The Status of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans Philoscia Muscorum, P. Vittata, P. Robusta and P. Miamiensis in the New World (Oniscoidea, Philosciidae)

Crustaceana ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Terrestrial Isopod ◽  
The Status ◽  
Philoscia Muscorum

scholarly journals The Status of Latin in Portugal: Resilience and Resistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (37) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Susana Marta Pereira
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Practical Usefulness ◽  
The Status ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

In our present times Languages and Humanities seem to be neglected in lieu of Science and Technology courses, and both teachers and parents redirect students towards courses that are said to make them more employable. This utilitarian view of education does not always provide the expected results and, in the short to medium term, ends up having nefarious consequences in the way humanity sees itself and how it supports humanist values. Whenever we ignore our past and look at it as if it were something useless and without relevance, we end up being, in a sense, overwhelmed with an admirable but ephemeral new world, where everything is illusory and without support. It is in this respect that the teaching of Latin in Portugal, as has been the case in other European countries, has been relegated to the old and the outdated, supposedly without any practical usefulness.

Lectotype designations in the New World Gymnetini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 729 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRETT C. RATCLIFFE
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Label Data ◽  
Type Series ◽  
The Status

Lectotypes are designated for the following species-group names of New world Gymnetini. Genus Allorrhina Burmeister, 1842: A. baeri Bourgoin, 1911; A. gounellei Bourgoin, 1911; A. nickerli Moser, 1911; A. soror Moser, 1911; and A. tridentata Moser, 1908. Genus Amithao Thomson, 1878: Cotinis cavifrons Burmeister, 1842; Desicasta metallica Janson, 1885; and Cotinis erythropus moreletii Blanchard, 1850. Genus Astroscara Sch rhoff, 1937: G. flavoradiata Moser, 1918. Genus Blaesia Burmeister, 1842: B. subrugosa Moser, 1905. Genus Gymnetis MacLeay, 1819: G. aureotorquata Bourgoin, 1912; G. balzarica Janson, 1880; G. bouvieri Bourgoin, 1912; G. callispila Bates, 1889; G. chanchamayensis Pouillaude, 1913; G. chontalensis Janson, 1875; G. colombiana Pouillaude, 1913; G. coturnix Burmeister, 1842; G. difficilis Burmeister, 1842; G. dysoni Schaum, 1848; G. ecuadoriensis Pouillaude, 1913; Cetonia flava Weber, 1801; G. limbolaniata Pouillaude, 1913; G. mathani Pouillaude, 1913; G. meleagris Burmeister, 1842; G. nigrina Bates, 1886; G. olivina Pouillaude, 1913; Paragymnetis rubrocincta Sch rhoff, 1937; G. poecila Schaum, 1848; G. punctipennis Burmeister, 1842; G. radiicollis Burmeister, 1847; G. ramulosa Bates, 1872; G. salicis Bates, 1889; G. scheini Sch rhoff, 1937; P. burmeisteri Sch rhoff, 1937; G. vandepolli Bates, 1889; G. variabilis Moser, 1921; and G. zikani Moser, 1921. Genus Heterocotinis Mart nez, 1948: G. terminata Gory and Percheron, 1833. Genus Hoplopyga Thomson, 1880: G. aequatorialis Moser, 1918; G. boliviensis Moser, 1918; G. foeda Schaum, 1848; and G. peruana Moser, 1912. Genus Marmarina Kirby, 1827: Cetonia insculpta Kirby, 1819; G. tigrina Gory and Percheron, 1833; and Maculinetis litorea Sch rhoff, 1937. Lectotype designation, label data, and type depository are given for each species. A photograph of the lectotype is provided for most species. Commentary clarifying the status of the type series is given for some species.

Terrestrial isopods from Costa Rica and a redescription of Ischioscia variegata (Dollfus, 1893) (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)

1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 1415-1464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Leistikow
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Philoscia Muscorum

Examination of a small collection of Oniscidea from Costa Rica revealed the presence of two species new to science (Ischioscia martinae sp.nov. and Scleropactes talamancensis sp.nov.). Further specimens from the collection of the United States National Museum were reexamined to reconsider the status of Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli, 1793) and Ischioscia variegata (Dollfus, 1893), both of which have been reported from Costa Rica. The specimens belong to two new species (Ischioscia muelleri sp.nov. and Ischioscia elongata sp.nov.). Redescriptions of Ligia baudiniana Milne Edwards, 1840 from the shores of both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean and the type material of Ischioscia variegata (Dollfus, 1893) from Venezuela are also presented.

Organic Tempering in Northeast Asia and Alaska

1958 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chester S. Chard
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Northeastern Asia ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
The Status

Alaskan pottery techniques are distinguished by considerable use of a variety of organic tempering materials, in marked contrast to the rest of aboriginal North America. So pronounced a focus on the threshhold of the New World would suggest that the practice might have been borrowed from Asia. It will therefore be of interest to ascertain the status of organic tempers in northeastern Asia as compared with Alaska.

Jews and Jewish Communal Identity in Early America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Snyder
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Early America ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
European Contact ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Jewish Experience ◽  
The Status ◽  
European Colonization

Jewish communities in the Americas followed in the wake of European contact with the western hemisphere at the end of the 15th century, and were a byproduct of the process of European colonization. Early Jewish settlements relied on a combination of economic investment, political negotiation, social networking, and subterfuge to establish the means of communal survival. While the Jewish experience in the Americas continued to operate within the sphere of European attitudes and modalities of behavior brought over to the western hemisphere by the colonizers, the remoteness of these New World communities and the friction caused by competing inter-imperial goals eventually allowed Jews to take advantage of new economic opportunities and expand their social and political range beyond what was feasible for Jewish communities in Europe in the same period. New World colonization shifted the ways that Jews were seen within European cultures, as contact with Indigenous peoples of the Americas and the importation of Africans as slaves allowed Europeans to see Jews as comparatively less alien than they had previously been defined. While Jews, as individuals and as communities, continued to face discriminatory treatment (such as extraordinary taxation, prohibitions on voting and officeholding, scapegoating, and social exclusion), they were able to exercise many of the status privileges accorded to those with European Christian identities. These privileges included the capacity to freely pursue economic activities in trade and agriculture and to exploit enslaved peoples for their labor and for other purposes. With this elevated status came tension within the Jewish community over assimilation to European Christian norms, and an ongoing struggle to preserve Jewish identity and communal distinctiveness.

Constitutional Innovation in Governing the Metropolis

City, State ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 103-150
Author(s):  
Ran Hirschl
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
New World ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Global South ◽  
Incentive Structures ◽  
National Economic ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Ideas

This chapter contrasts the status of metropolises in “old world” constitutional orders with their status in “new world” constitutional orders. It focuses largely on the Global South—where new ideas about the constitutional governance of the metropolis are more likely to emerge. From Asia to Latin America and parts of Africa, innovative, sometimes radical, constitutional measures have been introduced, some with more success than others, to address the metropolis issue. The chapter explores several examples of countries in Asia (Japan, South Korea, and China) in which central governments’ constitutional support of megacities reflects astute, long-term planning for regional or national economic growth. It further shows how South Africa’s constitutionalization of city power as part of its 1996 constitutional transformation is arguably the most effective of these attempts to date. In other Global South settings—notably India and Brazil—constitutional experimentation with city emancipation has succumbed to deeply engrained intergovernmental hierarchies. And in yet other settings strategic behavior and colliding incentive structures have driven attempts to either strengthen (e.g., Mexico City, Buenos Aires) or weaken (e.g., Nairobi) megacities.

scholarly journals Science, religion and the need for a world-view

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Haikola
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
New World ◽  
World View ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Design Argument ◽  
The Status

This article maintains that humankind is in need of a world-view and that traditionally, this need was fulfilled by myth and religion. The mechanistic world-view was created as a result of the breakthrough in science in the 17th century. Early Christianity reacted to science by including the new scientific knowledge as part of religious knowledge. This reaction was formulated within Natural Theology and the Design Argument. After Darwin, when the Design Argument became implausible, science and religion were defined as two different realms or jurisdictions. Today, the new physics has created new scientific knowledge which undermines the mechanistic world-view. Despite this fact, a new world-view has not emerged and this can be attributed to the status of science having changed, rather than to a new content in science.

scholarly journals A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World

PhytoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 1-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. I. Wood ◽  
Pablo Muñoz-Rodríguez ◽  
Bethany R. M. Williams ◽  
Robert W. Scotland
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Rational Solution ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Storage Roots ◽  
Infrageneric Classification ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
The Status ◽  
Extensive Introduction

A monograph of the 425 New World species of Ipomoea is presented. All 425 species are described and information is provided on their ecology and distribution, with citations from all countries from which they are reported. Notes are provided on salient characteristics and taxonomic issues related to individual species. A full synonymy is provided and 272 names are lectotypified. An extensive introduction discusses the delimitation and history of Ipomoea arguing that a broad generic concept is the only rational solution in the light of recent phylogenetic advances. Although no formal infrageneric classification is proposed, attention is drawn to the major clades of the genus and several morphologically well-defined clades are discussed including those traditionally treated under the names Arborescens, Batatas, Pharbitis, Calonyction and Quamoclit, sometimes as distinct genera, subgenera, sections or series. Identification keys are provided on a regional basis including multi-entry keys for the main continental blocks. Six species are described as new, Ipomoea nivea J.R.I. Wood & Scotland from Peru, I. apodiensis J.R.I. Wood & Scotland from Brazil, I. calcicola J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. pochutlensis J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. zacatecana J.R.I. Wood & Scotland and I. ramulosa J.R.I. Wood & Scotland from Mexico, while var. australis of I. cordatotriloba is raised to specific status as I. australis (O’Donell) J.R.I. Wood & P. Muñoz. New subspecies for I. nitida (subsp. krapovickasii J.R.I. Wood & Scotland) and for I. chenopodiifolia (subsp. bellator J.R.I. Wood & Scotland) are described. The status of previously recognized species and varieties is changed so the following new subspecies are recognized: I. amnicola subsp. chiliantha (Hallier f.) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. chenopodiifolia subsp. signata (House) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. orizabensis subsp. collina (House) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. orizabensis subsp. austromexicana (J.A. McDonald) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. orizabensis subsp. novogaliciana (J.A. McDonald) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. setosa subsp. pavonii (Hallier f.) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. setosa subsp. melanotricha (Brandegee) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. setosa subsp. sepacuitensis (Donn. Sm.) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland, I. ternifolia subsp. leptotoma (Torr.) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland. Ipomoea angustata and I. subincana are treated as var. angustata (Brandegee) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland and var. subincana (Choisy) J.R.I. Wood & Scotland of I. barbatisepala and I. brasiliana respectively. Attention is drawn to a number of hitherto poorly recognized phenomena in the genus including a very large radiation centred on the Parana region of South America and another on the Caribbean Islands, a strong trend towards an amphitropical distribution in the New World, the existence of a relatively large number of species with a pantropical distribution and of many species in different clades with storage roots, most of which have never been evaluated for economic purposes. The treatment is illustrated with over 200 figures composed of line drawings and photographs.

scholarly journals An overview of Estonian woodlice (Isopoda, Oniscidea)

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1067 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kaarel Sammet ◽  
Getriin Orgusaar ◽  
Mari Ivask ◽  
Olavi Kurina
Keyword(s):  
Terrestrial Isopod ◽  
Philoscia Muscorum

An overview of the Estonian terrestrial isopod fauna is given, based on literature data and material collected from 1984 to 2021. The identified material consisted of 10915 specimens belonging to 14 species and collected from 172 localities throughout Estonia. In combination with previous data from the literature data, there are now reliable records of 16 species of woodlice from Estonia. Two species, viz. Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii Brandt, 1833 and Hyloniscus riparius (C. Koch, 1838), are new for the fauna. The latter has probably colonised Estonia recently and range expansions have been reported elsewhere. The data on Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli, 1763) are dubious, and this species is currently excluded from the Estonian list.

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