513 research outputs found
Mauro Teixeira Jr, Francisco Dal Vechio, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, Antonio
No full textJr, Mauro Teixeira, Vechio, Francisco Dal, Sales Nunes, Pedro M., Neto, Antonio Mollo, Lobo, Luciana Moreira, Storti, Luis Fernando, Gaiga, Renato Augusto Junqueira, Dias, Pedro Henrique Freire, Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut (2013): Mauro Teixeira Jr, Francisco Dal Vechio, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, Antonio. Zootaxa 3646 (2): 200-200, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3646.2.1
FIGURE 5 in A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the western Brazilian Amazonia
No full textFIGURE 5. Detail of the forelimb of (A) Bachia scaea sp. nov. (MZUSP 103414), (B) B. dorbignyi (MZUSP 2063); (C) B. barbouri (MZUSP 46274); (D) B. trisanale abendrothii (MZUSP 3334); (E) B. t. vermiforme (MZUSP 46275); (F) B. peruana (MZUSP 51640); (G) B. bicolor (MZUSP 44957) (H) B. intermedia (MZUSP 40675).Published as part of Jr, Mauro Teixeira, Vechio, Francisco Dal, Sales Nunes, Pedro M., Neto, Antonio Mollo, Lobo, Luciana Moreira, Storti, Luis Fernando, Gaiga, Renato Augusto Junqueira, Dias, Pedro Henrique Freire & Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut, 2013, A new species of Bachia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the western Brazilian Amazonia, pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 3636 (3) on page 409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/22225
Coelho Neto Canibal: Pseudônimos shakespearianos e literatura licenciosa no Brasil (1890-1940) / Coelho Neto Cannibal: Shakespearean pseudonyms and licentious literature in Brazil (1890-1940)
No full textResumo: Este trabalho estuda a trajetória do pseudônimo shakespeariano Caliban, adotado pelo escritor Henrique Coelho Neto (1864-1934), em 1890, para veicular literatura licenciosa nos impressos. Acompanhamos o pseudônimo desde sua estreia até sua última aparição no mundo editorial na década de 1940. Para levar a cabo a tarefa, consultamos os livros publicados por Caliban e investigamos sua atuação na imprensa periódica por meio da consulta online dos jornais na Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira. Caliban foi um autor de sucesso e parte desse reconhecimento vinha da origem erudita de seu nome. O filtro shakespeariano era crucial para a aceitação dessa literatura nos circuitos letrados, mas muitos a consideravam como mera pornografia. A literatura de Caliban revela um Coelho Neto moderno, contestador e inovador que foi esquecido pela tradição crítica.Palavras-chave: Coelho Neto; William Shakespeare; Caliban; literatura licenciosa.Abstract: This work studies the trajectory of the Shakespearean pseudonym “Caliban”, adopted by writer Henrique Coelho Neto (1864-1934) in the 1890s to convey licentious literature in print. We follow the pseudonym from its debut until its last appearance in the publishing world in the 1940s. To carry out the task, we consulted the books published by Caliban and investigated his performance in the periodic press through online consultation of newspapers in the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira. Caliban was a successful author and part of that recognition came from the erudite origin of his name. The Shakespearean filter was crucial for the acceptance of this literature in literary circuits, but many considered it as mere pornography. Caliban’s literature reveals a modern, challenging and innovative Coelho Neto who has been overlooked by critical tradition.Keywords: Coelho Neto; William Shakespeare; Caliban; licentious literature
Megistops adiae Clark & Lillrose & Belo Neto 2013, new species
No full text<i>Megistops adiae</i>, new species <p>(Figures 18, 37, 45)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The large, apically truncate and bifurcate spur at the apex of each hind tibia is alone sufficient to distinguish this from all other chrysomelid species known to occur in the Cayman Islands. For specimens in which the position of the legs makes this character difficult to see, the large, nearly contiguous eyes, in combination with the greatly enlarged hind femora and essentially impunctate elytra, will also quickly enable identification. Similarly colored species of <i>Megistops</i> elsewhere in the West Indies are <i>M. bahamensis</i> Blake from the Bahamas, <i>M. parvula</i> Blake from Jamaica, and <i>M. tabebuiae</i> Blake from Cuba. In comparison with <i>M. adiae</i>, the elytral markings of well-marked specimens of <i>M. bahamensis</i> are less irregular in shape, and the aedeagus is much more arcuately broadened before the apex. The aedeagus of <i>M. parvula</i> is more similar to that of <i>M. adiae</i>, but the pale areas of the body are reddish brown instead of yellowish brown, the elytral markings are much smaller, the anterior marking sometimes being entirely absent, and the hind femora are pale (femora largely piceous in <i>M. adiae</i>, except for in the pale specimen from Grand Cayman). The aedeagus of <i>M. tabebuiae</i> is also similar to that of <i>M. adiae</i>, although Blake (1937) illustrated the sclerotized orificial covering as being much wider. The venter of <i>M. tabebuiae</i> is described as being yellowish or reddish brown. In <i>M. adiae</i>, the venter and hind femora are largely piceous (except for in the palely marked specimen from Grand Cayman).</p> <p> <b>Description of male.</b> Form elongate oval, narrower in front than behind; length 3.0 mm; width 1.7 mm. Head yellowish brown; pronotum yellowish, sometimes marked with vaguely indicated darker maculae; scutellum piceous; each elytron dark piceous with two large yellowish maculae, these sometimes narrowly connected; ventral areas dark brown; legs yellowish brown with hind femora largely darkened.</p> <p>Head with frontal tubercles small, well indicated, separated from each other by distinct sulcus. Frons below antennae flattened. Eyes very large, nearly contiguous above. Antennae filiform, narrowly separated by short ridge; antennomeres 1-3 yellowish brown; intermediate antennomeres dark piceous; distal one or two antennomeres yellowish brown; antennomeres 1 and 2 nearly glabrous; antennomeres 3-11 densely setose; basal antennomere largest, about three times as long as 2 or 3, which are shortest; antennomeres 4-11 subequal in length. Labrum, tip of mandibles, and distal portion of maxillary palpi largely piceous.</p> <p>Pronotum approximately half as long as wide, 0.25 times as long as elytra, 1.8 times as wide as head; shape convex, narrowing anteriorly, with slightly curved sides, with well-developed anterolateral tubercle, with basal margin slightly sinuous over scutellum; surface very finely, confluently punctate, rugulose; surface between punctures shining; color yellowish, sometimes with vaguely indicated darker maculae, three in basal half, two in anterior half. Scutellum small, triangular, piceous.</p> <p>Elytra 1.4 times as long as wide, 0.8 times as long as entire body. Shape smoothly convex, without depressions. Surface somewhat shiny, faintly alutaceous upon close inspection. Punctation extremely fine, nearly absent. Color of each elytron piceous with two large yellowish maculae, one in basal half and one in distal half, these maculae sometimes narrowly connected; basal macula somewhat oblique; margins of both maculae very irregular in shape.</p> <p>Ventral surface dark brown, with abdomen slightly paler. Legs yellowish brown, with coxae dark brown, with hind femora largely darkened; hind femora much enlarged, 1.8 times as long as wide; hind tibiae broadly channeled distally, with apical spur broad, apically truncate and bifurcate; basal tarsomere of all legs very broad. Terminal ventrite of abdomen with median lobe. Aedeagus as in Figure 37.</p> <p> <b>Description of female.</b> Form, size, and color similar to male, but differing as follows: length 3.1-3.2 mm; elytral pale markings either as in male, or more extensive, occupying most of disc, leaving only margins dark; hind femora either darkened as in male, or nearly entirely pale yellowish brown; basal tarsomere of all legs narrower; terminal abdominal ventrite apically rounded, without median lobe; spermatheca as in Figure 45.</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> <b>Holotype:</b> “CAYMAN, Cayman Brac, north shore bluff, 24 May 2009 R. Turnbow” (male, FSCA). <b>Paratypes:</b> Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, north shore bluff, 24-V-2009, R. Turnbow (1 male, BYUC; 1 female, RHTC); Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, Queen Elizabeth Botanical Garden, 28- V-2009, Thomas, Turnbow and Ball, blacklight trap (1 female, FSCA).</p> <p> <b>Plant associations.</b> Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species epithet of this taxon honors the grandmother of the third author.</p> <p> <b>Comments.</b> The specimen from Grand Cayman is much paler than the others. Even so, we believe that it belongs to the same species. Similar variability is known in other West Indian species of <i>Megistops</i>.</p>Published as part of <i>Clark, Shawn M., Lillrose, Tiffany & Belo Neto, Luiz A., 2013, Leaf Beetles of the Cayman Islands (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-41 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (279)</i> on pages 25-26, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5175767">10.5281/zenodo.5175767</a>
Issues of sustainability on the Brazilian broiler meat production chain.
Get PDFAbstract. Brazil is the world's largest broiler meat export. The sanitary control, knowledge and technology, as well as the natural aspects of the country are pointed as the key for the success of the product on the market. In this paper, an overview on the ammonia emission of the Brazilian broiler meat production chain from 2005 to 2010 is presented. The emission of ammonia was estimated on 700 thousand tons per year, which may implicate in the decay in the surrounding environment near the production areas. Brazilian broiler production creates jobs and has a significant social rule in Brazilian economy; however in the other hand, the implications of emitting this amount of ammonia to the atmosphere may be undesirable. Advances in developing new fodder technology are needed, in order to mitigate this issue.ID: 175 - APMS 2012
Effective Integrability of Lins Neto\u27s Family of Foliations
Get PDFA. Lins Neto presented in [Lins-Neto,2002] a -dimensional family of degree four foliations on the complex projective plane with non-degenerate singularities of fixed analytic type, whose set of parameters for which is an elliptic pencil is dense and countable. In [McQuillan,2001] and [Guillot,2002], M. McQuillan and A. Guillot showed that the family lifts to linear foliations on the abelian surface , where , and is a primitive 3rd root of unity, the parameters for which are elliptic pencils being . In [Puchuri,2013], the second author gave a closed formula for the degree of the elliptic curves of a function of . In this work we determine degree, positions and multiplicities of singularities of the elliptic curves of , for any given in algorithmical way implemented in Python. And also we obtain the explicit expressions for the generators of the elliptic pencils, using the Singular software. Our constructions depend on the effect of quadratic Cremona maps on the family of foliations .21 pages, 7 figure
Syphrea thurstonae Clark & Lillrose & Belo Neto 2013, new species
No full text<i>Syphrea thurstonae</i>, new species <p>(Figures 21, 38, 46)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> In this species, the hind femora are greatly enlarged, there is a well-developed prebasal groove on the pronotum, and the body is strikingly bicolored, the head and prothorax being orangebrown, the elytra being dark with metallic blue or green luster. This combination of characters does not occur in any other chrysomelid known to occur in the Cayman Islands. Elsewhere in the West Indies, this species is similar in size and color to <i>Syphrea constanzae</i> (Blake), a species from Hispaniola, but the elytra of that species are much more coarsely punctate.</p> <p> <b>Description of male.</b> Body oval, glabrous. Head, prothorax, and legs pale orange-brown; elytra dark brown to black with blue-green metallic luster; ventral areas of mesothorax pale orange-brown; ventral areas of metathorax and abdomen dark brown. Length 1.8 mm; width across humeri 1.0 mm.</p> <p>Head pale orange-brown, similar in color to pronotum; labrum, palpi, and basal half of antennae pale orange-brown; distal half of antennae darker brown; tips of mandibles piceous. Eyes separated by about 0.6 times width of head. Vertex impunctate, polished; frontal tubercles subtriangular, shallowly delimited laterally, deeply delimited behind, deeply delimited from frontal ridge; frontal ridge distinct and narrow posteriorly, broadly expanded laterally in clypeal area.</p> <p>Pronotum 1.4-1.6 times as wide as long, 1.6 times as wide as head across eyes, 0.7 times as wide as elytra across humeri; lateral margins each with well-defined bead; anterior and posterior margins without bead; antebasal groove deep, extending to posterolateral corners; disc polished, minutely punctate; color pale orange-brown. Scutellum subtriangular, brown.</p> <p>Elytra together 1.4 times as long as wide at humeri, 2.8-3.1 times as long as pronotum. Punctures fine, confused, separated by a distance about twice as great as their diameters. Interpunctural areas polished. Color dark brown to black with blue-green metallic sheen.</p> <p>Ventral areas of prothorax polished, of same color as dorsal areas of pronotum; prosternum between coxae about as wide as antennae; procoxal cavities broadly open behind; ventral areas of mesothorax alutaceous, pale orange-brown; metasternum dark brown without metallic luster, mesally polished and sparsely pubescent, laterally glabrous and alutaceous; metepisternum dark brown without metallic luster, glabrous, alutaceous; abdomen dark brown, alutaceous, sparsely pubescent. Legs slightly darker than prothorax; tarsal claws bluntly appendiculate. Aedeagus as in Figure 38.</p> <p> <b>Description of female.</b> Characters as in male, but with spermatheca as in Figure 46.</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> <b>Holotype:</b> “CAYMAN, Grand Cayman Mastic Trailhead S, bl trap 21 May 2009, Thomas, Turnbow & Ball” (male, FSCA). <b>Paratypes:</b> Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, Bight Rd. at Major Donald Dr., Brac Parrot Preserve, 23-V-2009, M. C. Thomas (8 females, FSCA); Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, Brac Parrot Reserve, 23-V-2009, R. Turnbow (1 female, BYUC; 1 female, RHTC); Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, Major Donald Dr., 0.6 km E jct. Ashton Reid Dr., 6-VI-2008, M. C. Thomas, B. K. Dozier, blacklight trap (1 male, FSCA); Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, 3 km W Colliers, 19°2l2 N, 81°072W, 21-II-1993, W. E. Steiner & J. M. Swearingen, at black light in cut-over forest near ponds (2 females, USNM); Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, Mastic Trailhead S, 21-V-2009, Thomas, Turnbow & Ball, bl trap (1 female, BYUC); Cayman Islands, Little Cayman, North Coast Rd., 26-V-2009, R. Turnbow (1 female, RHTC).</p> <p> <b>Plant associations.</b> Unknown. Related species are associated with Euphorbiaceae.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species epithet of this taxon honors the mother of the second author.</p> <p> <b>Comments.</b> As currently constituted, the genus <i>Syphrea</i> Baly, including the West Indian species formerly classified in <i>Hermaeophaga</i> Foudras, is a somewhat heterogeneous assemblage. The placement of Cayman Islands material in this genus does not necessarily indicate a close relationship with the type species, <i>S. pretiosa</i> Baly. It merely reflects a close similarity to several other West Indian species that are now included in the genus.</p>Published as part of <i>Clark, Shawn M., Lillrose, Tiffany & Belo Neto, Luiz A., 2013, Leaf Beetles of the Cayman Islands (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-41 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (279)</i> on page 28, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5175767">10.5281/zenodo.5175767</a>
Apraea luciae Clark & Lillrose & Belo Neto 2013, new species
No full textApraea luciae, new species (Figures 10, 34, 43) Diagnosis. The hind femora of this species are greatly enlarged, the large eyes are narrowly separated dorsally by a distance about equal to the width of the basal antennomere, and the rather coarse pronotal punctures are similar in size and density to those of the elytra. This combination of characters is not found in any other species of Chrysomelidae known from the Cayman Islands. Compared with A. priscilae (the only other species of the genus known from the Cayman Islands), the body is larger (4.3-5.2 mm, as opposed to 3.4-3.7 mm long), the color is dark brown instead of yellowish brown with dark elytral markings, the pronotal punctation is much denser and coarser, and the elytral punctation is coarser and arranged in rows only laterally and distally. Beyond the Cayman Islands, the large size, narrowly separated eyes, dark brown color, and confusedly punctate yet hardly costate elytra distinguish A. luciae from all other described species in the genus. Description of male. Body oval, dorsally glabrous; color dark brown; dorsal punctures deep, largely confused, with some of those on elytra tending to form poorly defined rows. Length 4.3 mm; width across humeri 2.3 mm. Head with eyes large, dorsally separated by slightly less than width of antennomere 1, separated by a distance about 0.1 times maximum width of head; color dark brown; longitudinal, distinctly elevated ridge present between eyes; frontal tubercles small, triangular; frontal ridge flat, narrow between antennae, broadly, triangularly expanded beyond antennae, with expanded area glabrous except distally; clypeal area shining, reflexed beyond level of frons, armed with transverse row of setae. Antennae pale brown, slender, extending to near middle of elytra, composed of eleven antennomeres; antennomere 1 elongate, curved, largely glabrous; antennomere 2 short, slightly longer than wide, largely glabrous; antennomeres 3-11 densely setose, subequal in length to each other, though antennomere 3 shorter and antennomere 11 longer than others. Labrum brown, slightly paler than frons, with four setae arranged in transverse row, with apical margin slightly bisinuate, therefore vaguely trilobed; mandibles piceous; maxillary and labial palpi pale yellow-brown. Pronotum 2.1 times as wide as long, 1.8 times as wide as head across eyes, nearly as wide as elytra at humeri; anterior margin with fine bead; lateral margins arcuate, each with well-defined carina; posterior margin bisinuate, with well-defined but fine bead; discal punctures coarse; interspaces appearing polished but upon close inspection vaguely alutaceous; color dark brown. Scutellum subtriangular, dark brown, in some specimens darker in lateral and posterior areas. Elytra together 1.4 times as long as width at humeri, 3.5 times as long as pronotum. Punctation of each elytron largely confused but tending to form rows, especially in lateral and distal areas; punctures deeply impressed to apex; humeral area largely impunctate. Interpunctural areas appearing polished, but upon close inspection minutely punctulate and very slightly alutaceous. Color dark brown. Ventral areas dark brown, similar in color to dorsum. Prothorax with hypomeron shining, glabrous; prosternum anterior to coxae short, about as long as width of antennomere 3; prosternal process between coxae about as wide as length of antennomere 3; procoxal cavities widely open behind. Ventral areas of mesothorax largely glabrous. Ventral areas of metathorax largely setose. Ventral areas of abdomen, pubescent, alutaceous; mesal area of last abdominal ventrite shallowly flattened, with dark brown fine mesal line, with apex of segment trilobed. Legs alutaceous, covered with setae, dark brown with tarsi paler; front and middle basitarsi distinctly broader than those of female; tarsal claws appendiculate. Aedeagus as in Figure 34. Description of female. Form and appearance similar to male, but with differences as follow. Pronotum twice as wide as long, 1.8 times as wide as head across eyes, 0.9 times as wide as elytra across humeri. Elytra together about 1.5 times as long as wide at humeri, 3.6 times as long as pronotum. Front and middle basitarsi distinctly narrower than those of male. Tip of abdomen rounded or slightly angulate, not trilobed; last abdominal ventrite not flattened and without dark mesal line. Spermatheca as in Figure 43. Length 5.2 mm; width at humeri 2.6 mm. Material examined. Holotype: “CAYMAN: Little Cayman. 3 km. SE Spot Bay, bl trap, 26 May 2009, Thomas, Turnbow & Ball” (male, FSCA). Paratypes: Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, Hemmington Rd., 8-VI-2008, M. C. Thomas, R. H. Turnbow, B. K. Dozier, blacklight trap (1 male, FSCA); Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, Hemmington Road at Songbird Drive, 24-V-2009, Thomas, Turnbow & Ball, blacklight trap (2 males, FSCA); Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, Major Donald Dr., 0.6 km E jct. Ashton Reid Dr., 5-VI-2008, R. Turnbow (1 male, RHTC); Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, Major Donald Dr., 0.6 km E jct. Ashton Reid Dr., 6-VI-2008, M. C. Thomas, R. H. Turnbow, B. K. Dozier, blacklight trap (2 females, FSCA); Cayman Islands, Cayman Brac, Major Donald Dr., 0.6 km E jct. Ashton Reid Dr., 7-VI-2008, R. Turnbow (1 female, RHTC); Cayman Islands, Little Cayman, North Coast Road, 0.1 km west Olivine Kirk Dr., 26-V-2009, Thomas, Turnbow & Ball, blacklight trap (4 males, 7 females, FSCA); Cayman Islands, Little Cayman, North Coast Rd., 0.1km W jct. Olivine Kirk Rd., 27-V-2009, Thomas, Turnbow & Ball, bl trap (1 male, 1 female, BYUC; 3 males, 5 females, FSCA); Cayman Islands, Little Cayman, 0.3 km SE Spot Bay, 26-V-2009, Thomas, Turnbow & Ball, bl. trap (2 males, 1 female, BYUC; 8 males, 6 females, FSCA). Plant associations. Unknown. Etymology. The species epithet of this taxon honors the mother of the third author. Comments. This genus is endemic to the West Indies. No doubt, many species are yet to be described.Published as part of Clark, Shawn M., Lillrose, Tiffany & Belo Neto, Luiz A., 2013, Leaf Beetles of the Cayman Islands (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-41 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (279) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517576
Apraea priscilae Clark & Lillrose & Belo Neto 2013, new species
No full text<i>Apraea priscilae</i>, new species <p>(Figures 11, 35)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The greatly enlarged hind femora, in combination with the color of each elytron (yellowish brown, with dark humeri and with an elongate, median dark marking beginning near mid-length and extending to near the base of the apical declivity), are sufficient to distinguish this species from all other chrysomelids known to occur in the Cayman Islands. Compared with <i>A. luciae</i> (the only other species of the genus known from the Cayman Islands), the body is smaller (3.4-3.7 mm, as opposed to 4.3-5.2 mm long), the color is mostly pale yellowish brown instead of dark brown, and the elytral punctation is finer and largely arranged in regular rows. Beyond the Cayman Islands, <i>A. priscilae</i> is quite similar to <i>Apraea anneae</i> Blake, a species from Jamaica. However, the pronotum of <i>A. priscilae</i> is shorter, and the posterior elytral marking is larger and elongate, as opposed to small (or absent) and nearly round. There are also slight differences in the aedeagi.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Body oval, dorsally glabrous; color light brown. Each elytron with dark brown circular spot on each humerus and with elongate dark brown medium macula behind middle; dorsal punctures deep, those on elytra arranged in slightly irregular rows. Length 3.4-3.7 mm; width across humeri 1.8 mm.</p> <p>Head light brown; eyes large, dorsally separated at nearest point by about half length of antennomere 1; vertex between eyes, convex; frontal tubercles small, triangular; frontal ridge flat, narrow between antennae, broadly, triangularly expanded beyond antennae; expanded area of frontal ridge concave, pubescent; clypeal area reflexed beyond level of frons. Antennae pale brown, slender, extending to near middle of elytra, composed of eleven antennomeres; antennomere 1 elongate, curved, shining, nearly glabrous; antennomere 2 short, globular, nearly glabrous; antennomeres 3-11 elongate, densely pubescent, each about half as long as antennomere 1. Labrum pale brown, with four setae arranged in transverse row, with apical margin truncate and straight; mandibles piceous; maxillary and labial palpi pale yellow-brown.</p> <p>Pronotum 2.0 times as wide as long, 1.8 times as wide as head across eyes, about as wide as elytra across humeri; anterior margin with fine bead; lateral margins arcuate, with strongly developed, carinate bead; posterior margin bisinuate, with well-defined but narrow bead; principal discal punctures well separated; interspaces minutely punctulate, appearing polished; color light brown. Scutellum subtriangular, pale brown.</p> <p>Elytra 3.5 times as long as pronotum. Principal punctures of each elytron deeply impressed to apex, arranged in ten slightly irregular rows plus short subscutellar row; humerus impunctate. Interpunctural area polished, with scattered fine punctures. Color pale brown with humerus dark brown, also with median, elongate, dark brown macula extending from near mid-length to base of apical declivity.</p> <p>Ventral areas brown, noticeably darker than dorsum; prothorax with hypomeron glabrous, shining; prosternum anterior to coxae short, about as long as width of antennomere 3; prosternal process separating coxae by distance slightly greater than width of antennomere 1. Ventral areas of mesothorax alutaceous, largely glabrous. Ventral areas of metathorax setose. Ventral areas of abdomen impunctate, shining, pubescent, alutaceous; mesal area of last abdominal sternite with dark brown fine mesal line, with apex of segment trilobed. Legs pale brown, alutaceous, sparsely setose on femora, densely setose on tibia; tarsal claws appendiculate. Aedeagus subtruncate near apex, with small median lobe at apex (Fig. 35).</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> <b>Holotype:</b> “CAYMAN IS: Grand Cayman Botanic Garden 9-VI-2008 M. C. Thomas, R. H. Turnbow, B. K. Dozier, blacklight trap ” (male, FSCA). <b>Paratype:</b> Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, Queen Elizabeth Botanic Garden, outside of entrance, 19-V-2009, M. C. Thomas, night beating (1 male, BYUC).</p> <p> <b>Plant associations.</b> Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species epithet of this taxon honors the sister of the third author.</p> <p> <b>Comments.</b> Although clearly belonging to the same genus, this species is quite different in appearance from <i>Apraea luciae</i> (see remarks in the above diagnosis).</p>Published as part of <i>Clark, Shawn M., Lillrose, Tiffany & Belo Neto, Luiz A., 2013, Leaf Beetles of the Cayman Islands (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-41 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (279)</i> on pages 19-20, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5175767">10.5281/zenodo.5175767</a>
Combined wind lidar and cloud radar for high-resolution wind profiling
No full textThis paper introduces an experimental setup for retrieving horizontal wind speed and direction profiles with a high temporal and vertical resolution for process studies and validation of convection-permitting model simulations. The CMTRACE (tracing convective momentum transport in complex cloudy atmospheres) campaign used collocated wind lidar and cloud radar measurements to retrieve seamless wind profiles from near the surface up to cloud tops. It took place in Cabauw, the Netherlands, between 13 September and 3 October 2021. The intermediate processing steps for generating the level 1 and level 2 data, such as second trip echoes filtering, offset correction, wind retrieval, re-gridding, and flagging, are described. In level 1 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6926483, Dias Neto, 2022a), the data from lidar and radars are kept in the original spatial and temporal resolution, while in level 2 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6926605, Dias Neto, 2022b), they are regridded to a common spatial and temporal resolution. Statistical analyses of the lidar's and radar's wind speed and direction profiles indicate a correlation higher than 0.95 for both variables. The bias of wind direction and speed calculated between radar's and lidar's observations are 0.24∘ and −0.16 m s−1, respectively. The foreseen initial application of the datasets includes the study of convective momentum transport and its validation in regional weather forecasts and large-eddy simulation hindcasts.Atmospheric Remote Sensin
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