Revision of the Costa Rican species of Elachiptera (Diptera: Chloropidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1754 (1) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIA J. MLYNAREK ◽  
TERRY A. WHEELER
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Additional Species

The Costa Rican species of the genus Elachiptera are revised. There are seven described species in the region: Elachiptera attenuata (Adams); E. coniotrigona Duda; E. fucosa sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: Santo Domingo de Heredia); E. melinifrons sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: San José); E. queposana sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: Quepos); E. rubida Becker and E. sacculicornis (Enderlein). An additional species (Elachiptera sp. A) is known from a single female specimen and is not formally described. Only one of these species (E. attenuata) had previously been recorded from Costa Rica.

Reflecting the Nation: Costa Rican Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-180
Author(s):  
Liz Harvey-Kattou
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
San Jose ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The City

This chapter argues that cinema has been the primary creative vehicle to reflect on national – tico – identity in Costa Rica in the twenty-first century, and it begins with an overview of the industry. Considering the ways in which film is uniquely positioned to challenge social norms through the creation of affective narratives and through the visibility it can offer to otherwise marginalised groups, this chapter analyses four films by key directors. Beginning with an exploration of Esteban Ramírez’s Gestación, it considers youth culture, gender, and class as non-normative spaces in the city of San José. Similarly, Jurgen Ureña’s Abrázame como antes is then discussed from the point of view of its ground-breaking portrayal of trans women in the capital. Two films shot at the geographic margins of the nation are then discussed, with the uncanny coastline the focus of Paz Fábrega’s Agua fría de mar and the marginalized Afro-Costa Rican province of Limón the focus of Patricia Velásquez’s Dos aguas.

On a new synonymy in the spider genus Nephila Leach, 1815 (Araneidae, Nephilinae) from India with supplementary notes on colour polymorphism in the genus

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4786 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-596
Author(s):  
PRADEEP M. SANKARAN ◽  
JOHN T.D. CALEB ◽  
MATHEW M. JOSEPH ◽  
POTHALIL A. SEBASTIAN
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Colour Polymorphism ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Indian Populations ◽  
Close Resemblance ◽  
Colour Morphs ◽  
New Synonymy

The golden orb-weaving spider genus Nephila Leach, 1815 currently has four representatives in India: Nephila dirangensis Biswas & Biswas, 2006, Nephila kuhlii (Doleschall, 1859), Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793) and Nephila robusta Tikader, 1962 (World Spider Catalog 2020). While N. kuhlii has its type locality in Java (Doleschall 1859) and that of N. pilipes in Australasia (Fabricius 1781), N. dirangensis and N. robusta are both confined to India (World Spider Catalog 2020). Tikader (1962) described the species N. robusta based on a single female specimen collected in West Bengal. The original genitalic illustrations of this species, however, show close resemblance to that of N. pilipes, indicating its possible synonymy with the latter. To confirm the novelty of N. robusta, we examined its type specimen and the result is presented below. Additionally, we discuss the occurrence of colour morphs in the Indian populations of N. pilipes.  

scholarly journals Molecular Basis for Resistance to Fluazifop-P-Butyl in Itchgrass (Rottboellia cochinchinensis) from Costa Rica

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. CASTILLO-MATAMOROS ◽  
A. BRENES-ANGULO ◽  
F. HERRERA-MURILLO ◽  
L. GÓMEZ ALPÍZAR.
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Pcr Amplification ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Acetyl Coa Carboxylase ◽  
Annual Grass ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Weed Species ◽  
Rottboellia Cochinchinensis ◽  
Grass Weed

Rottboellia cochinchinensis is an annual grass weed species known as itchgrass, or "caminadora" in America´s Spanish speaking countries, and has become a major and troublesome weed in several crops. The application of fluazifop-P-butyl at recommended rates (125 g a.i. ha-1) was observed to be failing to control itchgrass in a field in San José, Upala county, Alajuela province, Costa Rica. Plants from the putative resistant R. cochinchinensis population survived fluazifop-P-butyl when treated with 250 g a.i. ha-1 (2X label rate) at the three- to four-leaf stage under greenhouse conditions. PCR amplification and sequencing of partial carboxyl transferase domain (CT) of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) gene were used to determine the molecular mechanism of resistance. A single non-synonymous point mutation from TGG (susceptible plants) to TGC (putative resistant plants) that leads to a Trp-2027-Cys substitution was found. This Trp-2027-Cys mutation is known to confer resistance to all aryloxyphenoxyproprionate (APP) herbicides to which fluazifop-P-butyl belongs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of fluazifop-P-butyl resistance and a mutation at position 2027 for a Costa Rican R. cochinchinensis population.

scholarly journals Lobomyia neotropica, a new genus and species of Tachinidae (Diptera) from the Neotropical Region

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1783 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
NORMAN E. WOODLEY ◽  
PAUL H. ARNAUD, JR.
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Cypress Trees

A new genus and species, Lobomyia neotropica gen. nov., sp. nov., (Diptera: Tachinidae) is described from material from Colombia (type locality), Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Trinidad. The Colombian material was reared from Glena bisulca Rindge (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), a defoliator of introduced cypress trees. Costa Rican material was reared from several species of Lepidoptera: Notodontidae.

scholarly journals Rasgos formales de los titulares periodísticos: notas sobre diez diarios del ámbito hispánico

Acta Poética ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Nadal Palazón
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Santo Domingo

Como respuesta a las escasas descripciones existentes sobre los titulares periodísticos —las cuales en algunos aspectos a menudo no superan la prueba empírica que supone cotejarlas con la realidad observable en los periódicos—, en este trabajo se propone un inventario actualizado de las particularidades formales más características de los titulares, de acuerdo con su distribución en un amplio corpus de prensa actual en español. El inventario se resume en cuatro rasgos constantes y cuatro variables. Los rasgos constantes, presentes de manera relativamente homogénea por todo el corpus (si bien algunas de sus variantes presentan ciertos condicionamientos), son los siguientes: bimembración expresiva, elipsis, estructuras nominales y presente histórico. Los rasgos variables, que muestran una distribución menos regular, son, en cambio, los siguientes: tercera persona impersonal, verbo inicial, potencial citativo y presencia de criptónimos. El análisis se basa en un corpus de 3 689 titulares recientes publicados en español en las ediciones impresas de los periódicos El País, de Madrid (España); La Opinión, de Los Ángeles (Estados Unidos); El Universal, de México (México); La Nación, de San José (Costa Rica); Hoy, de Santo Domingo (República Dominicana); El Tiempo, de Bogotá (Colombia); El Nacional, de Caracas (Venezuela); El Comercio, de Lima (Perú); El Mercurio, de Santiago (Chile), y Clarín, de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Cuando procede, se atiende el factor diatópico, y se demuestra la inexactitud de algunos planteamientos que suelen repetirse en la bibliografía especializada.

scholarly journals The Dryophthoridae of Costa Rica and Panama: Checklist with keys, new synonymy and descriptions of new species of Cactophagus, Mesocordylus, Metamasius and Rhodobaenus (Coleoptera; Curculionoidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT S. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Plant Associations ◽  
Cocos Island ◽  
New Synonymy

The Dryophthoridae of Costa Rica and Panama are reviewed. A checklist is presented of the 127 species in Costa Rica and 103 species in Panama. Keys are presented to genera and species. Twenty-four new species are described as follows: Mesocordylus redelmeieri Anderson (type locality; Guanacaste, Costa Rica), Cactophagus dragoni Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), C. gasbarrinorum Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), C. lineatus Anderson (type locality; San Jose, Costa Rica), C. lingorum Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), C. morrisi Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), C. riesenorum Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), C. silron Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), C. sunatoriorum Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), Metamasius atwoodi Anderson (type locality; Cocos Island, Costa Rica), M. bellorum Anderson (type locality; Chiriqui, Panama), M. burcheri Anderson (type locality; Cartago, Costa Rica), M. gallettae Anderson (type locality; Darien, Panama), M. hooveri Anderson (type locality; Limón, Costa Rica), M. leopardinus Anderson (type locality; Guanacaste, Costa Rica), M. murdiei Anderson (type locality; Cartago, Costa Rica), M. richdeboeri Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), M. shchepaneki Anderson (type locality; Panama, Panama), M. vaurieae Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), M. wolfensohni Anderson (type locality; Guanacaste, Costa Rica), Rhodobaenus howelli Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), R. labrecheae Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), R. patriciae Anderson (type locality; Puntarenas, Costa Rica), and R. tenorio Anderson (type locality; Limón, Costa Rica). New country records are as follows: Toxorhinus grallarius (Lacordaire) (Costa Rica), Alloscolytoproctus peruanus Hustache (Panama), Cactophagus aurofasciatus (Breme) (Panama) and Metamasius scutiger Champion (Costa Rica). The genera Toxorhinus Lacordaire and Cosmopolites Chevrolat are transferred from Sphenophorini to Litosomini. Notes about the natural history and plant associations for all new species are given where available.

DESCRIPTIONS AND SUBFAMILY CLASSIFICATION OF SOME UNUSUAL PHORIDAE (DIPTERA)

1994 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian V. Brown
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Subfamily Classification ◽  
A New Species

AbstractA new species, Platydipteron balli (type locality near San José, Costa Rica), and first male specimens of Platydipteron are described. Based on these specimens, the genus is transferred from the Aenigmatiinae to the Metopininae. Male terminalia of Postoptica platypezoidea are described, and the genus is placed in the subfamily Phorinae.

scholarly journals De los barrios chinos en Latinoamérica y el Caribe

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Yrmina Eng
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
America Latina

El texto entrega aspectos introductorios sobre las migraciones chinas y la inserción del componente chino en las sociedades de la región. Reflexiona sobre los Chinatowns o barrios chinos históricos y tradicionales y las nuevas propuestas como atractivos comerciales y turísticos. El trabajo se centra en mostrar las particularidades de los barrios chinos en América Latina y El Caribe. Asimismo, analiza los programas de reanimación de barrios chinos en la región –México DF, La Habana, Santo Domingo, Buenos Aires-, la creación de nuevos proyectos –San José, Costa Rica- y la significación de éstos en las relaciones bilaterales entre China y los países en que se encuentran.

scholarly journals Mathematical Self-Confidence of High School Students: A Study in Costa Rica

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Gerardo Meza-Cascante ◽  
Evelyn Agüero-Calvo ◽  
Zuleyka Suárez-Valdés-Ayala
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Day Schools ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Education Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Confidence

The “mathematical self-confidence” of the Costa Rican secondary education students is studied using the self-confidence subscale of Fennema and Sherman (1976), and the existence of differences in this variable by sex, educational level and the school geographical location is analyzed as well. The participants in the study were 2984 students (51% female) from the seventh to the eleventh year of official public day schools of the Ministry of Public Education of Costa Rica. The participating schools were selected by simple stratified random sampling and by conglomerates, according to the location area (69.5% urban), and according to the population by province (19.5% Alajuela, 12.5% Cartago, 9.3% Guanacaste, 10.6% Heredia, 10.3% Limon, 9.4% Puntarenas, 28.4% San Jose). The students selected for the study in each school sampled were those belonging to the second group of each educational level (18.9% seventh, 20.5% eighth, 21.4% ninth, 19% tenth, 20.2% eleventh). The results suggest that, jointly, about 78.9% of the students show between high and moderate levels of self confidence. They also indicate the existence of differences in the level of mathematical self confidence according to gender, with lower levels for women, with a medium magnitude of differences. The findings also suggest that there are no differences in the level of mathematical self-confidence among the tenth and eleventh level students, but there are in the ninth level; the latter having the highest index of mathematical self-confidence of the three. The study did not detect differences in the level of mathematical self-confidence among students according to the location of the school. The results suggest, at least, the following lines of research: to delve into the causes of the differences detected in the level of mathematical self-confidence by gender and those that may explain why the level of mathematical self-confidence decreases in the students of Diversified Education.

Krishnamon, a new genus for the cavernicolous crab Telphusa austeniana Wood-Mason, 1871 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Meghalaya state, northeastern India

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-308
Author(s):  
Sameer K Pati ◽  
Darren C J Yeo ◽  
Peter K L Ng
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Northeastern India ◽  
Female Holotype ◽  
Geographic Distributions

Abstract Telphusa austeniana Wood-Mason, 1871 is a poorly known potamid crab described from a single female specimen from Meghalaya state, northeastern India, and its position in Tiwaripotamon Bott, 1970 has been questioned. Its systematic position is now clarified based on the examination of the female holotype and a male specimen recently collected from a cave near the type locality. The species is transferred from Tiwaripotamon to a new genus, Krishnamongen. nov. on the basis of the differences in the structures of the epigastric cristae, male pleon, male sixth pleonal somite, male telson, gonopods, and vulvae. The geographic distributions of the two genera are some 1,000 km apart. The new genus has affinities with Doimon Yeo & Ng, 2007, and Indochinamon Yeo & Ng, 2007, but can be distinguished mainly by its extremely slender and elongated ambulatory legs. While Krishnamon austenianum (Wood-Mason, 1871) comb. nov. is now recorded from limestone caves, it does not, however, possess the troglomorphic features of an obligate troglobite.

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