Supplementary description of Scheloribates crassus Hammer, 1967 (Acari, Oribatida, Scheloribatidae) from New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Lin Liu ◽  
YI YAN ◽  
Zhi-Qiang Zhang ◽  
Li-Xia Xie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
The Future ◽  
Small Holes

The original description of Scheloribates crassus Hammer, 1967 was incomplete, lacking information and figures about some morphological structures. Our specimens of S. crassus match broadly with the original description of the type specimens. However, there are the following differences: the morphological structures of leg I–II, the number of saccules, the presence of small holes between h3. Therefore, to help with its identification and discussion in the future, supplementary description of specimens is necessary. The supplementary description of Scheloribates crassus Hammer, 1967 is presented on the basis of specimens from Auckland and Bay of Plenty, New Zealand in this paper.

Not from “Down Under”: new synonymies and combinations for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) erroneously reported from Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2073 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
VOLKER W. FRAMENAU ◽  
NIKOLAJ SCHARFF ◽  
HERBERT W. LEVI
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
New Synonymy

The examination of type material of presumed Australian orb-weaving spiders as part of a revision of the Araneidae of this country revealed that a number of species are not from Australia. The Natural History Museum, Vienna (Austria) holds the type material of three species of orb-weaving spiders that were originally described from Australia, however all of the species are undoubtedly of American, most likely southern Brazilian, origin and it is unlikely that they were collected in Australia. We propose the following synonymies and generic transfers: Acacesia tenella (L. Koch, 1871) comb. nov. (= Acacesia cornigera Petrunkevitch, 1925 new synonymy); Alpaida navicula (L. Koch, 1871) comb. nov. (= Alpaida roemeri (Strand, 1908) new synonymy); and Eustala mucronatella (Roewer, 1942) comb. nov. In addition, Novearanea queribunda (Keyserling, 1887) comb. nov. (= Araneus quaesitus (Keyserling, 1887) new synonymy; = Novaranea laevigata (Urquhart, 1891) new synonymy) is a New Zealand orb-weaving spider based on the labels that were found with the type specimens housed at the Natural History Museum, London (England). In the original description no locality data was given for N. queribunda and “Australien” was erroneously listed for A. quaesitus.

Back in time to unlock the future: tracing the type-specimens of Corallus hortulana (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes: Boidae), with designation of a lectotype for the Amazon tree boa

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4941 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-270
Author(s):  
RODRIGO CASTELLARI GONZALEZ ◽  
THAÍS B. GUEDES ◽  
PAULO PASSOS
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Variability ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Future Possibility ◽  
The Future ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Pattern Variability

Corallus hortulana presents a large array of tones and color pattern variability throughout its distribution (= polychromatism), which trigged the description of several taxa now considered to be primary synonyms. Linnaeus described two of these (Boa enydris and Boa hortulana) on the same page of the 10th Edition of the Systema Naturae. However, both names had been widely used in literature almost in an optional way, until their formal synonymization more than two centuries after the original description. Additionally, the type specimen of Boa hortulana was reported as missing since the late 19th century. These two factors may have enabled the unjustified switched association of types, which was perpetuated in the literature to the present day. Our main goals here were to trace the correct type specimens for each species through a literature review and specimen examination, and to amend the switched association of type material. We found two specimens in the collection of the Uppsala University that are unmistakably associated with Boa hortulana. Herein we designate one of them as its lectotype in order to promote nomenclatural stability considering its huge phenotypic variability and the future possibility of eventually splitting the species. 

An illustrated catalogue of the New Zealand marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4366 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
AGATA KIAŁKA ◽  
RAFAŁ RUTA
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Family ◽  
Species Type ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Primary Type

In this study we summarise the knowledge of the history and current state of research on the New Zealand Scirtidae to provide a base for further research on the family. Data on Tord Nyholm’s research and collections are presented, based on a study of the archives and collection of Swedish Museum of Natural History. The main part of the paper is a catalogue of all described species of Scirtidae known to occur in New Zealand. A total of 11 genera and 126 species of Scirtidae is recorded for New Zealand, with 82% genera and 100% of species endemic to the New Zealand region. A reference to the original description, type locality, type depository and the known distribution within New Zealand is included for each species. Primary type specimens are illustrated for most species. Type species are designated in the present paper for Cyphanus Sharp, 1878 (type species: Cyphanus debilis Sharp, 1878), Mesocyphon Sharp, 1878 (type species: Mesocyphon marmoratus Sharp, 1878), and Veronatus Sharp, 1878 (type species: Anobium tricostellum White, 1846) as they were not fixed in the original descriptions or in subsequent works. Brounicyphon Pic, 1947 is considered a junior subjective synonym of Veronatus. Cyphon huttoni Sharp, 1878 is transferred to the genus Contacyphon Gozis, 1886. 

The types of Chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), described by scientists of Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of sciences of Ukraine after 2012

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
M. D. Zerova ◽  
S. A. Simutnik ◽  
V. N. Fursov ◽  
S. I. Klymenko ◽  
I. T. Stetsenko
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The list of type specimens of chalcid wasps of four families (Eurytomidae, Torymidae, Ormyridae, Encyrtidae) described by experts of Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences after 2012 is given. Data of original labels and reference to original description are given for each taxon. The catalogue includes types of 41 nominal taxa: Eurytomidae (15): Nikanoria deserta Zer., N. halimodendrae Zer., N. kazakhstanica Zer., N. leleji Zer., N. mongolica punctata Zer., N. orski Zer., N. pygmaea Zer., N. sugonjaevi Zer., Parabuchophagus rasnitsyni Zer., Eurytoma gleditsiae Zer. et Furs., E. koreana Zer. et Furs., E. trjapitzini Zer. et Klym., Torymidae (5): Idiomacromerus artusis Zer., I. persimilis Zer., Adontomerus centaurei Zer., A. trjapitzini Zer., Torymus leleji Zer. et Furs., Ormyridae (8): Ormyrus askanicus Zer., O. kasparyani Zer., O. nitens Zer., O. novus Zer., O. punctellus Zer., O. qurrayahi Zer., O. spadiceus Zer., O. sugonjaevi Zer., Encyrtidae (13): Rovnosoma gracile Simut., Eocencnemus sugonjaevi Simut., E. vichrenkoi Simut., Eocencyrtus zerovae Simut., Microterys ashkhabadensis mediterraneus Simut., M. hermonicus Simut., M. nevoi Simut., M. pavliceki Simut., M. vichrenkoi Simut., M. wasseri Simut., Encyrtus sugonjaevi Simut., Echthroplexiella talitzkyi Trjapitzin, Copidosoma trjapitzini Simut. The majority of type specimens are deposited in the collection of Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology (Kyiv, Ukraine). The depositories of all other type specimens are indicated.

PASIFIKA FUTURES WHĀNAU ORA: F’INE – Nurturing the Future for Pasifika LGBTQI

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saneta Manoa ◽  
Phylesha Brown-Acton ◽  
Tatryanna Utanga ◽  
Seini Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Provider

F’INE Aotearoa, through Pasifika Futures Whānau Ora programme, is supporting Pacific Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) individuals and their families to transform their lives and achieve their aspirations.  The LGBTQI community in New Zealand experience significant disadvantage across a range of areas affecting wellbeing, including higher rates of poor mental health, depression and anxiety 1,2,3. For Pacific LGBTQI, the disadvantages are compounded further.  F’INE, an LGBTQI specific provider in New Zealand, is working to change this.

An Indigenous Māori Perspective of Rangatahi Personhood

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adreanne Ormond ◽  
Joanna Kidman ◽  
Huia Tomlins-Jahnke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Colonial Oppression ◽  
Ancestral Landscape

Personhood is complex and characterized by what Avery Gordon describes as an abundant contradictory subjectivity, apportioned by power, race, class, and gender and suspended in temporal and spatial dimensions of the forgotten past, fragmented present, and possible and impossible imagination of the future. Drawing on Gordon’s interpretation, we explore how personhood for young Māori from the nation of Rongomaiwāhine of Aotearoa New Zealand is shaped by a subjectivity informed by a Māori ontological relationality. This discussion is based on research conducted in the Māori community by Māori researchers. They used cultural ontology to engage with the sociohistorical realities of Māori cultural providence and poverty, and colonial oppression and Indigenous resilience. From these complex and multiple realities this essay will explore how young Māori render meaning from their ancestral landscape, community, and the wider world in ways that shape their particular personhood.

A revision of Holothuria (Halodeima) kefersteinii (Selenka, 1867) and the revival of Holothuria inornata Semper, 1868 from sea cucumbers collected in Mexico and Central America

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4377 (2) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAGALI HONEY-ESCANDÓN ◽  
FRANCISCO A. SOLÍS-MARÍN
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Sea Cucumbers ◽  
Mexican Pacific ◽  
Different Color

In 1958 Deichmann synonymized Holothuria inornata Semper, 1868 with Holothuria kefersteinii (Selenka, 1867). This nomenclature has been adopted until now. However, some specimens recently collected from the Mexican Pacific matched the original description of H. inornata Semper (1868) whereas others matched the original description by Selenka (1867). A morphological, molecular and ecological study of the specimens was conducted to confirm the identification of these specimens. The morphological characters of our specimens were compared with those contained in the original descriptions and figures of the types of both species. Besides the different color pattern of live specimens of both species, the main differences found are the presence of straight distally perforated rods in the dorsal papillae, and the presence of Holothuriophilus trapeziformis Nauck, 1880 in the cloaca of H. inornata, versus the absence of these kind of rods in the dorsal papillae, and the absence of symbionts in the cloaca in H. kefersteinii. The species identified by Deichmann (1958) as H. kefersteinii is, in fact H. inornata. Both species might have been confused because the morphology of preserved specimens is very similar and the presence of the straight rods in papillae might have been overlooked during identification. A more thorough review of the ossicles from the specimens, together with the comparison of ossicles from the type specimens, has allowed the resurrection of long-forgotten species, H. inornata 

The Australia and New Zealand v Japan Southern Bluefin Tuna (Jurisdiction and Admissibility) Award of the First Law of the Sea Convention Annex VII Arbitral Tribunal

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kwiatkowska
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Bluefin Tuna ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Arbitral Tribunal ◽  
Compulsory Arbitration ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Southern Bluefin Tuna

AbstractThe Southern Bluefin Tuna (Jurisdiction and Admissihilily) Award of 4 August 2000 marked the first instance of the application of compulsory arbitration under Part XV, Section 2 of the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention and of the exercise by the Annex VII Tribunal of la compétence de la compétence pursuant to Article 288(4) over the merits of the instant dispute. The 72-paragraph Award is a decision of pronounced procedural complexity and significant multifaceted impacts of which appreciation requires an in-depth acquaintance with procedural issues of peaceful settlement of disputes in general and the-law-of-the-sea-related disputes in particular. Therefore, the article surveys first the establishment of and the course of proceedings before the five-member Annex VII Arbitral Tribunal, presided over by the immediate former ICJ President, Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, and also comprising Judges Keith, Yamada. Feliciano and Tresselt. Subsequently, the wide range of specific paramount questions and answers of the Tribunal are scrutinised against the background of arguments advanced by the applicants (Australia and New Zealand) and the respondent (Japan) during both written and oral pleadings, including in reliance on the extensive ICJ jurisprudence and treaty practice concerned. On this basis, the article turns to an appraisal of the impacts of the Arbitral Tribunal's paramount holdings and its resultant dismissal of jurisdiction with the scrupulous regard for the fundamental principle of consensuality. Amongst such direct impacts as between the parties to the instant case, the inducements provided by the Award to reach a successful settlement in the future are of particular importance. The Award's indirect impacts concern exposition of the paramount doctrine of parallelism between the umbrella UN Convention and many compatible (fisheries, environmental and other) treaties, as well as of multifaceted, both substantial and procedural effects of that parallelism. All those contributions will importantly guide other courts and tribunals seised in the future under the Convention's Part XV, Section 2.

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