scholarly journals A taxonomic revision of the butterfly genera Esperarge and Kirinia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 118-126
Author(s):  
Vitaly M. Spitsyn ◽  
Alexander V. Kondakov ◽  
Alena A. Tomilova ◽  
Munira Karamkhudoeva ◽  
Grigory S. Potapov
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Far East ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Western Asia

The genus Kirinia was described from the Far East and contains two species, i.e. Kirinia epimenides and Kirinia fentoni (= K. epaminondas). Later, the other four species ranging in Central and Western Asia and on the Balkan Peninsula were transferred to this genus based on morphological features of the male genitalia. This action was incorrect and is not confirmed by our novel molecular data. Here, we restore the genus Esperarge Nekrutenko, 1988 stat. rev. with four species, i.e. E. eversmanni comb. rev., E. cashmirensis comb. rev., E. roxelana comb. rev., and E. climene comb. rev. Additionally, the subspecies Esperarge eversmanni shiva syn. nov. is considered a junior synonym of E. e. unicolor.

A taxonomic revision of Iris section Psammiris (Iridaceae) in Russia

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 340 (3) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
NINA B. ALEXEEVA
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Species Determination ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Perianth Tube ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data

Until now, as few as 2–4 species of the genus Iris sect. Psammiris (Iris bloudowii, I. humilis, I. mandshurica, and I. potaninii) have been reported in Russia in botanical publications. We have analysed the diagnostic value of morphological characters. At the series level, features of the root system, the shape of basal leaves, the height of flowering scape, and the length of perianth tube are most significant. The shape and size of spathes are also usable for species identification. In the present contribution, a synopsis of I. sect. Psammiris in Russia is presented, including the description of a new series, Vorobievia. In that country, the section comprises 7 species belonging to 3 series and occurring mainly in Siberia and the Far East, one species extending to the Eastern Europe. A key for species determination is compiled, and the distribution areas of the accepted species are specified. Types are indicated for all involved names, two of which (lectotypes) are designated here. Furthermore, previous results of molecular studies including taxa in this section are analysed and discussed, which demonstrate that I. sect. Psammiris is indeed monophyletic according to the morphological and molecular data available so far.

Reading Manila, Thinking Wiesbaden

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
James DiCrocco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Resource Constrained ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Difficult Situations

This is a comparison of the difficult situations facing two different American armies, one in the Philippines in 1941-1942 and the other in contemporary Europe, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany. Although there are many differences between the two situations confronting the two armies, there also are similarities. Both armies were understrength, consisting of about 30,000 US soldiers. Both operated in a resource-constrained environment. Both had to prepare to contend with large, aggressive powers in the region. Both armies were responsible for the defense of a broad regional expanse. The United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) ultimately were ill-prepared when the Japanese struck the Philippines on 8 December 1941. It is important that United States Army Europe (USAREUR) and its allies do not meet a fate similar to what their comrades in arms did in 1942.

scholarly journals Phylogeography and taxonomic revision of Nelson’s pocket mouse (Chaetodipus nelsoni)

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 1847-1864
Author(s):  
Sean A Neiswenter ◽  
David J Hafner ◽  
Jessica E Light ◽  
Gabriella D Cepeda ◽  
Kathleen C Kinzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
Chihuahuan Desert ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Drainage Basins ◽  
Genetic Groups ◽  
Pocket Mouse ◽  
Salado River ◽  
A New Species

Abstract Chaetodipus nelsoni occurs on rocky substrates across the Mexican Altiplano. We investigated phylogeographic diversity within the species using morphologic, karyotypic, and molecular data. Data from nuclear (AFLP) and mitochondrial DNA support three distinct genetic groups with minimal substructuring coincident with biogeographic barriers previously identified in the Chihuahuan Desert and drainage basins of the Altiplano. We examined the morphological and karyotypic data in light of the molecular data. The results support recognition of three species within the currently accepted widespread C. nelsoni: 1) C. nelsoni restricted to a distribution centered on the El Salado River Basin; 2) elevation of C. n. collis to species, with two subspecies: one centered on Trans-Pecos Texas, the other on the Mapimí Basin (new subspecies); and 3) recognition of a new species, C. durangae, centered on the Nazas Basin and upper Río Mezquital drainage.

Marine investigations in the Lakshadweep Islands, India

Antiquity ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (282) ◽  
pp. 827-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sila Tripati
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
The One ◽  
Lakshadweep Islands

The Lakshadweep Islands lie on the sea route between west Asia and Africa on the one hand and south Asia and the Far East on the other. In maritime history, these islands have played a vital role by providing shelter, fresh water and landmarks to navigators through the ages. Recent discoveries made during marine archaeological exploration and excavations in the Lakshadweep have revealed evidences of early settlement and shipwrecks. The findings suggest that the islands had been inhabited much before the early historical period.

Taxonomic revision of the fruit fly genus Neoceratitis Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3223 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARC DE MEYER ◽  
AMNON FREIDBERG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Fruit Fly ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Synonym ◽  
The Family

Neoceratitis is revised to include six species. N. albiseta, from Madagascar, is described as new. Trirhithrum lycii var. min-imum Bezzi, 1924 is a junior synonym of Ceratitis lycii Coquillett, 1901, new synonym. All known and suspected hostassociations are within the family Solanaceae, with one species (N. cyanescens) infesting tomatoes and several species ofSolanum, whereas the other species with known hosts are associated with Lycium spp. Neoceratitis is probably similar toTrirhithrum Bezzi and particularly to the little known Paratrirhithrum Shiraki. Redescriptions (description in the case of the new species) and illustrations are provided for all the species, and a key to all the species is also provided.

The Indian trade between the Gulf and the Red Sea

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Michał Gawlikowski
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Far East ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
The Other ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
The Far East

This essay evaluates the relative importance of the maritime trade between the Roman Empire and India along two routes that were in use: one started and ended on the Egyptian shore of the Red Sea, the other at the head of the Gulf. Both continued on land along caravan tracks to the Nile valley or through the Syrian desert to Palmyra. The latter land route, longer and presumably more cost-consuming, was used only during the 1st to 3rd centuries AD. The land link with the Far East, the so-called Silk Road, does not seem to have been regularly used. A document from Palmyra allows to estimate the value of the trade along the Syrian route as much smaller than that of the Red Sea traffic. It could have been mainly of local, Syrian importance, and lasted only as long as political circumstances allowed.

A taxonomic revision of the Elachista bedellella (Sircom) complex (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1629 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURI KAILA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Interspecific Differences ◽  
Outer Appearance ◽  
Different Populations

The Elachista bedellella Sircom complex is diagnosed and its taxonomy is revised. The female genitalia, when known, are found to be of good diagnostic value in defining species. In the male genitalia there are subtle, yet decipherable interspecific differences in the shape of the juxta and the cornutus that correlate with differences in the outer appearance of different populations. As a result, eight species are recognised, including the following new species: Elachista antonia sp. n. from Greece (Crete), E. slivenica sp. n. from Bulgaria, E. dorinda sp. n. from Turkey, E. versicolora sp. n. from Russia (Transbaikalia) and E. camilla sp. n. from Russia (Kuray). The identity of E. lugdunensis Frey is clarified and it is considered a valid species, and E. coeneni Traugott-Olsen, 1985 is confirmed to be a junior synonym of it. E. bedellella, E. lugdunensis and E. titanella Kaila & Jalava, 1994 (stat. n.) are diagnosed and illustrated.

Why Not Islam?

1975 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Zaehner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Rigid Structure ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World

As everyone knows, since the end of the Second World War there has been a sensational revival of interest in the non-Christian religions particularly in the United States and in this country. The revival has taken two forms, the one popular, the other academic. The first of these has turned almost exclusively to Hindu and Buddhist mysticism and can be seen as an energetic reaction against the dogmatic and until very recently rigid structure of institutionalised Christianity and a search for a lived experience of the freedom of the spirit which is held to be the true content of mysticism, obscured in Christianity by the basic dogma of a transcendent God, the ‘wholly Other’ of Rudolf Otto and his numerous followers, but wholly untrammelled by any such concept in the higher reaches of Vedanta and Buddhism, particularly in its Zen manifestation. On the academic side the picture is less clear. There is, of course, the claim that the study of religion, like any other academic study, must be subjected to and controlled by the same principles of ‘scientific’ objectivity to which the other ‘arts’ subjects have been subjected, to their own undoing. But even here there would seem to be a bias in favour of the religions of India and the Far East as against Islam, largely, one supposes, in response to popular demand.

The Comoro Islands: A Bibliographical Essay

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 131-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Dubins
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Far East ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Crops ◽  
Mozambique Channel ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Grande Comore ◽  
Comoro Islands

The Comoro Archipelago is situated at the head of the Mozambique Channel, midway between Cape Amber and Cape Delgado. The largest of the four islands, Great Comoro (or Grande Comore), 175 miles from Mozambique, is the northernmost island in the group. Mayotte (or Mayotta), the first of the islands to become a French colony, and the southernmost in the group, is the closest to Madagascar. To the northwest of Mayotte is Anjouan (or Johanna), referred to by authors, both ancient and modern, because of its fertility, as the “Pearl of the Comoro Islands”; immediately to the south of Great Comoro, and almost parallel with Anjouan, is Mohilla (or Moheli), the smallest island in the group. The population of the islands is a mixture of African, Arab, and Malagasy, numbering over 170,000 people, with the heaviest concentration on Anjouan. The exportation of agricultural products has always been the chief industry of the archipelago. Its location at the head of the Mozambique Channel, and the wide range of food products available, made the Comoro Islands a popular supply stop for ships bound for India and the Far East via the Mozambique Channel; for the ships of the British antislavery squadron; and for whalers fishing in the southern Indian Ocean. European technological progress and the opening of the Suez Canal combined to render this function obsolete. During the last half of the nineteenth century, Mayotte, which became a French colony in 1841, was a moderately successful sugar colony. Plantations were also opened on Anjouan and Mohilla, but it was not until after the establishment of a French protectorate over the other two islands in 1886 that plantation economies and new crops were introduced to the rest of the archipelago. Ylang-Ylang, a perfume essence, is the major export crop; sisal, vanilla, cocoa, and coffee are also exported. Coconuts are the only export commodity which has survived from the precolonial economy.

A new species of the genus Polycheria (Peracarida, Amphipoda, Dexaminidae) from South Korea

Crustaceana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 625-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae Won Jung ◽  
Chang Ho Yi ◽  
Seong Myeong Yoon
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Report ◽  
Korean Waters ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Polycheria acercaudasp. nov., an amphipod symbiotic with sponges and ascidians in Korean waters, is established herein as a new species, along with a detailed description and illustrations. This new species is closely related to the following three known species of the genus from the Far East:Polycheria amakusaensisHirayama, 1984,P. japonicaBulycheva, 1952, andP. orientalisHirayama, 1984. However,Polycheria acercaudasp. nov. can be distinguished from the other congeners by the following combination of characteristics: (1) on antenna 2, the anterior margin of peduncular article 4 is pubescent; (2) on gnathopod 2, the palm is clearly distinct; (3) on uropod 3, the inner ramus is lined with plumose setae; and (4) on the telson, the apices are acute. This is the first report of the genusPolycheriaHaswell, 1879 belonging to the family Dexaminidae Leach, 1814 from Korean waters.

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