scholarly journals Seventeen new genera of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from tropical areas of the world

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 25-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Fernandez-Triana ◽  
Caroline Boudreault
Keyword(s):  
Hind Wing ◽  
Parasitoid Wasps ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Phylogenetic Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
Near Future ◽  
World Fauna

As part of comprehensive studies on the world fauna of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) 17 new genera and 29 new species are described from the Afrotropical, Australasian, Neotropical and Oriental regions. The number of extant genera of Microgastrinae is increased by 21% and currently stands at 81. It is anticipated that more genera will be described in the near future, when phylogenetic studies of the group are advanced. The new taxa showcase unusual morphological traits such as atypical head and mouth part modifications, presence of partial occipital and epicnemial carinae, propodeum carination patterns, hind wing venation, trochantellus shape, tarsal claws, sculpture and shape of the first two metasomal tergites, and ovipositor teeth; in some cases, they also represent some of the largest species known in the subfamily. For every new genus putative autapomorphies, morphological diagnostic features, and DNA barcodes (whenever available) are presented, as well as brief discussions of some informal groupings of genera in the subfamily. However, no attempt is made to reassess the phylogeny of the entire Microgastrinae, as that will require more comprehensive analyses beyond the scope of the present work. The following 17gen. n., authored by Fernandez-Triana, are described:Agupta,Austinicotesia,Billmasonius,Carlmuesebeckius,Gilbertnixonius,Janhalacaste,Jenopappius,Jimwhitfieldius,Kotenkosius,Markshawius,Ohenri,Qrocodiledundee,Silvaspinosus,Tobleronius,Ungunicus,YpsilonigasterandZachterbergius. The following 29sp. n., authored by Fernandez-Triana and Boudreault, are described:Aguptadanyi,Aguptajeanphilippei,Aguptaraymondi,Aguptasolangeae,Austinicotesiaindonesiensis,Austinicotesiapapuanus,Billmasoniuscienci,Carlmuesebeckiussmithsonian,Gilbertnixoniusbiem,Janhalacastedanieli,Janhalacasteguanacastensis,Janhalacastewinnieae,Jenopappiusmagyarmuzeum,Jimwhitfieldiusjamesi,Jimwhitfieldiussydneyae,Kotenkosiustricarinatus,Markshawiuserucidoctus,Markshawiusfrancescae,Markshawiusthailandensis,Ohenrigouletorum,Qrocodiledundeeoutbackense,Silvaspinosusvespa,Tobleroniusorientalis,Ungunicusvietnamensis,Ypsilonigasternaturalis,Ypsilonigastersharkeyi,Ypsilonigastertiger,Ypsilonigasterzuparkoi, andZachterbergiustenuitergum. The following fourcomb. n.are proposed:Jenopappiusniger(de Saeger, 1944),Jenopappiusaethiopica(de Saeger, 1944),Ypsilonigasterbumbana(de Saeger, 1942), andYpsilonigasterpteroloba(de Saeger, 1944).

A review of the carbonaria-subgroup of Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Fanniidae), with descriptions of two new species from China

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2204 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
MING-FU WANG ◽  
DONG ZHANG ◽  
SHUANG ZHENG ◽  
CHUN-TIAN ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
The World ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Geographic Distributions ◽  
World Fauna

The Fannia carbonaria-subgroup belongs to the Fannia carbonaria-group Chillcott, 1961. The world fauna of this subgroup is reviewed, the diagnostic features of the subgroup are redefined, and a key to the males of the known species is given. Two new species from China are described: F. dorsovittata Wang sp. nov. and F. subfuscitibia Wang sp. nov.. To facilitate comparisons of the species, Fannia corvina (Verrall), Fannia imperatoria Nishida and Fannia xiaoi Fan are redescribed. Geographic distributions of the species of the subgroup are updated. The systematic position and distribution patterns of the F. carbonaria-subgroup are discussed.

Two new Dikraneurini genera from Ecuador (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4281 (1) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
MARÍA INÉS CATALANO ◽  
CHRISTOPHER H. DIETRICH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Hind Wing ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Apical Cells

 Two new genera, Sakakidikra n. gen. and Tricella n. gen., of tribe Dikraneurini McAtee are described from Ecuador, each based on a single new species, Sakakidikra jazminae n. sp. and Tricella antonellae n. sp. Both new genera described have only three apical cells in the forewing, an unusual characteristic in Typhlocybinae, but given the differences in the forewing and hind wing venation and male genitalia characters we consider it more appropriate to place the specimens in two separate monotypic genera. 

Tell a Styloperlidae from its wing venation: diagnostic traits of the family derived from a survey of intra-specific variability in Cerconychia livida Klapálek, 1913 and related species (Insecta: Plecoptera)

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Fangfang Liu ◽  
Weihai Li ◽  
Yingying Cui ◽  
Olivier Béthoux
Keyword(s):  
Distal Part ◽  
Hind Wing ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
Robust Identification ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Character System ◽  
The Family ◽  
Near Future

Wing venation is a character system commonly used in the systematics of fossil insects, but the existing documentation for extant forms is often insufficient to allow robust identification of extinct forms. The existing literature suggests that the small stonefly family Styloperlidae Illies, 1966, for which no fossils have ever been identified, might possess a suite of distinctive traits. In order to assess their relevance, we conducted a comparative analysis based on a set of individuals of Cerconychia livida Klapálek, 1913, and of singletons belonging to four additional species. Our survey demonstrates that, in forewing, a fusion of the anterior-most branch of AA2 with AA1 occurs, a trait unique to the family. The occurrence of one to several cross-veins in the distal part of the ScP–RA area (both wing pairs), and of a supernumerary sigmoidal cross-vein in the MP–CuA area (hind wing), are also distinctive features, but are not unique to the family. A few other peculiar traits, which relevance remains unclear, are highlighted. Hopefully, our survey will allow close fossil relatives to be identified in the near future.

To the revision of the genus Thionia Stål (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Issidae), with description of new genera and new subtribe

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4434 (1) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR M. GNEZDILOV
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Hind Wing ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Generic Status

New subtribe, Oronoquina subtrib. n., is erected for the genus Oronoqua Fennah, 1947 in the tribe Thioniini Melichar. New genera, Fowlerium gen. n. (type species: Thionia naso Fowler, 1905) and Aplos gen. n. (type species: Issus simplex Germar, 1830) are erected in the subtribe Thioniina Melichar. Thionia acuta Doering, 1941 and T. producta Van Duzee, 1908 are transferred to Fowlerium gen. n. The photos of type specimen of Issus cinctifrons Stål, 1854 are examined and compared with original description of Issus rubrocostatus Spinola, 1839 (currently Thionia rubrocostata (Spinola, 1839)). I. cinctifrons is reinstalled from synonymy with I. rubrocostatus as Thionia cinctifrons (Stål, 1854). Diagnosis of Thionia sensu stricto is given basing on the characters of T. cinctifrons. Generic status of Cheiloceps Uhler, 1895 is discussed and confirmed. Thionia argo Fennah, 1949, T. anguillana Fennah, 1965, T. borinqueta Caldwell et Martorell, 1951, and T. puertoricensis Caldwell et Martorell, 1951 are transferred to the genus Cheiloceps Uhler. Hind wing venation characters of Issidae are discussed. 

scholarly journals Sinopyrophorinae, a new subfamily of Elateridae (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with the first record of a luminous click beetle in Asia and evidence for multiple origins of bioluminescence in Elateridae

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 864 ◽  
pp. 79-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Xuan Bi ◽  
Jin-Wu He ◽  
Chang-Chin Chen ◽  
Robin Kundrata ◽  
Xue-Yan Li
Keyword(s):  
Hind Wing ◽  
First Record ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Abdominal Sternite ◽  
Median Lobe ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Multiple Origins ◽  
Click Beetle ◽  
Luminous Organ ◽  
Luminescent Behavior

The new subfamily Sinopyrophorinae within Elateridae is proposed to accommodate a bioluminescent species, Sinopyrophorusschimmeli Bi & Li, gen. et sp. nov., recently discovered in Yunnan, China. This lineage is morphologically distinguished from other click-beetle subfamilies by the strongly protruding frontoclypeal region, which is longitudinally carinate medially, the pretarsal claws without basal setae, the hind wing venation with a well-defined wedge cell, the abdomen with seven (male) or six (female) ventrites, the large luminous organ on the abdominal sternite II, and the male genitalia with median lobe much shorter than parameres, and parameres arcuate, with the inner margin near its apical third dentate. Molecular phylogeny based on the combined 14 mitochondrial and two nuclear genes supports the placement of this taxon far from other luminescent click-beetle groups, which provides additional evidence for the multiple origin of bioluminescence in Elateridae. Illustrations of habitus and main diagnostic features of S.schimmeli Bi & Li, gen. et sp. nov. are provided, as well as the brief description of its luminescent behavior.

A Compact Embodiment of Pluralities and Denial of Origins: Atwood’s The Year of The Flood

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Rana Sağıroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Why Questions ◽  
Near Future

Margaret Atwood, one of the most spectacular authors of postmodern movement, achieved to unite debatable and in demand critical points of 21st century such as science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism in the novel The Year of The Flood written in 2009. The novel could be regarded as an ecocritical manifesto and a dystopic mirror against today’s degenerated world, tending to a superficial base to keep the already order in use, by moving away from the fundamental solution of all humanity: nature. Although Atwood does not want her works to be called science fiction, it is obvious that science fiction plays an introductory role and gives the novel a ground explaining all ‘why’ questions of the novel. However, Atwood is not unjust while claiming that her works are not science fiction because of the inevitable rapid change of 21st century world becoming addicted to technology, especially Internet. It is easily observed by the reader that what she fictionalises throughout the novel is quite close to possibility, and the world may witness in the near future what she creates in the novel as science fiction. Additionally, postmodernism serves to the novel as the answerer of ‘how’ questions: How the world embraces pluralities, how heterogeneous social order is needed, and how impossible to run the world by dichotomies of patriarchal social order anymore. And lastly, ecocriticism gives the answers of ‘why’ questions of the novel: Why humanity is in chaos, why humanity has organized the world according to its own needs as if there were no living creatures apart from humanity. Therefore, The Year of The Flood meets the reader as a compact embodiment of science fiction, postmodernism and ecocriticism not only with its theme, but also with its narrative techniques.

System of generic groups in mealybugs (Homoptera: Coccinea: Pseudococcidae)

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.A. Gavrilov-Zimin
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Generic Rank ◽  
The World ◽  
Generic Groups ◽  
World Fauna

The paper provides a brief conspectus of the system of morphological generic groups, elaborated earlier by the author basing on the total taxonomic revision of Palaearctic mealybugs. Here the system is complemented by the analysis of all 249 genera of the world fauna. Borders of two generic groups are reconsidered and two else groups (with mainly Oriental and Australasian genera) are included in the system. Main taxonomic characters of generic rank are discussed and illustrated.

A new species of Platymystax (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae: Hemigasterini) from Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-286
Author(s):  
D.R. Kasparyan ◽  
M. López-Ortega
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Preliminary Identification ◽  
Mexican State ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species ◽  
World Fauna

A new species of the tribe Hemigasterini, Platymystax xalapa sp. nov., is described from the Mexican State of Veracruz. It is the first species of the genus described from the New World. A preliminary identification key to all known seven species of Platymystax of the world fauna is provided.

The Supply-Demand Research of Cultural and Tourism Industries Policies in China with the Impact of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-24
Author(s):  
Dr. Jianfei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Post Period

COVID-19 has made a bad influence on economic and society including cultural and tourism industry in China，2020.The industry has received a huge loss in the first quarter of the year and the situation is getting worse in the near future. It is believed that there will be a long impact for the country even the world. In order to recover the industry, Chinese government has published series of policies to support the enterprises and clusters to reduce the bad influence of COVID-19. This paper mainly uses filed survey and documentary research to map the real situation of the industry. It tries to find the policy demand of the industries and then analyze the policies published by government to conquer COVID-19. Meanwhile it will focus on whether the supply meet the demand and give suggestions on how to promote the policy efficiency in the post period of COVID-19 in China. Keywords: Evaluation; Cultural Industries; Policy; Park; Pandemic

scholarly journals An outline of SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis and the complement cascade of immune system

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Padmalochan Hembram
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Main Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Transmission Chain ◽  
The World ◽  
Therapeutic Molecules ◽  
Rapid Transmission ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Near Future

Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 19 is a viral infection caused by a novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. It was first notified in Wuhan, China, is now spread into numerous part of the world. Thus, the world needs urgent support and encouragement to develop a vaccine or antiviral treatments to combat the atrocious outbreak. Main body of the abstract The origin of this virus is yet unknown; however, rapid transmission from human-to-human “Anthroponosis” has widely confirmed. The world is witnessing a continuous hike in SARS-CoV-2 infection. In light of the outbreak of coronavirus disease 19, we have aimed to highlight the basic and vital information about the novel coronavirus. We provide an overview of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, timeline and its pathophysiological properties which would be an aid for the development of therapeutic molecules and antiviral drugs. Immune system plays a crucial role in virus infection in order to control but may have dark side when becomes uncontrollable. The host and SARS-CoV-2 interaction describe how the virus exploits host machinery and how overactive host immune response can cause disease severity also addressed in this review. Short conclusion Safe and effective vaccines may be the game-changing tools, but in the near future wearing mask, washing hands at regular intervals, avoiding crowed, maintaining physical distancing and hygienic surrounding, must be good practices to reduce and break the transmission chain. Still, research is ongoing not only on how vaccines protect against disease, but also against infection and transmission.

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