-579 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on page 563
Megachile (Chrysosarus) luederwaldti Schrottky, new combination
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Megachile
Megachile luederwaldti

description: Megachile (Chrysosarus) luederwaldti Schrottky, new combination
Megachile luederwaldti Schrottky 1913: 189. Female. Type locality: Campos do Jordão, São Paulo State [Brazil], 16 February 1906 (Coll. H. Lüderwaldt). Type repository: Museu de Zoologia, da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Examined.
Megachile (Chelostomoides) luederwaldti: Moure 1943: 176.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2004, Nomenclatural changes in leafcutter bees of the Americas: Megachile Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae), pp. 1-4 in Zootaxa 766 on page 1, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158473
Thandarum Martinez & Brogger 2012
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name: Souto, Camilla
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Year: 2015
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Thandarum

description: Genus Thandarum Martinez & Brogger 2012
Type species. Thandarum hernandezi; by original designation.
description: Published as part of Martins, Luciana & Souto, Camilla, 2015, Taxonomic review of four western Atlantic dendrochirotids (Holothuroidea) with the description of a new Brazilian cucumariid species and designation of neotypes, pp. 362-374 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 368, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/243332
Philoctetes deauratus Mocsary 1914
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Wei, Na-Sen
name: Notton, David
name: Xu, Zai-Fu
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Philoctetes
Philoctetes deauratus

description: Philoctetes deauratus (Mocsáry, 1914)
(Figs 1 A–1F)
Ellampus deauratus Mocsáry, 1914: 2. Lectotype (designated by Kimsey & Bohart, 1991: 267), ♀, China: Tientsin [= Tianjin] (BMNH) (examined).
Ellampus deauratus: Tsuneki 1947: 45; Tsuneki 1948: 119.
Omalus (Omalus) deauratus: Linsenmaier 1959: 20.
Pseudomalus deauratus: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 267.
Philoctetes deauratus: Rosa et al. 2014: 31.
Material examined. CHINA: 1♀, Tientsin [= Tianjin], 15.VI.1906, F.M. Thomson, 1907-200, 8 , Ellampus deauratus Mocs. typ. det. Mocsáry , B.M. Type Hym 13.9, Holotype, BMNH (E) #970948, Lectotypus Ellampus deauratus Mocsáry ♀, Kimsey & Bohart design. 1991. Paralectotype: 1♀, Tientsin [= Tianjin], 15.VI.1906, F.M. Thomson, 1907-200.
Diagnosis. Female of Philoctetes deauratus (Mocsáry, 1914) is close to that of P. horvathi (Mocsáry, 1889) for habitus. It can be separated by metanotum conical not projected backward (Figs 1 A, 1B), shorter than mesoscutellum dorso-medially (Fig. 1 B) (slightly but always well distinct projected and almost as long as mesoscutellum in P. horvathi); tegula with metallic red reflection (brown without metallic reflection in P. horvathi); T2 with sparse punctuation dorsally (Fig.1 B) (finely but densely punctuate in P. horvathi); colouration shining golden-red with greenish reflections on pronotum and mesonotum (usually metallic red-purple in P. horvathi).
Distribution. China (Tianjin).
Remarks. Mocsáry (1914) described Ellampus deauratus based on an unknown number of female specimens collected in China at Tientsin [= Tianjin] on the 15.VI.1906 (by F.M. Thomson) and housed at the British Museum. At the BMNH two identical specimens bearing the same locality labels and collecting event are housed. According to the Code (ICZN 1999: recommendation 73F) they are considered here as syntypes. One specimen was erroneously labelled as holotype by a former curator and later considered as holotype by Kimsey & Bohart (1991). Kimsey and Bohart’s inference that this specimen was a holotype is in effect a lectotype designation by inference of holotype (ICZN 1999: article 74.6). A third specimen, collected during the same collecting event at Tientsin (= Tianjin) by F.M. Thomson on 15 June 1906, was labelled by G. Meade-Waldo as “compared with the type ” and it is currently housed at HNHM. This specimen cannot be considered as syntype because it does not match the original description given by Mocsáry (1914), and shows a completely different colouration.
description: Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-Sen, Notton, David & Xu, Zai-Fu, 2015, The genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 from China, with description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), pp. 433-444 in Zootaxa 4040 (4) on pages 435-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/233986
Dasydorylas Skevington 2001
Creators: name: Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany
name: Marques, Dayse Willkenia A.
name: Rafael, José Albertino
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Year: 2024
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Pipunculidae
Dasydorylas

description: Genus Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001
Dasydorylas Skevington in Skevington & Yeates, 2001: 435.
Type species Pipunculus eucalypti Perkins, 1905 (original designation).
Pipunculus – Banks 1915: 169 (partim). — Curran 1928: 43 (partim). — Hardy 1943: 83 (partim). — Aczél 1948: 28 (partim); 1952: 247 (partim). — Arnaud & Owen 1981 (Curran types) (partim).
Dorilas – Hardy 1943: 84, pl. 6, figs 36a–b (partim).
Dorilas (Eudorylas) – Hardy 1954: 21, figs 7a–b, 32, figs 14a–c (partim).
Eudorylas – Rafael 1991: 156, figs 12–16, 37; 159, figs 21–28, 39 (partim).
Dasydorylas – Rafael & Ale-Rocha 2004: figs 33–37. — Földvári 2013: 23. — Motamedinia et al. 2017; 2020.
Diagnosis (adapted from Skevington 2001)
Small to medium size (2.5–4.8 mm). Eyes holoptic in males, dichoptic in females. Postpedicel with acuminate apex. Notopleuron usually with dense tuft of long setae. Scutum with dorsocentral setae conspicuous. Femora with ventral ctenidia and row of long setae posterodorsally. Hind tibia with one or more erected anterior spines on median part, fore and mid tibiae with distinct apical spines. Tegula usually with a cluster of setae. Wing with pterostigma. Abdomen ovate with conspicuous scattered setae (rarely inconspicuous) ground color dark; tergites 2–4 usually with posterior margin brown, gray, or yellowish brown pruinose. Syntergosternite 8 with a membranous area. Apex of phallic guide with apex hook-shaped, sometimes with large spines. Ejaculatory apodeme parasol-shaped or funnel-shaped. Phallus thin and trifid (rarely bifid).
description: Published as part of Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Marques, Dayse Willkenia A. & Rafael, José Albertino, 2024, Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001 (Pipunculidae, Tomosvaryellini) of Colombia, with description of three new species and a key to Neotropical males, pp. 138-157 in European Journal of Taxonomy 932 on page 141, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.932.2517, http://zenodo.org/record/11119687
Megachile (Cressoniella) porrectula Cockerell, new combination
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Megachile
Megachile porrectula

description: Megachile (Cressoniella) porrectula Cockerell, new combination
Megachile porrectula Cockerell 1914: 428. Replacement name for Megachile acuta Vachal 1908: 244. Male. Type locality: Mapirí, Bolivia. Type repository: Vachal Collection, Musée National de Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. Examined.
(Not Megachile (Xanthosarus) acuta Smith 1853: 192. Female. Type locality: Mexico. Type repository: BMNH 17a2412. = Megachile latimanus Say 1823. Synonymy of Dalla Torre 1896: 436 and Cockerell 1905: 337.)
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2004, Nomenclatural changes in leafcutter bees of the Americas: Megachile Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae), pp. 1-4 in Zootaxa 766 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158473
Megachile (Cressoniella) sonorana Cockerell, new combination
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Megachile
Megachile sonorana

description: Megachile (Cressoniella) sonorana Cockerell, new combination
Megachile sonorana Cockerell 1924: 552. Female. Type locality: Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, 8 April 1921 (coll. E. P. Van Duzee). Type repository: #1518, California Academy of Science, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Not examined.
Specimens of M. sonorana at the Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, U.S.A. said to have been identified by Professor T. B. Mitchell are members of this subgenus.
description: Published as part of Raw, Anthony, 2004, Nomenclatural changes in leafcutter bees of the Americas: Megachile Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae), pp. 1-4 in Zootaxa 766 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158473
Philoctetes horvathi Mocsary 1889
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Wei, Na-Sen
name: Notton, David
name: Xu, Zai-Fu
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Year: 2015
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Philoctetes
Philoctetes horvathi

description: Philoctetes horvathi (Mocsáry, 1889)
Ellampus wesmaeli Mocsáry, 1882: 27. Lectotype ♀ (designated by Móczár 1964: 434), Hungary (HNHM) (examined), nom. praeocc., nec Chevrier, 1862.
Ellampus horváthi (!) Mocsáry, 1889: 82. Replacement name for Ellampus wesmaeli Mocsáry, 1882.
Ellampus horvathii (!): Dalla Torre 1892: 13.
Omalus (Omalus) horvathi: Linsenmaier 1959: 15, 19; Linsenmaier 1997: 249.
Omalus horváthi (!): Móczár 1964: 434 (lectotype designation).
Philoctetes horvathi: Kimsey & Bohart 1991: 256; Ha et al. 2008: 77; Rosa et al. 2013: 13; Rosa et al. 2014: 32.
Material examined. HUNGARY: ♀: Deliblat 5.VII. / ♀ / Lectotypus ♀ Ellampus horvathi Mocsáry / id nr. 134866 HNHM Hym. coll. CHINA: 1♀, Nan-Chan le Kan Tchegu à Lan Tcheou [=Lanzhou], 2000 m to 4000 m, VII.1908, Dr. Vaillant 1909 (NMLS).
Diagnosis. Philoctetes horvathi (Mocsáry, 1889) is similar to P. mongolicus (du Buysson, 1901) and P. deauratus (Mocsáry, 1914) for general habitus (Fig. 1 A). However, it can be easily separated from P. mongolicus by the following characteristics: metanotum conical to slightly projected backward (with large and flat medial projection with apex U-shaped in P. mongolicus); males with metanotum conical not projected backward (Fig. 1 D); apex of T3 with shallow median notch (Fig. 1 F) (deep in P. mongolicus); and body with uniform colouration, without black areas (Figs 1 A, 1C) (with large black areas on mesosoma and metasoma in P. mongolicus). It can be separated from P. deauratus by metanotum slightly projected backward and almost as long as the mesoscutellum dorso-medially (not projected and shorter in P. d e au r a t u s); tegula brown without metallic reflection (with red metallic reflection in P. deauratus); T2 densely punctuate dorsally (with sparse punctuation in P. deauratus); body colouration metallic red-purple (shining golden-red with greenish reflections on pronotum and mesonotum in P. horvathi).
Distribution. China (Gansu). Transpalearctic, from Europe and North Africa to Korea (Kimsey & Bohart 1991; Linsenmaier 1997).
Remarks. Pictures of the type are published in Rosa et al. (2014: Plate 23).
description: Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-Sen, Notton, David & Xu, Zai-Fu, 2015, The genus Philoctetes Abeille de Perrin, 1879 from China, with description of two new species (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae), pp. 433-444 in Zootaxa 4040 (4) on page 436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/233986
Axinidris mlalu Snelling 2007, new species
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Axinidris
Axinidris mlalu

description: Axinidris mlalu, new species
Worker diagnosis. Scape shaft, pronotum and gastral terga without erect hairs; distance between apices of propodeal spines less than distance between propodeal spiracles; gastral tergum 1 yellow, segments 2 - 4 dark brown.
Worker measurements (mm) (n - 1). HW 0.74; HL 0.86; SL 0.68; EL 0.21; OVD 0.31; PNW 0.49; PPW 0.36; WL 1.03. Indices. CI 87; CNI 100; SI 91; OI 28.
Worker description. Front of head moderately shiny, weakly coriarious and strigulate between sparse minute punctures; gena shinier and with few strigulae, malar area more strongly coriarious. Antennal scape without erect hairs; each frontal carina with 1 pair of long erect hairs; upper frons with a single submedian pair of long hairs below vertex margin.
Mesosomal dorsum without erect hairs. Pronotal disc smooth and shiny. Mesonotum shiny, anteriorly smooth, posteriorly sharply punctate. Mesepisternum shiny, with faint longitudinal rugae. Metepisternum densely and relatively coarsely punctate. Propodeum contiguously finely punctate; dorsal face slightly convex in profile; medial carina absent from dorsal face except at summit of declivity, where it is low and broadly rounded; medial carina present on declivitous face; spiracular prominence well-developed, spiracular opening directly obliquely distad; propodeal teeth short and distance between their bases less than distance between spiracles.
Gastral terga shiny and unsculptured except for close fine piligerous punctures; all terga without erect hairs.
Head light brownish with yellowish clypeus and mandibles; mesosoma light brownish, paler on pronotum and sides; gaster dark brown but tergum 1 yellow, concolorous with petiole.
Queen and male unknown.
TYPE MATERIAL
Holotype worker, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, Songha-Mbaere Pref., Parc National Dzanga-Ndoki, " 37.9 km 169 ° S " Lidjombo, 2 ° 22 ' N 16 ° 10 ' E, 360 m, 20 - 28 May 2000 (B. L. Fisher, # 4128), beating low vegetation, rainforest, in CASC.
ETYMOLOGY
The name is an arbitrary combination to be treated as a noun in apposition.
DISCUSSION
The sharply contrastingly bicolored gaster and lack of erect hairs on both the mesosomal and gastral dorsa are distinctive for this species. Photomontage images are available at www. antweb. org as Axinidris sp. 2.
description: Published as part of Snelling, R. R., 2007, A review of the arboreal Afrotropical ant genus Axinidris., pp. 551-579 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on pages 565-566
Cucumaria Blainville 1830
Creators: name: Martins, Luciana
name: Souto, Camilla
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Year: 2015
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Cucumaria

description: Genus Cucumaria Blainville 1830
Type species. Cucumaria frondosa (Gunnerus 1767); by subsequent designation (Panning 1949: 416).
description: Published as part of Martins, Luciana & Souto, Camilla, 2015, Taxonomic review of four western Atlantic dendrochirotids (Holothuroidea) with the description of a new Brazilian cucumariid species and designation of neotypes, pp. 362-374 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/243332