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Aphanogmus cecidovorus Ranjith & Ayiswarya & Niveditha & Priyadarsanan 2023, sp. n.
No full text<i>Aphanogmus cecidovorus</i> Ranjith sp. n. <p>(Figures 2–3)</p> <p> <i>Type material</i></p> <p> Holotype, female, INDIA: Kerala, Malappuram, Calicut University Campus, collected 5 March 2023, emerged 15 March 2023, from leaf galls of <i>Pongamia pinnata</i> induced by <i>Aceria pongamiae</i>, coll. B. Niveditha and S.V. Ayiswarya. Paratypes, 3 females with same data as holotype (AIMB).</p> <p> <i>Description</i></p> <p>FEMALE. Body length 0.8 mm, forewing 0.4 mm.</p> <p> <i>Head</i></p> <p> Head 1.6 × as wide as long in dorsal view (Figure 2D), 1.2 × as wide as mesosoma (Figure 2B); POL: OOL: LOL = 3.5: 1.0: 2.0. Head 1.1 × as wide as high in frontal view (Figure 2C); malar space 0.6 × as long as eye height; lateral margin of torulus distinctly raised (Figure 2C); intertorular carina indistinct (Figure 2C); frontal depression granulate (Figure 2D); ocellar foveae present (Figure 2D); preocellar pit present (Figure 2D); facial pit absent (Figure 2D); preoccipital furrow present and extending from anterior ocellus to occipital foramen (Figure 2B); preoccipital carina present (Figure 2B,F); preoccipital lunula present (Figure 2B,F); occipital carina present (Figure 2B,F); occipital depression absent (Figure 2B,F); occiput faintly sculptured (Figure 2B,F). Antenna 10-merous (Figure 2E); scape about 0.7 × as long as height of head, as long as distance between inner orbits; pedicel 2.5 × as long as flagellomere 1; the following flagellomeres gradually widened (Figure 2E); flagellomere 7 about 4.0 × as wide as flagellomere 1; club 1 merous (Figure 2E). <i>Mesosoma</i></p> <p>Mesosoma 1.1 × as long as wide (Figure 2A); 1.3 × as high as wide; ventral pronotal pit indistinct (Figures 2A and 3A); mesoscutum granulate, sparsely setose (Figure 2B,F); setal base slightly pustulate (Figure 2B,F); median mesoscutal sulcus indistinct to absent (Figure 2B,F); notaulus absent (Figure 2B,F); parapsidal line absent (Figure 2B,F); interaxillar sulcus indistinct (Figure 2B,F); mesoscutal humeral sulcus distinct. Scutoscutellar sulcus straight, shallow, continuous with interaxillar sulcus (Figure 2B,F); dorsal axillar area and mesoscutellum sculptured as mesoscutum, with distinct lateral carina that connects posterior mesoscutellar sulcus (Figures 2B,F and 3C); mesoscutellum 1.3 × as long as wide (Figure 2B,F); anterior mesopleural sulcus distinct (Figures 2A and 3A); mesopleural area finely reticulate anteriorly with several setae (Figures 2A and 3A); dorsal mesometapleural carina slightly curved (Figures 2A and 3A); intersection of anterior mesopleural sulcus and dorsal mesometapleural carina forms obtuse angle (Figures 2A and 3A); metapleural carina distinct, extends near dorsal mesometapleural carina (Figures 2A and 3A).</p> <p> <i>Wings</i></p> <p>Forewing about 2.7 × as long as wide, with a darkly pigmented band central two-third (Figure 3D); radial vein 1.8 × as long as marginal vein (Figure 3D).</p> <p> <i>Legs</i></p> <p>Metacoxa bare dorsally (Figure 3A); longitudinal metacoxal carina present at base (Figure 3A); meta femur 2.5 × as long as wide.</p> <p> <i>Metasoma</i></p> <p>Syntergum with distinct transverse carina anteriorly, as long as wide, smooth, occupying 0.6 × total length of metasoma (Figures 2B,F and 3C); syntergum with short longitudinal striae (Figures 2B,F and 3C).</p> <p> <i>Colour</i></p> <p>Body yellow except scape, basal flagellomeres, mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, forewing medially, syntergum subposteriorly brown.</p> <p> <i>Male</i></p> <p>Unknown.</p> <p> <i>Distribution</i></p> <p>India (Kerala).</p> <p> <i>Biology</i></p> <p> Reared from <i>Microdiplosis pongamiae</i> Mani, which feeds on the gall mite <i>Aceria pongamiae</i> Kieffer.</p> <p> <i>Etymology</i></p> <p>The species is named after the peculiar host association as it parasitises the cecidomyiid which feeds on the gall-inducing mites.</p> <p> <i>Comparative diagnosis</i></p> <p> This new species belongs to the <i>tenuicornis</i> (<i>sensu</i> Evans <i>et al</i>. 2005) species group in having the mesoscutum without a median sulcus, and the metasoma with a basal transverse carina. Currently, there are only three species known to be associated with acariphagous cecidomyiids (<i>A. floridanus</i>, <i>A. fulmeki</i> and <i>A. flavigastris</i>). Among these, only <i>A. floridanus</i>, which also belongs to the <i>tenuicornis</i> species group, shows some resemblance to <i>A. cecidovorus</i> sp. n. Based on the character combination of the <i>tenuicornis</i> species group, we can exclude the other two species. Furthermore, the new species can be distinguished from <i>A. fulmeki</i> and <i>A. flavigastris</i>, by its distinct body colour pattern. In addition to the differences in general body colour, and colour of antennae and legs, the new species can be distinguished from <i>A. floridanus</i> from the positioning of the transverse band on the forewing, which extends from subbasally to the basal half of the radial vein (transverse band present before marginal vein in <i>A. floridanus</i>); the distinctly curved radial vein (straight in <i>A. floridanus</i>), which is 1.8 × as long as the marginal vein (1.5 × in <i>A. floridanus</i>); and metasoma 1.4 × as long as mesosoma (metasoma not longer than mesosoma in <i>A. floridanus</i>).</p>Published as part of <i>Ranjith, A. P., Ayiswarya, S. V., Niveditha, B. & Priyadarsanan, D. R., 2023, A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India, pp. 1963-1971 in Journal of Natural History 57 (41 - 44)</i> on pages 1965-1968, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2023.2279237, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10478540">http://zenodo.org/record/10478540</a>
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Isolation and Characterisation of Carotenogenic Bacteria from Marine Environment
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
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
Isolation of Proteins from Aged Garlic Extract (AGE) and their Effect on Lymphocytes and Macrophages
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Nutraceutical Properties of Wellness Rice Flour.
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
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No full textCan archives of audiovisual TV interviews be used to make authors more visible to students, and thereby reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers in college classes? We examined students in a college course who learned about one scholar's ideas through watching an audiovisual TV interview (i.e., visible author format) and about another scholar's ideas through reading a formal text description (i.e., invisible author format). For the invisible author, native language speakers scored significantly higher than the non-native language speakers on a corresponding exam question (i.e., a cognitive measure), generated more words on the exam question (i.e., a motivational measure), and mentioned the author's name more often in answering the exam question (i.e., an affective measure). For the visible author, the groups did not differ on any of these measures. These findings provide evidence for the idea that making the author visible through audiovisual TV interviews can eliminate the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers. 3 Universities around the world serve students who are non-native speakers of th
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
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