In this paper, the type material of all five Japanese Paracis species (P. ijimai (Kinoshita, 1909), P. miyajimai pustulata (Wright and Studer, 1889), spinifera (Nutting, 1912), squamata 1910)), two Placogorgia japonica 1912) placoderma Pseudothesea foliata Aurivillius, 1931, genus Paracis, orientalis (Ridley, 1882) are re-examined re-described. The sclerites different depicted using scanning el...

The mirine plant bug genus Diognetus Distant, 1904 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae: Mirini) is revised. Eighteen Oriental and Eastern Palearctic species are properly assigned to the genus. Diplotrichiella Poppius, 1915, syn. nov. Yamatolygus Yasunaga, 1994, synonymized with Diognetus; accordingly following two new combinations, one substitute name synonymy proposed: flavigenis (Horvát...

After an absence of ≈200 years, chikungunya returned to the American tropics in 2013. The virus is maintained in a complex African zoonotic cycle but escapes into an urban cycle at 40- to 50-year intervals, causing global pandemics. In 1823, classical chikungunya, a viral exanthem in humans, occurred on Zanzibar, and in 1827, it arrived in the Caribbean and spread to North and South America. In...

A replacement name for Pterostichus (Anilloferonia) lanei (Hatch), 1935, is necessary because P. lanei (Hatch) is a secondary homonym of P. (Pseudoferonina) lanei Van Dyke, 1925. I have selected P. (A.) diana as this replacement name. Pterostichus (Anilloferonia) malkini (Hatch), 1953, was described from a single female collected in 1951. Since then five more specimens have been collected, incl...

Technical terms are linguistic realization of a domain concept and their constituents are a component used for representing the concept. Many technical terms are usually multi-word terms and their meaning can be inferred from their constituents. Because a term constituent is usually a morphological unit rather than a conceptual unit in Korean technical terms, we need to first identify conceptua...

Alcyonium rubrum Stokvis & van Ofwegen, 2006, an encrusting soft coral (Figure 1), was described from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean based on specimens collected during the Dutch CANCAP VII Expedition to the Cape Verde Archipelago (Stokvis and van Ofwegen 2006). This species was later reported from the Azores (Braga-Henriques et al. 2013). A review on the taxonomic literature of octocorals by the...

The Ciidae genus Anoplocis was established by Makoto Kawanabe (1996) based on the type species Ennearthron poriae Nakane & Nobuki, 1955 from Japan. Additionally, he described the Japanese species Anoplocis ryukyuensis Kawanabe, 1996. However, the name Anoplocis was previously proposed by Arthur M. Lea (1913) for a genus of true weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with its type species Anoploci...

Measures from event-related functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging tractography and cognitive performance in a language-based task were used to test the hypothesis that both functional and structural connectivity provide independent and complementary information that aids in the identification of network components most related to the neurobiological basis for language and cognitive processin...