Syntermes emersoni Grassé & Noirot 1949 is an available name of uncertain taxonomic status. It was published in a paper about the nest and biology of the African termite Sphaerotermes sphaerothorax (Sjöstedt 1911), with a brief description and a few illustrations (Grassé & Noirot 1949). The description is limited to the following words: "les mandibles du Syntermes emersoni n. sp. resemblent pas...

The genus Glyphipterix Hübner is reviewed in mainland China, with eight species and one subspecies treated. Glyphipterix semicircularis sp. nov., G. liui sp. nov., and G. miniata continentalis ssp. nov. are described as new to science. Glyphipterix gamma Moriuti et Saito, 1964, G. regula Diakonoff et Arita, 1976, and G. gemmula Diakonoff et Arita, 1976 are firstly recorded from mainland China. ...

The paper addresses problems of corpus building and retrieval resulting from codeswitching, which is a characteristic feature of endangered language recordings. The typical appearance of code-switching phenomena is first outlined on the basis of data collected in the DoBeS ‘ECLinG’ project, which dealt with three endangered Caucasian languages spoken in Georgia: Tsova-Tush (Batsbi), Udi, and Sv...

The scientific discussion on the comparison of conceptual models has mainly focused on existing modelling artefacts so far. Only minimal assumptions are made on the underlying modelling languages. However, we argue that if models are constructed with a particular type of language the model comparison process can be significantly simplified. For this purpose we introduce the class of operational...

Eryssamena was erected by Bates (1884) based on three species E. saperdina, E. acuta and E. spinidorsis, which Breuning (1977) recognised to be the same species: Eryssamena saperdina Bates, 1884. Although Eryssamena had been accepted as an independent genus for a long time, Kusama & Takakuwa (1984) and Hashimoto (2008) considered it as a subgenus of Rondibilis Thomson, 1857. Holzschuh (2003) tr...

The genus Stylidium (type species Turritella eschrichtii Middendorff, 1849, by original designation) was established by Dall (in Bartsch, 1907: 178) for a distinctive group of the gastropods in the Bittiinae (Cerithiidae) and remains in current active use (Houbrick, 1993; Bouchet & Rosenberg, 2013). However, the generic name Stylidium Eichwald (1855: 3) was established for a fossil coral prior ...

Wesenbergia Hartman, 1955 (Annelida, Hesionidae) is both preoccupied and a junior homonym of Wesenbergia Kryger, 1943 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae), and must be renamed. Elisesionenom. n. is proposed as a replacement name, derived from the combination of the first name of the discoverer, Elise Wesenberg-Lund, and Hesione Savigny in Lamarck, 1818. Elisesione mezianeisp. n., is described from the W...

The fossil genus Ironella Starostina & Krasnov (type species I. giseldonensis by original designation) was established (in Krasnov & Starostina 1970: 79) for distinctive scleractinian corals from Northern Caucasus of Russia (Northern Ossetia). However, Ironella Cobb (1920: 277), a living nematode (Adenophorea: Enoplida: Ironidae), preceded the fossil coral name, which becomes a preoccupied late...

Pseudofornicia gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) is described (type species: Pseudofornicia nigrisoma sp. n. from Vietnam) including three Oriental (type species, Pseudofornicia flavoabdominis (He & Chen, 1994), comb. n. and Pseudofornicia vanachterbergi Long, (nom. n. for Fornicia achterbergi Long, 2007; not Fornicia achterbergi Yang & Chen, 2006) and one Australian species (Ps...