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Wallacea spectabilis Gestro 1897
No full textWallacea spectabilis Gestro, 1897 Wallacea spectabilis Gestro, 1897: 43 (original description); DONCKIER DE DONCEEL (1899): 552 (catalogue); WEISE (1911a): 54 (catalogue); WEISE (1911b): 82 (catalogue); GESTRO (1913): 45 (catalogue). Wallaceana spectabilis: UHMANN (1958): 231 (catalogue). Pistosia spectabilis: KIMOTO (2000): 145 (catalogue). Type locality. ‘Si-Rambé’ [= Indonesia, Sumatra, Sirambe, 02°16′N, 99°08′E, 1430 m a.s.l.]. Distribution. Indonesia: Sumatra (GESTRO 1897).Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2015, Wallacea, Pistosia and Neodownesia: three distinct genera and their tribal placement (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), pp. 713-743 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2) on page 737, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.530333
A statistical approach on respiratory and conjunctivitis diseases admitted to ERS at Cuneo and Bra Hospital (Italy). Correlation with environmental, bioclimatic and emergency room data
No full textLe onde di calore : profili epidemiologici, soggetti a rischio, problematiche e misure di sanità pubblica
No full textBiometeorologia e bioclimatologia medica: una nuova frontiera di ricerca
No full textThis paper traces the origins of Biometeorology and Medical Bioclimatology, from Hippocrates, through a slow evolutionary path, until the 70s of the last century. These disciplines, yet little known to the medical profession, are to be framed in the context of environmental sciences applied to epidemiology, with significant operational impacts in terms of prevention. After a brief description of the subject and climatic factors (variables), we draws a picture of the technical and scientific initiatives recently implemented especially by the WHO, and then explore the broad spectrum of scientific research, carried out especially in the last two decades, which have consolidated multiple knowledge. Finally, we examine briefly the meteorological event of Summer 2003 as a specific case, its epidemiology and the consequent initiatives of Hygiene and Public Health developed by Italy and other countries
Promeces puncticollis GESTRO 1895
No full text<i>Promeces puncticollis</i> GESTRO 1895 <p>M a t e r i a l:9 3 Arba Minch, 1300-1500 m, 16.IV.-3.V.2001 und 1440 m, 21.-30.X.2003, R. Beck leg.</p> <p>V: V: Äthiopien, Eritrea (ADLBAUER 1999a).</p>Published as part of <i>Adlbauer, K., Ayalew, Amare, Beck, R. & Drumont, A., 2008, Cerambyciden aus Äthiopien (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 1153-1191 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2)</i> on page 1168, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5430603">10.5281/zenodo.5430603</a>
Therates concinnus Gestro 1888
No full text12. Therates concinnus Gestro (Fig. 89) Therates concinnus Gestro 1888: 105, 106. Therates chennelli concinnus. Horn 1910: 194; Fowler 1912: 298; Horn 1926: 113; Heynes-Wood and Dover 1928: 42, 43. Therates concinnus. Fleutiaux 1892: 134; Wiesner 1988: 15, f. 61, 297, 394; Wiesner 1992: 89; Cassola and Klícha 2002: 38. Type depository. Holotype female in MSNG. Type status. Holotype male! Type labels:“ Tenasserim, Thagatà, Fea. Apr. 1887 ” [printed, with black borders]; “ concinnus Gestro ” [handwritten, with black borders]; “Typus” [printed, letters red, borders red]; “Holotypus, Therates concinnus Gestro 1888 ” [printed and handwritten, red]. Therates differens Sawada and Wiesner 1999a: 32 - 35, f. 5, 6, 11, new synonymy. Therates differens. Sawada and Wiesner 2000a: 63; Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 81; Cassola 2004: 23, 25; Sawada and Wiesner 2004: 261; Sawada and Wiesner 2006b: 452. Type depository. Holotype male in JWGC, paratypes in JWGC and ZSMC. Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ LAOS north, 5-11.v.1997, 20 km NW Louang Namtha, N21°09.2, E101°18.7, alt 900± 100 m, E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, white, with yellow borders]; “HOLOTYPUS, THERATES, differens, Sawada and Wiesner ” [printed, red]. Paratype males! and females! Type labels: “ LAOS north, 5-11.v.1997, 20 km NW Louang Namtha, N21°09.2, E101°18.7, alt 900± 100 m, E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg.” [printed, white, with yellow borders]; “PARATYPUS, THERATES, differens, Sawada and Wiesner ” [printed, red]. Paratype males! and females! Type labels: LAOS, Louang Namtha pr., 21°09’N, 101°19’E, Namtha Muang Sing, 5-31.v.1997, 900- 1200m, Vit Kubá leg. [printed]; PARATYPUS, THERATES, differens, Sawada and Wiesner [printed, red]. Nomenclatural note. A male of waagenorum from Myanmar, preserved in MSNG, bears the label “ Therates concinnus Gestro, 1888, teste R. Gestro, 1893” and was the specimen upon which Wiesner (1988:15, f. 61, 297, 394) erroneously based his concept of Therates concinnus. After carefully studying the type of Th. concinnus Gestro on loan from MSNG, I determined that Therates differens, as described by Sawada and Wiesner (1999) is conspecific with Th. concinnus, and thus place it into synonymy herein. Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of elytral maculation with large angular shaped central dot, confluent humeral lunule and basal dot. Description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 7.2 mm- 9.1 mm, (mean=8.1, n=88). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 97, female Fig. 98) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in female, somewhat longer in the male, scape with a single apical bristle, antennomeres 2 to 5 glabrous, antennomeres 6 to 11 finely and evenly pubescent; scape yellowish above, black on underside, all the other antennal segments brownish. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth with one shallow bump in the middle between and two shallow bumps in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, as long as wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete, middle line with several transverse short branches. Elytra: Shining brownish black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical half (Fig. 90). Apex with roundish lateral corner and a sutural tooth, recurved between. Maculation composed of a brownish yellow humeral lunule, a brownish yellow basal dot, a large yellow horizontal central dot with angular shape, and a light yellow apex reaching the apical humps (Figs. 91-95). The humeral highly variable, often connected to the basal dot. In rare instances the humeral lunule is connected to the central dot at the middle of the suture. Ventral aspect: Venter black, ventrites with small brownish lateral margin. Legs yellowish, femora, tibiae and tarsomeres of metathoracic legs somewhat darker distally. Aedeagus: (Fig. 96) curved, with pin shaped and produced tip, total length 1.8 mm. Distribution. Myanmar (Tanintharyi = Tenasserim), Thailand (Chiang Mai), Laos (Phongsali Louangnamtha, Bokeo, Oudomxai, Louangphrabang, Houaphan), Vietnam (Lao Cai, Hoa Binh, Nin Binh). Localities. LAOS, Louang Namtha, Namtha Muang Sing, 5-31.v.1997, 900- 1200 m (JMCC), Louang Phrabang, 5 km W Ban Song Cha, 24.iv.-16.v.1999, ± 1200 m (JWCG), Bokeo, Nam Kan NPA, Ban Toup env., 500-600 m, 3.-7.v.2012 (NHMB), Houaphan, Ban Saleui, Phou Pan Mt., 26.iv.-11.v.2001, 1500 - 2000 m (OSCC), Oudomxai, 17 km NEE Oudom Xai, 1.-9.v.2002, ~ 1100 m (JWCG), Phongsaly, Phongsaly env., 6.-17.v.2004, ~ 1500 m (JWCG); THAILAND, Chiang Mai, Ang Khang region, 2.-7.v.2009, 1600 ± 100 m (NHMB); VIETNAM, Hoa Binh, 5 km W of Tan Son, 21.-23.iv. 2010, 938 m (HNHM), Ninh Binh, Cuc Phuong N. Park, 440 m, 24.iv.-28.iv.2012 (HSJC).Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, 2013, The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae, pp. 1-86 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (315) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517698
Bioclimatic and environmental research on some ophthalmology diseases admitted to ERS at Cuneo, Alba, Bra, Milan and Valtellina Hospitals (Italy). A statistical approach
No full textMeteorological factors, air pollutants, and emergency department visits for otitis media: a time series study
No full textP>Otitis media (OM) is a very common disease in children, which results in a significant economic burden to the healthcare system for hospital-based outpatient departments, emergency departments (EDs), unscheduled medical examinations, and antibiotic prescriptions. The aim of this retrospective observational study is to investigate the association between climate variables, air pollutants, and OM visits observed in the 2007-2010 period at the ED of Cuneo, Italy. Measures of meteorological parameters (temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind) and outdoor air pollutants (particulate matter, ozone, nitrous dioxide) were analyzed at two statistical stages and in several specific steps (crude and adjusted models) according to Poisson's regression. Response variables included daily examinations for age groups 0-3, 0-6, and 0-18. Control variables included upper respiratory infections (URI), flu (FLU), and several calendar factors. A statistical procedure was implemented to capture any delayed effects. Results show a moderate association for temperature (T), age 0-3, and 0-6 with P < 0.05, as well as nitrous dioxide (NO2) with P < 0.005 at age 0-18. Results of subsequent models point out to URI as an important control variable. No statistical association was observed for other pollutants and meteorological variables. The dose-response models (DLNM-final stage) implemented separately on a daily and hourly basis point out to an association between temperature (daily model) and RR 1.44 at age 0-3, CI 1.11-1.88 (lag time 0-1 days) and RR 1.43, CI 1.05-1.94 (lag time 0-3 days). The hourly model confirms a specific dose-response effect for T with RR 1.20, CI 1.04-1.38 (lag time range from 0 to 11 to 0-15 h) and for NO2 with RR 1.03, CI 1.01-1.05 (lag time range from 0 to 8 to 0-15 h). These results support the hypothesis that the clinical context of URI may be an important risk factor in the onset of OM diagnosed at ED level. The study highlights the relevance of URI as a control variable to be included in the statistical analysis in association with meteorological factors and air pollutants. The study also points out to a moderate association of OM with low temperatures and NO2, with specific risk factors for this variable early in life. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings, particularly with respect to air pollutants in larger urban environments
Nupserha gahani GESTRO 1895
No full text<i>Nupserha gahani</i> GESTRO 1895 <p>M a t e r i a l:1 2 Arba Minch, 1300-1500 m, 21.-30.X.2003, R. Beck leg.</p> <p>V: Soweit bekannt ein Endemit Äthiopiens (BREUNING 1958).</p>Published as part of <i>Adlbauer, K., Ayalew, Amare, Beck, R. & Drumont, A., 2008, Cerambyciden aus Äthiopien (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 1153-1191 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2)</i> on page 1183, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5430603">10.5281/zenodo.5430603</a>
Cossyphodes raffrayi Gestro 1874
No full textCossyphodes raffrayi Gestro, 1874 (Fig. 21) Examined type material. None. New material. Ethiopia (labelled as Abyssin.), 3 ex. ZFMK (coll. Reichensperger).— Yemen (labelled as W Aden Prot.), Dhala, 4800 ft. (1460 m), 14.IX. 1937, leg. H. Scott & B. M. Britton, 2 ex. BMNH (det. Basilewsky).— Tanzania (labelled as Africa or.), Katona, Shirati, 1909, 5 ex. HNHM (det. Basilewsky).— Tanzania, Arusha, 1350 m, 8.III. 1960, leg. Szunyoghy, 2 ex. HNHM (det. Basilewsky). Remarks. Obviously, this species reaches also the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen. Unfortunately, this record was unknown when treating the Arabian fauna (Schawaller et al. 2011). Type locality. " Abyssinie ". Distribution. Ethiopia (Reichensperger 1913); Yemen, Tanzania (new records).Published as part of Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2013, Cossyphodini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) in South Africa, Namibia and adjacent regions: New species and records, key to genera, and Old World species catalogue, pp. 351-364 in Zootaxa 3721 (4) on page 359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3721.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/24774
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