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Haplosymploce Hanitsch 1933
No full textGenus Haplosymploce Hanitsch, 1933, new record from China Haplosymploce Hanitsch, 1933: 236; Princis 1969: 875; Roth 1997: 89. Type species: Ischnoptera nigra Hanitsch, 1928, selected by Princis 1951: 56. Diagnosis (principally after Roth 1997). Tegmen and hindwing fully developed. R of tegmen without posterior branch, mediocubital branches longitudinal or slightly oblique. R of hindwing without posterior branch; CuA oblique or slightly sigmoid with 3–5 complete branches and 0–4 incomplete branches; apical triangle absent. Front femur type A or B (in cases varied intraspecifically); tarsal pulvilli present on 1–4 proximal tarsomeres; claws simple and symmetrical; arolia small. Male: T 1 and T 7 specialized or only T 1 with a middle gland. Paraprocts dissimilar; each side of supraanal plate with an intercercal process near the base of cercus. Subgenital plate asymmetrical, all species similar; styli similar, small, cylindrical, length equal or slightly unequal. Sclerite of the left phallomere (L 3) hook-like, on the left side, with a preapical incision; middle sclerite (L 2 vm) rod-like. Distribution (Fig. 1). China (Yunnan and Hainan), Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi. Remarks. The holotype of H. moultoni is a female, its colour and pattern of the tegmina and wings are similar to those of H. bicolor; therefore they may be synonyms (Roth, 1997). Haplosymploce is recorded from Southeast Asia and South China but no record is from the Indochinese Peninsula (in the narrower sense) (Fig. 1); this may be a result of the absence of specimens from this area or the lack of taxonomic works. Particularly, it could be inferred that H. andamanica should distribute in Burma since it is a transitional area between China and Andaman, from which this species is recorded.Published as part of Zheng, Yuhong, Li, Xinran & Wang, Zongqing, 2016, A taxonomic report on the cockroach genus Haplosymploce Hanitsch from China including one new species (Blattodea: Ectobiidae: Blattellinae), pp. 161-170 in Zootaxa 4066 (2) on page 162, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/25894
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No full textIn the author list of this article, the names of the authorswere incorrectly listed with initials and family name only. The incorrect author list read as “C. Kedor, H. Freitag, L. Meyer-Arndt, K. Wittke, L. G. Hanitsch, T. Zoller, F. Steinbeis, M. Haffke, G. Rudolf, B. Heidecker, T. Bobbert, J. Spranger, H. D. Volk, C. Skurk, F. Konietschke, F. Paul, U. Behrends, J. Bellmann-Strobl and C. Scheibenbogen”. The author list has now been amended to include the given and family names in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. The corrected author list reads as “Claudia Kedor, Helma Freitag, Lil Meyer-Arndt, Kirsten Wittke, Leif G. Hanitsch, Thomas Zoller, Fridolin Steinbeis, Milan Haffke, Gordon Rudolf, Bettina Heidecker, Thomas Bobbert, Joachim Spranger, Hans- Dieter Volk, Carsten Skurk, Frank Konietschke, Friedemann Paul, Uta Behrends, Judith Bellmann-Strobl and Carmen Scheibenbogen”
Ctenoneura Hanitsch 1925
No full text<i>Ctenoneura</i> Hanitsch, 1925 <p> <i>Ctenoneura</i> Hanitsch, 1925: 100; Princis 1950: 204; Princis 1953: 207; Princis 1963: 101 (Catalogue); Roth 1993: 83 (Revision); Roth 1995b: 117 (Rediagnosis); Roth 2003: 34.</p> <p> Type Species: <i>Ctenoneura major</i> Hanitsch, 1925 (Designated by Princis 1950)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> This genus is peculiar among the Corydiidae. The small, narrow and smooth body distinctly differentiates it from many other Corydiidae genera whose body is pubescent and oval shaped. Roth (1995b) considered this genus most resembles genus <i>Homopteroidea</i>, a detailed generic comparison has been provided in Roth (1995b), we add the following comparison as supplement: 1) body smooth, not pubescent in <i>Ctenoneura</i>, while body smooth, with a few setae in <i>Homopteroidea</i>; 2) tegmen with well-developed M, but simplified CuA in <i>Ctenoneura</i> (Fig. 2), while M simple, CuA developed into presutural vein in <i>Homopteroidea</i>; 3) both tegmina and wings with an intercalary vein between R and M in <i>Ctenoneura</i> (Fig. 2), while without an intercalary vein in <i>Homopteroidea</i>; 4) male genitalia simple, with reduced left phallomere, genital hook absent in <i>Ctenoneura</i> (Fig. 1 D), while male genitalia extremely complex in <i>Homopteroidea</i>.</p> <p> <b>Redescription. Male.</b> Small size, resembles small Ectobiidae cockroaches, body length (without wings) 5.0– 9.7 mm. Body smooth and shining, not pubescent, usually coloration ranging from brownish yellow to dark brown.</p> <p> <b>Head:</b> hidden or not, vertex round, eyes wide apart, ocelli very small, nearly degenerate, antennal sockets round, large. <b>Pronotum:</b> generally subcircular or oval. <b>Tegmina and wings:</b> fully developed. Major veins often densely reticulate with numerous cross veins. Tegmina horny, Sc and branches of R usually oblique, M welldeveloped, usually with 3–6 branches, an intercalary vein present between R and M, sometimes incomplete, CuA usually simple, sometimes bifurcate; wings with a mass of spots between RA and RP, usually with an intercalary vein between R and M, sometimes incomplete, CuA usually with 3 to 8 branches that generally are parallel, and with numerous small cross veins connecting them, CuP usually slender, anal area folded over the rest of the wing in resting position as in other Corydiidae genera, AA thick, AP branches fan-like (Fig. 2). <b>Legs:</b> front femur Type C1, sometimes with small processes on hind margin basally and setae on the surface (Figs. 23 D; 24 D). Pulvilli absent, tarsal claws symmetrical, simple, arolia small or absent. <b>Abdomen:</b> abdominal terga unspecialized. Supra-anal plate transverse, with many different shapes. Cerci long, pubescent, sometimes the basal segments specialized (round or slightly protruded and directed medially, e.g. Fig. 20 E). Subgenital plate asymmetrical, different from one species to another, usually with one stylus or none (Roth (1993) stated some species without stylus). Some species with one slender and curved subgenital sclerite (sgs) present above the subgenital plate, below the genitalia, or integrated with subgenital plate, and an extending structure (eds) to hold the sgs (Fig. 13; 22 F–G).</p> <p> <b>Male genitalia:</b> consists of three parts, viz. left phallomere, right phallomere and transverse sclerite (tvs). Left phallomere strongly reduced, two parts present, viz. left dorsal phallomere (ldp) and left ventral phallomere (lvp); lvp small, usually with irregular processes posteriorly, anterior usually acute, like a parrot peak; ldp connects lvp by the whole anterior margin, posterior with a <b>curved part</b> (<b>cvp</b>), small, towards the anterior. Right phallomere consists of three parts, viz. R1M, R2 and R3, R1M irregular, R2 with three parts: a robust process (rop), a slender process (slp) and an elongate process (elp), R3 concave. Transverse sclerite (tvs) long, irregular (Fig. 1).</p> <p> <b>Female.</b> Apterous, body smooth, eyes reduced, arolia absent, supra-anal plate transverse, suboval, apex slightly truncated, cerci robust, apex with a spine. Subgenital plate valvular (Figs. 5 G–J).</p> <p> <b>Ootheca.</b> Oval, with small serrations on the keel. The surface with many ribbed lines, eggs filled, can be seen in dorsal view (Figs. 5 K–L).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Oriental Region.</p> <p> <b>Natural history.</b> <i>Ctenoneura</i> should be one kind of wood-feeding cockroach. For more details see “natural history” under <i>C. heixuanfeng</i> and <i>C. delicata</i>.</p> <p> <b>Discussion. The estimate of species abundance.</b> <i>Ctenoneura</i> must be a genus rich in species in the Corydiidae. Members of this rarely-collected genus are mostly recorded from Southeast Asia. Former studies only found four species from China (Bey-Bienko 1957, 1969), one species from Myanmar and one undescribed species from Vietnam (Roth 1993).This paper adds three species from Yunnan, four species from Hainan Island and one unknown female from Guangxi. We suspect that there must be more new species in China, Myanmar and Vietnam.</p> <p> <b>Species groups suggestion.</b> After dissecting the specimens, we found <i>C. simulans</i>, <i>C. helicata</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>C. qiuae</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> share some similar characters: 1) supra-anal plate simple, unspecialized; 2) subgenital plate with eds forming a groove, and separated sgs partly resting in the groove; 3) hind margin of subgenital plate usually with an incision or excavation, one stylus originating from the left of the incision or excavation. Here we build a <b> <i>simulans</i> - group</b> to contain <i>C. simulans</i> Bey-Bienko, 1969, <i>C. helicata</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>C. qiuae</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> that all own the characters listed above. <i>C. elongata</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> is different from the typical <i>simulans</i> -group, it is distinct in owning an unseparated sgs and an extremely large eds; we include it in this group as an “aberrant” species. <i>C. birmanica</i> Princis, <i>C. misera</i> Bey-Bienko and <i>C. yunnanea</i> Bey-Bienko may belong to this group, but we lacked material to examine. The species from Hainan Island are quite distinguished from each other in the supra-anal plate and subgenital plate, but they all share some other identical characters: 1) supra-anal plate all specialized into different shapes; 2) subgenital plate protrudes toward right; and 3) body dark brown to brownish black, usually with small yellow areas in lateral fore borders of the pronotum. We suggest building a <b> <i>heixuanfeng</i> -group</b> for the Hainan species described in this article.</p> <p> <b>Discussion of females.</b> The apterous female reported in this article is one important discovery on <i>Ctenoneura.</i> The previous records of the females (Hanitsch 1925; Bey-Bienko 1957) indicates macropterous, but they are doubtful. Hanitsch (1925) described <i>C. fulva</i> based on six specimens, and <i>C. major</i> based on two specimens; within these were three macropterous females determined by Hanitsch himself. But there were two significant concerns about Hanitsch’s knowledge of <i>Ctenoneura.</i> One is the generic diagnosis of this genus having the male with two styli which later proved to have the male with one stylus or none. The other concern is about the type series of <i>C.</i></p> <p> <i>fulva.</i> Roth (1993) has examined the type specimens of <i>C. fulva</i> in the Museum of Oxford University. No females were found, but he discovered two new species within the type series of <i>C. fulva</i> (one was described as <i>C. murudensis</i>, the other was not described due to its bad condition). Such limited knowledge may lead to mistaken identification. At that time, the male subgenital plate of <i>Ctenoneura</i> was poorly studied. Hanitsch probably mixed in other male species as the females of <i>C. fulva</i> and <i>C. major</i>. Bey-Bienko (1957) described <i>C. acuticerca</i> based on two macropterous females, but this species may not belong to <i>Ctenoneura</i> due to the absence of an intercalary vein which is an important character for <i>Ctenoneura</i>. The discovery of the apteral female in this article may explain why the previous studies are absence of females; the sexual dimorphism may lead to overlooking the females.</p> <p> <b>Taxonomic status.</b> So far the subfamily status of <i>Ctenoneura</i> is still unclear. Princis (1950, 1953, 1963, 1967) put this genus in Latindiinae / Latindiidae without giving any reasons, Roth (1993, 1995b, 2003) and Beccaloni (2014) did not place it in any subfamily. The many distinctive characters (the much reduced left phallomere, the absence of genital hook, specialized and asymmetrical subgenital plate, single stylus, smooth body, intercalary vein presenting in tegmina and wings, well developed M and simplified CuA in tegmen) make it unique in the Corydiidae. It may belong to a new subfamily named Ctenoneuriinae. However, more <i>Ctenoneura</i> examples need to studied, more comparison studies within Corydioidea genera need to be done, and molecular methods need to be used to solve this problem.</p>Published as part of <i>Qiu, Lu, Che, Yan-Li & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2017, Contribution to the cockroach genus Ctenoneura Hanitsch, 1925 (Blattodea: Corydioidea: Corydiidae) with descriptions of seven new species from China, pp. 265-299 in Zootaxa 4237 (2)</i> on pages 268-271, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.3, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/343796">http://zenodo.org/record/343796</a>
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
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only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
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Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
No full textHear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
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Lillian L. Lambert, Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur
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