cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tragardhus Koch 1956
Creators: name: Kamiński, Marcin Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Tragardhus

description: Key to the subgenera of Tragardhus
1. Body length: 4.5–6.0 mm. Center of pronotal disc with two pairs of rounded carinae (Fig. 2A). Epipleuron dilated apically, with roundish alveola at the level of fourth ventrite (Fig. 2C). Abdomen with fine punctures. Fifth abdominal ventrite simple (Fig. 2E). Second lobe of coxites trapezoidal, much smaller in size than paraproct (Fig. 5A)......... subgenus Tragardhus
-. Body length: 3.0– 4.5 mm. Pronotal disc simple, without rounded carinae (Fig. 2B). Epipleuron evenly narrowed towards apex, without any additional structures (Fig. 1N). Abdomen with coarse punctures. Fifth abdominal ventrite raised in apical third (Fig. 2D). Second lobe of coxites rounded laterally, nearly as large as paraproct (Fig. 5B)......... subgenus Mitragardhus
description: Published as part of Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2017, Afrotropical Melambiina: revision of the genus Tragardhus Koch, 1956 and redescription of Pseudemmallus Koch, 1956 (Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), pp. 71-93 in Zootaxa 4347 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1044878
Tragardhus (Mitragardhus) nodosus Koch 1956
Creators: name: Kamiński, Marcin Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Tragardhus
Tragardhus nodosus

description: Tragardhus (Mitragardhus) nodosus Koch, 1956
(Figs 2D, G, 3B, 5B, 7)
Tragardhus (Mitragardhus) nodosus Koch, 1956: 379.
Studied type material. This species wAs DescRibeD bAseD oN five sYNtYpes (4 mAles AND 1 femAles) DepositeD At the collectioNs of the SweDish MUseUm of NAtURAl HistoRY AND TMNH (Koch 1956). DURiNg the pReseNt stUDY, oNlY A siNgle sYNtYpe (mAle) fRom TMNH wAs iNvestigAteD: “ PARAtYpe No: 3565 / TRAgARDhUs / NoDosUs KOCH ”, “Nov.”, “ZUlU.”, “TRgDh” (Fig. 3B).
Other material, mAle AND femAle (TMNH): “UmgeNi RiveR VAlleY / BothAs Hill DistR., Ntl. / Dec. 196, R.F. LAwReNce”; mAle (SMNS): “S. AfR. NAtAl / UmhlANgA b. DURbAN / I. MeYbohm 27.7.1997 ”.
Notes. UNtil Now, the coNcept of this species wAs bAseD exclUsivelY oN tYpe mAteRiAl. DURiNg ReceNt woRk, eleveN otheR iNDiviDUAls of this tAxoN weRe iDeNtifieD. This pRoviDeD the oppoRtUNitY to pReseNt DAtA oN femAle moRphologY foR the fiRst time.
Sexual dimorphism. DiffeReNces betweeN sexes exclUsivelY coNceRN leg stRUctURe. MAle pRotibiAe possess meDiAN DilAtAtioNs, which ARe coveReD bY A pAtch of DeNse setAe; metAtibiAe ARe wiDeNeD AND coveReD bY A loNgitUDiNAl pAtches of setAe (Fig. 2G). IN femAles, All Above meNtioNeD leg pARts ARe sleNDeR.
Female terminalia. OvipositoR (Fig. 5B) RelAtivelY shoRt (boDY: ovipositoR leNgth RAtio cA. 6.2). PARApRoct slightlY shoRteR oR eqUAl iN leNgth to coxites; tRiANgUlAR, Not shielDiNg vAlvifeR oR ANY otheR lobes of coxites. VAlvifeR tRANsveRse (wiDth: leNgth RAtio cA. 5.0). SecoND lobe tRApezoiDAl. ThiRD AND foURth lobes ReDUceD; sitUAteD ApicAllY. GoNostYlUs locAteD oN DoRsAl siDe of foURth lobe. VAgiNA AND bURsA copUlAtRix withoUt scleRites. SpeRmAthecA with thick DUcts; coNNecteD with bURsA copUlAtRix bY A thiN cANAl. SpicUlUm veNtRAle shoRt (wiDth: height RAtio cA. 1.5). PRoctigeR coveRiNg whole veNtRAl siDe of ovipositoR.
Distribution. This species hAs beeN collecteD iN the followiNg ecoRegioNs of SoUth AfRicA (CApe ZoNe): KwAZUlU-CApe coAstAl foRest mosAic AND SoUtheRN AfRicA mANgRoves (Fig. 7).
description: Published as part of Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2017, Afrotropical Melambiina: revision of the genus Tragardhus Koch, 1956 and redescription of Pseudemmallus Koch, 1956 (Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), pp. 71-93 in Zootaxa 4347 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1044878
Tragardhus Koch 1956
Creators: name: Kamiński, Marcin Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Tragardhus

description: Subgenus Tragardhus Koch, 1956
Tragardhus Koch, 1956: 369.— Kulzer 1963: 431, Iwan 2004: 739, Kamiński 2011: 321.
Type species. Tragardhus (Tragardhus) glandipleurum Koch, 1956; bY oRigiNAl DesigNAtioN.
Diagnosis. This sUbgeNUs wAs eRecteD bAseD oN UNiqUe (withiN MelAmbiiNA) stRUctURes of pRoNotUm AND elYtRA (Koch 1956): ceNteR of pRoNotAl Disc with A pAiR of sUbpARAllel RoUNDeD cARiNAe (Fig. 2A); epipleURoN DilAteD ApicAllY, with RoUNDish AlveolA At the level of foURth veNtRite (Fig. 2C). Both NewlY DescRibeD species fit withiN this tAxoNomic coNcept. FoR otheR chARActeRs sepARAtiNg this sUbgeNUs fRom Mitragardhus see the iDeNtificAtioN keY.
Species included (5). T. (T.) biapicalis Koch, 1956, T. (T.) glandipleurum Koch, 1956, T. (T.) jani sp. nov., T. (T.) majae sp. nov. AND T. (T.) stigmaticus Koch, 1956.
description: Published as part of Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2017, Afrotropical Melambiina: revision of the genus Tragardhus Koch, 1956 and redescription of Pseudemmallus Koch, 1956 (Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), pp. 71-93 in Zootaxa 4347 (1) on page 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1044878
Tragardhus Koch 1956
Creators: name: Kamiński, Marcin Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Tragardhus

description: Key to the species of subgenus Tragardhus
1. Third elytral interval forming a sharp and strongly raised continuous costa (Fig. 4F)............................... 2
-. Third elytral interval composed of more or less elongated tubercles (Fig. 4G)..................................... 3
2. Anterior pronotal angles protruding outwards. Lateral sides of pronotum, at base, straight. Eighth elytral interval composed of short tubercles (Fig. 4D)............................................................... T. (T.) majae sp. nov.
-. Anterior pronotal angles not protruding outwards. Lateral sides of pronotum rounded. Eighth elytral interval, at least at middle, with a sharply raised continuous costa (Fig. 4C).............................................. T. (T.) jani sp. nov.
3. Fifth, seventh and ninth elytral intervals with a sharply raised continuous costae (Fig. 2H). Male protibia with a prominent, obtusely dentiform, arcuate median dilatation (Fig. 2J)....................................... T. (T.) glandipleurum
-. Fifth, seventh and ninth elytral intervals composed of more or less elongated tubercles (Fig. 2I). Male protibia without median dilatation........................................................................................... 4
4. Pronotum cordiform, sinuate anterior to basal angles (Fig. 4E). Third, fifth and seventh elytral intervals covered with coarse, dense tubercles; second and fourth intervals covered with sparse tubercles........................... T. (T.) stigmaticus
-. Pronotum narrowed, subparallel in basal half (Fig. 4A). Third, fifth and seventh elytral intervals covered with sparse tubercles; second and fourth intervals not covered with tubercles........................................... T. (T.) biapicalis
description: Published as part of Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2017, Afrotropical Melambiina: revision of the genus Tragardhus Koch, 1956 and redescription of Pseudemmallus Koch, 1956 (Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), pp. 71-93 in Zootaxa 4347 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1044878
Tragardhus (Tragardhus) glandipleurum Koch 1956
Creators: name: Kamiński, Marcin Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Tragardhus
Tragardhus glandipleurum

description: Tragardhus (Tragardhus) glandipleurum Koch, 1956
(Figs 2A, E, H, J, 4B, 7)
Tragardhus (Tragardhus) glandipleurum Koch, 1956: 382.— Banaszkiewicz 2006: 64; Kamiński 2011: 332.
Studied type material. Syntype, sex UNDeteRmiNeD (TNHM): “TRägåRDh”, “ZUlU”, “ 8 jUli ”, “TYpe / glANDi- / pleURUm / Koch” (Fig. 4B).
Other material, 3 femAles AND mAle (TMNH): “S. AfR.: ZUlUlAND / HlUhlUwe GAme Res. / 28.05S – 32.04 E ”, “ 26.11.1992; E-Y: 2853 / siNgleD ARoUND cAmp / leg. ENDRÖDY-YoUNgA”, 8 femAles AND 3 mAles (TMNH): “HlUhlUwe. / Oct. 1935. / R. F. LAwReNce”, mAle AND femAle (TMNH): “J. JoppiN / E. ZUlUlAND”.
Notes. This species wAs Not ReDescRibeD, As the oRigiNAl DescRiptioN bAseD oN exteRNAl moRphologY is complete AND coNsisteNt with the stYle ADopteD heRe.
AlthoUgh the femAle teRmiNAliA of this species wAs DescRibeD iN DetAil bY BANAszkiewicz (2006), the pReseNt iNvestigAtioN ReveAleD A completelY DiffeReNt imAge, with mAjoR DiffeReNces coNceRNiNg both the ovipositoR AND speRmAthecA. BecAUse this might hAve impoRtANt phYlogeNetic implicAtioNs, the moRphologY of the femAle teRmiNAliA is ReDescRibeD below.
Female terminalia. OvipositoR (Fig. 5A, C, D) RelAtivelY shoRt (boDY: ovipositoR leNgth RAtio cA. 8.0). PARApRoct eqUAl iN leNgth to coxites; tRiANgUlAR, Not shielDiNg vAlvifeR oR ANY otheR lobes of coxities. VAlvifeR tRANsveRse (wiDth: leNgth RAtio cA. 4.7). SecoND lobe tRApezoiDAl; thiRD lobe tRiANgUlAR. ApicAl lobe ReDUceD, sitUAteD ApicAllY. GoNostYlUs locAteD oN DoRsAl siDe of the lAtteR lobe. VAgiNA AND bURsA copUlAtRix withoUt scleRites. SpeRmAthecA with thiN DUcts; coNNecteD with bURsA copUlAtRix bY A thiN cANAl. SpicUlUm veNtRAle shoRt (wiDth: height RAtio cA. 1.5). PRoctigeR coveRiNg whole veNtRAl siDe of ovipositoR.
Distribution. This species hAs beeN collecteD iN the followiNg ecoRegioN of SoUth AfRicA (TRopicAl sUbRegioN): DRAkeNsbeRg moNtANe gRAsslANDs, wooDlANDs AND foRests (Fig. 7).
description: Published as part of Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2017, Afrotropical Melambiina: revision of the genus Tragardhus Koch, 1956 and redescription of Pseudemmallus Koch, 1956 (Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), pp. 71-93 in Zootaxa 4347 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1044878
Tragardhus (Tragardhus) stigmaticus Koch 1956
Creators: name: Kamiński, Marcin Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Tragardhus
Tragardhus stigmaticus

description: Tragardhus (Tragardhus) stigmaticus Koch, 1956
(Figs 4E, G, 7)
Tragardhus (Tragardhus) stigmaticus Koch, 1956: 384.— Kamiński 2011: 332.
KwAZUlU-CApe coAstAl foRest mosAic (Fig. 7).
description: Published as part of Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2017, Afrotropical Melambiina: revision of the genus Tragardhus Koch, 1956 and redescription of Pseudemmallus Koch, 1956 (Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), pp. 71-93 in Zootaxa 4347 (1) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1044878
Ephesiella Chamberlin 1919
Creators: name: Capa, Maria
name: Bakken, Torkild
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Sphaerodoridae
Ephesiella

description: Genus Ephesiella Chamberlin, 1919
Type species. Sphaerodorum abyssorum Hansen, 1878.
Diagnosis. Body long and slender. Two longitudinal rows of macrotubercles over dorsum, one pair per segment. Macrotubercles sessile, with terminal papillae. Two longitudinal rows of microtubercles, one pair per segment, running parallel between macrotubercles. Additionally, papillae arranged in 4–5 transversal rows on dorsum and ventrum. Head appendages short, spherical or digitiform. Parapodia from chaetiger 2 with compound chaetae; hooks absent or present.
description: Published as part of Capa, Maria & Bakken, Torkild, 2015, Revision of the Australian Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) including the description of four new species, pp. 227-267 in Zootaxa 4000 (2) on page 231, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/234762
Sphaerephesia Fauchald 1972
Creators: name: Capa, Maria
name: Bakken, Torkild
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Sphaerodoridae
Sphaerephesia

description: Genus Sphaerephesia Fauchald, 1972
Type species. Sphaerephesia longisetis Fauchald, 1972
Diagnosis: Body mainly short and ovoid, some species slender. Four longitudinal rows of macrotubercles. Macrotubercles sessile with short terminal papillae. Microtubercles absent. Papillae over body surface and parapodia. Head appendages short, spherical or digitiform. Parapodia with compound chaetae; hooks absent.
description: Published as part of Capa, Maria & Bakken, Torkild, 2015, Revision of the Australian Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) including the description of four new species, pp. 227-267 in Zootaxa 4000 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/234762
INTRODUZIONE. AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
Creators: name: Bertoni, Federico
name: Fusillo, Massimo
name: Carati, Simone
name: Corradino, Anna Chiara
name: Suverato, Andrea
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024

description: -
description: ECHO, N. 6 (2024): AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
Sphaerodoropsis Hartman and Fauchald 1971
Creators: name: Capa, Maria
name: Bakken, Torkild
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Sphaerodoridae
Sphaerodoropsis

description: Genus Sphaerodoropsis Hartman and Fauchald, 1971
Type species. Sphaerodorum sphaerulifer Moore, 1909.
Diagnosis. Body generally short and ovoid, some forms slender. Four or more longitudinal rows of macrotubercles, in one or several transversal rows per segment. Macrotubercles sessile and smooth, without terminal papillae. Microtubercles absent. Papillae over body surface and parapodia. Head appendages short, spherical or digitiform. Parapodia with compound chaetae; hooks absent.
description: Published as part of Capa, Maria & Bakken, Torkild, 2015, Revision of the Australian Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) including the description of four new species, pp. 227-267 in Zootaxa 4000 (2) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/234762
MICHELE DAMASCENO E LA RIMODULAZIONE DELLE STRATEGIE DI VISUALIZZAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ: CONTINUITÀ E DISCONTINUITÀ NELLE FORMULE DI DESCRIZIONE DELLA SCUOLA CRETESE
Creators: name: Di Cosmo, Antonio Pio
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Michael Damaskinos; Icons; Three Wise Men; Holy Trinity; Saint Knights

description: The present research proceeds from the problems surrounding the acculturation for contact that invests the island of Crete, which followed its entry into Venetian rule. One of the best exponents of the Cretan school of painting, Michael Damaskinos attempts to reconcile the aesthetic values of Eastern Roman production with the recent innovations introduced by Venetian painting with its colorism and – at the same time – placed by the products of Italian mannerism. We selected a small number of works from Michael’s production, which are considered paradigmatic for understanding the complex construction process of his works. In this way, we show how his pictographic works are the result of the summation of different representational formulas and the expression of a long process of acculturation.
description: ECHO, N. 6 (2024): AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
IL ΠΕΡΙ ΣΤΥΓΟΣ DI PORFIRIO (FRR. 372-380 SMITH = 1-9 CASTELLETTI): SULLO STIGE O SULLA (DEA) STIGE?
Creators: name: Filoni, Andrea
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Porphyry’s On Styx; Styx; Hades; Homer; Demonology

description: Quite fortunately, John of Stobi (Stobaeus) draws some excerpts from a work by Porphyry, the On the Styx, which would have been lost otherwise. Possibly, the Anthologist, by preserving a description of the Homeric Hades and the sort of the souls in the Beyond, does not save the core of the work, and the title seems to deal – better than with the flood – with the goddess Styx and a cosmic theodicy: for the description of Hades and of the punishers reserved to humans are useful to describe the Tartarus and the goddess Styx, who punishes gods – or better demons – authors of misdeeds, as indicated in a key-passage. Accordingly, the On the Styx, despite what remains in Stobaeus, is to be considered a piece on demonology.
description: ECHO, N. 6 (2024): AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
THROUGH THE VEIL: VOICES OF THE AFTERLIFE IN GEORGE ELIOT’S THE LIFTING VEIL
Creators: name: Monaco, Angelo
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: George Eliot; Victorian Literature; Afterlife; Realism; Fantasy

description: Written between George Eliot’s early and late novels, The Lifted Veil (1859) departs from the typical third-person narration characteristic of the Victorian writer’s oeuvre. The story is told in the first person from the perspective of an eccentric young man named Latimer, an aesthetic choice that lends a confessional tone to the tale. Latimer possesses a special ability: he can read the future and foresee his own death. In many ways, the novella straddles dark fantasy and realism as it juxtaposes elements of Gothic fiction, such as Latimer’s interests in revivification, with an attentive depiction of the material reality. After all, The Lifted Veil reminds the reader that Eliot’s literary realism alternates between an accurate depiction of the external world and an investigation of human consciousness. Starting from these premises, in this essay I would like to argue that through the motif of the veil Eliot builds up a densely poetic narrative in which the boundary between art and fiction, reality and imagination is refracted. On the one hand, The Lifted Veil pushes realism to its limits much like Giuseppe Sanmartino’s famous marble sculpture Cristo velato (1753), foregrounding a narrative form replete with sensory vividness, especially for the visual, haptic and olfactory imagery that permeates the text. On the other hand, the novella serves a much broader purpose in that it may be read as an aesthetic experiment. Through the trope of the veil, Eliot acknowledges that scientific inquiry can expand the scope of literary writing, contributing to a more accurate form of realism.
description: ECHO, N. 6 (2024): AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
AL CONFINE CON L’ALDILÀ. IPOTESI SUL ROMANZO D’AVVENTURA
Creators: name: Carati, Simone
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Adventure; Afterlife; Possible Worlds; Borders; Novel

description: The aim of this paper is to outline the links between adventure novel and the afterlife. Starting with Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe, which can be considered – for different reasons – the models of the modern adventure tale, the focus is then shifted on two novels published between the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that make a crucial step in the history of the genre. A specific attention is given to the depiction of the main characters of the two novels, mysterious and, in a sense, diabolic heroes who seem to have a special relationship with the afterlife. The proposed thesis is that the afterlife in the adventure novel – and more specifically in these two examples – is configured as a border territory, absorbed into an immanent dimension and functional, in different ways, to the narrative structure of the tales.
description: ECHO, N. 6 (2024): AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
DEMONI E DYBBUKIM: IL SOPRANNATURALE NEI RACCONTI ‘AMERICANI’ DI ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
Creators: name: Rutigliano, Stefania
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: I.B. Singer; Dybbuk; Supernatural; Secularisation; Modernity

description: This article focuses on the theme of the afterlife in I.B. Singer’s short stories by referring to demons. The demonic marks elements taken from Jewish folklore, but it is also a sign of a reflection on the afterlife that together with the historical and memorial possibility of the survival of Jewish culture after the Shoah intercepts the religious, sacred and superstitious dimension of life after death. In fact, in the short story The Last Demon, the dybbuk becomes an explicit metaphor for literary writing seen as the only possibility of survival for the world wiped out by Nazism, an issue, that of survival through storytelling, which more generally concerns the very choice of writing in Yiddish (and of taking part in the American translations of his own works, even self-translating them) and which bases the narrative on the urgency of constructing a transgenerational memory even implied in the biblical prescription to remember (zakhor).
The destroyed world of the Polish shtetlach is an afterlife, a world far away in time and space, when Singer writes about it. In his short stories the figures of the dybbukim - i.e. supernatural beings, demons or wandering spirits of the dead in search of a body to re-enter - can be seen as a useful trace of the interference between the real world and the supernatural dimension. Such an interference is referred to by certain existential themes such as loneliness, death or love, which are dealt with in numerous stories that show traces and forms of the supernatural in modern life, as it is typically marked by the tension between the sacred and the secular. There are also ironic declinations of the theme, which can be framed in the context of the tension between Jewish mysticism and rationalism, as in the fine example of Taibele and her Demon.
After developing the analysis through a selection of I.B. Singer’s short stories, the article considers some of their adaptations for film and theatre: Love Comes lately (Bis später Max!), a 2007 comedy by Jan Schütte based on the short stories Alone, The Briefcase and Old Love; Taibele and her Demon by Moni Ovadia and Pamela Villoresi (1995, from the short story of the same name by I.B. Singer); and A Shed, the Demon of Tishevitz (from the short story The Last Demon, which in Yiddish is titled Mayse Tishevitz) by Olek Mincer from 2011.
description: ECHO, N. 6 (2024): AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
ENTRE L’ICI-BAS ET L’AU-DELÀ DANS L’ŒUVRE D’ANNE HÉBERT
Creators: name: Marinkovic, Milica
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Anne Hébert; Duality; Metamorphosis, Life and Death Impulses; Transitional Figures

description: The work of Anne Hébert, a prominent figure in Québécois literature, reflects an existential struggle where life and death are intimately intertwined. In her novels, death is not merely an end but marks the beginning of a new existence, as tangible as life itself. Through an in-depth analysis of the story « Le torrent » and other works, this study explores the notion of the struggle for life within her fictional universe. The characters evolve in a liminal space where death exerts a fascination tinged with fear. Hébert develops a cyclical vision of existence, illustrated by the interactions between the living and the dead, highlighting a continuity beyond death. The characters undergo constant metamorphoses and frequently confront their own inner torment, revealing a profound duality between life-affirming and death-driven impulses. This duality is embodied through transitional figures, such as the horse, and natural elements like water. By analyzing the characters’ interactions with these elements, this article sheds light on the integral fusion between the world of the living and the dead, where life transforms into death and where the forces of Eros and Thanatos converge.
description: ECHO, N. 6 (2024): AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
L’ALLEGORIA TANATOLOGICA DI HILAROTRAGOEDIA
Creators: name: Cecamore, Fabiana
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Manganelli; Hilarotragoedia; Hillman; Allegory; Afterlife

description: The Afterlife represents the privileged dimension of interest in Giorgio Manganelli's writing. In their evident and deliberate formal complexity, his pseudo-essayistic and pseudo-narrative works present themselves as “emblems”1 or “crests”2 composed of materials drawn from an infernal imaginary. With these, Manganelli constructs sophisticated rhetorical exercises that challenge literary genres in the name of verbal proliferation and linguistic invention, expressing a use of textuality that tends towards graphomania rather than a genuine need for communication.
This contribution aims to explore the infernal dimension that underlies Manganelli's writing through the case of Hilarotragoedia, focusing on its relationship with the psychoanalytic universe3 and its allegorical value. Although the 'psychic' notion of infernal imagery reflects the influence of Jung’s work and of the therapeutic experience with Ernest Bernhard4 on Manganelli’s writing, this article attempts to connect Hilarotragoedia to the texts of James Hillman. The goal is to demonstrate that the ideas of depth psychology permeate Manganelli’s inspiration to the point of anticipating some aspects of Hillman’s psychoanalysis, and thus to read Hilarotragoedia as a manifestation of a profoundly acute "infernal sensitivity" (Hillman 2003, p. 13).
description: ECHO, N. 6 (2024): AFTERWORLDS. COMUNICAZIONE E RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELL’ALDILÀ
LA MORTE È SOLO L’INIZIO. L’ALDILÀ NELLE SERIE TV: THE TWILIGHT ZONE E THE GOOD PLACE
Creators: name: Susca, Carlotta
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: TV series; Afterlife; Comedy; Science fiction; Narrative

description: Two serial narratives, fifty years apart, address the afterlife in a philosophical way to reflect on earthly existence. The protagonist of A Nice Place to Visit and the four protagonists of The Good Place die young, and their stories take place entirely in the afterlife, as they gradually come to realize that what seems like paradise is actually hell (though in both cases, there are no religious connotations).
A Nice Place to Visit is the twenty-eighth episode of the first season of the seminal science fiction series The Twilight Zone (1959-1964); aired in 1960, the episode follows the thief Henry Francis “Rocky” Valentine, who is killed during a robbery and wakes up in a world where all his wishes are granted, only to discover that this is his punishment. The title refers to the expression “it’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there”.
The Good Place (2016-2020) is a TV series created by prolific showrunner Michael Schur. Its four protagonists meet in the afterlife, in what they believe to be “the good place,” an idyllic setting that turns out to be a sophisticated psychological torture mechanism devised by the demon Michael, played by Ted Danson.
The theme explored in the The Twilight Zone episode, akin to a philosophical novella, is further developed over the four seasons of The Good Place, where the characters are tortured through moral dilemmas and their interactions with one another. These two narratives exemplify different models of television seriality, belonging to distinct “eras” of audiovisual media – from the network era (1950s-1980s) to the current digital age – demonstrating an evolution similar to that theorized by the Russian Formalists, from the short story to the novel. At the same time, the depiction of the afterlife in both narratives reflects different moral conceptions fifty years apart: the Manichaean simplicity of The Twilight Zone episode, on one hand, and the complexity of contemporary morality in The Good Place, on the other.
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DALL’ORCO ALL’AVATAR: MITI ANTICHI E ALDILÀ DIGITALI IN UPLOAD DI GREG DANIELS
Creators: name: Corradino, Anna Chiara
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Upload; Digital Afterlife; Death; Female Dominance; Persephone; Adonis; Aphrodite

description: This contribution analyzes Greg Daniels’ series “Upload” (2020-) through the lens of ancient mythology, specifically examining parallels between the show’s narrative and the myth of Adonis, Aphrodite, and Persephone. Set in 2033, the series follows Nathan Brown, who after his death is uploaded to a digital afterlife called Lakeview, where he becomes entangled in a complex relationship between two women: his controlling girlfriend Ingrid and his digital afterlife guide, Nora. The analysis demonstrates how the series unconsciously recreates the structural elements of ancient myths of female dominance and male objectification. Nathan's character mirrors Adonis in his exceptional beauty and passive position between two competing female figures. Ingrid, with her obsession with artificial beauty and controlling nature, parallels Aphrodite, while Nora, characterized by darker features and her role as guardian of the digital afterlife, embodies a modernized Persephone. The study employs a transformative approach to classical reception, viewing ancient myths not as static sources but as continuously evolving narratives that adapt to contemporary contexts. Upload transforms traditional mythological elements to address contemporary concerns about digital immortality, body commodification, and post-human existence. The series' digital afterlife concept parallels ancient Greek understandings of the afterlife, while its treatment of death and digital consciousness reflects modern anxieties about mortality and technological advancement.
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THE OTHERWORLD IN THE VOYAGE OF BRAN: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH
Creators: name: Ruggero, Maria
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Afterlife Spaces; Celtic Literature; Otherworld; Multicultural Perspective; Comparative Approach

description: The essay aims at evaluating the description of afterlife in the old Irish tale, The Voyage of Bran, a text which has never been translated into the Italian language and which was written between the end of the 7th and the beginning of the 8th century. The essay is organized into two parts. First of all, I will consider the cultural dimension and the general literary descriptions of the otherworld in the Celtic scenario, by evaluating the influences of the Christian reality. Secondly, I will carefully analyze the text with a comparative approach and with particular attention on the value of space. I will show how the pagan otherworld is organized in relation to specific narrative elements: the invitation of a fairy, the magic branch, the journey over the sea, fantastical objects and animals. At the same time not only is the Christian echo determined by specific paradisiac elements, such as the presence of virtues and the lack of negative passions, but the Celtic frame encloses and develops a religious discourse based on the birth of Christ, on Fall and Redemption. By means of this double construction, the literary representation reflects the historical change: on the one hand, the place is described in relation to topoi which clearly belong to the pagan heritage, on the other hand it conveys a profound Christian message. The conclusion will offer a complete idea of the narrative of afterlife space in literary and multicultural terms, as a result of a suggestive syncretism.
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“AND SERAPH SOBS AT VERMINGS FANGS”. GLI ANGELI COME MEDIATORI FRA L’ALDILÀ E L’UOMO
Creators: name: Romagnoli, Marta
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Angels; Limit; Sacer; Ortese; Murdoch

description: Within Western culture, angels have represented the figure of the messenger par excellence between the afterlife and the world, starting from the very etymology of the word ἄγγελος 'he who brings the news'. In the exploration of 'ultimacy' (Tillich), that is, the individual and collective eschatological quest, the angel represents the intermediary between the two worlds, the one who reveals personal and historical destinies. In this sense, the angel can, in literary and artistic reworking, constitute an epiphany of the elsewhere (Emily Dickinson), a manifestation of the primordial and the repressed (Morante), or embody a non-linear conception of History and the traditional relationship between past and present (Benjamin). In the present article, a first part will therefore be devoted to an analysis of the figure of the angel as an intermediary between man and the otherworldly dimension of existence, with particular attention to the representations of 'exterminating angels', 'psychopompes' or heralds of death (The Conqueor Worm, Poe). Starting from the reworking of the angelic imaginary in the 20th century, the second part of the paper will focus on two narrative works, Anna Maria Ortese's La penna dell’angelo and Iris Murdoch's The Time of the Angels, in which the motif of the ‘psychopompes’ angels is combined with a reflection on Otherness.
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Supplementary Material S1 - Urso-Guimarães et al. (2024). THE PAN-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGIST 100(4).
Creators: name: Santos, J. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplementary Material S1 of the paper "Gall-inducing insect inventories in Brazil - update perspectives and challenges", see Urso-Guimarães et al. (2024), THE PAN-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGIST 100(4). List of cecidomyiid species in the Brazilian biomes, including their feeding habit, and associated host plant or prey recorded in the original description or inventories in Brazil. Type locality is indicated as “original description”; otherwise, the localities are from inventories. Abbreviation: NA: not applicable, NI: not informed.
IL VIAGGIO A COMALA. IL “ROMANCE OF THE SOUL” IN PEDRO PÁRAMO DI JUAN RULFO
Creators: name: Monateri, Valentina
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Romance of the Soul; Pedro Páramo; Afterworld; Geografía del Alma; Nekuia

description: From the fin de siècle to the High Modernist aesthetics, the image of the afterworld is largely represented in the European, North American and Latin American context. In the essay Rape and Revelation. The Descent to the Underworld in Modernism (1990), Evans Lansing Smith defines the literary representation of the afterlife as a “romance of the soul”, referring to works such as Hermann Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil (1945), Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano (1947) and the works by Thomas Mann Joseph und seine Brüder (1933-1943) and Doktor Faustus (1951) (Smith 1990, p. 75). Following Smith’s studies, this proposal will focus on the analysis of the “romance of the soul” in the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. In a Faulknerian vein, Rulfo elaborates the Mexican cultural heritage of Día de muertos through an expressionist style that aims at the defamiliarization of the artistic material. Comala, the city of spirits crossed by the main character Juan Preciado, is described by Rulfo as a metaphor of a political and cultural limbo. In these terms, Weinberg’s theory of Pedro Páramo as a narrative centered on a “geografía del alma” will help us define Rulfo’s spatial and cultural representation of the afterworld. (Weinberg 2008, pp. 331-332).
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CYBER ATTIVISMO, CITIZEN SCIENCE, DATA ACTIVISM: LA GIUSTIZIA AMBIENTALE URBANA DI PEACELINK
Creators: name: D’Autilia, Antonella
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Environmental Justice; ILVA; Citizen Science; Data Activism; Peacelink

description: This essay proposes a mediological analysis of the role played by the scientific citizenship of the Peacelink association in the Italsider-ex ILVA case in Taranto. It focuses on how the association produces ecological data on industrial pollution, digitally exposing health risks to the local community through the evolution of ICTs and the platformization of the public sphere. In addition to verifying the applicability of the definition of citizen science to this activist context, the study will assess the hypothesis of extending this definition to fully self-managed citizen projects aimed at environmental monitoring and democratic control, moving away from the idea that the role of a citizen scientist is constituted exclusively in relation to professionals. Through a mixed methods approach based on qualitative interviews and digital ethnography (Hine 2004; Underberg, Zorn 2013), a detailed account has been provided of various initiatives in which Peacelink's eco-sentinels have uncovered and brought to light substantial hidden knowledge about the impacts of the steel plant on the territory. The collected data underscore the decisive role that these data collection activities have played in initiating environmental advocacy processes. The organization's platform has assumed a prominent role in presenting easily accessible and interpretable data on its website, thereby educating the local civil society to implement daily practices of resistance.
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Piga Bruni, E., La macchina fragile. L’inconscio artificiale fra letteratura, cinema e televisione, Carocci, Roma 2023, pp. 180.
Creators: name: Diani, Luca
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024

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Mario Barenghi, In extremis. Il tema funebre nella narrativa italiana del Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2023, pp. 146.
Creators: name: Vignotto, Valentina
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024

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Sphaerodoropsis spissum Benham 1921
Creators: name: Capa, Maria
name: Bakken, Torkild
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Phyllodocida
Sphaerodoridae
Sphaerodoropsis
Sphaerodoropsis spissum

description: Sphaerodoropsis spissum (Benham, 1921)
Sphaerodorum spissum Benham, 1921: 74 –77, Pl. 9, Figs 82–89.– Augener 1927: 208 –210, Fig. 11.
Remarks. This species was originally described from the Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island as a species densely covered with papillae of not exact same sizes (Benham 1921). It has been suggested that this species has longitudinal rows of macrotubercles on the ventrum (Reuscher & Fiege 2011), but this is not quite clear from the original description and illustrations. In the original description and remarks given there were obviously problems to observe necessary details, and uncertainty in observation of characters was explicitly stated (Benham 1921: 74– 77). This species was reported a few years later from the head of Sydney Harbour (Augener 1927). Due to the small size of the single specimens found then (2.5 mm long), Augener had trouble observing all details and it is not unlikely that specimen belong to S. fauchaldi with its numerous macrotubercles distributed with no apparent pattern. It is necessary to study specimens reported as S. spissum to prepare a re-description in order to establish the true identity of this species. Until then, the species should not be considered to be a part of the continental Australian fauna, and should be considered known only from the original description. Nevertheless, it has not been possible to examine original or reported specimens.
description: Published as part of Capa, Maria & Bakken, Torkild, 2015, Revision of the Australian Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) including the description of four new species, pp. 227-267 in Zootaxa 4000 (2) on page 262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/234762
LAMENT DI MARGHERITA PEVERE: BIOARTE, MORTE E LUTTO AMBIENTALE NELL’ANTROPOCENE ATTRAVERSO UN DIALOGO CON L’ARTISTA
Creators: name: Pevere, Margherita
name: Corradino, Anna Chiara
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bioart; Environmental Performance; Posthuman Ecology; Queer Death Studies; Eco-grief

description: This article explores Margherita Pevere’s latest performance work Lament, which investigates post-wildfire ecological processes through a posthuman perspective. As part of her long-term project untaming death, Lament combines bioart, performance, and community engagement to examine the complex relationship between death, ecology, and environmental grief in the Anthropocene. Through a detailed interview, Pevere discusses how she transforms her body into a hybrid creature of the soil, moving through a carefully constructed installation of burnt earth, charcoal, and glass sculptures containing living moss ecosystems. The performance challenges traditional binary perspectives on death and nature, drawing from queer ecology and death studies to present death as a vital, generative process rather than merely an endpoint. The work addresses contemporary environmental challenges such as ecological grief (eco-grief) and solastalgia, while incorporating scientific collaboration with researchers and engagement with communities affected by extreme wildfires. Pevere’s transdisciplinary approach combines biological protocols, performance art, and philosophical inquiry to create what she terms “arts of vulnerability.” The installation remains as a “death bed” after the performance, featuring glass sculptures containing treated burnt soil and moss that continue to evolve throughout the exhibition period. This creates a tension between human and more-than-human temporalities, making tangible the complex ecological processes that follow environmental destruction. The article reveals how Lament contributes to contemporary discussions about environmental crisis, death, and regeneration through its unique combination of artistic practice, scientific research, and community involvement.
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Rhinolophus alcyone Temminck 1852
Creators: name: Bates, Paul J. J.
name: Cameron, Kenneth
name: Pearch, Malcolm J.
name: Hayes, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus alcyone

description: Rhinolophus alcyone Temminck, 1852
Halcyon horseshoe bat
Rhinolophus alcyone Temminck 1852: 80; Boutry River, Gold Coast (Ghana).
New material
HZM.15.40192, ♀, and HZM.16.40193, ♂, 7 August, 2012, Forest Corridor, Lekoumou, 3°25.578’S, 12°45.670’E. Previous records are included in Appendix I; the known distribution in Congo corresponds to localities 5, 6, 9, 10, and 29 in Fig. 1. According to Happold and Happold (2013), its abundance in Africa is uncertain; it is rarely collected.
Description
A medium horseshoe bat with a forearm length of 52.9, 53.0 mm (Table 2). The first phalanx of the third finger is relatively short (16.3, 17.9 mm); the second phalanx (27.0, 27.8 mm) is relatively long; the third metacarpal is 38.6, 38.7 mm in length. In the noseleaf, the horseshoe is broad with virtually no indication of a supplementary leaflet; the lancet has a rounded tip and is essentially straight-sided in one specimen and with slightly concave margins in the other. The sella has a shallow median constriction and a widely rounded anterior border; the superior connecting process is bluntly pointed (Fig. 4). There is one clearly defined groove in the lower lip. The skull is robust with a skull length (SL) of 22.82, 23.35 mm (Table 3). The anterior median compartments of the rostrum are well developed; the frontal depression is shallow. The canines are strong; the first upper premolar (P 2) is relatively well developed and lies within the toothrow. The second lower premolar (P 3) is small, but not minute, and also lies within the toothrow. The baculum is 3.3 mm in length and very distinctive (Fig. 4). It has a thin, cylindrical shaft with a slightly expanded tip; the base is slightly bilobate and broad, when viewed laterally, and is deeply hollowed out, when viewed from below.
Taxonomic notes
Currently there are no recognised subspecies (Csorba et al., 2003; Happold and Happold, 2013).
description: Published as part of Bates, Paul J. J., Cameron, Kenneth, Pearch, Malcolm J. & Hayes, Benjamin, 2013, A review of the bats (Chiroptera) of the Republic of Congo, including eight species new to the country, pp. 313-340 in Acta Chiropterologica 15 (2) on pages 317-318, DOI: 10.3161/150811013X678955, http://zenodo.org/record/3943563
L’ALDILÀ IN SCENA. I DIAVOLI ESCOGITANO UN PIANO PER BOICOTTARE LA CONVERSIONE DI BARBARA. TRADUZIONE E COMMENTO DI UN ESTRATTO DEL MYSTÈRE DE SAINTE BARBE EN CINQ JOURNÉES (BNF FR. 976)1, VV. 4898-5988
Creators: name: Scavello, Susanna
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2024

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Hipposideros caffer
Creators: name: Bates, Paul J. J.
name: Cameron, Kenneth
name: Pearch, Malcolm J.
name: Hayes, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Hipposideridae
Hipposideros
Hipposideros caffer

description: Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall, 1846)
Sundevall’s leaf-nosed bat
Rhinolophus caffer Sundevall, 1846: 118; Near Durban, South Africa.
New material
HZM.244.40187, ♂, 3 August, 2012, Lebayi Cave, Lekoumou, 2°42.045’S, 13°35.968’E. Previous records included in Appendix I; the known distribution corresponds to localities 5, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, and 29 in Fig. 1. This is an apparently common to very abundant species in optimum habitats in Africa (Happold and Happold, 2013).
Description
A small leaf-nosed bat with a forearm length of 49.7 mm (Table 2). Apart from their smaller size, the external features, including the noseleaf, are similar to those of H. ruber described above. With a skull length of 18.13 mm (Table 3) and an upper toothrow length (C–M 3) of 6.18 mm, the skull is smaller than that of H. ruber. The chambers of the rostrum appear similar in size, proportionately, to those of H. ruber; this finding is in contrast to Kock (1969) and Happold and Happold (2013). The frontal depression is very shallow and the well defined supraorbital ridges join the sagittal crest, which is less well developed than in H. ruber, on the anterior part of the braincase. This is in contrast to H. ruber, where they join in the mid-part of the constriction between the rostrum and the braincase. The dentition is comparable to that of H. ruber but proportionately smaller (Fig. 5A). The penis is long; no baculum was recovered from the single specimen examined — either it is absent or was so small as to be overlooked in the dissection.
Taxonomic notes
See H. ruber (above). Following Happold and Happold (2013), this specimen from southern Congo is referred to H. c. angolensis.
description: Published as part of Bates, Paul J. J., Cameron, Kenneth, Pearch, Malcolm J. & Hayes, Benjamin, 2013, A review of the bats (Chiroptera) of the Republic of Congo, including eight species new to the country, pp. 313-340 in Acta Chiropterologica 15 (2) on page 321, DOI: 10.3161/150811013X678955, http://zenodo.org/record/3943563