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Crambus proteus Bassi & Mey 2011
No full textCrambus proteus Bassi & Mey, 2011 Crambus proteus Bassi & Mey, 2011: 242, figs 297-299, pl. 36, fig. 8. HOLOTYPE: TMSA; 3; [RSA, Western Cape] Knysna, C [ape] P[rovince], Garden of Eden, 16-20.I.1955, A. J. T. Janse legit (not dissected). PARATYPES: RSA, Western Cape. – CB; 13, 2♀♀; same data as holotype. – SAM; 2♀♀; Cape Town, Table Mt., II.1919, K. Barnard legit. – TMSA; 333, 3♀♀; Cape Town, III.1912, Lord Gladstone legit. – TMSA and CB; 13, 2♀♀; Cape Town, IV.1912, Lord Gladstone legit; GS 3757 GB. – TMSA; 13; Swellendam, 9.III.1980, Scoble & Kroon legit; GS 3578 GB. – TMSA; 1 3; Hogsback (32 27 CA), 24-25.II.1978, M. J. Scoble legit. – TMSA; 8 ♀♀; Deepwalls For. Res. nr Knysna, 17-21.II.1978, M. J. Scoble legit. – TMSA; 13; Tokai, 11.III.1956, CGC. Dickson legit; GS 3771 GB. – CB; 1♀; Kogelberg, Nature Reserve, 14- 21.III.1983, Kroon & Molekane legit; GS 3753 GB. – MFNB and CB; 1133, 5♀♀; Stellenbosch, Assegaibosch N. R., 25.III.2009, LF, W. Mey legit; GS 5193 and 5210 GB. – RSA, Eastern Cape. – Kroon Collection; 1♀; Zingcuka Forest, Mt. Fletcher Dist., 28.XI.1976, D.M. Kroon legit. REMARKS: This is the correct type series. Crambus proteus has two closely related species (Bassi, 2012): C. attis Bassi and C. rossinii Bassi. They are characterized by their similar external appearance and genitalia of both sexes, C. proteus usually differing in the more ochreous tinge of the dark scales in forewings, in male genitalia the gnathos is only slightly longer than the uncus, the tegumen is S-shaped, the costal process of the valva is stronger and longer, the tip of the phallus is longer, and in female genitalia the lateral processes of the sterigma are pointed as opposed to rounded in C. attis and elongate in C. rossinii.Published as part of Bassi, Graziano, 2013, Notes on some Old World Prionapterygini Landry, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Crambinae), with descriptions of new species, pp. 131-160 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (1) on pages 158-159, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.611854
Atteone; Attivo
No full textL’Enciclopedia Giordano Bruno è costituita da 1200 voci. Simonetta Bassi ne ha redatte 70, per un totale di pp. 147 formate ciascuna da due colonne
54esima Biennale di Venezia - Padiglione della Repubblica di San Marino
No full textTitolo del progetto: "Luce In-azione"
Artisti: Dorothee Albrecht, Marco Bravura, Cristian Ceccaroni, Daniela Comani, Ottavio Fabbri, Verdiano Manzi, Patrizia Merendi, Omar Paolucci, Cristina Rotondaro, Lars Teichmann, Thea Tini, Daniela Tonelli, Paola Turroni
Commissario: Leo Marino Morganti.
Curatore: Valerio Pradal
Comitato scientifico e di selezione delle opere:
A. Bassi
F. Cavallari
M. Comoglio
L. Guerrini
M. G. Riva
R. Stih
C. Tartarin
Mesolia meyi Bassi & I- 2013, sp. n.
No full textMesolia meyi Bassi sp. n. Figs 3, 4, 15, 22, 37 HOLOTYPE:: 1- ‘3’; 2- NAMIBIA | Popa Falls [18°07’S 21°35’E] | Okawango river | 23-24.XI.1993 | Mey & Ebert legit’; 3- ‘GS-3964-GB’; 4- ‘ HOLOTYPE | Mesolia | meyi Bassi’. Deposited in MFNB. FIGS 5-8 Adults of Prionapteryx spp. (5) P. albimaculalis (Hampson), female, RSA. wingspan 25 mm. (6) P. plumbealis (Hampson), male, Namibia, wingspan 23.5 mm. (7) P. amathusia Bassi & Mey, male paratype, Namibia, wingspan 23 mm. (8) P. eberti sp. n., female paratype, Namibia, wingspan 26 mm. PARATYPES: BOTSWANA. – CB; 13; Maun, 19°56’S 23°30’E, 957 m, 1-2. XII.2010, lux, G. Bassi legit; GS 5321 GB, CB. – NAMIBIA. – MFNB, MHNG and CB; 833, 8♀♀; same data as holotype, GS 5324 GB. ETYMOLOGY: The new species is named in honour of Wolfram Mey of the MFNB, whose field expeditions in Southern Africa greatly helped to improve our knowledge of African Lepidoptera. DIAGNOSIS: Mesolia meyi flies along with M. uniformella Janse, 1922. The two share a similar wingspan, but the ground color of M. meyi is whitish black in males and dark brown in females (Figs 3, 4), compared to the uniformly brown spotted with greyish and dark brown of M. uniformella (Fig. 2). Male genitalia of M. meyi (Fig. 22) can be distinghuished from those of M. uniformella (Fig. 23) by the longer coremata and valvae, more crested tip of the uncus and more slender cornutus. In the female genitalia M. uniformella (Fig. 38) can be distinguished by the asymmetrical bilobed corpus bursae. DESCRIPTION (Figs 3-4): Wingspan: holotype 18 mm; males 17-21 mm; females 18-23 mm. Labial palpi 3 x longer than widest diameter of compound eye, white basally, blackish brown in proximal half, then with white patch and blackish tip; long scales brown. Maxillary palpi brown irrorated white and tipped with black. Frons conical, clearly produced, concave tip with irregular margin with two small teeth; white basally and brown distally in males, whitish with brown and blackish irroration in females. Male antennae serrate, ochreous brown in basal half and brown distally, with costa white. Female antennae simple, ochreous brown with costa concolorous and lightly annulated with black. Ocelli fully developed. Chaetosemata moderate. Head, patagium, tegulae, and thorax tricolored white brown and black, clearly lighter in males. Abdomen greyish white suffused brown, with first four tergites orange yellow. Legs white with tarsomeres white annulated brown; tibial spurs white, delicate. Forewings with well-defined hook; males with ground color white with dark brown and brown irroration; apex with s-shaped ochreous brown speckling and dark brown apical dot; median fascia ill-defined, black and brown; dorsally with black brown patch at 0.3; terminal line partial, brown; fringes with both short and long scales white tipped with black from apex to hook, from hook to tornus short scales white suffused pale yellow and long scales white except immediately below hook, white with black tip. Male hindwings white, distally suffused black, with terminal line near tornus black, thick; fringes with short scales pale yellow and long scales white. Female wings decidedly darker; forewings ground color brown to dark brown, with irregular whitish irrorations except for whitish costal patch at 0.7 and, below hook, whitish suffused dark brown subterminal area, with two terminal dots; dark brown apical dot always visible, as in males; fringes white and black above hook, black and golden brown at hook and golden brown and whitish below hook. Female hindwings dark brown suffused golden brown, paler basally; fringes whitish, with short scales tipped with blackish. Sclerotizations of male abdominal segment VIII as shown in figure 22. Coremata (Fig. 15) double, 0.7 length of valva, flat, with upper structure large and arched and ventral structure larger and L-shaped. FIGS 9-12 Adults of Prionapteryx spp. (9) P. triplecta (Meyrick), male, Democratic Republic of the Congo, wingspan 24 mm. (10) P. diaplecta (Meyrick), male, Kenya, wingspan 20 mm. (11) P. banaadirensis sp. n., holotype, wingspan 21 mm. (12) P. somala sp. n., holotype, wingspan 16 mm. MALE GENITALIA (Fig. 22): Uncus subcylindrical, curved; crest-like apical process broad, with few thickened setae. Gnathos 0.6 length of uncus, with pointed upturned tip. Tegumen subtriangular. Juxta cup-shaped. Pseudosaccus moderate. Valva elongated; cucullus rounded; costa more thickly sclerotized, without projections; sacculus moderately sclerotized. Phallus short, thickened; vesica with elongated cornutus at about half length of phallus. FEMALE GENITALIA (Fig. 37): Papillae anales thin, dorsally larger. Apophyses posteriores long and sclerotized. Abdominal segment VIII with subtriangular sclerotization and membranous sternite. Apophyses anteriores 1.4 longer than apophyses posteriores, with tiny attachment to abdominal segment, subtriangular enlargement at 0.1 from base, then narrow. Ostium bursae bulged, lightly sclerotized. Ductus bursae 0.44 length of corpus bursae, moderately sclerotized. Corpus bursae bilobed; proximal sac wrinkled, with long, narrow, longitudinally oriented striae, lightly slerotized and spiculated; distal sac delicately wrinkled, with ductus seminalis emerging at its tip. DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Namibia. REMARKS: In the original description of M. uniformella (Janse 1922:7) the paratypes from Umvuma are all females. However, I studied a male “cotype” (1591 TMSA) with the label “Umvuma, Rhod[esia], 20. XII.[19]17, A.J. T. Janse”. Thus, it seems that one of the two paratypes cited as females was in fact a male. M. uniformella is distributed in Botswana, Namibia, RSA, and Zimbabwe.Published as part of Bassi, Graziano, 2013, Notes on some Old World Prionapterygini Landry, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Crambinae), with descriptions of new species, pp. 131-160 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (1) on pages 136-140, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.611854
Il filo di Arianna. Idee su Ferrara
No full textIl testo raccoglie un lavoro di ricerca sul senso del progetto che si sviluppa attorno alle potenzialità di nuova architettura pensate per la città di Ferrara: l’occasione è offerta dalla disponibilità di grandi volumi abbandonato da recuperare a nuove destinazioni e, in questo caso, ripensare nuove funzioni porta alla volontà di interrogarsi attorno al senso del costruire nella contemporaneità anche all’interno della città storica.
Nel primo capitolo si riflette pertanto attorno al rapporto tra città consolidata – Ferrara, nello specifico – e progettualità contemporanea, riprendendo il titolo del testo per ragionarvi attorno.
Il secondo capitolo presenta una risposta agli interrogativi tracciati nel primo presentando il lavoro di un maestro olandese, in cui si concretizzano invenzione architettonica, innovazione tecnologica ed alti livelli di prestazioni ambientali relative al buon ascolto della musica in un mix straordinario concepito all’interno di edilizia storica.
Nel terzo capitolo si delineano i passaggi e le tendenze dell’innovazione tecnologica nell’edilizia civile, possibile stimolo per elaborazioni spaziali ed elevati livelli prestazionali una volta impossibili da raggiungere.
Tre interviste ad operatori del mondo della produzione riportano i dati e le informazioni tecniche acquisite nel corso della ricerca: vi sono trattati alcuni aspetti particolari inerenti l’utilizzo del vetro curvo e dei compositi in resine e fibre nelle costruzioni e l’impiego di sistemi di movimentazione per il raggiungimento di diversi gradi di flessibilità tipologica.
L’ultima parte del libro presenta i risultati di un lavoro ricerca progettuale condotta con laureandi sullo stimolo di organismi edilizi e luoghi all’aperto della città estense: la Rotonda Foschini, il cortile del Palazzo del Vescovado, il giardino del Palazzo dei Diamanti, il teatro Verdi, S. Maria, S. Giovanni, altri spazi all'aperto della città
La fine di un’era? Suggestioni apocalittiche al tempo del Covid-19
No full textIn this chapter, the author explores, with introspective approach, the collective experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. The chapter seeks to provide an explanation for the paradox wherein, during the initial phase of the pandemic, citizens passively accepted the restrictions imposed by the government, which due to the lack of scientific evidence were generic and largely irrational, while in the second period, characterised by the availability of the vaccine, forms of rebellion were witnessed. The author explains the first situation by resorting to an analysis of symbolism and discursive figures used in public communication. For the second, he introduces insights from the conception of time and history of the Oromo people of Ethiopia, capable of elucidating the political paradigm shift experienced by the European Union during the pandemic period. The author then employs suggestions from the anthropological theory of incorporation to explain the public's reactions in terms of resistance
Afrocharltona oblongissima Bassi 2021, sp. n.
No full textAfrocharltona oblongissima sp. n. Figs 7, 9-11, 17-19 Material examined Holotype: Male; Botswana, Maun, 957 m, 1-2.xii.2010, 19°55’58S 23°30’61E, lux, G. Bassi legit, BC 92320 ZSM, GS 6245 GB, 41400 RCGB. Paratypes: Male; same data as holotype, Collezione Bassi, GS 5365 GB, RCGB. – Female; Zambia, Livingstone, Maramba River Lodge camp, 17°53’S 25°51’E, 900 m, 28.xi.2010, lux, G. Bassi legit, BC 92321 ZSM, GS 6230 GB, RCGB. – Female; Namibia, Ghaub Vall [ey], 7.i. [19]72, D. M. Kroon [legit], GS 5444 GB, TMSA. – Female; Namibia, Otavi, 5.i. [19]72, D.M. Kroon [legit], TMSA. Diagnosis: The yellow ground colour distinguishes A. oblongissima from A. katanga described below. The male genitalia are similar to A. katanga but the valva and apical thorn of the costal arm are longer and the phallus is without cornuti in the vesica. The female genitalia with lateral extension of medium length and thickness, with ductus seminalis originating nearby from ductus bursae are unlike every other species of the Ancylolomia complex. COI barcode sequence of the holotype BIN: BOLD:ADF2943 (658 bp): AACTTTATATTTTATTTTTGGAATTTGAGCAGGAATATT- AGGAACATCTTTAAGACTTTTAATTCGAGCTGAATTAG- GAAATCCTGGATCTTTAATTGGAGATGATCAAATTTATAATAC- TATTGTAACAGCTCATGCATTTATTATAATTTTTTTTATAGT- TATACCAATTATAATTGGTGGATTTGGTAATTGATTAGTC- CCTTTAATATTAGGAGCACCTGATATAGCTTTCCCCCG- TATAAATAATATAAGATTTTGATTACTACCTCCCTCTCTA- ACTCTTTTAATTTCCAGAAGAATTGTTGAAAATGGAG- CAGGTACTGGATGAACAGTGTACCCCCCACTTTCATC- C A ATAT T G C T C AT G G T G G A A G T T C T G TA G A C C TA G C - TATTTTTTCTTTACACTTAGCTGGAATTTCTTCTATTTTAG- GTGCTATTAACTTTATTACAACAATTATTAATATACGAATTA- ATGGGTTATCTTTTGATCAAATACCTTTATTTGTTTGATCTG- TAGGAATTACTGCTTTATTACTTTTATTATCATTACCTGTATT- AGCAGGAGCTATTACTATACTACTTACTGACCGAAATTTA- AATACATCTTTCTTTGATCCAGCAGGAGGAGGAGATCCAAT- TCTTTATCAACACTTATT Etymology: The name is derived from the Latin oblungus-a = very elongated, and refers to the shape of the valva in the male genitalia. Description (Fig. 7): Wingspan of holotype 29 mm; male paratype 34 mm, female paratypes 33 to 36 mm. Labial palpus 3 x as long as greatest diameter of eye, ochre brown tipped with white on outer side, creamy white on inner side. Maxillary palpus ochre brown tipped with white. Frons rounded, slightly produced, white to pale yellow. Antennae thin, serrate in male, simple in female, pale brown with silvery white costa. Vertex white. Patagia white to pale yellow. Tegulae and thorax pale yellow sprinkled with brown. Forewing slender, with rounded apex and termen oblique; ground colour pale grey yellow sprinkled with brown and black; veins marked with yellow; seven terminal dots; fringes white and silvery grey; underside grey yellow strongly suffused with dark brown. Hindwing pale golden yellow suffused greyish brown; terminal line brown; fringes paler than ground colour; underside pale golden yellow suffused with brown. Legs golden yellow; tibial spurs small. Abdomen golden yellow suffused with grey, paler in males; sternites pale yellow. Male genitalia. (Figs 10, 11). Uncus as long as gnathos, strongly bulged dorsally, with apex blunt and notched. Gnathos with pointed and slightly upcurved apex. Tegumen almost twice as long as uncus, narrow.Vinculum stout, subtriangular. Pseudosaccus subtrapezoidal, fused with juxta. Juxta broadly v-shaped. Valva extremely elongated, with rounded cucullus; costal arm slightly longer than valva, strongly sclerotized, with apical long and pointed thorn. Phallus with bent phallobase: vesica with minute scobinations. Female genitalia (Figs 17-19). Papillae anales subtriangular. Apophyses posteriores with lightly sclerotized basis and arms weakly arched.Abdominal segment VIII ventrally membranous and lightly sclerotized dorsally. Apophyses anteriores sub-triangular, shorter than apophyses posteriores. Ostium bursae large, semicircular, lightly sclerotized. Ductus bursae twice as long as corpus bursae, sub-conical, strongly sclerotized except at its beginning; extension at 0.5, just below origin of ductus seminalis, cylindrical, slightly shorter than corpus bursae, more or less sclerotized and wrinkled. Corpus bursae sub-oval, weakly wrinkled. Biology: Unknown. The adults from Botswana and Zambia were attracted to actinic artificial light in the riparian vegetation (Fig. 9). Distribution: Northern part of Southern Africa: Botswana, Namibia, South Zambia.Published as part of Bassi, Graziano, 2021, New genera and species of Afrotropical Ancylolomiini Ragonot, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae sensu lato: Crambinae), pp. 477-486 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (2) on pages 479-481, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0058, http://zenodo.org/record/564016
Time for a new deal between neurology and psychoanalysis
No full textNeurology, and medicine in general, is torn by opposing tensions: between universality, which is the goal of guidelines and protocols derived from clinical trials, and singularity, which personalized medicine seeks to understand. Centonze and Stampanoni Bassi argue that psychoanalysis could provide a bridge between these domains
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