scholarly journals Sitarobrachys thoracica (Kraatz, 1862): new genus and species for the blister beetle fauna of Turkey (Coleoptera: Meloidae)

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco A. Bologna
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Southern Turkey ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Blister Beetle

<em>Sitarobrachys</em> <em>thoracica</em>, belonging to a monotypic Mediterranean-Macaronesian genus of Meloidae Nemognathinae, is recorded for the first time from southern Turkey. The genus results widely distributed around the Mediterranean Basin and in the eastern Canary Islands.

The Polycladida (Platyhelminthes) of the Canary Islands. New genus, species and records

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4312 (1) ◽  
pp. 38 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL CUADRADO ◽  
LEOPOLDO MORO ◽  
CAROLINA NOREÑA
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Morphological Study ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Records ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

The main focus of this study is the biodiversity of the order Polycladida in the Canary Islands, archipelago belonging to Macaronesia and to the Mediterranean basin hot spot region. Polycladida is a cosmopolitan order with some species distributed worldwide; but it also is comprised of endemic species. Here, 19 polyclad species are revised and determined, ten of which were previously recorded for the Canary Islands (De Vera et al. 2009). A new genus and species Multisepta fengari n. gen., n. sp., of the suborder Acotylea and five new species belonging to the suborder Cotylea including Anonymus ruber n. sp., Enchiridium magec n. sp., Eurylepta guayota n. sp., Acanthozoon aranfaibo n. sp. and Pseudoceros mororum n. sp., are presented and described. In addition, two well-known species, Pseudobiceros wirtzi (Madeira and Cape Verde) and Pericelis cata (Caribbean coasts), are new records for the Canary Islands and for the hot spot region of the Mediterranean basin. Using all available information, including from the morphological study presented here, a key for the species for the Canary Islands has been generated. 

Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua M. White
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
Legal Space ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
First Time ◽  
Eastern Half ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the shape and impact of piracy in the eastern half of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire’s administrative, legal, and diplomatic response. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, piracy had a tremendous effect on the formation of international law, the conduct of diplomacy, the articulation of Ottoman imperial and Islamic law, and their application in Ottoman courts. Piracy and Law draws on research in archives and libraries in Istanbul, Venice, Crete, London, and Paris to bring the Ottoman state and Ottoman victims into the story for the first time. It explains why piracy exploded after the 1570s and why the Ottoman state was largely unable to marshal an effective military solution even as it responded dynamically in the spheres of law and diplomacy. By focusing on the Ottoman victims, jurists, and officials who had to contend most with the consequences of piracy, Piracy and Law reveals a broader range of piratical practitioners than the Muslim and Catholic corsairs who have typically been the focus of study and considers their consequences for the Ottoman state and those who traveled through Ottoman waters. This book argues that what made the eastern half of the Mediterranean basin the Ottoman Mediterranean, more than sovereignty or naval supremacy—which was ephemeral—was that it was a legal space. The challenge of piracy helped to define its contours.

scholarly journals Decapod assemblage from the late Miocene (early-middle Messinian) of the Romagna Apennines nearby Brisighella, Emilia-Romagna (N Italy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Pasini ◽  
Alessandro Garassino ◽  
Marco Sami
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Ne Italy ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Stratigraphic Range

An assemblage of axiidean and brachyuran decapods is reported from the late Miocene pre-evaporitic (early-middle Messinian) limestone of Cò di Sasso, nearby Brisighella (Ravenna, Emilia- Romagna), located in Romagna Apennines (NE Italy). Except Monodaeus bortolottii Delle Cave, 1988 (Xanthidae MacLeay, 1838), which is reported here for the first time in Miocene, all the other specimens have been assigned to species previously known in the Italian Miocene (Messinian s.l.), but never reported in this area. The report of Galathea cf. G. weinfurteri Bachmayer, 1950 (Galatheidae Samouelle, 1819) and Medorippe ampla Garassino, De Angeli, Gallo and Pasini, 2004 (Dorippidae MacLeay, 1838) enlarges the stratigraphic range of these Miocene species. This report enlarges our limited knowledge on the composition and distribution of the axiidean, anomuran, and brachyuran decapods during the early-middle Messinian before the evaporitic event in the Mediterranean Basin.

scholarly journals Description of Harpagorhynchus golvaneuzeti n. gen. n. sp. (Acanthocephala, Harpagorhynchinae n. sub-fam.) with a review of acanthocephalan parasites of soleid fishes in the Mediterranean Basin

Parasite ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Yuriy Kvach ◽  
Isaure de Buron
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Cerebral Ganglion ◽  
The Body ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Single Type ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Sea Of Marmara ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

A species of acanthocephalan new to science from soleid fishes in the Mediterranean Sea and the Sea of Marmara is described. The new species is characterised by individuals having a club-shaped proboscis armed with 12–13 rows of 6–7 rooted hooks of a single type, a basal cerebral ganglion, and tegumental spines on the anterior two thirds of the body. Males have six cement glands and females show spines around the genital opening. To accommodate this species, a new genus, Harpagorhynchus n. gen., and a new subfamily in Echinorhynchidae, Harpagorhynchinae n. sub-fam., are erected. A critical review of the literature on echinorhynchid species infecting soleid fishes in the Mediterranean basin showed that Solearhynchus soleae (Porta, 1906) should be considered a junior synonym of S. rhytidotes (Monticelli, 1905) and that S. kostylewi (Meyer, 1932) is a valid species. An identification key of acanthocephalans of Mediterranean soleids is provided.

scholarly journals Dicrotrichura tricincta gen. et spec. nov.: A new tantulocaridan (Crustacea: Maxillopoda) from the Mediterranean deep waters off Corsica

1989 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rony Huys
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Ligurian Sea ◽  
Deep Waters ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Difference ◽  
First Time ◽  
Crustacean Host

The new genus and species, Dicrotrichura tricincta, is described from deep mud (1220 m) in the Ligurian Sea (western Mediterranean). It is the first tantulocaridan not found to be attached to a crustacean host but free living in the sediment. It is assigned to the Deoterthridae on the basis of the absence of a rostrum, the abdominal segmentation and the characteristic cephalic pore pattern. It can be distinguished from all known tantulocaridans in the presence of peculiar, bi-articulated caudal setae and the difference in thoracopodal setation between leg 2 and legs 3–5. Some new structures located on the attachment disc are described for the first time. D. tricincta is the second tantulocaridan to be recorded from the Mediterranean.

Planococcine mealybugs of economic importance from the Mediterranean Basin and their distinction from a new African genus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)

1986 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Cox ◽  
Y. Ben-Dov
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Host Preferences ◽  
Planococcus Ficus ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
African Genus ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

AbstractA key is provided to distinguish the three species of Planococcus occurring in the Mediterranean Basin, P. citri (Risso), P. ficus (Signoret) and P. vovae (Nasonov), and their nomenclatural histories are reviewed. Notes on economic importance, host preferences, distribution and taxonomy are given for each species. Pseudococcus citrioides Ferris is synonymized with Planococcus ficus (Signoret), Pseudococcus lindingeri Bodenheimer is transferred to Planococcoides, Pseudococcus inamabilis Hambleton is synonymized with Planococcus vovae, and Allococcus Ezzat & McConnell is regarded as a subjective junior synonym of Planococcus Ferris. A new genus, Delottococcus, is erected to contain a group of species previously placed in Allococcus.

scholarly journals Vortices of the Mediterranean Sea: An Altimetric Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Isern-Fontanet ◽  
Emilio García-Ladona ◽  
Jordi Font
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Common Definition ◽  
Coherent Vortices ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Simply Connected Region ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

Abstract The presence of coherent vortices makes observed mesoscale fields of the ocean resemble two-dimensional turbulence. Using this analogy, a common definition of a coherent structure has been used to study the statistical properties of Mediterranean Sea vortices observed by satellite altimeters over a 7-yr period. A vortex has been defined as the simply connected region with values of the Okubo–Weiss parameter W &lt; −0.2σW, where σW is the spatial standard deviation of W, and the same sign of vorticity. This definition is shown to be appropriate to detect and characterize, statistically, properties such as size, mean kinetic energy, and amplitude of vortices in the Mediterranean basin from sea level anomaly maps corresponding to the period from October 1992 to October 1999. The distribution of such properties for the Mediterranean vortices suggests a heuristic criterion to extract and select very coherent and long-lived vortices from the whole set of structures identified in altimetric maps. Such coherent vortices appear to be selected for amplitudes greater than 2σW, where the amplitude has been defined in terms of the Okubo–Weiss parameter rather than vorticity, and strongly correspond to those reported from observations with independent data. Systematic locating and tracking of such vortices provide, for the first time, a general picture of their preferential paths in the Mediterranean basin, which are characterized by complex but rather well defined patterns.

scholarly journals Not as docile as it looks? Loxosceles venom variation and loxoscelism in the Mediterranean Basin and the Canary Islands

Toxicon ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enric Planas ◽  
Pamela A. Zobel-Thropp ◽  
Carles Ribera ◽  
Greta Binford
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

THE NEARCTIC BUG ZELUS RENARDII (KOLENATI) (HEMIPTERA REDUVIIDAE) IN NORTHERN ITALY AND SICILY

Redia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 87-88
Author(s):  
SALVATORE BELLA
Keyword(s):  
Invasive Species ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Indigenous Species ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

The presence of Zelus renardii (Kolenati, 1856) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae), is documented for the first time in northern Italy (Liguria region) and in Sicily. This invasive species of nearctic origin was recorded for the first time in Europe in 2010 and in Italy in 2013. It is in rapid expansion in different areas of the world, especially in the Mediterranean basin and since it is extremely polyphagous its presence could represent a new threat for indigenous species and human activities.

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