Euconnus (Tetramelus) melkei sp. n., a bizarre South African ant-like stone beetle (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 5091 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
Current State ◽  
Previously Treated ◽  
The Republic

Euconnus (Tetramelus) melkei sp. n. is described, based on a male specimen collected in the Eastern Cape province of the Republic of South Africa. This species is characterized by the most elaborate and extensive male sexual dimorphic features known in Euconnus, comprising glandular projections and impressions that cover most of the head dorsum, strongly modified scapes, long projections on protrochanters, and thickened profemora with glandular porous and setal patches. The most similar species, Euconnus nasicornis Franz and E. paranasicornis Franz, previously treated as incertae sedis within Euconnus, are placed in Tetramelus. The E. nasicornis species group of Tetramelus that includes the abovementioned species is defined by an extremely elongate adult body, multiple dimorphic features in males, and a pair of lateral longitudinal sulci on the pronotum. The current state of knowledge of South African Euconnus is discussed, and a checklist of the currently known 159 nominal species that inhabit RSA is given.  

scholarly journals OF SEMI-COLONS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE HATE SPEECH DEFINITION IN THE EQUALITY ACT South African Human Rights Commission v Qwelane (Freedom of Expression Institute as Amici curiae) and a related matter [2017] 4 All SA 234 (GJ)

Obiter ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Botha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
South African ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Threshold Test ◽  
Related Matter ◽  
The Republic

In South African Human Rights Commission v Qwelane (hereinafter “Qwelane”) the constitutionality of the threshold test for the hate speech prohibition in section 10(1) of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act 4 of 2000 (hereinafter the “Equality Act”) was challenged. Although the court had no difficulty in finding that the publication in question fell squarely within the parameters of hate speech, the judgment is both incoherent and flawed. The court’s conjunctive interpretation of the section 10(1) requirements for hate speech also differs from the disjunctive interpretation given to the same provision in Herselman v Geleba (ECD (unreported) 2011-09-01 Case No 231/09 hereinafter “Herselman”) by the Eastern Cape High Court. The consequence is a “fragmented jurisprudence” which impacts on legal certainty, and which is especially dangerous when the legislation in question is critical to the achievement of the constitutional mandate (Daniels v Campbell NO 2004 (5) SA 331 (CC) par 104 hereinafter “Daniels”).This note demonstrates that the Qwelane court misapplied a number of key principles. These include: the court’s mandate in terms of section 39(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (hereinafter the “Constitution”); the need to strike an appropriate balance between competing rights in the constitutional framework; the importance of definitional certainty for a hate speech threshold test; the meaning to be ascribed to the terms “hate”, “hurt” and “harm” in the context of hate speech legislation; and the role of international law when interpreting legislation intended to give effect to international obligations.The consequence of these errors for hate speech regulation in South Africa is profound.

scholarly journals Revision of the Bengalia torosa Wiedemann, 1819 species-group (Diptera: Calliphoridae), with notes on the systematic position of B. robertsi Kurahashi, 1987 and B. subnitida James, 1964

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4391 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
KNUT ROGNES
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Tergite ◽  
Forthcoming Paper ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Species Concepts ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
Current Usage ◽  
First Time ◽  
Eleven Species

The mainly Oriental Bengalia torosa Wiedemann species-group is revised on the basis of males. Species concepts are based on male terminalia. Monophyly of the species-group is established on the basis of two unique synapomorphies of the distiphallus. Eleven species are recognized as valid, viz. Bengalia chekiangensis Fan, 1965, Bengalia chiangmaiensis Kurahashi & Tumrasvin, 1979, Bengalia concava Malloch, 1927, Bengalia escheri Bezzi, 1913, Bengalia fuscipennis Bezzi, 1913, Bengalia jejuna (Fabricius, 1787), Bengalia kanoi Kurahashi & Magpayo, 2000, Bengalia martinleakei Senior-White, 1930, Bengalia recurva Malloch, 1927, Bengalia torosa (Wiedemann, 1819), Bengalia xanthopyga Senior-White, 1924, and their geographical distributions are updated. The following new synonymies are proposed: Bezzigalia rivanella Lehrer, 2005 is a junior synonym of B. escheri, syn. nov.; Bengalia siamensis Senior-White, 1924, Gangelomyia kosungana Lehrer, 2007 and G. laoziella Lehrer, 2007 are junior synonyms of B. fuscipennis, syn. nov.; Gangelomyia evafoneae Lehrer, 2005 and G. senausmarta Lehrer, 2005 are junior synonyms of B. jejuna, syn. nov.; Gangelomyia indipyga Lehrer, 2005, G. philipyga Lehrer, 2005, G. schiavoae Lehrer, 2005, G. shivanella Lehrer, 2005, G. tagaloga Lehrer, 2005 and G. phantastika Lehrer, 2007 are junior synonyms of B. kanoi, syn. nov.; Gangelomyia gandhiana Lehrer, 2005 and G. krishna Lehrer, 2005 are junior synonyms of B. martinleakei, syn. nov.; Laoziana camerina Lehrer, 2005, L. mandarina Lehrer, 2005 and L. singhasaria Lehrer, 2005 are junior synonyms of B. recurva, syn. nov. Lectotypes are designated for Musca favillacea Walker, 1859 and Bengalia escheri Bezzi, 1913. A male syntype of Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819 has been located in NHMD and a female syntype of the same nominal species has been located in NMW. A male specimen in NHMD is proposed as neotype for Musca jejuna Fabricius, 1787, to replace the three existing female syntypes. A male specimen in NHMD is proposed as neotype for Musca torosa Wiedemann, 1819, to replace the newly located syntypes. The ICZN Commission will be requested, in a forthcoming paper, to formally set aside the existing name-bearing types of both nominal species and designate the proposed specimens as neotypes, in order to preserve the current usage of both names. Musca favillacea Walker, 1859 is removed from synonymy with Bengalia jejuna and treated as an unplaced name in the Bengalia torosa species-group. Bengalia robertsi Kurahashi, 1987 is removed from the Bengalia torosa species-group and re-assigned to the Bengalia labialis Robineau-Desvoidy species-group. Bengalia subnitida James, 1964 is assigned to the Bengalia peuhi Villeneuve species-group even though it lacks discal setae on the fifth abdominal tergite. Two new terms are introduced for description of the distiphallus of the B. torosa species-group. Bengalia recurva Malloch is reported for the first time from China. 

On some miscellaneous sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in the collections of the South African Museum with three new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4532 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
AHMED S. THANDAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
New Records ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
African Region ◽  
Distribution Ranges ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
A New Species

A miscellaneous collection of mostly small holothuroids, comprising some 140 specimens, received from the Iziko South African Museum (SAM), are here recorded and/or briefly described. Of these, one jar contained a badly mutilated holothuroid which was unidentifiable and hence not included here. The remaining material comprises 18 nominal species and an indeterminate elasipodid, perhaps representing a species of Benthodytes. Of the 18 nominal species, four are new to science, one of which has already been described as Trachythyone flaccida Thandar, 2013. Another, although represented by a single mature specimen from deep-water off the Transkei coast (Eastern Cape Province), is so different from its congeners that it is also described as a new species, Stereoderma mohammedi n. sp. Two other specimens, although juvenile, are so extraordinary in their composition of ossicles, that they are also taken to represent another new species, ?Temparena trouspetita n. sp. The collection also includes a single specimen of Synallactes, which together with a specimen misidentified as S. viridilimus by Thandar (2008), is also described as a new species, S. quatrami n. sp. The remaining species proved to be either new records for the southern African region or already well-known southern African forms whose distribution ranges have now changed. 

Taxonomic and nomenclatorial revision within the Neotropical genera of the subtribe Odontocheilina W. Horn in a new sense—23. Odontocheila parafemoralis sp. nov., a new species of the O. cajennensis species-complex (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4995 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-110
Author(s):  
JIŘÍ MORAVEC
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Complex ◽  
Present Author ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Undescribed Species ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Previously Treated ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the genus Odontocheila Laporte de Castelnau, 1834 is described from Brazil as Odontocheila parafemoralis sp. nov. Along with other species previously treated as subspecies of O. cajennensis (Fabricius, 1787), the new species is classified here as a species of the O. cajennensis species-complex (within the O. cajennensis species-group). It was commonly confused in collections with O. bipunctata (Fabricius, 1792) and O. femoralis Chaudoir, 1860. Specimens from Itaituba, Rio Tapajoz, Pará (the type locality of the new species) were previously considered by the present author to be aberrant adults of O. oseryi (Lucas, 1857) and were also included within the species in the taxonomic revision of the genus (Moravec 2018). A recent examination of numerous specimens from Itaituba has revealed that they represent an undescribed species, which is diagnostically separated from all taxa of the O. cajennensis species-complex. Consequently, it is described here as new to science. Illustrations of the habitus, diagnostic characters and variability of the new species and distinguishing characters of similar species are presented in colour photographs. A revised key to species of the O. cajennensis species-complex (within the complete O. cajennensis species-group) is presented with reference to the taxonomic revision of the genus (Moravec 2018). An essential map of distribution is also given.  

The mange-causing mites of the genus Psorergates (Acarina: Myobiidae) with description of a new species from a South African monkey

Parasitology ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 269-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Zumpt ◽  
W. Till
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
Cercopithecus Aethiops ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Male Specimen ◽  
A New Species

A male specimen of the monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus (Cuvier), caught near Bedford, Eastern Cape, was sent to us by Dr P. A. D. Winter of the Polio Research Foundation, Rietfontein. On arrival at Rietfontein this monkey showed slight symptoms of a mange, described by Dr Winter as follows: 'The lesion was scaly with underlying patches of erythema. Over the lesion the hair was thin. On scraping, much of the scaly material could be taken away, revealing irregular, raised erythematous patches. These patches were distributed particularly on the dorsal aspects of the limbs and there were also several of them on the chest, abdomen and head.

Parate Executie Clause in Mortgage Bond Versus Post-Default Authority to Sell ‒ Business Partners Limited v Mahamba (4568/2016) [2019] ZAECGHC 17 (26 February 2019)

Obiter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Reghard Brits
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Residential Mortgage ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Contractual Arrangements ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

The purpose of this note is to consider a case that came before a full bench of the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Grahamstown – namely, Business Partners Limited v Mahamba ((4568/2016) [2019] ZAECGHC 17 (26 February 2019)). The case touched on the age-old debate surrounding the validity of parate executie (summary execution or private sale) clauses in agreements that hypothecate property as security for the payment of a debt. Even though such clauses are popular in pledge agreements pertaining to movable property (including the hypothecation of incorporeal movables via a cession in securitatem debiti), this case involved a mortgage bond pertaining to immovable property. Moreover, as explained below, the impugned clause in casu technically was not a parate executie clause but an agreement entered into after the debtor defaulted on a loan.A parate executie clause generally seeks to entitle the secured creditor to dispose of the hypothecated property through a private sale – that is, without going through the normal court processes – when the debtor defaults on payment obligations under the loan agreement. The validity of parate executie clauses has been debated since at least Roman-Dutch times, while the debate has also featured in modern South African case law and literature. More recently a constitutional dimension has been added to (and has revived) the controversy by virtue of the right of access to courts guaranteed in section 34 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution). There is also a significant difference depending on whether a pledge of movable or a mortgage of immovable property is involved. It is moreover necessary to distinguish between parate executie clauses included in the bond itself and agreements subsequent to a debtor’s default in terms of which a debtor authorised a creditor to sell the property without having to go through the court processes.In view of the judgment in Business Partners v Mahamba (supra), it is arguably necessary to revisit the matter and to clarify some aspects surrounding parate executie clauses, such as the circumstances under which they are valid and invalid as well as how they differ from similar contractual arrangements between debtors and creditors. It is also necessary to affirm the difference in this regard between pledges of movable and mortgages of immovable property. The case note also comments on the implications, in the residential mortgage foreclosure context, of the difference between parate executie clauses in mortgage agreements, on the one hand, and post-default agreements allowing a creditor to sell the property privately, on the other.

RETAIL BANKING SERVICES AND PROSPECTS FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Zafar Umarov ◽  
◽  
Shahnoza Pardayeva
Keyword(s):  
Retail Banking ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Republic

This article is about a market of retail banking services in Uzbekistan and development of this market. It covered the practical significance of retail banking services, analyzes the current state and ways to improve it. The article analyzes past and current years,identifies problems and provides recommendations for addressing them.

Technological and Economic Aspects of Intensive Gardening Development in Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
L.A. Velibekova ◽  
◽  
Sh.M. Magomedgadgiev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Healthy Lifestyles ◽  
Current State ◽  
Nursery Management ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Key Industry ◽  
Fruit Plantations

The article notes that the growing popularity of healthy lifestyles contributes to the increase in consumption of fruits and berries. At the same time, the analysis of the dynamics of the gardening industry for 2000-2018 shows that the problem of providing fresh fruits and berries to the population remains one of the most important. Based on actual data, linear and logarithmic models of time series of key industry indicators for the period 2010 – 2019 have been compiled. Calculations showed that in the Russian Federation as a whole the trend of reduction of sown areas of perennial fruit plantations will continue with growth of yield and gross fees. In this regard, the issues of distribution and introduction of gardens of intensive type are updated. An overview of the views of domestic scientists-gardeners on the concept of “intensive garden” is given. It has been established that the distribution of intensive gardens is possible only if there are favorable natural and climatic conditions and a developed scientific and production base of nursery management. The current state and problems of gardening in one of the leading regions – the Republic of Dagestan - are considered. A significant technological lag of region in the further development of intensive horticulture has been identified. Various directions of intensification process in horticulture as the main and necessary condition of growth of efficient and sustainable production are summarized.

Exploring the South African Government Communication on Land Expropriation without Compensation

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lungisani Moyo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Food Security ◽  
South African ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
South African Government ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
The South ◽  
Land Expropriation ◽  
African Government ◽  
Government Communication

ABSTRACT This paper used qualitative methodology to explore the South African government communication and land expropriation without compensation and its effects on food security using Alice town located in the Eastern Cape Province South Africa as its case study. This was done to allow the participants to give their perceptions on the role of government communication on land expropriation without compensation and its effects on South African food security. In this paper, a total population of 30 comprising of 26 small scale farmers in rural Alice and 4 employees from the Department of Agriculture (Alice), Eastern Cape, South Africa were interviewed to get their perception and views on government communications and land expropriation without compensation and its effects on South African food security. The findings of this paper revealed that the agricultural sector plays a vital role in the South African economy hence there is a great need to speed up transformation in the sector.

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