On two Species of Apanteles (Hym. Brac.) not previously recognised from the Western Palaearctic Region

1939 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Old World ◽  
Western Palaearctic

In this paper I am redescribing and giving some interesting, new, biological information with regard to two species of Apanteles, of which one, A. compressiventris, has not previously been recorded in the Old World, and the other, A. plutellae, not previously recorded from the Western Palaearctic Region; and I believe that it is better to communicate this information at this time rather than to wait until the completion of the monograph upon which it is known that I am engaged, a matter yet of some years.

The extensive Palaearctic distribution of Melitaea ornata Christoph, 1893 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), exemplified by recent records

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-267
Author(s):  
Peter Russell
Keyword(s):  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Western Palaearctic

Recent reports of Melitaea ornata Christoph, 1893 from countries within the Western Palaearctic region, for example from Spain, Bosnia Herzegovina and Asia, have considerably widened the previously accepted distribution of this species. Details of localities in more than twenty-five countries, with references, are given. Those countries in which the presence of M. ornata has been reported but without any substantial evidence are noted.

Pathways of Political Change

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. D. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Old World ◽  
American Colonies

Paine showed throughout his career a historically well-informed awareness of the shortcomings of English monarchs after 1688 and 1714, whom he regarded as usurpers: it was a practical critique that fed his antipathy to monarchy in general. Rather than republicanism, this chapter establishes Paine’s personal links with the ‘Patriot’ opposition to Sir Robert Walpole’s ministry, a movement that had a religiously freethinking element and drew on reconfigured Jacobitism. By contrast, Paine employed none of the other political languages available to him. Instead, Paine spoke a language of anti-Jacobitism; this chapter explores how many of his contemporaries trod a path ‘from Jacobite to Jacobin’. Nor were these old world preoccupations only; this chapter shows how they were shared in the American colonies.

A NOTE ON THE BIOLOGY OF ANOPLIUS TENUICORNIS (TOURNIER) IN NORTH AMERICA (HYMENOPTERA: POMPILIDAE)

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-103
Author(s):  
S. Koponen ◽  
M.S. Wasbauer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Broad Distribution ◽  
Widespread Occurrence ◽  
Rotten Wood ◽  
Holarctic Species

Anoplius tenuicornis (Tournier) is a holarctic species with a broad distribution both in Europe (Wolf 1967) and North America (Wasbauer and Kimsey 1985). Despite the widespread occurrence of the species, individuals are not frequently encountered, so it is not surprising that biological information on it has not been available for North America and very little for Europe. Richards and Hamm (1939) gave two fragmentary reports of some significance on A. tenuicornis in England, reported as A. piliventris (Morawitz). In one case, cocoons of the wasp were found in dead thistle stems. In the other, an old burrow of Ectemnius continuus (Fabricius) (Sphecidae) (reported as Solenius) in rotten wood contained a series of wasp cocoons and fragments of clubionid spiders, the presumed prey.

scholarly journals Jaw Musculature of the Picini (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae)

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginaldo José Donatelli
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Muscle System ◽  
Old World ◽  
Anatomical Studies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Clear Association ◽  
Jaw Musculature ◽  
Eurasian Region

The Picini tribe comprises 25 Old World woodpecker species grouped into seven genera that are widely distributed in Asia and include several representatives from the Eurasian region. Given the absence of detailed anatomical studies of Picini in the literature, the purposes of this study were to describe the jaw musculature of 14 species of Picini in detail and to compare the musculature patterns of these species. The results of this analysis indicate the following: (1) there is a clear association between theventralis lateralisanddorsalis lateralismuscles through fleshy fibers that are connected in all species, (2) the jaw musculature of the genusPicusdiffers from that of other Picini genera in terms of the poor development of the protractor muscle system of the quadrate (M. protractor quadratiandM. protractor pterygoidei), (3) generally, theM. pseudotemporalis superficialisoriginates in the ventrocaudal region of the laterosphenoid (the lower part of the orbit), with the only noteworthy exception being an origin in the upper part of the orbit inDinopium javanense, and (4) theprotractor pterygoideimuscle is more developed inBlythipicus rubiginosus, Dinopium rafflesii,andD. javanensethan in the other species.

scholarly journals Additions to the revision of the genus Atractodes (Hymenoptera, lchneumonidae) of the western Palaearctic Region. II.

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reijo Jussila
Keyword(s):  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
Nomina Dubia ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
Region Ii

The nomenclature of the following species has been clarified and corrected: Atractodes mediatus Förster has been corrected to a junior synonym of A. albovinctus Haliday, Atractodes brevicornis Bauer of A. gravidus Gravenhorst, Atractodes vestalis Haliday and A. discoloripes Förster of Stilpnus tenebricosus (Gravenhorst), Atractodes försteri Dalla Torre of A. obsoletor (Zetterstedt), Atractodes incessor Haliday of Mesoleptus laevigatus (Gravenhorst), Atractodes neophytus Förster of A. obsoletor (Zetterstedt), Atractodes pygmaeator Zetterstedt of A. bicolor Gravenhorst, Atractodes quanjeri Smits van Burgst of A. alutaceus Thomson, Atractodes sarntheinii Dalla Torre of A. vicinus Förster and Atractodes varicornis Holmgren of Oxytorus luridator (Gravenhorst). Atractodes rufipes Thomson, A. rufipes Förster and A. thomsoni Jussila are junior primary homonyms, and A. cultrarius Forster, A. designatus Forster, A. intersectus Förster, A. rufipes Förster and A. rufipes Thomson are junior secondary homonyms. Atractodes intersectus Boyer de Fonscolombe, A. mesozonius (Gravenhorst), A. quadrispinus Ratzeburg, A. riparius Ruschka, A. spiniger Snellen van Vollenhoven and A. teneriventris (Gravenhorst, 1829) are regarded as nomina dubia. Atractodes nigripennis Hellen has been added to the fauna of the western Palaearctic Region.

scholarly journals Using Biogeography to Assess Key Adaptation Strength in Two Bird Families

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdel H. Halloway ◽  
Christopher J. Whelan ◽  
Çağan H. Şekercioğlu ◽  
Joel S. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
New World ◽  
Extreme Environments ◽  
The Other ◽  
Latitudinal Gradients ◽  
Old World ◽  
Extended Range

AbstractAdaptations can be thought of as evolutionary technologies which allow an organism to exploit environments. Among convergent taxa, adaptations may be largely equivalent with the taxa operating in a similar set of environmental conditions, divergent with the taxa operating in different sets of environmental conditions, or superior with one taxon operating within an extended range of environmental conditions than the other. With this framework in mind, we sought to characterize the adaptations of two convergent nectarivorous bird families, the New World hummingbirds (Trochilidae) and Old World sunbirds (Nectariniidae), by comparing their biogeography. Looking at their elevational and latitudinal gradients, hummingbirds not only extend into but also maintain species richness in more extreme environments. We suspect that hummingbirds have a superior key adaptation that sunbirds lack, namely a musculoskeletal architecture that allows for hovering. Through biogeographic comparisons, we have been able to assess and understand adaptations as evolutionary technologies among two convergent bird families, a process that should work for most taxa.

On some species of the genus Acrolocha Thomson, 1858 of the Western Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Omaliini)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4576 (2) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
ALEXEY V. SHAVRIN ◽  
EDUARD A. KHACHIKOV
Keyword(s):  
European Part ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
Palaearctic Species ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Part Of Russia ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
First Time

New taxonomic, morphological and faunistic data for three Western Palaearctic species of the genus Acrolocha Thomson, 1858 are provided. Acrolocha caucasica Tóth, 1976 is redescribed and illustrated. The lectotype for A. pliginskii Bernhauer, 1912 is designated. Acrolocha amabilis (Heer, 1841) is recorded from Central European part of Russia and Georgia for the first time. 

Annotated catalogue of beetles (Coleoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4715 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIŘÍ HÁJEK ◽  
JAN BEZDĚK
Keyword(s):  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Species Level ◽  
East African ◽  
African Species ◽  
Old World ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
Annotated Catalogue ◽  
Socotra Archipelago ◽  
Western Palaearctic ◽  
First Time

Beetles of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen, were catalogued. Altogether, 645 morphospecies from 56 families have been recognised from the Archipelago, of which 516 species (one with an additional two subspecies) were identified to the species level. Twenty-four, mostly widely distributed, species are recorded from the Socotra Archipelago for the first time, and three species are newly recorded for the islands Abd el Kuri (1) and Samha (2). Lithocharis socotrana Assing, 2015 (Staphylinidae), described from Socotra, is recorded from continental Yemen for the first time. Five incomplete or incorrect previous records are corrected. A total of 305 (47%) of all recorded species are considered to be endemic to the Socotra Archipelago. A total of 62 (10%) species are widely distributed Afrotropical species, and 35 (5.5%) East African species, often reaching also the Arabian Peninsula; 16 (2.5%) species occur in the eremial zone of Saharo-Arabian (or Saharo-Sindian) region. Only 14 (2%) species were previously known solely from the Arabian Peninsula; 30 (4.5%) species have cosmopolitan (and often anthropogenic) distributions; 28 (4.5%) species are widely distributed in (sub)tropical areas of the Old World; and 26 (4%) species have a predominantly western Palaearctic distribution. At present, 129 (20%) morphospecies remain unidentified; however, we expect that many of them represent as yet undescribed taxa endemic to the Archipelago. 

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