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Guide. Dining: Anju Noodle Bar
Anju Noodle Bar, located in Kittery, is featured and reviewed
Episyron keralaensis Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass 2024, sp. nov.
<i>Episyron keralaensis</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, sp. nov. <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: A292974A-3C0F-423A-973A-8851501BBD46</p> <p>Figures 1–16</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> <b>Holotype</b> ♀, <b>India</b>: Kerala, Wayanad district, Panamaram (11º44’25’’N, 76º04’18’’E), 10.iv.2021, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24957. <b>Paratypes.</b> Kerala: 1♀, Kozhikode district, Madappally (11º38’38’’N, 75º34’14’’E), 28.viii.2020, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/ INV.24958; 1♀ Wayanad district, Panamaram (11º44’25’’N, 76º04’18’’E), 10.iv.2021, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24959; 1♂, Kozhikode district, Balussery (11º26’36’’N, 75º49’05’’E), 27.iii.2019, Coll.C. Binoy.Regd.No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24960; 4♂, Kasaragod district, Ranipuram (12º25’45’’N, 75º21’44’’E), 22.i.2020, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24961–24964.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The female of new species differs from all other congeners by the following set of characters: pale yellow stripes along inner orbits interrupted at vertex; clypeus black with pale yellow markings; pale yellow band along posterior margin of pronotum interrupted at middle; small round spot on mesoscutum postero-medially; hind tibia black with pale yellow fascia in dorsal face basally; tibial spurs pale yellow; basal pale yellow fascia on T2, T3 and T5; head wider than mesosoma; SMC2 and SMC3 almost equal in size; crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> distinctly curved basally; and long black setae on T6 moderate, concentrated laterally.</p> <p> <b>Description of Female.</b> Holotype, female (Figs 1–12). Body length 8.62 mm (8.41 mm – 9.15 mm for paratypes); length of fore wing 7.38 mm (7.1 mm – 7.95 mm for paratypes).</p> <p> <b> <i>Colour</i>.</b> Overall colour black with pale yellow markings as follows: narrow stripes along inner orbits interrupted at vertex, stripes along posterior margin of eyes, stripes along anterior margin of clypeus subapically, band along posterior margin of pronotum interrupted at middle, small round spot on mesoscutum postero-medially, basal fascia on T2, T3 and T5, and fascia at dorsal region of hind tibia basally; antenna brownish black; tibial spurs pale; pale spot on apical dorsal region of all coxae; wings fusco-hyaline, infuscated at apex; veins and pterostigma brown.</p> <p> <b> <i>Pubescence</i>.</b> Pubescence moderate; pronotum, propodeum and T1 having genus specific metallic reflection with bluish white appressed flattened and squamiform setae; whitish pubescence moderate in frons and clypeus; mesosoma highly pubescent in some regions with moderate pubescence on pleura; silver shiny pubescence at base of metanotum and at two concavities of metapostnotum; pubescence on propodeum more concentrated at posterior half; soft long setae on mesosoma, mainly concentrated along lateral sides of propodeum; T6 with long suberect brownish black setae concentrated laterally.</p> <p> <b> <i>Head</i>.</b> Head a trifle wider than high in frontal view (1.12–1.2×), wider than mesosoma (Fig. 3); minutely punctate, punctuations hardly visible over underlying pubescence on frons; shallow median line extending from anterior ocellus to interantennal space; eyes 1.89–1.93× as long as wide (Fig. 5), slightly emarginated above middle frons with MID slightly greater than LID, UID 0.73–0.8× MID (Fig. 3); ocelli in triangle, anterior ocellus slightly wider than posterior ocelli, POD about as long as OOD (0.21: 0.22) (Fig. 4); clypeus large, nearly flat with slight convexity, more than twice as broad as long, anterior margin widely arched, posterior margin transverse (Fig. 3); mandible long, crossing each other, bidentate; malar space reduced, less than half of pedicel; toruli situated slightly above posterior clypeus margin; antennae long, closely placed; F1 the longest flagellomere 1.69–1.73× as long as scape, scape longer than twice its width; pedicel as wide as long; F2–F5 almost equal in length with a slight decrease in length towards the apical flagellomeres; gena narrower than compound eye in lateral view; occiput carinate.</p> <p> <b> <i>Mesosoma</i>.</b> Pronotum 2–2.14× as wide as long, angulate postero-laterally; mesoscutum large, prominent, 1.36– 1.4× as long as scutellum in dorsal view (Fig. 7); abbreviated furrow on each side close to the apex not reaching anterior margin; scutellum with conspicuous prescutellar sulcus, medially triangularly raised; metanotum curved; metapostnotum much reduced with two curves at posterior margin (Fig. 7); propodeum 1.28–1.38× as wide as long along middle, no apparent sculpturing (Fig. 7), posteriorly with rounded steep slope at apex.</p> <p> <b> <i>Legs</i>.</b> Tibiae and tarsi with irregular scattered spines throughout, apically with different length spines; fore tarsus with cylindrical tapering spines, tarsomere 1 with three outer spines; tarsal claws bifid; hind basitarsus 0.62– 0.69× hind tibia, hind tibial spur long, 0.77–0.81× as long as hind basitarsus.</p> <p> <b> <i>Wings</i>.</b> Fore wing with upper margin of SMC2 and SMC3 almost of equal length; length of SMC3 less than half of its distance from the wing apex; SMC2 and SMC3 receiving crossveins <i>1m-cu</i> and <i>2m-cu</i> respectively at the middle; crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> curved basally; marginal cell long about twice its width; pterostigma shorter than vein <i>r-rs</i> (Fig. 12); crossvein <i>cu-a</i> of hind wing arc-like forming obtuse angle with vein <i>A</i>.</p> <p> <b> <i>Metasoma</i>.</b> Smooth; slightly longer than mesosoma, subsessile, T1 thick at base (Fig. 8); apical segment slightly acute.</p> <p> <b>Male.</b> (Figs 13–16).</p> <p>Resembles female in general appearance and coloration with slight variations in markings. However, as in the case of other genera, male is smaller and slender than females with following differences: the genus specific bluish white shiny pubescence seen on T 2 in addition to T1, where as in female, pubescence mainly concentrated on T1; antennae shorter and stouter and ventrally brownish in colour in contrast to the long slender, black antennae of female (Fig. 14); and T6 is pale almost entirely, as compared to the black T 6 in female. Hypopygium and genitalia as in figures 15 & 16.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> Occurrence of both males and females in the same habitat along with the similarity in morphology and colour patterns supports sex association.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species name refers to the Indian state of Kerala, where the holotype was collected.</p> <p> <b>Variation.</b> Pale yellow markings on body segments vary in intensity and distribution in paratypes along with variation in the relative density of pubescence.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> India (Kerala).</p> <p> <b>Comparison.</b> The female of new species <i>E. keralaensis</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, <b>sp. nov.</b> closely resembles <i>E. arrogans</i> in general appearance, morphology and coloration of the body. However it differs from <i>E. arrogans</i> as follows: head wider than mesosoma (in <i>E. arrogans</i>, head not wider than mesosoma); fore wing with upper margin of SMC2 and SMC3 almost equal in length (in <i>E. arrogans</i>, SMC 3 is smaller than SMC2); crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> of fore wing basally curved (in <i>E. arrogans</i>, crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> is almost straight); and forewing SMC2 receives crossvein <i>1m-cu</i> medially (in <i>E. arrogans</i>, SMC 2 receives crossvein <i>1m-cu</i> beyond the middle of basal margin).</p>Published as part of <i>Anju, K., Kumar, P. Girish & Thejass, P., 2024, Review of the spider wasp genus Episyron Schiødte, 1837 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from India, with description of three new species, pp. 562-576 in Zootaxa 5405 (4)</i> on pages 565-568, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.4.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10603907">http://zenodo.org/record/10603907</a>
Anju, N. Korea
A photograph of buildings in Anju, North Korea. The caption reads: Anju, N. Korea. Gen. MacArthur come by this street by __ing jeeps. Anju, N. Korea. Title from caption. Item from: George Naohara scrapbook: Korean War and before leaving Japan (csudh_nao_0600).The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake camps, and the U.S. Army language school training and Korean War. He also engaged in Buddhist activities for his whole life and there are moving images depicting Gardena Buddhist Church activities after the war. Mitzi Masukawa Naohara was a preschool teacher at the Poston camp, Arizona, and also a member of a young Nisei women's club, "Sigma Debs.” Her collected materials depict her life as a teacher and social events in the Poston camp during the war
Anju, Korea
Photographed is a landscape in Anju-up, Korea. The caption reads: Anju, Korea. Title from caption. Item from: George Naohara scrapbook: Korean War and before leaving Japan (csudh_nao_0600).The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake camps, and the U.S. Army language school training and Korean War. He also engaged in Buddhist activities for his whole life and there are moving images depicting Gardena Buddhist Church activities after the war. Mitzi Masukawa Naohara was a preschool teacher at the Poston camp, Arizona, and also a member of a young Nisei women's club, "Sigma Debs.” Her collected materials depict her life as a teacher and social events in the Poston camp during the war
Anju Dodiya
Anju Dodiya is an artist who lives and works in Mumbai. She has had 18 solo shows in India and abroad, which include the site-specific installation Throne of Frost at the Laxmi Vilas Palace, Baroda, 2007; Imagined Immortals, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2014; How to be Brave (in Pictures), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, 2016 and The Air is a Mill of Hooks, Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2018. Selected group participations include: ARS 01, Unfolding Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kias..
Episyron nigrocalcarius Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass 2024, sp. nov.
<i>Episyron nigrocalcarius</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, sp. nov. <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 8A4CD7D8-A1A3-41A3-8DDD-E79B718DFEAF</p> <p>Figures 17–28</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype, ♀, <b>India:</b> Kerala, Wayanad district, Thondernad (11º46’27’’N, 75º50’29’’E), 29.ix.2021, Coll. T.A. Arvind, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/WGRC/IR/INV.24965.</p> <p> <b>Paratypes.</b> Kerala: 1♀, Kasaragod district, Ranipuram (12º25’45’’N, 75º21’44’’E), 22.i.2020, Coll. K. Anju, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24966; 1♀, Kozhikode district, Kakkavayal (11º29’36’’N, 75º58’24’’E), 26.vii.2017, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.24967; 1♀, Wayanad district, Vythiri (11º33’11’’N, 76º02’21’’E), 4.iii.2019, Coll. P.M. Sureshan & Party, [<b>ZSIK</b>] ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC/IR/INV.24968.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The new species differs from all other congeners by the following characters: Clypeus entirely black; hind tibia black without any marking; tibial spurs black; numerous long black setae on T6, almost uniformly distributed; and paired basolateral transverse fascia on T2 and T3.</p> <p> <b>Description of Female.</b> Holotype, Female (Figs 17–28). Body length 10.15–11.13 mm; length of fore wing 9.18–10.23 mm.</p> <p> <b> <i>Colour</i>.</b> Body largely black with following markings creamy yellow/yellowish white: narrow stripes alopng inner orbits in the median part of frontal face, stripes along the posterior margin of eye more narrower and pale, medially interrupted band on posterior margin of pronotum, paired basolateral transverse fascia on T2 and T3 and spot on apex of all coxae; very narrow orange brown smooth line along anterior margin of clypeus; tibial spurs black; wings fusco-hyaline, broadly infuscated at apex; veins and pterostigma brown.</p> <p> <b> <i>Pubescence</i>.</b> Pubescence moderate; pronotum, propodeum and T1 having metallic reflection with bluish white appressed flattened and squamiform setae; head moderately pubescent with whitish pubescence mainly concentrated below the antennal region and clypeus; pubescence on clypeus uniform with pubescent-free anterior medial region; few smooth long setae along lateral regions of mesosoma; silver pubescence at joining region of scutellum and metanotum; metapostnotum with silver shiny pubescence at cavities; bluish white shining pubescence on plural region minimum; pubescence on propodeum concentrated towards posterior half; T6 with numerous long black setae.</p> <p> <b> <i>Head</i>.</b> Head slightly wider than high in frontal view (1.09–1.13×), wider than mesosoma (Fig. 19); hardly visible minute punctuations on frons; shallow median line or furrow present from anterior ocellus to interantennal space; eyes 1.92–1.98× as long as wide (Fig. 21), slightly arcuate above, the rest parallel; MID as long as LID, UID 0.66–0.71× MID and LID (Fig. 19); ocelli equal sized forming acute angle; POD about as long as OOD (0.25: 0.22) (Fig. 20); clypeus large, convex in lateral view, semi-circular in frontal view, anterior margin boldly arched, posterior margin straight, more than twice as broad as long (Fig. 19); labrum small, concealed beneath clypeus, not visible in frontal view; mandible long crossing each other, bidentate; malar space reduced, shorter than half of pedicel; toruli situated little above posterior clypeus margin; antennae slender, closely placed, F1 the longest flagellomere, 1.8–1.9× as long as scape, almost 1.7–1.82× as long as F2 and F3, scape slightly longer than twice of its width, pedicel about as wide as long; gena narrower than compound eye in lateral view (Fig. 21).</p> <p> <b> <i>Mesosoma</i>.</b> Pronotum 1.8–1.9× as wide as long; mesoscutum large, prominent, 1.34–1.48× as long as scutellum in dorsal view (Fig. 23), abbreviated furrow on each side not reaching the anterior margin; scutellum smooth with conspicuous prescutellar sulcus, medially triangularly raised; metanotum curved; metapostnotum much reduced with two curves posteriorly (Fig. 23); propodeum 1.2–1.3× as wide as long along the middle, smooth without apparent sculpturing (Fig. 23), gradually sloped at apex.</p> <p> <b> <i>Legs</i>.</b> Tibiae and tarsi with long hard spines throughout, apically with different length spines; fore tarsus with cylindrical tapering spines, tarsomere 1 with three outer spines; tarsal claws bifid; basitarsus 0.51–0.59× hind tibia, hind tibial spur long, 0.67–0.71× as long as hind basitarsus.</p> <p> <b> <i>Wings</i>.</b> Fore wing with SMC3 smaller than SMC2; length of SMC3 less than its distance from the wing apex; SMC2 receiving crossvein <i>1m-cu</i> beyond middle of base, SMC3 receiving crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> medially; crossvein <i>2m-cu</i> curved basally; pterostigma elongated, about as long as vein <i>r-rs</i> (Fig. 28); crossvein <i>cu-a</i> of hind wing arc-like forming obtuse angle with vein <i>A</i>.</p> <p> <b> <i>Metasoma</i>.</b> Smooth; subsessile; as broad and long as mesosoma (Fig. 24); apical segment slightly acute.</p> <p> <b>Male.</b> Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species epithet is derived from black coloured hind tibia and tibial spur.</p> <p> <b>Variation.</b> Pale yellow markings on body segments vary in intensity and distribution in paratypes.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> India (Kerala).</p> <p> <b>Comparison.</b> The new species <i>E. nigrocalcarius</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, <b>sp. nov.</b> shows similarities with <i>E. arrogans</i> and <i>E. keralaensis</i> Anju, Girish Kumar & Thejass, <b>sp. nov.</b>, in general body coloration but can be segregated from them by its entirely black clypeus, hind tibia and tibial spurs all without any markings.</p>Published as part of <i>Anju, K., Kumar, P. Girish & Thejass, P., 2024, Review of the spider wasp genus Episyron Schiødte, 1837 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from India, with description of three new species, pp. 562-576 in Zootaxa 5405 (4)</i> on pages 568-571, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.4.5, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10603907">http://zenodo.org/record/10603907</a>
N. Korea, Anju
Photographed is an iced lake in Anju-up, North Korea. The caption reads: N. Korea, Anju (North Korea) lake (iced). Title from caption. Item from: George Naohara scrapbook: Korean War and before leaving Japan (csudh_nao_0600).The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake camps, and the U.S. Army language school training and Korean War. He also engaged in Buddhist activities for his whole life and there are moving images depicting Gardena Buddhist Church activities after the war. Mitzi Masukawa Naohara was a preschool teacher at the Poston camp, Arizona, and also a member of a young Nisei women's club, "Sigma Debs.” Her collected materials depict her life as a teacher and social events in the Poston camp during the war
Anju Seth named R. B. Pamplin Professor of Management
Anju Seth, professor of business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be appointed the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Management and the head of the Department of Management in the Pamplin College of Business in August 2008
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