scholarly journals Cuticular features of Cryptocarya (Lauraceae) from Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indo-China and its taxonomic implications

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 244 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachiko Nishida ◽  
ROGIER DE KOK ◽  
YONG YANG
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Leaf Epidermis ◽  
Species Comparison ◽  
The South ◽  
Stomatal Complex ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
Taxonomic Implications ◽  
Species Groups

Cuticular features potentially offer valuable information on phytotaxonomy, especially for plants that are difficult to classify or identify. Cryptocarya is one such difficult and poorly known genus, and we investigated its cuticular features to evaluate their taxonomic implications. We examined cutinized leaf epidermis and the stomatal complex for 21 species from Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indo-China, as well as one species endemic to Borneo and one to Sumatra, and compared features among members of this group, between this group and congeners in the other countries, and between this group and the other genera of Lauraceae. Many of the Cryptocarya species studied have straight to slightly curved anticlinal epidermal walls and butterfly-shaped stomatal ledges, although some variation was seen in the ornamentation of the periclinal epidermal walls and the appearance of the stomatal complex. Based on these results, we recognized four groups and two subgroups among the South-east Asian species. Comparison with congeneric taxa in the other countries indicates that butterfly-shaped stomatal ledges are often shared among the species across the regions. However, no cuticular features occur exclusively in any of the species groups of Cryptocarya studied here, nor in the genus as a whole. We consider that cuticular features are useful in the recognition of infrageneric groups within Lauraceae, bearing in mind that they might have evolved in parallel in different genera.

scholarly journals New species of the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae) from the south of the Russian Far East

2020 ◽  
Vol 421 ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
M.G. Ponomarenko ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Genetic Distance ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
The Russian Far East

An analysis of the mtCOI sequences in the species from the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 made it possible to confirm a new species for science, Y. occultatella sp. n., morphologically similar to the East Asian species Y. yasudai Moriuti, 1964. The genetic distance between the mtCOI sequences in Y. occultatella sp. n. and Y. yasudai is 0,066–0,069 (6,6–6,9 %). However, the minimal genetic distance, 0,038–0,042 (3,8–4,2 %), was determined between the mtCOI sequences of the new species and Y. blandella (Christoph, 1882), while these species differ well in the forewing pattern.

Drosophilidae of Australia. 4. Mycodrosophila

1980 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
IR Bock
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
East Asian ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
First Time

The Australian Mycodrosophila fauna comprises 21 species distributed in northern and eastern Australia to southern New South Wales. Only one species, M. argentifrons Malloch, is previously described from Australia; the south-east Asian species M. separata (de Meijere) is recorded for the first time. The remaining 19 species are new: adequate material has been available to permit the description and naming of 18 of them.

scholarly journals Two new species in the fern genus Lomariopsis (Lomariopsidaceae) from East Asia

PhytoKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Yi-Hsuan Wu ◽  
Chih-Yun Sun ◽  
Atsushi Ebihara ◽  
Ngan Thi Lu ◽  
Germinal Rouhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
The Other ◽  
Monophyletic Group ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
Two New Species

Two East Asian Lomariopsis (Lomariopsidaceae, Polypodiales) species, Lomariopsis moorei and Lomariopsis longini, which were previously misidentified as L. spectabilis, are here described as new species based on evidence from morphological characters and a molecular phylogeny. The two species differ from the three other described species in East Asia by their venation, pinna shapes, and perine morphology. A phylogeny based on a combined dataset of three chloroplast regions (rbcL+ rps4-trnS + trnL-L-F) showed that L. moorei and L. longini each formed a well-supported monophyletic group which was distantly related to both L. spectabilis and the other morphologically similar East Asian species, L. boninensis.

Description of the final instar larva of Anisocentropus diana Malicky & Chantaramongkol 1994 (Trichoptera: Calamoceratidae) in Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5072 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-190
Author(s):  
SAKOL POEPETCH ◽  
TAENG-ON PROMMI ◽  
PONGSAK LAUDEE
Keyword(s):  
Larval Stage ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Instar Larva ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asian Species

The last instar larval stage of a Southeast Asian species Anisocentropus diana Malicky & Chantaramongkol 1994 (Trichoptera: Calamoceratidae) is described and illustrated based on Thai specimens. The larva of A. diana is different from known larvae of the other East Asian species A. kawamurai (Iwata) and A. magnificus (Ulmer) in its reddish-brown head without any patterns, the head’s large ventral apotome, and the abdominal gill arrangement.  

Notes on Strychnos L. (Loganiaceae) in Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
BJ Conn ◽  
EA Broen
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The South ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Asian Species

Four species of Strychnos are recognised for Australia (S. arboren, S. lucida, S. minor and S. psilosperma). The South-east Asian species, Strychnos axillaris is excluded from Australia, being regarded as extending no further south than New Guinea. A key to the Australian species, together with descriptions, distributional, habitat. and other notes are provided.

scholarly journals First record of Anax nigrofasciatus Oguma, 1915 (Odonata: Aeshnidae) from Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 439 ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
E.I. Malikova ◽  
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Yu.A. Chistyakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
First Record ◽  
The South ◽  
Primorsky Krai ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
Body Coloration ◽  
The Russian Far East

Dragonfly Anax nigrofasciatus Oguma, 1915 (Odonata: Aeshnidae) was collected on a small pond in the vicinity of Vityaz settelment, Gamov Peninsula, Primorsky Krai in 2021. It is the first record of this East Asian species from Russia. A. nigrofasciatus clearly differs from A. parthenope julius Brauer, 1865, more common in the south of the Russian Far East, by body coloration and by details of morphology.

Personal Discernment and Dialogue. Learning from ‘the Other’

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Michael Barnes SJ
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
The South ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Personal Interactions ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola

This article considers the theme of discernment in the tradition of Ignatian spirituality emanating from the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). After a brief introduction which addresses the central problematic of bad influences that manifest themselves as good, the article turns to the life and work of two Jesuits, the 16th C English missionary to India, Thomas Stephens and the 20th C French historian and cultural critic, Michel de Certeau. Both kept up a constant dialogue with local culture in which they sought authenticity in their response to ‘events’, whether a hideous massacre which shaped the pastoral commitment and writing of Stephens in the south of the Portuguese enclave of Goa or the 1968 student-led protests in Paris that so much affected the thinking of de Certeau. Very different in terms of personal background and contemporary experience, they both share in a tradition of discernment as a virtuous response to what both would understand as the ‘wisdom of the Spirit’ revealed in their personal interactions with ‘the other’.

Function of coprophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Geotrupidae, Hydrophilidae) in cattle pastures inferred from pitfall trapping data

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Šlachta ◽  
Jan Frelich ◽  
Tomáš Tonka
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Seasonal Distribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pitfall Trapping ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Nested Anova ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Dung Decomposition

Function of coprophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Geotrupidae, Hydrophilidae) in cattle pastures inferred from pitfall trapping dataAn analysis of data on the dry weight biomass of coprophagous beetles in standardized dung (4.5 l) was conducted in order to characterize the spatial and the seasonal distribution of the beetles' biomass in cattle pastures and to elucidate their function in dung decomposition. Nested Anova with factors of farm, site (nested in farm), seasonal period and year was used to evaluate the effect of these factors on the biomass of four functional species groups: the dung dwellers ofScarabaeidae(subfamilyAphodiinae), the dung dwellers ofHydrophilidae, the small tunnellers ofScarabaeidae(subfamilyCoprinae) and the large tunnellers ofGeotrupidae. The spatial variation of biomass (between the sites and the farms) was insignificant (P>0.05) in the two dung-dweller groups and in the large-tunnellers group. On the other hand, a significant (P<0.05) seasonal variation of biomass was found in all but the large tunneller group. In dung dwellers, the spring biomass was formed mainly by two species,Aphodius prodromusandA. sphacelatus. In summer, most of the biomass was accounted for bySphaeridium lunatum, S. scarabaeoidesandA. rufipes. In the two tunneller groups,Onthophagus fracticornis, Geotrupes stercorariusandG. spinigerformed a majority of the biomass in dung.

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