Names of Large Exotic Animals and the Urheimat of Japonic

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Alexander Vovin
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Southern China ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Exotic Animals ◽  
Saltwater Crocodile ◽  
Disyllabic Words ◽  
Considerable Support

Abstract This article argues that three words designating large tropical animals not endemic for Japan: kisa ‘elephant’, tora ‘tiger’, and wani ‘saltwater crocodile’ were borrowed into Japonic from Austroasiatic or Kradai languages. If so, this becomes another important piece of evidence for locating the Urheimat of the Japonic Language family in Southern China and/or Northern South-East Asia driving yet another nail into the coffin of the ‘Altaic’ theory. Since all these words are disyllabic, they also contribute to the reconstruction of the disyllabic words in Austroasiatic and Kradai. This is especially important in the case of Kradai, where in spite of the rather recent fall of the monosyllabic curtain, the idea about the ‘primordial’ nature of the monosyllabic structure is still enjoying considerable support.

Koro Epidemic in North-East India

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Sachdev
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Southern China ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Residual Symptoms ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
Rapid Spread

Koro is an unusual psychogenic syndrome reported, until recently, predominantly in men of the Chinese race who live in southern China and south-east Asia. Issues concerning its phenomenology, diagnosis and nosology are still controversial. This paper describes an epidemic of koro in north-east India. A psychiatric analysis of thirty-one cases is presented. Probable reasons for the rapid spread of the illness are discussed. The majority of the individuals affected were from the lower socio-economic strata, were poorly educated and in the age group of 20–40 years. Many women were affected. There was no evidence of significant premorbid or sexual psychopathology in most cases. Some patients had a number of episodes but with only minor residual symptoms. The author compares these findings with earlier reports and discusses the implications for its nosology and psychodynamics.

scholarly journals First record of tail bifurcation in Tokey Gecko (Gekko gecko) from the Kaziranga, Assam, India : a field observation

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Manoj Gogoi ◽  
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Sumanta Kundu ◽  
Jadumoni Goswami ◽  
Dibyajyoti Saikia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Field Observation ◽  
Southern China ◽  
First Record ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Gekko Gecko ◽  
Northeastern India ◽  
Tokay Gecko

The Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko) is the second largest surviving Gecko species and are distributed across much of South-East Asia, Southern China and Northeastern India and Nepal. In Kaziranga landscape Tokay Gecko are fairly common and frequently seen around households in rural area. Though tail bifurcation is common in lizards but till date no recorded specimen of Tokey Gecko with bifurcated tail had been reported from Kaziranga Landscape.

Revalidation and revision of Ochralea Clark, 1865 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from the Oriental Region

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2530 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
IZFA RIZA HAZMI ◽  
THOMAS WAGNER
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Southern China ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
New Synonyms ◽  
Distinct Genus

Ochralea was described by Clark in 1865 for a very large Oriental galerucine with elongate basal metatarsomeres. Subsequently, nigh more species were described in this genus. It was synonymised with Monolepta by Weise in the Catalogue to the Galerucinae in 1924, and accepted as such by most subsequent authors. Whilst revising the type species of Monolepta, M. bioculata (Fabricius, 1781), it became clear that Ochralea was a distinct genus. The revalidation and redescription of this genus, containing two valid species, is here proposed. Ochralea nigripes (Olivier, 1808) has one recognised junior synonym and Ochralea nigricornis Clark, 1865, and two new synonyms Ochralea pectoralis Harold, 1880 syn. nov. and Monolepta erythromelas Weise, 1922 syn. nov. This species is abundant and widely distributed in south-east Asia from Bengalia and Bangladesh to southern China, the Philippines and Sulawesi. Ochralea wangkliana (Mohamedsaid, 2005) comb. nov., is only known from a few specimens collected around Wang Kelian Perlis, Malaysia. Redescriptions of the genus and the two species are given, including illustrations of external and genital characters, and a distribution map.

A large hornet mimic clearwing moth of the genus Lamellisphecia Kallies & Arita, 2004 (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) from Nanling, Guangdong, southern China

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4706 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-482
Author(s):  
YUTAKA ARITA ◽  
AXEL KALLIES ◽  
NAOKI YATA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
New Records ◽  
Southern China ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Clearwing Moth ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

We here describe a new species, Lamellisphecia minwangi Arita & Kallies sp. nov., from Nanling, Guangdong, southern China. Furthermore, we provide new records of Lemellisphecia Kallies & Arita, 2004 species from south-east Asia, with L. champaensis Kallies & Arita, 2004 recorded for Laos and L. haematinea Kallies & Arita, 2004 recorded for Myanmar for the first time.

Eriobotrya japonica (loquat).

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julissa Rojas-Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Eriobotrya Japonica ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Small Tree ◽  
Evergreen Shrub ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
Medicinal Value

Abstract E. japonica is an evergreen shrub or small tree indigenous to southern China and traditionally cultivated there and in Japan. It is planted throughout the subtropics and tropics as an ornamental and for its sweet-tasting fruit. Propagation is conventional and straight-forward. It is planted for commercial use in the Mediterranean, Australia, South Africa, South America, USA and India (Verheij and Coronel, 1991). In South-East Asia it is primarily planted in home-gardens. Its flowers and leaves have medicinal value and relieve flu symptoms.

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