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Agnostrup FODDAI & BONATO & PEREIRA & MINELLI 2003, n. g.
No full textGenus Agnostrup n. g. Type species. Agnostrup striganovae (Titova, 1975), by present designation. Species included. Agnostrup striatus (Takakuwa, 1949) (from Taiwanella); Agnostrup paucipes (Miyosi, 1955) (from Taiwanella); Agnostrup striganovae (Titova, 1975) (from Krateraspis) Etymology. The genus name refers to the forgotten status of the three species since their description, from the Greek word ‘ agnostos ’, referring to their status, and Arrup, pointing to the affinities of the genus to Arrup. Diagnosis. Forty-one pairs of legs. Body colour homogenous, without darker patches. Body length ca 20–35 mm. Ratio of length to width of cephalic plate ca 1.3–1.5. Frontal line present. Two clypeal plagulae separated by a mid-longitudinal stripe. Plagulae covering slightly less than one-half of the clypeus, laterally in contact with the paraclypeal sutures. Clypeal setae arranged in a transversal band on the anterior part of the plagulae and on a medial part of the areolate clypeus. Buccae without setae. Spiculum absent. Side-pieces of labrum fully divided into anterior and posterior alae. Internal margin of each anterior ala reduced to a point. Posterior alae with or without longitudinal stripes. Posterior margin of labrum not hairy. Mandible provided with ca five or six pectinate lamellae. Coxosternum of the first maxillae divided in the middle. Coxosternum of the second maxillae undivided. Metameric pores placed in posterior position. Telopodites of the second maxillae slightly overreaching those of the first maxillae. Claws of second maxillae absent. Forcipular trochanteropraefemur with one well-developed distal tooth pointing forward. Intermediate articles of forcipules with or without teeth. Basal tooth of tarsungulum well developed and similar in size to that of the trochanteropraefemur. Forcipular tergum without median sulcus. Sternal rhachides not anteriorly furcate. Last sternum subtriangular, longer than wide. At least ca 20 pores on the ventral surface of each coxopleuron. Anal pores present. Geographic distribution. East Russia, north-east China, Japan: Honshu Id. Remarks. In a recent paper (Bonato et al., submitted) we suggested that the three species currently known as Taiwanella striata Takakuwa, 1949, Taiwanella paucipes Miyosi, 1955 and Krateraspis striganovae Titova, 1975 are closely related one to the other but do not actually belong to the genera where they are currently included. In that paper we referred them provisionally to a genus-level ‘taxon…x’. In the present analysis these three species did actually branch together. Hence we establish here for them the new genus Agnostrup, as diagnosed above. Three new combinations are consequently proposed: Agnostrup striatus (Takakuwa, 1949) for Taiwanella striata Takakuwa, 1949, Agnostrup paucipes (Miyosi, 1955) for Taiwanella paucipes Miyosi, 1955 and Agnostrup striganovae (Titova, 1975) for Krateraspis striganovae Titova, 1975. The type material of the species Agnostrup striatus (Takakuwa, 1949) and Agnostrup paucipes (Miyosi, 1955) is not available and probably lost. It is not present in any of the following collections: National Science Museum of Tokyo, Tottori University (Tottori, Japan), National Museum of Natural Science (Taiwan), Dokkyo University (Mibu, Tochigi, Japan). Of Agnostrup striganovae (Titova, 1975), preserved in the private collection of the author (Titova), we could study two topotypic specimens: we ignore however whether they belong to the type series or not.Published as part of FODDAI, DONATELLA, BONATO, LUCIO, PEREIRA, LUIS ALBERTO & MINELLI, ALESSANDRO, 2003, Phylogeny and systematics of the Arrupinae (Chilopoda Geophilomorpha Mecistocephalidae) with the description of a new dwarfed species, pp. 1247-1267 in Journal of Natural History 37 (10) on pages 1254-1255, DOI: 10.1080/00222930210121672, http://zenodo.org/record/526006
Scolopendropsis duplicata Chagas-Junior, Edgecombe & Minelli, 2008, n. sp.
No full text<i>Scolopendropsis duplicata</i> n. sp. <p>Figs. 1–14.</p> <p> <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>:</b> Thirty-nine or 43 trunk segments; paramedian sutures of T1 incomplete anteriorly, extending ¾ of length; posterior border of coxopleuron usually bearing single short spine caudal to posterolateral corner of pore field; ultimate leg prefemur with two ventromedial and one to three dorsomedial spines in longitudinal rows (when multiple), the dorsomedial row aligned with prefemoral process; latter with two or three apical spines; flattened medial face of prefemur variably bearing one to six small spines that, when maximally developed, are aligned in two rows; posterior halves of ultimate leg prefemur and femur with sulcus-like longitudinal depression dorsad.</p> <p> <b> <i>Type specimens</i>:</b> Segment number (39 or 43) indicated in parentheses. Holotype MNRJ 15258, 1 ex., Tocantins State, Porto Nacional, 10.0589°S 48.412°W, 22L 0 783671 UTM 8886955, 29.IX–07.X.2001, D. Pavan (43). Paratypes all from type locality, leg. D. Pavan unless indicated otherwise: paratype MNRJ 15259, 1 ex., 29.IX–07.X.2001 (39); MNRJ 15305, 1 ex., 29.X–07.X.2001 (43); MNRJ 15306, 6 ex., 29.IX– 07.X.2001 (39); IBSP 1519, 1 ex., Ribeirão Santa Luzia, Fazenda Sandoval, 2000, Equipe Investco/Ulbra (43); IBSP 1498, 1 ex., 07–11.VIII.2000, I. Knysak, R. Martins & G. Puorto (43); IBSP 2406, 1 ex., Ribeirão Santa Luzia, Fazenda Sandoval, 10–13.VII.2000, Equipe Investco/Ulbra (39); IBSP 2843, 1 ex., Fazenda Sandoval, 11.VIII.2000, I. Knysak, R. Martins & G. Puorto (43); IBSP 2392, 2 ex., Fazenda Sandoval, 5– 10.V.2000, I. Knysak, R. Martins & G. Puorto (43); NMNH, 1 ex., 29.IX–07.X.2001 (39); MCZ, 1 ex., 29.IX– 07.X.2001 (39); NCSM, 2 ex., 29.IX–07.X.2001 (43, 39); MZSP, 3 ex., 29.IX–07.X.2001 (43, 39); BMNH, 2 ex., 29.IX–07.X.2001 (39).</p> <p> <i>Etymology:</i> The specific name refers to the near doubling of trunk segment numbers compared to the most closely related species.</p> <p> <b> <i>Description</i>:</b> Length of 39-segmented individuals ranging from 31–74 mm; that of 43-segmented individuals from 53–78 mm. Cephalic plate, trunk and legs yellow in specimens preserved in alcohol; forcipulae and ultimate legs orange. <i>Cephalic plate</i>: smooth, 1.3 times as long as wide, distinctly narrower than T1, with four ocelli on each side. Posterior longitudinal median suture extending for ½–¾ of length (Fig. 6), difficult to detect in juveniles. Posterior border overlain by T1; basal plates at posterolateral corners delimited by continuous suture across posteromedial margin. <i>Antennae</i>: short, usually reaching backwards to midlength of T1; with 17 articles, basal six glabrous/sparsely hirsute. <i>Coxosternum</i>: tooth plates about 1.3 times as long as wide (Figs. 3, 7); inner teeth fused, with two ill-defined cusps, lateral teeth isolated, apices slightly caudad to inner teeth; basal sutures approximately transverse. Longitudinal median suture bifurcating posteriorly into inverted Y-shape, crossed at or near division point by a subtransverse suture curving anteriad laterally and extending to forcipular bases (Figs. 2, 7). Process of forcipular trochanteroprefemur with two blunt apical denticles. <i>Second maxilla</i>: symmetrical accessory claws on each side of apical claw. Coxosternum with complete median sulcus. <i>Tergites</i>: smooth; T1 with paramedian sutures on posterior ¾ (Fig. 6); TT2-38 or TT2-42 with complete paramedian sutures; ultimate tergite (T39 or T43) about 1.5 times as long as penultimate, with complete median longitudinal suture (Figs. 5, 8). Margination on ultimate tergite only. Pretergites usually present on the posterior segments. <i>Sternites</i>: smooth; complete paramedian sutures present on SS2-38 or SS2-42 (Fig. 14). Ultimate sternite considerably longer than wide (Figs. 4, 9), lateral margins gently converging caudad, with median longitudinal depression; posterior margin gently convex or straight. <i>Spiracles</i>: on segments 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 of all specimens; those with 43 trunk segments additionally bear spiracles on segments 40 and 42. Anteriormost spiracle enlarged relative to others, nearly half length of T3; second spiracle (segment 5) only slightly larger than those immediately more posterior. Longitudinal pleurites parallel to trunk axis (Fig. 12). <i>Coxopleura</i>: longer than wide, pore field half as wide as coxopleuron, separated from pore-free part of pleuron by well-incised longitudinal sulcus; posterior border of coxopleuron bearing short spine immediately caudal to posterolateral corner of pore field (Fig. 4), usually present on only one side, sometimes absent in specimens with 39 leg-bearing segments. Posterior border of coxopleuron abruptly truncated, coxopleural process absent. <i>Legs</i>: tarsi composed of two articles. Tarsus 1 shorter than tarsus 2. Spur present on tarsus 1 of legs 1–37 or 1–41; ultimate and penultimate legs lacking spur. Pretarsus longer or equal in length to tarsus 2; proximal 1/3 pale, distal 2/3 strongly pigmented with concave ventral surface bounded on each side by sharp marginal ridge; pretarsi of legs 1–38 or 1–42 with two accessory spurs about ¼ as long as pretarsi on anterior segments, increasing to about 1/3 length of pretarsi on posterior segments. <i>Ultimate legs</i>: thickened, forcipulate, with relatively short articles; prefemora with two ventromedial and one to three dorsomedial spines in longitudinal rows (when multiple), the dorsomedial row aligned with distomedial process (Figs. 5, 10); the latter conical, bearing two or three small apical spines. Medial face of prefemur flattened, variably bearing one to six small spines that, when maximally developed, are aligned in two rows. Posterior halves of prefemur and femur with sulci-like longitudinal depressions on dorsal side (Fig. 10). Pretarsus with one basal accessory spur, shorter than those on ambulatory legs; ventral surface of pretarsus with serrated ridge bearing numerous small, sharp teeth.</p> <p> <i>Distribution:</i> Brazil, Tocantins State. <i>Scolopendropsis duplicata</i> is restricted to typical “cerrado” vegetation, and is known only from its type locality (Fig. 15).</p> <p> <i>Discussion:</i> Despite the fact that this new species differs from all other Scolopendromorpha with respect to a character (trunk segment number) that is routinely used to diagnose genera or families within the order, the highly detailed similarity to <i>Scolopendropsis bahiensis</i> in all morphological characters apart from trunk segmentation leads us to favour its congeneric classification. We note the paradox that variability in scolopendromorph segmentation is a remarkable discovery, and yet <i>S. duplicata</i> and <i>S. bahiensis</i> are so similar in other respects and their sister group relationship so highly corroborated that generic separation is unwarranted. The discovery of segmental polymorphism in <i>S. duplicata</i> suggests that Schileyko (2006) was correct in interpreting <i>S. bahiensis</i> as also polymorphic. More evidence is now available demonstrating that segmental polymorphism is indeed possible in a scolopendromorph species and more specifically is known within this restricted clade.</p> <p> Because the genitalia are concealed beneath the genital sternite, we have not amassed an adequate sample size to determine how segmental polymorphism correlates with sex. Dissected individuals with 39 segments include ones with spermatophores, confirming that at least some are males. Spermatophores are lacking in dissected 43-segmented specimens, but we have not ascertained whether they are invariably females. Even if some exceptions are eventually found to the possible rule that males in this species have 39 segments and females have 43, <i>S. duplicata</i> is likely to represent the first example of sexual dimorphism in segment number in non-geophilomorph centipedes.</p> <p> Most specimens of <i>S. duplicata</i> were found in pitfall traps for reptiles and amphibians in the dry, xeric “cerrado”, a vegetation typical of central Brazil. All specimens were collected before flooding of the Luis Eduardo Magalhães hydroelectric power plant, in the Tocantins River, and the type locality is now under water. Vegetation around the lake is the same as that at the now submerged type locality. An expedition organized by the first author in June 2007 failed to discover any specimens of <i>S. duplicata</i>, even though a forest patch 500 m away from the type locality was sampled. Thus, the original habitat of this species may have been impacted by the flooding of the hydroelectric power plant, and further expeditions are needed to seek additional individuals of this remarkable Brazilian species. Also noteworthy is the fact that a closely related species, <i>Rhoda spinifer</i> (Kraepelin, 1903), occurs sympatrically on the left bank of the Tocantins River.</p>Published as part of <i>Chagas-Junior, Amazonas, Edgecombe, Gregory D. & Minelli, Alessandro, 2008, Variability in trunk segmentation in the centipede order Scolopendromorpha: a remarkable new species of Scolopendropsis Brandt (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae) from Brazil, pp. 36-46 in Zootaxa 1888</i> on pages 40-45, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/184289">10.5281/zenodo.184289</a>
Corrigendum: The Italian Mastocytosis Registry: 6-year experience from a hospital-based registry (Future Oncology (2018) 14:26 (2713-2723) DOI: 10.2217/fon-2018-0291)
No full textFollowing publication of the Research Article by SerenaMerante, Virginia V Ferretti, Chiara Elena, Valeria Brazzelli, Roberta Zanotti, Iria Neri, DiomiraMaglicane, Anna Belloni Fortina, Forer Ingeborg, Elide A Pastorello, Lisa Pieri, Cristina Papayannidis, Marina Mauro, Federica Grifoni, Roberto Minelli, Elena Guggiari, Elisa Difonzo, Monica Bocchia, Francesca Caroppo, Sergio DiNuzzo, ElenaMaria Elli,Michaela Rondoni, Rachele Ciccocioppo,Michele Di Stefano, Grazia Bossi, Emanuela Boveri, Patrizia Bonadonna, Fiorina Giona, Peter Valent &Massimo Triggiani, titled 'The Italian Mastocytosis Registry: 6-year experience from a hospital-based registry', which appeared in the November 2018 issue of Future Oncology (Future Oncology [Lond.] 14[26], 2713-2723 [2018]; DOI: 10.2217/fon-2018-0291), it has been brought to our attention that the name of Iria Neri has been corrected as follows: The author name was originally published as Iria Ner, and has been corrected to Iria Neri. The authors and editors of Future Oncology would like to sincerely apologise for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused our readers
Strigamia fusata Attems 1903
No full textStrigamia fusata (Attems, 1903) Synonym: Paraplanes californicus Verhoeff, 1938. References for morphology: Attems 1903, 1929; Verhoeff 1938 a, 1938 c (both sub Paraplanes californicus); Crabill 1962 a. Taxonomic notes. It was described originally as a species in a distinct genus Diplochora. The holotype and other specimens were redescribed in detail by Crabill (1962 a), who assigned the species to Tomotaenia and recorded other specimens. Other authors listed it among the synonyms of S. parviceps, but the true identity of the latter is actually unknown (see below under “Uncertain species”). It is assigned here to Strigamia for the first time (new combination), because it shares all major diagnostic features of Strigamia (see above under “Notes on synonymies”). Paraplanes californicus was described by Verhoeff (1938 c), and described again as new by the same author in a distinct paper published later in the same year (Verhoeff 1938 a; Crabill 1962 a). No other specimens were recorded, and the species was almost ignored until Crabill (1962 a, 1962 b) synonymized it under S. fusata after examining the type specimens of both species. Distribution: south-western part of North America, from southern Coast Ranges to the Gulf of California.Published as part of Bonato, Lucio, Dányi, László, Socci, Antonio Augusto & Minelli, Alessandro, 2012, Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 3593 on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21489
Decires gauchescos y políticas de género
No full textSeenfrom a perspective whichis vigilant to multiple manifestations of symbolic violence, the building of literary canons studied at school and disseminated through institutions, thearts and mass media provides a significant field for examination. In the case of Argentina, from the gauchesco genre a way of viewing the gender positionings within the national community was outlined and the molding of subjectivities influenced.
The literary corpus we studied (Ema, la cautiva and El vestido rosa by Cesar Aira, and Las aventuras de la China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) interact with this strong expository position, the gauchesca position (heart of the national canon), in order to generate fictional diversions that disrupt the binary logic of the gauchesco genre.Desde una perspectiva atenta a las múltiples manifestaciones de la violencia simbólica, el armado de los cánones literarios estudiados en la escuela y difundidos a partir de las instituciones, artes y medios masivos se ofrece como un significativo campo a examinar. En el caso de Argentina, desde el género gauchesco se delineó un modo de ver los posicionamientos de género en el seno de la comunidad nacional y se incidió en el modelado de subjetividades.
El corpus que examinamos (Ema, la cautiva y “El vestido rosa”, de Cesar Aira, y Las aventuras de la China Iron, de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) dialoga con esa potente posición enunciativa que es la gauchesca (corazón del canon nacional) para producir desvíos ficcionales que rompen con la lógica binaria del género gauchesco
PESI - a taxonomic backbone for Europe
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BELTING IN CONTEMPORARY POP MUSIC: ORIGIN, VOCAL TECHNIQUE, EXPRESSIVE POSSIBILITIES
No full textThe belting technique is one of the fundamental ones in modern vocal pop music. The author studies the origin of this technique, its performance features, the connection of belting with the orthoepy of the English language, as well as some examples of the application of this technique in the work of such vocalists as Cristina Aguilera, Liza Minelli, Lidia Isac
Strigamia bidens Wood 1862
No full textStrigamia bidens Wood, 1862 Synonym: Scolioplanes ruber Bollman, 1887. References for morphology: Meinert 1886 (sub Scolioplanes parviceps); Bollman 1887 (sub Scolioplanes ruber); Brölemann 1896; Chamberlin 1912 a; Crabill 1954 b. Taxonomic notes. Described originally as a species of Strigamia, it was subsequently assigned variously to Linotaenia, Scolioplanes or Tomotaenia. The species was recorded repeatedly by many authors. Meinert’s (1886) concept for S. bidens is unclear: a specimen reliably identified by others as S. bidens (as confirmed by Cook (1896) as well as by Meinert’s description), and also (erroneously) considered by Meinert as belonging to Wood’s type material, was tentatively referred by him to S. parviceps Wood; moreover, based on unpublished evidence, Cook (1896) suspected that Meinert intended to introduce S. parviceps as a new species name. Scolioplanes ruber was described by Bollman (1887) and recorded other times by the same author. It was synonymized under S. bidens by Chamberlin (1912 a), but Attems (1929) listed it as a distinct species. The synonymy is confirmed here, because the original description of S. ruber is fully congruent with S. bidens, also in some major diagnostic features of the latter species, including number of legs, ultimate leg-bearing segment with narrow metasternite, and scattered coxal pores. Distribution: south-eastern part of North America, northwards to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, southwards to Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, westwards to Missouri.Published as part of Bonato, Lucio, Dányi, László, Socci, Antonio Augusto & Minelli, Alessandro, 2012, Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 3593 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21489
Etiopatogenia da hanseníase
No full textThe author make a brief sudy about etimologycal and pathogenic aspects of the Hanseniasis. He compares the different evolutions of the Virchowian, Tuberculoid, Dimorphous and Indetermined Patients.Estudo da Etiologia da Hanseníase, tecendo considerações iniciais sobre várias características do seu agente causal, o Bacilo de Hansen; analisam-se aspectos interessantes acerca da patogenia da referida moléstia
Etiopatogenia da hanseníase
No full textThe author make a brief sudy about etimologycal and pathogenic aspects of the Hanseniasis. He compares the different evolutions of the Virchowian, Tuberculoid, Dimorphous and Indetermined Patients.Estudo da Etiologia da Hanseníase, tecendo considerações iniciais sobre várias características do seu agente causal, o Bacilo de Hansen; analisam-se aspectos interessantes acerca da patogenia da referida moléstia
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