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New Acrididae from Oaxaca State in Mexico (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae Ommatolampinae, Melanoplinae)
No full textFontana, Paolo, Buzzetti, Filippo Maria, Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo (2011): New Acrididae from Oaxaca State in Mexico (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae Ommatolampinae, Melanoplinae). Zootaxa 2862: 39-55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20659
Reyesacris amedegnatoae Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011, n. sp.
No full textR. amedegnatoae n. sp. Diagnosis. See diagnosis of genus. Hind margin of last male abdominal tergite with three dark knobs. Male supragenital plate with four dark knobs as in Fig. 34. Male description. See genus description. Phallic complex: epiphallus well sclerotized, bridge almost straight, anterior process: globose, rounded, prominent lophi with anterior portion forming a black subtriangular rounded inward directed point (fig. 48); dorsal valvae well sclerotized, dark, short, expanded laterally, complex, rugose, subtrapezoidal in a dorsal view, with anterior outer margin concave and involving laterally ventral ones; ventral valvae a little longer than dorsal, smooth, semicircular and with expanded rounded apex (Figs. 55–56). Female description (Fig. 2). See genus description. Ovipositor valvae with dark pointed curved tip. Cerci small conical. Supragenital plate triangular, longitudinally grooved in the middle. Male measurements (5). Body length 18.0–20.0 (18.64; 0.78); pronotum length 2.8–3.1 (2.96; 0.13); prozona length 1.9–2.1 (1.98; 0.11); metazona length 0.9 –1.0 (0.98; 0.04) and hind femur length 9.3–10.6 (9.74; 0.49). Female measurements (5). Body length 24.3 –28.0 (25.35; 1.50); pronotum length 4.0– 4.4 (4.22; 0.16); prozona length 2.6 –3.0 (2.81; 0.14); metazona length 1.3–1.5 (1.41; 0.10) and hind femur length 12.3–14.7 (13.24; 0.96). Type material. Male holotype: Mexico, Oaxaca, Pluma Hidalgo W, Portillo del Rayo, 1492 m. (15 ° 58 ’ 57 ’’ N; 96 ° 31 ’ 12 ’’W). 17.XI. 2008, Legit P. Fontana, F.M. Buzzetti and R. Mariño-Pérez; same data, female Allotype and 4 paratypes (3 males and 1 female); Mexico, Oaxaca, Pluma Hidalgo (pueblo), 1340 m. (15 ° 55 ’ 32 ’’ N; 96 ° 25 ’ 10 ’’W), 17.XI. 2008, Legit P. Fontana, F.M. Buzzetti and R. Mariño-Pérez, 1 female paratype; Mexico, Oaxaca, Portillo del Rayo, carr. # 175, km 184, 1465 m. (15 ° 58 ’58,1’’ N; 96 ° 31 ’13,3’’W), 30.IV. 2008, Legit F.M. Buzzetti, 7 males and 1 female paratypes; Mexico, Oaxaca, Between Pluma Hidalgo and Herradura, km 11 / 12, 681 m, (15 ° 52 ’57,4’’ N; 96 ° 23 ’41,2’’W), Legit F.M. Buzzetti, 1 male and 1 female paratypes; Mexico, Oaxaca, Pluma Hidalgo W, 1175 m, 17.XI. 2008 (15 ° 56 ’ 23 ’’ N; 96 ° 25 ’ 46 ’’W), Legit P. Fontana, F.M. Buzzetti and R. Mariño- Pérez, 6 males and 1 female paratypes. Type depository. male Holotype, female Allotype and two male paratypes, CNIN; 5 male and 2 female paratypes, CPF; 10 male and 3 female paratypes, CFMB. Etymology. the species is dedicated to Christiane Amedegnato (sadly passed away in June 2010), Researcher at CNRS and responsible for the Caelifera collection at the Muséum national d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. Christiane Amedegnato intensively studied Neotropical Orthoptera, and kindly helped us in studying this new genus, up to her last days.Published as part of Fontana, Paolo, Buzzetti, Filippo Maria & Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo, 2011, New Acrididae from Oaxaca State in Mexico (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae Ommatolampinae, Melanoplinae), pp. 39-55 in Zootaxa 2862 on pages 40-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20659
Melanoplus oaxacae Fontana, Buzzetti & Mariño-Pérez, 2011, n. sp.
No full textMelanoplus oaxacae n. sp. Diagnosis. M. oaxacae n. sp. belongs to the “ Melanoplus reflexus group” as defined in Fontana & Buzzetti (2007) in being small sized, having short wide ovate tegmina posteriorly emarginated and hind tibiae bluish. It differs from other congeneric species for the male terminalia and internal genitalia. Male description. Body colour dark brown (Figs. 8 –9, 17). Dorsal surface of head, pronotal disc and abdominal dorsal surface brown. Black stripes behind the eyes (Fig. 24). Lateral lobes of pronotum black in the upper half, white in the lower half. White oblique stripe on metathoracic episternum. Tegmina dark brown, darker in the basal lower portion. Sides of abdomen black. Limbs brown, ventral surfaces of hind femora reddish brown, hind genicular lobes black and hind tibiae bluish with basal tip black. Pronotum with fore margin straight, hind margin convex. Metazona rugulose. Median longitudinal carina from fore margin of pronotal disc to the end of abdomen, cut by one sulcus. Tegmina ovate with hind margin emarginated, extending beyond the hind margin of abdominal segment I and covering the tympana. Furculae very small, rounded (Fig. 38). Supragenital plate triangular, with median longitudinal groove on basal half (Fig. 38). Cerci spatulated, tapering toward the rounded spoon-shaped apex and curved inward (Figs. 31, 38, 45). Subgenital plate produced in tubercle on distal margin (Figs. 17, 31). Phallic complex: epiphallus, extremely peculiar, small, well sclerotized, bridge convex, thin, anterior process in a very short, downwards directed tooth, lophi almost longitudinal, thick, sinuate (Fig. 52); dorsal valvae well sclerotized, smooth, blackish, extremely short, strongly frontward curved, with rounded apex; ventral valvae bigger and longer than dorsal, longitudinally flattened, semicircular in a lateral view, frontward curved with acute blackish apex (Figs. 63–64). Female description (Fig. 9). Similar to male. Supragenital plate triangular, basally impressed in the middle. Cerci small, conical. Ovipositor valvae very short and stout with blunt apex. Male measurements (5). Body length 14.4–15.2 (14.82; 0.28); pronotum length 2.6–2.8 (2.70; 0.10); prozona length 1.6–1.7 (1.62; 0.04); metazona length 1.0– 1.2 (1.08; 0.08) and hind femur length 7.7–8.1 (7.78; 0.28). Female measurements (5). Body length 18.7–20.7 (19.56; 0.77); pronotum length 3.6–3.9 (3.72; 0.13); prozona length 2.0– 2.2 (2.10; 0.07); metazona length 1.5–1.7 (1.62; 0.08) and hind femur length 10.4–11.2 (10.7; 0.31). Type material. Male Holotype: Mexico, Oaxaca, Carr. # 175 Oaxaca-Puerto Ángel, km 53, 1496 m (16 ° 37 ’07,7’’ N; 96 ° 44 ’18,6’’W), 28.X. 2007, Legit P. Fontana, F.M. Buzzetti and R. Mariño-Pérez; same data, female Allotyope and 6 paratypes (4 males and 2 females);. Mexico, Oaxaca, Carr. # 190 Huajuapan de León-Oaxaca, km 117, Santa Rosa, 2072 m (17 ° 18 ’50,8’’ N; 97 °06’32,4’’W), 24.X. 2007, legit P. Fontana, F.M. Buzzetti and R. Mariño-Pérez. 1 male and 2 female paratypes; Mexico, Oaxaca, Monte Albán, 1848 m (17 °03’03,7’’ N; 96 ° 45 ’49,8’’W), 20.XI.2008, 1 male and 1 female paratypes; same locality, 25.X.2007, 1 male and 6 female paratypes. Type depository. male Holotype, female Allotype and 2 paratypes (1 male and 1 female), CNIN; 3 male and 5 female paratypes, CPF; 3 male and 5 female paratypes, CFMB. Etymology. the specific name oaxacae derives from the state of Oaxaca, southern Mexico where the species was discovered.Published as part of Fontana, Paolo, Buzzetti, Filippo Maria & Mariño-Pérez, Ricardo, 2011, New Acrididae from Oaxaca State in Mexico (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acrididae Ommatolampinae, Melanoplinae), pp. 39-55 in Zootaxa 2862 on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20659
A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic genus Roeseliana (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Platycleidini): a case of ongoing Mediterranean speciation
No full textMassa, Bruno, Tagliavia, Marcello, Buzzetti, Filippo Maria, Fontana, Paolo, Carotti, Giovanni, Bardiani, Marco, Leandri, Fausto, Scherini, Roberto, Verde, Gabriella Lo (2023): A taxonomic revision of the Palaearctic genus Roeseliana (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Platycleidini): a case of ongoing Mediterranean speciation. Zootaxa 5270 (3): 351-400, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.3.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5270.3.
‘Il limite che mi conteneva nell’ordine’. Emilio Cecchi ‘odeporico’ fra le ere: Messico (1932)
No full textEmilio Cecchi (1884-1966) reached the United States in August 1930 as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. At this occasion, he visited Mexico, passing through Arizona and New Mexico. Out of this experience, Messico (1932) was born. The book is the author’s first literary reportage: a collection of prose texts that had previously been published in the Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera. This article focuses precisely on the transition from the essay form, which the author had successfully experimented with in his first collection, Pesci rossi (1920), to the literary reportage. It investigates some of the (inter)textual and conceptual characteristics of Messico, as a result of this transition. To begin with, we will look at the influence of Henri Bergson’s theories on time; we will then move on to the importance that essays on film montage had on the prose and structure of Messico; in particular, we will consider the writings of Sergei Michajlovič Ejzenštejn, whom Cecchi knew from his earliest translations. We will then conclude with a reflection on the influence that Carlo Cattaneo, with his essay Gli antichi messicani, had on Cecchi (and on Messico) in terms of method and style
Covid-19 and diabetes mellitus: unveiling the interaction of two pandemics
No full textA novel RNA betacoronavirus causing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has now been declared pandemic disease by WHO. Guo et al published the first report of biochemical features in patients with diabetes and the further risk that this disease can determine to the progression of Covid-19. Among different cytokines found significantly higher in patients with diabetes compared to those without, Interleukin-6 (IL-6), which is already increased in conditions of chronic inflammation, may play a more deleterious role in Covid-19 infection. Targeting the overexpression of Il-6 effects with a monoclonal antibody against IL-6 receptor or using Janus Kinase inhibitors may be particularly helpful for treatment of Covid-19 pneumonia in diabetes
Pier Cesare Bori
No full textA biographical sketch of Pier Cesare Bori's teaching and research activit
Nicholas of Kues and the Eicona Dei
No full textThe notion of 'imago Dei' is central in Cusanus' thought and an examination of his treatise 'De visione Dei' is crucial to the understanding that, in his view, what it means for us to be an image of God, is to engage in a process of mystical ascent, very much inspired by its Neoplatonic model, that amounts to getting to know ourselves as 'imago Dei'. It is the living experience of the unknowability of God, the 'docta ignorantia', so achieved, that constitutes the inspiring motive of his pursuits towards a 'concordantia' of different philosophical or theological opinions, and religious attitudes
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