scholarly journals First record of Andrena chrysopus Perez, 1903 (Hymenoptera: Apiformes: Andrenidae) in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Lucyna TWERD ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Host Plant ◽  
First Record ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Industrial Districts ◽  
Flowering Period ◽  
The City ◽  
Stable Populations

The paper presents data about the first record of Andrena chrysopus Perez, 1903 in Bydgoszcz, Poland (the Wielkopolsko-Kujawska Lowland). It is an oligolectic species, closely linked to plants in the genus Asparagus sp. During 2018–2019 (May–June), 54 speciemens of the species were collected at 9 sites during the flowering period of the host plant. The bees were recorded in dry and well sunlit biotopes on the outskirts of the city and in residential-industrial districts. The observations confirmed the occurrence of stable populations of A. chrysopus. However, increasing urbanisation and succession may threaten the presence of the species in the genus Asparagus sp., and thus A. chrysopus, which strongly relies on these species' food sources.

WOLFFIA ARRHIZA (L.) HORKEL EX WIMM. RECORDS IN THE NOVOSIBIRSK REGION (WEST SIBERIA) - THE FIRST IN ASIAN RUSSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
L. M. Kipriyanova ◽  
N. V. Priidak ◽  
O. E. Kosterin
Keyword(s):  
Typha Latifolia ◽  
West Siberia ◽  
First Record ◽  
Septic Tank ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
Novosibirsk Region ◽  
Wolffia Arrhiza ◽  
Stratiotes Aloides ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The City

In 2020 the first record of Wolffia arrhiza was registered in Novosibirsk Region (West Siberia) in the floodplain lake. Wolffia arrhiza formed vast stands with an area of hundreds square meters and with high productivity. Besides monodominant communities, it was met as a component of the cenoses of such hydrophytes as Stratiotes aloides , Hydrocharis morsus-ranae , as well as of the helophyte communities formed by Typha latifolia and Eleocharis mamillata . According to local residents, the large stands of Wolffia was observed for some years, thus, most likely, the population winters safely at the latitude of Novosibirsk. The most likely source of Wolffia arrhiza appearance in the lake was a deliberate introduction from the aquarium. Although the probability of this plant entering to the lake from the waste water of the city septic tank of the Novosibirsk sewage waters also exists.

scholarly journals Oropendola nest predation and rodent consumption by the black-capped capuchin (Sapajus apella) in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Lee ◽  
Michelle Huang
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammals ◽  
Nest Predation ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
First Record ◽  
Foraging Strategy ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Forest Types ◽  
Egg Predation ◽  
Sapajus Apella

The Neotropical primate Sapajus apella (Linnaeus, 1758), the black-capped capuchin monkey, is widely distributed across the Amazon basin (Boubli et al., 2020). Capuchins are generalist platyrrhines, occurring in most tropical forest types, where they forage opportunistically (Sabbatini et al., 2008; Lynch Alfaro et al., 2012; Boubli et al., 2020). They exploit a diverse variety of food sources, such as fruit, seeds, arthropods and vertebrate prey including small mammals (Rose, 1997; Resende et al., 2003; Albuquerque et al., 2014). Their foraging strategy is highly resourceful and adaptive, and are often considered as important predators of nests (Canale and Bernardo, 2016), including those of caiman (Torralvo et al., 2017), coatis (Rose, 1997) and especially of birds (Watts, 2020). In this work, we report observations of a foraging event by Sapajus apella that includes the first record of egg predation of the russet-backed oropendola, Psarocolius angustifrons (von Spix, 1824), as well as the predation of arboreal rodents, Oecomys sp. (Thomas, 1906).

scholarly journals PERCEPTIONAL APPROACH IN SOCIAL-GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH OF THE URBAN SPACE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF LVIV)

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Myroslava VLAKH ◽  
Iryna HUDZELYAK
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Color Perception ◽  
Industrial Districts ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Minimum Threshold ◽  
Functional Transformation ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Unique Interpretation ◽  
The City ◽  
Coefficient Of Asymmetry

The color perception and evaluation of the attitude of the student youth towards 20 territorial parts of Lviv urban space were analyzed. The importance of the studentification for the functional transformation of urban space was emphasized. A technique developed by the Swiss psychologist M. Lusher was used to research the color perception of urban space. An electronic poll of 205 students was conducted, the results of which were analyzed in three age categories. The study found a low coefficient of asymmetry in the responses and determined a minimum threshold for a unique interpretation of the “color” of the area. A mental map of the color perception of Lviv was performed, which distinguishes areas dominated by the perception of the same color, the combination of two colors, the indistinct distribution, as well as the positive, negative and uncertain attitude of students towards them. Warm colors (yellow, green, red) were found to relate mainly to the areas of study, dwelling, and the most frequent location of the students, as well as to the desired places of residence. Black and gray colors dominate in the perception of industrial and transport-industrial districts of Lviv, which received negative opinions. The results of the study can be used in the process of adaptive transformation (according to student needs) of Lviv urban space and in specificating the paradigm of its development. In particular, according to the poll, a large part of Lviv has negative or uncertain attitude, thus its further functional transformation must take into account the needs of student youth. Colored association with territorial parts of the city may also be used for creation of verbal urbal images and formulation of relevant geospatial metaphors.

scholarly journals The Life and Death of the Supermarket:  How Food Trade Infrastructure Affects the  Design of Architectural and Urban Settings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mathew Lee
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Urban Market ◽  
The City

<p>Historically food has played an important role in how cities are shaped. The modern city is no exception to this, yet it holds an abstracted relationship to the hinterlands that feed it (Steel: 2008), thus giving the perception (particularly in Western cities) that constant food supply to the city is a given right. The problem of feeding cities still remains a challenge (Diamond: 2005), one that, in combination with an ever increasing scarcity of fossil fuels, has led to a emerging tide of urbanism looking to bring localised food back to prominence in the city. More so, investigating building infrastructure to mass produce food in cities themselves: the return to a city state model. A consequence of this is also a move towards a more resource sustainable city framework. However, there is little discussion around how this new food urbanism will be structured within the city, and conversely, how it will structure the city. The most prominent architectural/urban typology which represents food in the city currently is that of the supermarket building, a type which has evolved from the urban market but has shed its civic role (Steel: 2008). This is further characterised by the common use of the private motor vehicle to access the supermarkets site. What if we were to amputate the car from the supermarket? Would we return to the urban market as the defining food space typology in the city? Or would food space be embodied in a new formal language? Primary Research Question(s): How can we track the implications of food (supply, demand, requirements) for the contemporary Western city through a supermarket typology? Secondary Research Questions: How does food culture and its resulting space enhance the urban public sphere (i.e. the vitality of the city)? Methodology Using the analysis model of design (institutionalised/autonomous design process) versus nondesign (overlapping of cultural systems in which design is one of these) laid out by Diana Agrest in 1974 as an analysis departure point; the research will investigate the historical and contemporary role of food markets in cities. The supermarket typology will form the basis for how food exchange related design affects urban fabric build-up in Western cities. Through links in the literature review, as well as empirically based evidence, I draw through extrapolations of how a food market driven city might conduct urban change. This may nurture a more direct relationship to its surrounding geography (e.g. the hinterland) and the food sources needed to feed it. Empirical analysis has been conducted on what might typify a vibrant and civically significant urban market to counteract the research into supermarket typologies. The Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne, Australia, has been selected as this case study. There is an assumption that there are qualities instilled in urban markets which have more positive effects for urban environments than that of supermarkets. Thus, through looking at these environments it may be possible to tease out new directions for solidifying the prominence of food in the city once more.</p>

scholarly journals First record of Turdus ignobilis Sclater, 1857 (Aves: Turdidae) in the Andes of Ecuador

Check List ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 2103
Author(s):  
Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado ◽  
Adrian Orihuela-Torres ◽  
Fabián Reyes-Bueno ◽  
Daniel Rosado
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Altitudinal Range ◽  
The Andes ◽  
The City

We present the first record of the Black-billed Thrush (Turdus ignobilis) in Loja city, Ecuadorian Andes. The bird was recorded in August and September 2015 in Jipiro Park, north of the city, at an elevation of 2,074 m. This increases this species’ altitudinal range in Ecuador by at least 540 m. The presence of the Black-billed Thrush in Loja shows that the valley of the Zamora River allows some species to move from the eastern lowlands to this region of the country.

THE FIRST RECORDS OF DOLOMEDES STRIATUS GIEBEL IN ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN (ARANEIDA: PISAURIDAE)

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (12) ◽  
pp. 1143-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Leech ◽  
Donald J. Buckle
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
The South ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
South Side ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
Dolomedes Triton ◽  
Area 6 ◽  
The City

During the summer of 1985, an intensive effort was made to collect the invertebrates, particularly insects and spiders, of the Wagner Natural Area. This is a 162-ha area 6 km west of the city limits of Edmonton, Alta., on the south side of Highway 16X.An examination of the spiders collected in the pitfall pans revealed two species of pisaurids, Dolomedes striatus Giebel, 1869, and Dolomedes triton (Walckenaer, 1837). This is the first record of Dolomedes striatus for Alberta. The previous known western limit of its distribution was more or less between Lake Nipigon and Thunder Bay, Ont. (Carico 1973).

scholarly journals Record of Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willing and Phenacoccus madeirensis (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on new host ornamental plants in Greece

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.J. Stathas ◽  
E.D. Kartsonas ◽  
A.I. Darras
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
Ornamental Plants ◽  
First Record ◽  
New Host ◽  
Phenacoccus Madeirensis ◽  
Of Greece

Summary Two invasive mealybug species, Phenacoccus peruvianus Granara de Willink and Phenacoccus madeirensis Green (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), have been recorded on new species of ornamental plants in diff erent regions of Greece. Phenacoccus peruvianus was recorded in Athens on Cestrum nocturnum L. (Solanaceae) in September 2013. Phenacoccus madeirensis was found in Kalamata (Peloponnese) on Aloysia citriodora Palau (Verbenaceae) in May 2014 and on Osteospermum jucundum (Phillips) (Asteraceae) in July 2014. This is the first record of O. jucundum as host plant of P. madeirensis

scholarly journals Diagnostics of new species of Neotropical Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera), with the first record of Coptotriche Walshingham from South America

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4691 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONAS R. STONIS ◽  
ARŪNAS DIŠKUS ◽  
ANDRIUS REMEIKIS ◽  
LILIANA KATINAS ◽  
NIXON CUMBICUS TORRES ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South America ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
First Record ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
New Host ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
Plant Distributions

We describe seven new Neotropical species of Tischeriidae: Astrotischeria dondavisi Stonis & Diškus, sp. nov., A. bacchariphaga Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., A. guatemalica Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., A. sanjosei Stonis & Diškus, sp. nov., A. truncata Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., Coptotriche parvisacculata Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. and C. carmencita Stonis & Diškus, sp. nov. We report the discovery of Coptotriche Walsingham in South America and provide the following new host-plant records for the Neotropical Tischeriidae: Terminalia australis Cambess. (Combretaceae), Baccharis latifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers., and B. emarginata (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers. (Asteraceae). We update the biology of Astrotischeria ochrimaculosa Diškus, Stonis & Vargas with the discovery that Wissadula (Malvaceae) is a new, verified host plant. The new species are illustrated with photographs of the adults, male and, if available, female genitalia, and the leaf mines. We expect broader distributions of tisheriid species in South America inferred from known host-plant distributions. 

First record of Greenidea psidii van der Goot and comparison with Greenidea ficicola Takahashi (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1235 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
SONIA MARIA NOEMBERG LAZZARI ◽  
REGINA CÉLIA ZONTA-DE-CARVALHO ◽  
JOSIANE TERESINHA CARDOSO ◽  
DANIÉLA CRISTINA CALADO
Keyword(s):  
First Record ◽  
Psidium Guajava ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Diagnostic Characters ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Ficus Microcarpa ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Greenidea psidii van der Goot, 1916 is registered by the first time in Brazil. It was found associated with Psidium guajava L. in Paraná, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo States, and with Psidium cattleianum Sabine in the city of Curitiba, Paraná. A brief comparative synopsis and pictures of the main diagnostic characters are given for this species and for Greenidea ficicola Takahashi, 1921, which was also recently found in Brazil, collected on Ficus benjamina (L.) in Paraná and Santa Catarina, and on Ficus microcarpa L. in São Paulo State.

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