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The genus Bolbelasmus in the western and southern regions of the Mediterranean Basin (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae)
No full textThe Bolbelasmus Boucomont, 1911 species of the western and southern
regions of the Mediterranean Basin (Northern Africa, Iberian Peninsula and
France) are revised. The following three new species are described: Bolbelasmus
brancoi Hillert & Král sp. nov. and Bolbelasmus howdeni Hillert & Král sp. nov.,
both from Spain and Gibraltar, and Bolbelasmus nikolajevi Hillert, Arnone, Král &
Massa sp. nov. from Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. Bolbelasmus vaulogeri (Abeille de
Perrin, 1898) stat. restit. is removed from synonymy with B. bocchus (Erichson,
1841) and reinstated as a separate species. Bolbelasmus romanorum Arnone &
Massa, 2010 is considered a junior subjective synonym of B. vaulogeri. Lectotypes
for Bolboceras bocchus Erichson, 1841 and Bolboceras vaulogeri Abeille
de Perrin, 1898 are designated. Relevant diagnostic characters (head, pronotum,
elytron, external male genitalia) are illustrated. Identifi cation keys for both males
and females, and an annotated list of the Western Palaearctic representatives of the
genus Bolbelasmus are presented. Finally, fi rst records are given for B. gallicus
(Mulsant, 1842) from Corsica and the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, B. keithi
Miessen & Trichas, 2011 from the Greek island of Rhodes, and B. unicornis
(Schrank von Paula, 1789) from the Tuscany province of Italy
Bolbelasmus nireus
No full textBolbelasmus nireus (Reitter, 1895) Bolboceras nireus Reitter, 1895: 81 (original description). Type locality. Turkey, ‘Akbes’ [= Maydān Akbis]. Material examined (6 specimens). TURKEY: ADANA PROV.: Adana, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (JMCP); İçel, Çamliyayla, Sebil, 24.–26.v.1995, 1 ♀, J. Mička lgt. (JMCP). ANTALYA PROV.: Korkuteli, 11.vi.1991, 1 ♀, B. Němec lgt. (BNCP); Side, 27.iv.1973, 1 ♂, K. Warncke lgt. (OHCB). IRAN: FARS PROV.: pass 140 km NE Šīraãz, 20.–21.iv.2002, 1 ♂, S. Kadlec lgt. (NMPC). Distribution. Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey (KRIKKEN 1977, KEITH 2005, KRÁL et al. 2006, ARNONE & MASSA 2010, MIESSEN 2011).Published as part of Hillert, Oliver, Arnone, Marcello, Král, David & Massa, Bruno, 2016, The genusBolbelasmus in the western and southern regions of the Mediterranean Basin (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae), pp. 211-254 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.530607
Bolbelasmus nikolajevi Hillert, Arnone, Kral & Massa 2016, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Bolbelasmus nikolajevi</i> Hillert, Arnone, Král & Massa sp. nov. <p>(Figs 5, 12, 18, 25, 31, 37, 43, 57, 59, 64)</p> <p> <i>Bolbelasmus bocchus</i>: PIC (1924): 126 (note, distribution); SCHATZMAYR (1946): 50 (distribution); ALFIERI (1976): 206 (distribution).</p> <p> <i>Bolbelasmus bocchus vaulogeri</i>: KRIKKEN (1977): 290, figs 18–19 (revision); BARAUD (1992): 53 (monograph); KRÁL et al. (2006): 82 (catalogue); ARNONE & MASSA (2010): 411, fig. 12 (distribution, note).</p> <p> <b>Type locality.</b> NW Tunisia, Sidi Bouzid gov.,7.5 km SWW of Hajeb el Ayoun,by road, 35°22′N, 09°28′E, 340 m a.s.l.</p> <p> <b>Type material</b> (126 specimens). <b>TUNISIA: SIDI BOUZID PROV.:</b> HOLOTYPE: ♂ (DKPC), ‘NW Tunisia, Sidi Bouzid gov., 7.5 km SWW of, HAJEB EL AYOUN, by road, 29.iii.2014, 35°22’N, 09°28’E, 340 m, David Král lgt.’ ALLOTYPE: ♀ (DKCP), same data. PARATYPES: <b>EGYPT: ALEXANDRIA PROV.:</b> ‘Egypt,Alexandria,1958’, 1♀ (NMPC); ‘ Egypt, Mariout, 4.iii.1924, coll. Alfieri’, 1 ♀ (NHMB). <b>LIBYA: AZ ZAWIYAH PROV.:</b> ‘Afrika, Libye, SURMAN - viii.[19]88, Č. Sobota lgt.’, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (JDCC). <b>BENGHAZI PROV.</b>: ‘Libya, Benghazi, 8.3.1987, lgt. Háva [p]’, 1 ♀ (DKCP), 1 ♀ (JHCP); ‘Libia, Benghazi, 1986 V. Poláček lgt. [p]’, 1 ♂ (SJCP). <b>BUTNAN PROV.</b>: ‘ Libya, Cirenaica, Tobruk III, 32°5‘1“ N, 23°58‘ 35“ E, Geo C. Kruger lgt., R.U. Agrario’, 2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ (MSNG). <b>TRIPOLI PROV.</b>: ‘Afr. Libya – Tadjiura, 04.1986, Houška lgt.’, 2♂♂ (JMCH); ‘Libya, Tagiura, červenec [= July], [19]85, Voleman [lgt.]’, 2 ♂♂ (VTCZ); ‘Libya, Tagiura, srpen [= August], [19]85, Voleman [lgt.]’, 1♀ (VTCZ); ‘AFRIKA, Libya,Tarabulus vii.[19]88, V.Poláček lgt.’, 1♂ (JMCP); Foualgha, 8.4.1983, M. Dudycha [lgt.] [handwritten]’, 1 ♂ (RCCP). <b>Not located:</b> ‘Libya, Takadria, srpen [= August], [19]84, Voleman [lgt.]’, 1 ♀ (VTCZ). <b>TUNISIA: BIZERTE PROV.:</b> ‘Biserta, Tunisia, De Vauloger, Nevinson Coll., 1918-14, Bolboceras, vaulogeri Ab., types, Type, H. T.’, 1 ♂ (BMNH) [not syntype of B. vaulogeri, type label added later; M. Barclay pers. comm.]. <b>GABÈS PROV.</b>: ‘Gabes, 1897’, 2 ♂♂ (MNHN); ‘Tunisie, Mareth, R. Demoflys lgt., i. [19]49’, 1 ♂ (MNHN); ‘Tunisia, Gov. Gabes, Matmata, 19.iv.2013, Leg. G.Sabatinelli, At light’, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (GSCT); ‘Matmata, iii.2014 ’, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (GSCT); ‘TUNISIA: 15.4.1996, TAMEZRET, 13 km W of Matmata, J. BATELKA lgt.’, 2 ♀♀ (JBCP); ‘E Tunisia, Gabes, 5 km NEE of Oudref, Matwiya plage, 24.–25.iii.2014, 34°01‘N 10°00‘E, O. Hillert lgt.’, 7 ♂♂ 8 ♀♀ (OHCB); ‘E Tunisia, Gabes gov., 5 km NEE of Oudref, MATWIYA plage, ca. 20 m, 24.–25.iii.2014, 34°01‘N, 10°00‘E, David Král lgt.’, 2 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ (DKCP), same data but Petr Šípek lgt., 3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ (CUPC), 1 ♀ [in pure alcohol] (CUPC); ‘TN-Gabes, dintorni, 13.IV.[19]95 leg. S. Ziani’, 1 ♂ (SZCM). <b>GAFSA PROV.</b>: ‘Tunisie, Gafsa, Chretien [lgt.], 1910’, 1 ♂ (MNHN); ‘Tunisie, Gafsa,A. Weiss [lgt.], 1904’, 1 ♀ (MNHN); ‘Gafsa, 1897’, 1 ♂ (OHCB);‘ Tunis, Métlaoui, C. Dumont’, 1 ♀ (DKCC). <b>KASSERINE PROV.</b>: ‘T., Thelepte, Mai 1941, R. Demoflys [lgt.]’, 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀ (MNHN); ‘Tun., Sbeitla, Mars 1941, R. Demoflys [lgt.]’, 2 ♀♀ (MNHN). <b>KEBILI PROV.</b>: ‘ TUNISIA, 3.-4. iv.2008 / 45 km E of Douz, Wadi Raml,/ N33°31’ E09°30’ / J.Batelka & J. Straka lgt.’, 1♀ (JBCP). <b>KEF PROV.</b>: ‘Tunisia NW,Le Kef, NABEUR env., 16.4.2001, lgt.M.Snížek’, 1♂ (VKCC). <b>MEDENINE PROV.</b>: ‘E Tunisia, Medenine, Djerba island, 5 km E of Midoun, sea coast, 26.iii.2014, 33°49‘N 11°02‘E, O. Hillert lgt.’, 1 ♂ (OHCB); ‘ TN-Medenine, str. per Toujan, 13.IV.[19]95 leg. S. Ziani’, 4 ♀♀ (SZCM). <b>NABEUL PROV.</b>: ‘ Tunisia, (Nabeul), Cap Bon peninsula, 6 km W of El Hawariah, sea coast, 23.iii.2014, 37°03‘N 10°57‘E, O. Hillert lgt.’, 4 ♂♂ (OHCB); ‘NE Tunisia, Nabeul gov., Cap Bon peninsula, 6 km W of EL HAWARIAH, sea coast, 23.iii.2014, 37°03‘N, 10°57‘E, ca. 3 m, David Král lgt.’, 2 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀ (DKCP), same data but Petr Šípek lgt., 1 ♂ 1 ♀ [partially demaged spec. in pure alcohol] (CUPC); ‘ Tunisia, Cap Bon IV.1960, G. Frey’, 1 ♀ (NHMB). <b>SFAX PROV.</b>: ‘Tunisie, Ketana [Bir Ketana], iv.[19]50, R. Demoflys [lgt.]’, 1 ♀ (MNHN); ‘ Tunisie, La Hencha, iii.[19]42, R.Demoflys [lgt.]’, 1♂ (MNHN); ‘Tunisia 1896, Sfax, de Vauloger [lgt.], Nevinson Coll., 1918-14’, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (BMNH). <b>SIDI BOUZID PROV.</b>: ‘NE Tunisia, Sidi Bouzid, 7.5 km SWW of Hajeb el Ayoun by road, 29.iii.2014, 35°22‘N 09°28‘E, O. Hillert lgt.’, 7♂♂ 8♀♀ (OHCB); ‘NW Tunisia, Sidi Bouzid gov., 7.5 km SWW of,HAJEB EL AYOUN,by road, 29.iii.2014, 35°22‘N, 09°28‘E, 340 m, David Král lgt.’, 4♂♂ 2♀♀ (DKCP), 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (CUPC); ‘Tunisie, Maknassy,A. Dumont [lgt.], 1928’, 5 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ (MNHN); ‘Tunisia, Bled Gamouda [Bilad Gamouda], de Vauloger [lgt.], Nevinson Coll., 1918-14.’, 1 ♂ (BMNH). <b>TOZEUR PROV.</b>: ‘ Tunis, Tozeur, C. Dumont [lgt.], 1929’, 2 ♂♂ (MNHN). <b>No further locality specified:</b> ‘ Tunisie, Septent[rionalis], Schaedlin’, 1 ♂ (MNHN).</p> <p> <b> Description. <i>Male (holotype).</i></b> Distinctly convex, surface brownish or light-brown, shiny, pronotum covered with double punctation, elytron very fine microsculptured basally, microsculture missing apically.</p> <p>Head (Figs 5, 18, 25, 31, 37, 57). Clypeus broadly rounded, nearly semicircular, anterior angles vague. Posterior angles of clypeal margin elevated. Frontal horn well developed, long, distinctly furcate, base triangularly shaped in dorsal view, posterior edge of base situated at height of center of eye, side margin of tubercle keeled from base to apex. Punctation of clypeal disc simple, distinct. Oblique keels above eyes reaching approximately to half of eyes. Punctation of frons and vertex same as on clypeus; frontoclypeal suture present. Eyes distinctly elliptic and well developed; genae arcuate posteriorly, extending eyes laterally.</p> <p>Pronotum (Figs 5, 18, 25, 31, 37, 57) distinctly transverse; broadest just in basal quarter, entirely bordered; lateral margin evenly rounded, marginal carina not crenate, distinctly widened and elevated; lateral fovea almost missing. Pronotal punctation distinct, double, consisting of deeply impressed punctures, punctures separated by approximately 2–3 times their diameter, intermixed with very fine, pinned punctures. Base of pronotum glabrous. Lateral hornlike apophyses well developed, bent distinctly upwards and sidewards in lateral and dorsal view; between lateral and apical apophyses distinct, deeply oval concavity.Apical hornlike apophyses distinctly elevated, angled, directed 30° frontoapically, subapical protrusion of apical apophyses laterally near apex on outside.</p> <p>Scutellar shield triangular elongate, very finely punctate, shiny.</p> <p>Elytra approximately as long as wide, surface shiny, glabrous; between suture and humerus 7 distinct striae along entire elytral length, all striae with distinctly separated punctures; intervals flat; humeral umbone weak.</p> <p>Parameres as in Fig. 64.</p> <p> <i>Variability in males.</i> Surface black to brownish; pronotal hornlike apophyses in medium developed and underdeveloped (hypothelic) specimens short, more or less straight, only simply rounded to almost acute apically.</p> <p> <i> <i>Female (allotype)</i>.</i> Head (Figs 12, 43). Clypeus broadly rounded, semicircular with straight anterior margin, anterior angles evenly rounded. Posterior angles of clypeal margin very weakly elevated. Frontal carina well developed, distinctly interrupted in middle, bituberculate on internal interruption, laterally keeled on each side. Punctation of clypeus, frons, vertex and occiput simple, distinct; oblique keels above eyes distinct, elongated to half of eyes; eye well developed, distinctly elliptic, genae well developed, arcuate anteriorly and posteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum (Fig. 12) distinctly transverse, lateral margin weakly widened, broadest just basally, surface distinctly deeply punctate, double except of basal part, punctures consisting of well and deeply impressed punctures, separated approximately by distance equal to their diameter, intermixed with very fine, pinned punctures.Anterior transverse protrusion distinct, sharply semicircular, lateral apophyses present.</p> <p>Elytron surface shiny, glabrous; humeral umbone weak.</p> <p> <i>Measurements.</i> Total body length 12.0–15.1 mm (holotype, ♂: 14.6 mm; allotype, ♀: 14.8 mm).</p> <p> <b>Differential diagnosis.</b> Refer to species key.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> Patronymic; named in honour of our friend Georgy V. Nikolajev (Al-Farabi State University, Almaty, Kazakhstan), a renowned specialist in world Scarabaeoidea.</p> <p> <b>Collection circumstances.</b> Prefers sandy and/or loess soils.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Mediterranean Egypt, Libya (Tripolitania, Cyrenaica) and Tunisia (Fig. 59).</p>Published as part of <i>Hillert, Oliver, Arnone, Marcello, Král, David & Massa, Bruno, 2016, The genusBolbelasmus in the western and southern regions of the Mediterranean Basin (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae), pp. 211-254 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1)</i> on pages 232-234, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5306071">10.5281/zenodo.5306071</a>
Bolbelasmus keithi Miessen & Trichas 2011
No full textBolbelasmus keithi Miessen & Trichas, 2011 Bolbelasmus keithi Miessen & Trichas, 2011: 183 (original description), figs on pp. 187–188 [not numbered]. Type locality. Greece, ‘env. Ag. Paraskevi (church), Agia Marina, Kasos island, (Lat: 35°24′10.71″N, Long: 26°54′27.59″E)’. Type material examined (2 specimens). PARATYPES: GREECE: CRETE: 1 ♂ 1 ♀, ‘ELAFONISI (Life), 30/12/96- 14/3/97, Leg. Trichas 321 [white printed label], Elafonisi (Life), = Elafonisos, S.-O. Kriti, 30.XII.→ 14.III.1997, leg.: A. Trichas 321, collection: G. Miessen det. 2011, PARATYPUS [printed, red label]’ (GMCL). Additional material examined (9 specimens). GREECE: CRETE: Plakias, 1.iv.1988, 1 ♀, Winkelmann-Köck lgt. (LHCB), 1 ♀ (OHCB); Kastellakia [= Kastellos], 35°22′N, 24°29′E, 4.iv.1978, at light, 1 ♂, Malicky lgt. (DKCP); Mirabella, 1 ♂ Maltzan [?lgt.] (OHCB). RHODES: Falirakion, Ladiko, 22.iv.–5.v.1990, 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀, L. Egger lgt. (ABCB) and (MECI); Villanova, 7.ii.1934, 1 ♂ (MSNM); Marizza, 13.i.1934, 1 ♂ (MSAP). Remarks. After the description of B. keithi from Crete and Kasos Islands by MIESSEN & TRICHAS (2011), the record of B. unicornis from Rhodes by SCHATZMAYR (1936) and MIKŠIĆ (1959) needed to be confirmed. Actually, following MIESSEN & TRICHAS (2011), we identified the Rhodes specimens as B. keithi, thus definitively excluding the presence of B. unicornis in the Mediterranean islands (see also ARNONE & MASSA 2010, MIESSEN 2011, MIESSEN & TRICHAS 2011). Therefore the above mentioned specimens constitute the first record of B. keithi from the island of Rhodes. Distribution. Greece: Crete, Kasos and Rhodes (MIESSEN & TRICHAS 2011).Published as part of Hillert, Oliver, Arnone, Marcello, Král, David & Massa, Bruno, 2016, The genusBolbelasmus in the western and southern regions of the Mediterranean Basin (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae), pp. 211-254 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 245, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.530607
La Vestale 'incesta'
No full textMarcello Salvadore: La Vestale incesta.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Pliny the Younger and Plutarch are the sources
of a detailed account of Vestalis incesta’s punishment: they say that she was
sentenced to death. Dionysius adds that there was no after death ritual.
Modern scholars generally accept what the three authors assert. In this article
the author surmises that the Vestalis incesta, together with the parricida, was
not condemned to death: both of them were sentenced to a particular kind
of banishment from the Society
De Lope a Celano: la adaptación italiana de "Los tres diamantes"
No full textAbstract
This paper explores an Italian adaptation of Lope de Vega’s play Los tres diamantes, written in the
second part of the seventeenth century. Its author, Carlo Celano, was a famous writer of opere regie,
i.e., adaptations of Spanish comedies of situation. The analysis focuses on the way in which the
adaptation of the Aristotelian units of space and time leads to a reduction of the characters and a
simplification of the situation, although this is compensated by enriching its ludic component. This
last trait can be also observed in a previous re-elaboration of Lope’s comedy, the scenario of the
Commedia dell’arte titled Il cavaliere dai tre gigli d’oro
Due note critiche
No full textMarcello Garzaniti
Answers to Criticism
The author answers to the critics of M. Capaldo and A.Giambelluca Kossova with the aim to bring the different proposed questions back into the sphere of scientifi c dialogue
Bolbelasmus makrisi Miessen 2011
No full textBolbelasmus makrisi Miessen, 2011 Bolbelasmus makrisi Miessen, 2011: 111 (original description), figs on pp. 116, 118–119 [not numbered]. Type locality. ‘Kourion, Lemesos, alt.: 50 m, Cyprus’. Type material examined (2 specimens). PARATYPES: CYPRUS: 1 ♂ 1 ♀, ‘Rizoelia nat. for. Park, Larnaka – CYPRUS, leg.: E. Kakouris, collection: G. Miessen, Bolbelasmus makrisi nov. sp., G. Miessen det. 2011, PARATYPUS [printed, red label]’ (GMCL). Additional material examined (64 specimens). CYPRUS: PAPHOS: Akamas NP, 5 km N of Lara, 13.–20.iii.2015, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, O. Hillert lgt. (OHCB); Akamas NP, Lara, 13.–20.iii.2015, 1 ♂, O. Hillert lgt. (OHCB); Miliou, N of Paphos, 13.–20.iii.2015, 1 ♂, O. Hillert lgt. (OHCB); Miliou, 34°56′22.23″N, 32°27′35.90″E, vivant dans piscine [alive in pool], 7.vi.2014, 1 ♂, G. Miessen lgt. (OHCB); Miliou, 34°56′21.66″N 32°27′35.59″E, attire par lampe UV [attracted by UV light], 7.vi.2014, 1 ♀, G. Miessen lgt. (OHCB); 5 km NE of Pegeia, Paphos env., 13.–20.iii.2015, 16 ♂♂ 15 ♀, O. Hillert lgt. (OHCB), 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (ERCS), 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (HKCS), 2 ♂♂ 1 ♀ (JSCP), 2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ (DKCP), 4 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ (OBCB), 2 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ (GMCL), 3 ♂♂ 3 ♀♀ (BMCP). Distribution. Cyprus (MIESSEN 2011).Published as part of Hillert, Oliver, Arnone, Marcello, Král, David & Massa, Bruno, 2016, The genusBolbelasmus in the western and southern regions of the Mediterranean Basin (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae), pp. 211-254 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 245-246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.530607
A Multi-Hazard Extreme Climate Index across Europe
No full textThe ECI is a multi-hazard index which has been developed in the context of the eXtreme Climate Facilities (XCF) project lead by ARC (African Risk Capacity) with the objective of detecting the occurrence of climate extremes over the African continent. The main hazards covered by ECI are the extreme dry, wet and heat events. However, the definition of ECI allows for the integration of additional hazards in the same index. The index has been designed and widely tested across Africa. The objective of this study is to test the usability and potential application of the same index under different climate regimes that are typical of the mid-latitudes, including the Mediterranean area and northern Europe. The analysis presented in this study shows that the ECI allows an accurate detection of extreme cold/heat waves as well as events of abundant precipitation across Europe over the last decade
ASYMMETRIC-SYNTHESIS OF 3-CHLORO-3-FLUORO-2,4-DISUBSTITUTED AND 3-FLUORO-2,4-DISUBSTITUTED TETRAHYDROFURANS BY THE FLUORINATED SULFOXIDE CHIRON ROUTE
No full textAn efficient procedure for the preparation of the title compounds in moderate to high enantiomeric purity has been realized starting from olefins tethered on the fluoriated sulfinyl chiron 6, prepared from methyl 4-methylphenyl sulfoxide and ethyl dichlorofluoroacetate. Radical-promoted cyclization of intermediates 9 according to the tributyltin hydride method afforded 3-chloro-3-fluorotetrahydrofuran derivatives 12, from which the corresponding 3-fluorotetrahydrofurans 15 were obtained by reductive dechlorination. Structural assignments have been done on the basis of H-1, C-13 and F-19 NMR data and NOE difference experiments
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