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Putting web analytics to use creating a data driven website
No full textThis chapter examines a data-driven library website redesign and suggests informed best practices for pragmatically managing a redesign project.Citation: Pitts, J., & Coleman, T. L. (2013). The right tools for the job: Using analytics to
drive design. In T. Farney & N. McHale (Eds.). Web analytics strategies for information
professionals: A LITA guide (pp.131-145). Chicago : ALA TechSource
Un traité de sociologie (à propos de Theories of Society publié par T. Parsons, E. Shils, R. K. Naegele, J. Pitts, 1961).
No full textTouraine Alain. Un traité de sociologie (à propos de Theories of Society publié par T. Parsons, E. Shils, R. K. Naegele, J. Pitts, 1961). In: Sociologie du travail, 4ᵉ année n°3, Juillet-septembre 1962. pp. 285-288
The competitiveness of the Irish food processing industry
No full textEnd of Project ReportWays of measuring industrial competitiveness are discussed and an analysis of the competitiveness of the food sector as a whole and of three sub-sectors are presented. The techniques employed were Revealed Comparative Advantage and the Porter Diamond
Tobantilla aleatrix Williams, Brothers & Pitts, sp. nov.
No full textTobantilla aleatrix Williams, Brothers & Pitts, sp. nov. (Figs 1, 7, 14) Diagnosis. FEMALE. The head and mesosoma are pale orange-brown with sparse pale golden setae dorsally (Fig. 1), the sculpture of the pronotum clearly evident; the mesosoma is longer than broad and evenly narrowed posterior to the pronotum; the scutellar scale is separated from the dorsal propodeal carinae; the posterior propodeal face is fairly densely clothed with pale golden setae dorsally (Fig. 1); T 2 is broadest posterior to its midlength, and has both an anterior and posterior pair of yellow integumental spots; and T 4 is clothed with black setae. Description. FEMALE. Body length 4.1–4.8 mm. Coloration. Body and appendages pale orange-brown except T 5 and S 5–6 paler yellowish-brown; T 2 with two pairs of separated yellow spots, anterior spots circular, much smaller than posterior triangular to trapezoidal patches. Tibial spurs white. Head and mesosoma clothed with fairly sparse decumbent pale golden or silvery lanceolate setae, except medial portion of mesosomal dorsum with a few dark brown setae interspersed, area directly anterior to scutellar scale with cluster of dark brown setae, and dorsum of head and mesosoma with scattered erect long brachyplumose brown setae; posterior face of propodeum with moderately dense decumbent pale golden setae and a few dark brown setae dorsally, almost glabrous ventrally. T 2 clothed with dark brown decumbent lanceolate setae between spots and along apical margin, lateral thirds and integumental spots with sparse silver decumbent and erect setae. T 3–4 entirely clothed with decumbent dark brown lanceolate setae. T 1, T 5 and S 1–5 clothed with silvery white decumbent and erect setae. T 6 and S 6 with erect brown setae. Head. Rounded posteriorly, with occipital carina stronger laterally from base of weak narrowly triangular glabrous tubercle on posterolateral margin. Head width 1.1 × pronotal width. Eye almost circular. Front, vertex and gena reticulate. Genal carina slightly produced, extending anteriorly to hypostomal carina. Mandible oblique, tapering, bidentate apically but preapical inner tooth minute and usually obliterated, unarmed ventrally. Antennal scrobe with distinct lateral vertical carina but no dorsal carina. Antennal tubercle finely and sparsely punctate basally. Scape simply punctate. Flagellomere 1 1.5 × pedicel length; flagellomere 2 1.3 × pedicel length. Mesosoma. Mesosomal length 1.1 × width; pronotum 1.1 × as wide as mesothorax. Mesosomal dorsum reticulate. Humeral carina well developed, extending mesally beyond strongly dentate epaulet. Lateral face of pronotum and mesopleuron micropunctate, dull, mesopleural ridge coarsely reticulate; clothed with fine recumbent setae. Metapleuron dorsal to endophragmal pit and dorsal two-thirds of lateral face of propodeum glabrous, smooth; ventral regions of metapleuron and lateral face of propodeum micropunctate and clothed with fine recumbent setae. In dorsal view, mesosoma gradually narrowed posterior to pronotum, lateral margin of mesothorax weakly sinuate anterior to propodeal spiracle. Scutellar scale narrow and highly raised, with broadly w-shaped transverse carina anterior to it. Moderate transverse carina separating dorsal and posterior propodeal faces on each side. Propodeum narrowed posterior to spiracle, posterolateral angle broadly rounded, posterior face weakly convex, vertical, reticulate and clothed with moderately dense decumbent lanceolate setae on dorsal half, smooth and almost glabrous ventrally. Metasoma. T 1 narrow and petiolate, somewhat cylindrical, 0.4 × as wide as T 2. T 2 1.1 × as long as wide, with maximum width slightly posterior to midlength. Disc of T 2 with moderate-sized longitudinally ovate contiguous punctures, except yellow spots sparsely punctate with interspaces wider than punctures; T 3–5 densely punctate. S 1 with low longitudinal carina, S 1–5 moderately punctate, punctures smaller and denser on S 3–5. Pygidium well defined by continuous lateral and apical carinae, posterior margin broadly convex, surface weakly convex with about 10 irregular longitudinal striae almost reaching apical margin, spaces between striae irregularly granulate. Male. Unknown. Type material. Holotype, Ƥ, ARGENTINA: Jujuy, Huacalera, 17 km.N. Tilcara, 2800 m., 6 January 1972, D.J.Brothers (MACN). Paratype, 1 Ƥ, same label data as holotype (DJBC). Distribution. This species is known only from the type locality. Host. Unknown. Etymology. From the Latin, the female of aleator, “gambler”; noun in apposition. This species, like two others here, is named after a work by Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, in this case the novel Игрок “The Gambler”, with an allusion to initial uncertainty about its specific status. Remarks. This species is very similar in many respects, particularly in color, to T. charrasca, with which it was initially confused. However, T. charrasca has the mesosomal dorsal pubescence denser (e.g., concealing the sculpture of the pronotum) as is that of the posterior face of the propodeum and of T 1, the anterior epaulet less developed, the mesosoma broader than long, the mesothorax as wide as the pronotum, the lateral margin of the mesosoma more strongly sinuate (broadening behind the pronotum then narrowing strongly to the propodeal spiracle and then almost straight to the blunt posterolateral angle of the propodeum), the second flagellomere about 1.1 × the length of the pedicel, and T 2 about as long as wide and with its greatest width slightly anterior to its midlength. In addition, T. charrasca has the femora distinctly darkened medially.Published as part of Williams, Kevin A., Brothers, Denis J. & Pitts, James P., 2011, New species of Tobantilla Casal, 1965 and a new genus and species, Gogoltilla chichikovi gen. et sp. nov., from Argentina (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae), pp. 41-68 in Zootaxa 3064 on pages 45-48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27895
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A kinetics and mechanistic study of the atmospherically relevant reaction between molecular chlorine and dimethyl sulfide (DMS)
No full textA gas-phase kinetics study of the atmospherically important reaction between Cl2 and dimethyl sulfide (DMS)Cl2 + CH3SCH3 → products has been made using a flow-tube interfaced to a photoelectron spectrometer. The rate constant for this reaction has been measured at 1.6 and 3.0 torr at T = (294 ± 2) K as (3.4 ± 0.7) × 10–14 cm3 molecule–1 s–1. Reaction (1) has been found to proceed via an intermediate, (CH3)2SCl2, to give CH3SCH2Cl and HCl as the products. The mechanism of this reaction and the structure of the intermediate were investigated using electronic structure calculations. A comparison of the mechanisms of the reactions between Cl atoms and DMS, and Cl2 and DMS has been made and the relevance of the results to atmospheric chemistry is discussed
Measurement of vector boson plus D? (2010)+ meson production in p-p collisions at s =1.96 TeV MEASUREMENT of VECTOR BOSON PLUS D? (2010)+ ... T. AALTONEN et al
No full textCitation: Aaltonen, T., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., Antos, J., . . . Zucchelli, S. (2016). Measurement of vector boson plus D? (2010)+ meson production in p-p collisions at s =1.96 TeV MEASUREMENT of VECTOR BOSON PLUS D? (2010)+ ... T. AALTONEN et al. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 93(5). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.052012Additional Authors: Aurisano, A.;Azfar, F.;Badgett, W.;Bae, T.;Barbaro-Galtieri, A.;Barnes, V. E.;Barnett, B. A.;Barria, P.;Bartos, P.;Bauce, M.;Bedeschi, F.;Behari, S.;Bellettini, G.;Bellinger, J.;Benjamin, D.;Beretvas, A.;Bhatti, A.;Bland, K. R.;Blumenfeld, B.;Bocci, A.;Bodek, A.;Bortoletto, D.;Boudreau, J.;Boveia, A.;Brigliadori, L.;Bromberg, C.;Brucken, E.;Budagov, J.;Budd, H. S.;Burkett, K.;Busetto, G.;Bussey, P.;Butti, P.;Buzatu, A.;Calamba, A.;Camarda, S.;Campanelli, M.;Canelli, F.;Carls, B.;Carlsmith, D.;Carosi, R.;Carrillo, S.;Casal, B.;Casarsa, M.;Castro, A.;Catastini, P.;Cauz, D.;Cavaliere, V.;Cerri, A.;Cerrito, L.;Chen, Y. C.;Chertok, M.;Chiarelli, G.;Chlachidze, G.;Cho, K.;Chokheli, D.;Clark, A.;Clarke, C.;Convery, M. E.;Conway, J.;Corbo, M.;Cordelli, M.;Cox, C. A.;Cox, D. J.;Cremonesi, M.;Cruz, D.;Cuevas, J.;Culbertson, R.;D'Ascenzo, N.;Datta, M.;De Barbaro, P.;Demortier, L.;Deninno, M.;D'Errico, M.;Devoto, F.;Di Canto, A.;Di Ruzza, B.;Dittmann, J. R.;Donati, S.;D'Onofrio, M.;Dorigo, M.;Driutti, A.;Ebina, K.;Edgar, R.;Elagin, A.;Erbacher, R.;Errede, S.;Esham, B.;Farrington, S.;Fernández Ramos, J. P.;Field, R.;Flanagan, G.;Forrest, R.;Franklin, M.;Freeman, J. C.;Frisch, H.;Funakoshi, Y.;Galloni, C.;Garfinkel, A. F.;Garosi, P.;Gerberich, H.;Gerchtein, E.;Giagu, S.;Giakoumopoulou, V.;Gibson, K.;Ginsburg, C. M.;Giokaris, N.;Giromini, P.;Glagolev, V.;Glenzinski, D.;Gold, M.;Goldin, D.;Golossanov, A.;Gomez, G.;Gomez-Ceballos, G.;Goncharov, M.;González López, O.;Gorelov, I.;Goshaw, A. T.;Goulianos, K.;Gramellini, E.;Grosso-Pilcher, C.;Group, R. C.;Guimaraes Da Costa, J.;Hahn, S. R.;Han, J. Y.;Happacher, F.;Hara, K.;Hare, M.;Harr, R. F.;Harrington-Taber, T.;Hatakeyama, K.;Hays, C.;Heinrich, J.;Herndon, M.;Hocker, A.;Hong, Z.;Hopkins, W.;Hou, S.;Hughes, R. E.;Husemann, U.;Hussein, M.;Huston, J.;Introzzi, G.;Iori, M.;Ivanov, A.;James, E.;Jang, D.;Jayatilaka, B.;Jeon, E. J.;Jindariani, S.;Jones, M.;Joo, K. K.;Jun, S. Y.;Junk, T. R.;Kambeitz, M.;Kamon, T.;Karchin, P. E.;Kasmi, A.;Kato, Y.;Ketchum, W.;Keung, J.;Kilminster, B.;Kim, D. H.;Kim, H. S.;Kim, J. E.;Kim, M. J.;Kim, S. H.;Kim, S. B.;Kim, Y. J.;Kim, Y. K.;Kimura, N.;Kirby, M.;Knoepfel, K.;Kondo, K.;Kong, D. J.;Konigsberg, J.;Kotwal, A. V.;Kreps, M.;Kroll, J.;Kruse, M.;Kuhr, T.;Kurata, M.;Laasanen, A. T.;Lammel, S.;Lancaster, M.;Lannon, K.;Latino, G.;Lee, H. S.;Lee, J. S.;Leo, S.;Leone, S.;Lewis, J. D.;Limosani, A.;Lipeles, E.;Lister, A.;Liu, H.;Liu, Q.;Liu, T.;Lockwitz, S.;Loginov, A.;Lucchesi, D.;Lucà, A.;Lueck, J.;Lujan, P.;Lukens, P.;Lungu, G.;Lys, J.;Lysak, R.;Madrak, R.;Maestro, P.;Malik, S.;Manca, G.;Manousakis-Katsikakis, A.;Marchese, L.;Margaroli, F.;Marino, P.;Matera, K.;Mattson, M. E.;Mazzacane, A.;Mazzanti, P.;McNulty, R.;Mehta, A.;Mehtala, P.;Mesropian, C.;Miao, T.;Mietlicki, D.;Mitra, A.;Miyake, H.;Moed, S.;Moggi, N.;Moon, C. S.;Moore, R.;Morello, M. J.;Mukherjee, A.;Muller, T.;Murat, P.;Mussini, M.;Nachtman, J.;Nagai, Y.;Naganoma, J.;Nakano, I.;Napier, A.;Nett, J.;Neu, C.;Nigmanov, T.;Nodulman, L.;Noh, S. Y.;Norniella, O.;Oakes, L.;Oh, S. H.;Oh, Y. D.;Oksuzian, I.;Okusawa, T.;Orava, R.;Ortolan, L.;Pagliarone, C.;Palencia, E.;Palni, P.;Papadimitriou, V.;Parker, W.;Pauletta, G.;Paulini, M.;Paus, C.;Phillips, T. J.;Piacentino, G.;Pianori, E.;Pilot, J.;Pitts, K.;Plager, C.;Pondrom, L.;Poprocki, S.;Potamianos, K.;Pranko, A.;Prokoshin, F.;Ptohos, F.;Punzi, G.;Redondo Fernández, I.;Renton, P.;Rescigno, M.;Rimondi, F.;Ristori, L.;Robson, A.;Rodriguez, T.;Rolli, S.;Ronzani, M.;Roser, R.;Rosner, J. L.;Ruffini, F.;Ruiz, A.;Russ, J.;Rusu, V.;Sakumoto, W. K.;Sakurai, Y.;Santi, L.;Sato, K.;Saveliev, V.;Savoy-Navarro, A.;Schlabach, P.;Schmidt, E. E.;Schwarz, T.;Scodellaro, L.;Scuri, F.;Seidel, S.;Seiya, Y.;Semenov, A.;Sforza, F.;Shalhout, S. Z.;Shears, T.;Shepard, P. F.;Shimojima, M.;Shochet, M.;Shreyber-Tecker, I.;Simonenko, A.;Sliwa, K.;Smith, J. R.;Snider, F. D.;Song, H.;Sorin, V.;Denis, R. S.;Stancari, M.;Stentz, D.;Strologas, J.;Sudo, Y.;Sukhanov, A.;Suslov, I.;Takemasa, K.;Takeuchi, Y.;Tang, J.;Tecchio, M.;Teng, P. K.;Thom, J.;Thomson, E.;Thukral, V.;Toback, D.;Tokar, S.;Tollefson, K.;Tomura, T.;Tonelli, D.;Torre, S.;Torretta, D.;Totaro, P.;Trovato, M.;Ukegawa, F.;Uozumi, S.;Vázquez, F.;Velev, G.;Vellidis, C.;Vernieri, C.;Vidal, M.;Vilar, R.;Vizán, J.;Vogel, M.;Volpi, G.;Wagner, P.;Wallny, R.;Wang, S. M.;Waters, D.;Wester, W. C., III;Whiteson, D.;Wicklund, A. B.;Wilbur, S.;Williams, H. H.;Wilson, J. S.;Wilson, P.;Winer, B. L.;Wittich, P.;Wolbers, S.;Wolfe, H.;Wright, T.;Wu, X.;Wu, Z.;Yamamoto, K.;Yamato, D.;Yang, T.;Yang, U. K.;Yang, Y. C.;Yao, W. M.;Yeh, G. P.;Yi, K.;Yoh, J.;Yorita, K.;Yoshida, T.;Yu, G. B.;Yu, I.;Zanetti, A. M.;Zeng, Y.;Zhou, C.;Zucchelli, S.A measurement of vector boson (V) production in conjunction with a D?(2010)+ meson is presented. Using a data sample corresponding to 9.7 fb-1 of proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy s=1.96 TeV produced by the Fermilab Tevatron, we reconstruct V+D?+ samples with the CDF II detector. The D?+ is fully reconstructed in the D?(2010)+?D0(?K-?+)?+ decay mode. This technique is sensitive to the associated production of vector boson plus charm or bottom mesons. We measure the ratio of production cross sections ?(W+D?)/?(W)=[1.75±0.13(stat)±0.09(stat)]% and ?(Z+D?)/?(Z)=[1.5±0.4(stat)±0.2(stat)]% and perform a differential measurement of d?(W+D?)/dpT(D?). Event properties are utilized to determine the fraction of V+D?(2010)+ events originating from different production processes. The results are in agreement with the predictions obtained with the pythia program, limiting possible contribution from non-standard-model physics processes. © 2016 American Physical Society
Census of High- and Medium-mass Protostars. V. CO Abundance and the Galactic Xco Factor
No full textWe present the second dust continuum data release in the Census of High- and Medium-mass Protostars (CHaMP), expanding the methodology trialed in Pitts et al. to the entire CHaMP survey area (280 degrees < l < 300 degrees, - 4 degrees < b < + 2 degrees). This release includes maps of dust temperature (T-d), H-2 column density (NH2), gas-phase CO abundance, and temperature-density plots for every prestellar clump with Herschel coverage, showing no evidence of internal heating for most clumps in our sample. We show that CO abundance is a strong function of T-d and can be fit with a second-order polynomial in log-space, with a typical dispersion of a factor of 2-3. The CO abundance peaks at 20.0(-1.0)(+0.4) K with a value of 7.4(-0.3)(+0.2) x 10(-5) per H-2; the low T-d at which this maximal abundance occurs relative to laboratory results is likely due to interstellar UV bombardment in the largest survey fields. Finally, we show that, as predicted by theoretical literature and hinted at in previous studies of individual clouds, the conversion factor from integrated (CO)-C-12 line intensity ((ICO)-C-12) to NH2, the X-CO factor, varies as a broken power law in I-CO(12) with a transition zone between 70 and 90 K km s(-1). The X-CO function we propose has NH2 proportional to I-12CO(0.51) for I-12CO less than or similar to 70 K km s(-1) N-H2 proportional to I-12CO(2.3) for I-12CO greater than or similar to 90 K km s(-1) The high-I-12CO side should be generalizable with known adjustments for metallicity, but the influence of interstellar UV fields on the low-I-12CO side may be sample specific. We discuss how these results expand on previous works in the CHaMP series and help tie together observational, theoretical, and laboratory studies on CO over the past decade.</p
Ageniella
No full textAgeniella sp. (unidentified) BRAZIL: State of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Campeche; 11 March 2018; K. T. Mazon. Host:? Phidippus sp. (Salticidae), adult female. The wasp grasped the paralyzed jumping spider by its spinnerets with her mandibles, ventral side upward, on the ground (Mazon 2018a).Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia, Kissane, Kelly C., Ubick, Darrell & Pitts, James P., 2020, New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 4891 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/430924
The age of Stonehenge
No full textStonehenge is the icon of British prehistory, and continues to inspire ingenious investigations and interpretations. A current campaign of research, being waged by probably the strongest archaeological team ever assembled, is focused not just on the monument, but on its landscape, its hinterland and the monuments within it. The campaign is still in progress, but the story so far is well worth reporting. Revisiting records of 100 years ago the authors demonstrate that the ambiguous dating of the trilithons, the grand centrepiece of Stonehenge, was based on samples taken from the wrong context, and can now be settled at 2600-2400 cal BC This means that the trilithons are contemporary with Durrington Walls, near neighbour and Britain largest henge monument. These two monuments, different but complementary, now predate the earliest Beaker burials in Britain - including the famous Amesbury Archer and Boscombe Bowmen, but may already have been receiving Beaker pottery. All this contributes to a new vision of massive monumental development in a period of high European intellectual mobility
Ctenocerus srilankae Shimizu & Broad & Yoshimura & Pitts 2022, sp. nov.
No full textCtenocerus srilankae Shimizu sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: E214E6F5-3193-41D1-91A3-FAAB02249E21 Figs 3, 5 Diagnosis Female Body and legs mostly black (Fig. 3A); head with longitudinal yellow streak along inner orbit (Fig. 3D); propodeum reddish brown (Fig. 3A–B); T1–5 with paired posterolateral patches of silvery pubescence; frontal bridge (Fig. 3D, arrow) much broader than pedicel width; and clypeus with apicolateral margin obliquely truncate. Male Body and legs mostly black (Fig. 5A) with pale yellow streaks on frons along inner orbit (Fig. 5D), upper gena along outer orbit (Fig. 5B–C) and posterior margin of pronotum, and pale-yellow spots on scutellum (Fig. 5A–B) and T7 apically; hind femur orange to reddish brown (Fig. 5A, F–G); T1–4 with posterior bands of silvery pubescence (Fig. 5A); flagellum catenulate (Fig. 5H); all tarsal claws bifid. Etymology The species name is derived from its locality, Sri Lanka. Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♀; “ SRI LANKA: Tri. Dist. Tennamaravadi 18-v-1976 ” / “Collected by K. V. Krombein P. B. Karunaratne S. Karunaratne D. W. Balasooriyo ”; NMNH. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Man. Dist., Kokmotte Bungalow, 0.5 mi NE of Wilpattu Natl. Park; 21–25 May 1976; K.V. Krombein, P.B. Karunaratne, S. Karunaratne and D.W. Balasooriyo leg.; NHMUK • 1♂; same collection data as for preceding; 22–25 May 1976; Malaise trap; NMNH • 1 ♀; Man. Dist., 0.5 mi NE of Kokmotte, Wilpattu Natl Park; 50–100 ft; 5–8 Oct. 1977; K.V. Krombein, P.B. Karunaratne, S. Karunaratne and D.W. Balasooriyo leg.; NMNH • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 22–23 Jan. 1977; Malaise trap; NMNH • 1 ♀; Anu. Dist., Padaviya; 180 ft; 18–19 May 1976; K.V. Krombein, P.B. Karunaratne, S. Karunaratne and D.W. Balasooriyo leg.; NMNH • 3 ♂♂; Anu. Dist., Padaviya, Irrigation Bungalow; 180 ft; 18 May 1976; Malaise trap; K.V. Krombein, P.B. Karunaratne, S. Karunaratne and D.W. Balasooriyo leg.; NMNH • 2 ♂♂; same collection data as for preceding; NHMUK. Description (measurements of the holotype are given in parentheses.) Female MEASUREMENTS. Length: body 9.1–14.3 (14.3) mm; FW 6.0–8.5 (8.5) mm. COLOURATION. Body and legs dominantly black or reddish black (Fig. 3A, G). Frons with longitudinal yellow streak along inner orbit (Fig. 3D). Following reddish brown to dark rufous: clypeus apically (Fig. 3D), mandible, antenna, scutellum (disc sometimes reddish black (Fig. 3B)), metanotum, metapostnotum and propodeum dorsally, fore tibia ventroapically, all femora and tarsi apically (fore tarsomere 5 wholly reddish brown), tibial spurs, tarsal claws, S1 medially, and S2 anterior to and immediately posterior to transverse groove (Fig. 3I). Labrum and labio-maxillary complex orange brown (stipes and prementum dark brown). FW pale yellow (Fig. 3C); pterostigma yellowish brown; apical half of marginal cell, SMC 3 except basally, SMC 4, and discal cell 3 infuscate; HW transparent with yellowish tint, slightly infuscate apically. INTEGUMENT. Following with silvery white pubescence: frons around antennal socket (Fig. 3D), clypeus basilaterally, mandible basally, gena (Fig. 3E), thorax laterally (Fig. 3H) and ventrally, propodeum posterolaterally (Fig. 3B), all legs, T 1–5 posterolaterally (dense and forming paired silvery patches (Fig. 3A)), T 6 laterally, and S1–6 (Fig. 3I). Following with coppery pubescence: vertex medially, pronotal dorsum except posteriorly (Fig. 3E), scutum except anterolaterally and posterolaterally (Fig. 3B), scutellum, metasomal terga except for paired silvery patches and lateral margins, and S1 and S2 anteromedially (Fig. 3I). Setae on body scarce; vertex along inner orbit with a few fine, erect setae (Fig. 3D); apical margin of labrum, mandible, T 6 and S5–6 with long erect bristles. HEAD. 1.0–1.1 (1.1) × as broad as high. Vertex, frons, and mandible polished (Fig. 3D). Vertex strongly convex above level of eye tops. MID 0.65–0.66 (0.66)× TFD. Frons with median sulcus shortly impressed only on supra-antennal area. Antennocular line gently convex between eyes (Fig. 3E). Inner orbits convergent above and below (Fig. 3D). UID:MID:LID = 8.3–8.4 (8.4):10:8.7–9.2 (8.9). POD:OOD = 1:0.85–1.1 (1.1). OOcD /POD = 1.1–1.5 (1.5). Clypeus 1.4–1.8 (1.4)× as broad as long; apical rim not delimited from main part; apicolateral margin obliquely truncate; apical margin truncate or weakly emarginate. Gena, in dorsal view, roundly narrowing posteriorly (Fig. 3E), in profile, 0.5–0.6 (0.6) × as broad as eye, abruptly narrowing dorsally (Fig. 3H). Scape distinctly concave laterally (Fig. 3E). Scape:pedicel:fl1:fl2 =15–16 (15):2.1–2.8 (2.5):10: 9.1–9.4 (9.4). Fl1 2.8–3.1 (3.0) × as long as broad, 0.37–0.39 (0.37)× UID. MESOSOMA. Pronotum much longer than mesoscutum (Fig. 3A) with dorsum gently convex transversely and longitudinally; lateral margins slightly convex, roundly converging anteriorly (Fig. 3E); posterior margin subangulate medially (Fig. 3A). Mesoscutum depressed interiorly to parapsidal sulcus and along posterior margin (Fig. 3B). Disc of scutellum scarcely raised above level of mesoscutum. Metapostnotum 0.27–0.38 (0.27) × as long as metanotum at midline, shallowly and triangularly emarginate posteromedially. Propodeum with dorsum finely and transversely rugulose without median groove, its sides slightly convex in dorsal view (Fig. 3B); declivity rather flattened (Fig. 3H) but not delimited from dorsum, transversely or arcuately rugulose. LEGS. Mid tibiae with several short spines dorsally. Hind tibia lacking spines dorsally (Fig. 3J); apical outer margin with minute sparse spines. Longer spur of hind tibia 0.36–0.41 (0.38)× hind tarsomere 1. WINGS (Fig. 3C). FW marginal cell from wing tip by 0.83–0.87 (0.87)× its own length. SMC 2: SMC 3 = 1:0.97–1.5 (1.0) on vein M, 1:1.1–1.3 (1.2) on vein Rs. SMC 2 0.63–0.69 (0.67) × as high as long, narrowed on vein Rs by 0.56–0.60 (0.58) × its length on vein M, receiving cross-vein 1m-cu at its basal 0.37–0.43 (0.43). SMC 3 0.65–1.0 (0.76) × as high as long, narrowed on vein Rs by 0.65–0.72 (0.68) × its length on vein M, receiving cross-vein 2m-cu at its basal 0.44–0.52 (0.52), distant from outer wing margin by 1.7–2.4 (1.9)× its own length. Cross-vein 2rs-m slightly curved, nearly vertical to vein M. Cross-vein 2m-cu barely curved outward or bisinuate. Cross-vein cu-a originating distal to point of separation of vein M+CuA by more than its own length, curved outward. HW cross-vein rs-m nearly vertical or slightly oblique to vein M. Cross-vein cu-a originating posteriorly to point of separation of vein M+CuA. METASOMA. T 1 barely petiolate (Fig. 3A). S6 barely compressed laterally with short median carina posteriorly (Fig. 3I). Male MEASUREMENTS. Length: body 7.4– 5.8 mm; FW 4.5–5.8 mm. COLOURATION. Body and legs mostly black (Fig. 5A); following pale yellow: longitudinal streaks on frons along inner orbit (Fig. 5D), upper gena along outer orbit and posterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 5B–C), spots on scutellum (Fig. 5A–B), fore coxa anteroapically, mid and hind coxae lateroapically, and T 7 apically. Fore femur, tibia and mid femur apically, hind femur (Fig. 5G), sometimes hind tibia, all tarsi, and apical metasomal terga posteromedially orange to reddish brown. Fore tibial spur pale yellow; mid and hind tibial spurs light brown. Apical half of mandible reddish brown. Wings transparent with brownish tint, becoming iridescent depending on incident lighting angle (Fig. 5E); FW marginal cell anteriorly and outer wing margin slightly infuscate; pterostigma light brown. INTEGUMENT. Body with silvery white pubescence, this being long and dense on lower frons (Fig. 5D), clypeus, scape below, pronotum anteriorly (Fig. 5C), pro- and mesopleura (Fig. 5G), metapostnotum laterally, and propodeum laterally (Fig. 5B); pubescence on T 1–4 posterolaterally short but very dense, forming paired silvery patches, those appearing to be continuous medially depending on incident lighting angle (Fig. 5A); pubescence on propodeum posteromedially long, erect, and grey, directed forward or outward. T 5 and 6 with coppery pubescence except posterolaterally. Coxae and trochanters covered with silvery white pubescence; remain of legs with silvery to sericeous pubescence. Vertex, lower frons, gena, pronotum, and propleuron with silvery white to grey setae, those on gena and propleuron in particular long and dense. Head, pro-, meso- and metanota, and mesopleuron finely and densely punctate (frons narrowly impunctate and polished at midline). Collar finely and transversely striate (Fig. 5C). Side of metanotum with several oblique striae. Metapostnotum also with several transverse striae, those being decurved posteromedially. Metapleuron and propodeum minutely reticulate-rugulose. HEAD. Broad and rhomboid (Fig. 5D), 1.1–1.2 × as broad as high. Vertex strongly convex above level of eye tops, chevron-shaped. Frons with median sulcus very fine only below. MID 0.62–0.66× as broad as head width. Antennocular line chevron-shaped between eyes (Fig. 5C). Inner orbits weakly emarginate above middle, as a whole divergent below (Fig. 5D). UID:MID:LID = 9.7–10.1:10:7.9–8.7. POD:OOD = 1:0.95–1.1. OOcD /POD = 0.80–1.2. Clypeus 1.5–2.0× as wide as long, its surface broadly raised medially; lateral margin oblique, apicolateral corner broadly rounded; apical rim very narrow, smooth and polished, not depressed; apical margin almost straight. Labrum almost truncate apically. Scape short, its apicomesal corner pointed (Fig. 5C). Scape:pedicel:fl1:fl2 = 9.2–12:2.7–4.2:10:11–12. Fl1 1.4–2.1 × as long as wide, 0.28–0.34 × UID. Flagellomeres crenulate (Fig. 5H). Gena, in dorsal view, more strongly receding posteriorly than in female (Figs 5C vs 3E), in profile, 0.2–0.3× as broad as eye. Uppermost part of occipital suture situated moderately deep below vertex crest (Fig. 5B). MESOSOMA. Pronotum with declivity almost vertical (Fig. 5G), somewhat concave; dorsum roundly narrowing anteriorly (Fig. 5C). Scutellum distinctly raised above level of mesoscutum (Fig. 5G). Metapostnotum 0.58–0.73× as long as metanotum at midline, depressed below level of metanotum but on same plane as propodeal dorsum, constricted strongly in front of propodeal spiracle and slightly medially (Fig. 5B). Propodeum with dorsum transversely convex above without median groove, rather strongly narrowing posteriorly; declivity distinctly and transversely rugulose medially. LEGS. Mid and hind tibiae with several minute spines dorsally. Longer spur of hind tibia 0.44–0.52 × hind tarsomere 1. All tarsal claws bifid. WINGS (Fig. 5E). FW marginal cell from wing tip by 0.64–0.76× its own length. SMC 2: SMC 3 = 1:0.79– 1.0 on vein M, 1: 0.81–1.1 on vein Rs. SMC 2 0.61–0.68 × as high as long, narrowed on vein Rs by 0.60–0.69 × its length on vein M, receiving cross-vein 1m-cu at its basal 0.38–0.47. SMC 3 0.69–0.85× as high as long, narrowed on vein Rs by 0.62–0.74× its length on vein M, receiving cross-vein 2m-cu at its basal 0.47–0.63, from outer wing margin by 1.6–2.1 × its own length. Cross-vein cu-a originating distal to point of separation of vein M+CuA by less than its own length. HW cross-vein cu-a originating distinctly distal to point of separation of vein M+CuA. METASOMA. Somewhat compressed dorsoventrally. Subgenital plate roughly rectangular (Fig. 5I); lateral margins subparallel, roundly narrowing subapically, truncate at apex. Genitalia: paramere, in lateral view (Fig. 5L), parallel-sided and arcuate, with long, dense setae on dorsal margin and minute, dense spinules on ventral margin, extending far beyond apex of digitus volsellaris (Fig. 5J–K); digitus volsellaris, in lateral view (Fig. 5L), strongly broadened apically with apical margin truncate, extending beyond apex of parapenial lobe (Fig. 5J–K); basal hooklet double; parapenial lobe broadened basally, gradually narrowing apically into slender lobe, slightly extending beyond apex of aedeagus (Fig. 5J–K); aedeagus inverted-spade-shaped, ending with rounded apex. Distribution South Asia (Sri Lanka).Published as part of Shimizu, Akira, Broad, Gavin, Yoshimura, Jin & Pitts, James P., 2022, First records of the spider wasps Ctenocerus Dahlbom and Paraclavelia Haupt from Asia, with discussions on the systematics of Ctenocerinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 101-131 in European Journal of Taxonomy 845 (1) on pages 109-115, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.845.1957, http://zenodo.org/record/725888
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