Species of Mimapsilopa from Brazil are reviewed with an emphasis on the fauna from southern Brazil, where six new species were discovered and herein are diagnosed and described. To facilitate identification of species, we have included a diagnosis of the tribe Discomyzini and of Mimapsilopa and have also provided an annotated key to the New World genera of the tribe. We have also provided photo...

Preembobracon zaldivarriveroni gen et sp. nov. from Brazil is described and illustrated. It belongs to the poorly known tribe Ypsistocerini for which biology, is only partly known and then only for the genera of nominal subtribe which are both associated with termite colonies. Preembobracon displays both derived and plesiomorphic character states relative to Embobracon the only other genus of i...

or hunting may be jointly organized, but collective life is based on collective decisions and not on formal roles and carefully differentiated functions. A &dquo;tribe&dquo; is a larger political community involving more than one residential unit. Walter limits the use of the term &dquo;tribe&dquo; strictly to what others have regarded as only one kind of tribal society-the stateless tribal soc...

This paper introduces GalaxyScope, a novel system to distinguish different interpretations of “truth” for different virtual tribes. It extracts the tribes from Wikipedia through analyzing its categories “Ideologies”, “Lifestyles”, and “Culture”, leading to tribes such as “capitalism”, “socialism”, and “liberalism”. It then calculates the most influential “tribe leaders” through their associatio...

An ethno botanical survey was undertaken to collect information from Yanadi tribe of Cheruvukattasangham, Kavali, Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Kavali is a part of Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt which is a Precambrian fold belt extending over 600 km along the east coast of India from the North of Cuttack in Orissa to Nellore in Andhra Pradesh. Yanadi tribe is most prevalent in this region...

The Neotropical species of the new tribe Dactylomyiini comprising the genera Argentinia PARENT, Dactylomyia ALDRICH, Macrodactylomyia gen. nov., and Systenoides gen. nov (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) are revised. Diagnoses and keys to genera and species are given. The species Argentinia bickeli spec. nov., Dactylomyia mexicana spec. nov., Macrodactylomyia magnicauda spec. nov., and Systenoides para...

Tribe Theeae, which includes some economically important and widely grown plants, such as beverage tea and a number of woody ornamentals, is the largest member of the Theaceae family. Using five genomic regions (chloroplast: atpI-H, matK, psbA5'R-ALS-11F, rbcL; nuclear: LEAFY) and 30 species representing four of the five genera in this tribe (Apterosperma, Camellia, Polyspora, and Pyrenaria s.l...

A new genus with five new species of the Tachinidae is described: Melastrongygaster gen. nov., M. atrata sp. nov. (type species) from Japan and South Korea, M. chaoi sp. nov. from China, M. fuscata sp. nov. from China, M. kambaitiana sp. nov. from Myanmar and M. orbitalis sp. nov. from Vietnam. Melastrongygaster belongs to the tribe Strongygastrini and the subfamilial position of the tribe is d...

Paralivatiella gen. nov., is described from China with P. serrata sp. nov. as the type species. It is placed in the delphacid tribe Eodelphacini of the subfamily Ugyopinae. Prolivatis gorochovi Emeljanov is recorded for the first time from China. The latter species is redescribed and illustrated. A checklist of Eodelphacini of the world and a key to all genera of this tribe is also provided.