Many traditional designs consist of some geometrical properties of symmetry, periodicity/repetition, recursion or cycle with an endless stroke, especially in Tamil Kolam, Celtic knots, African Sona, Vanuatu Nitus, Arabesque or Asian knot etc. People like to feel infinity, recurrency and dynamism especially of trace animation in these cycle patterns, and are attracted by such a fact that the pat...

Colomerus Newkirk & Keifer, 1971 is an eriophyid genus described by Newkirk and Keifer about 43 years ago, that contains species from all continents, except Antarctica. They live mostly on dicotyledonous plants. Colomerus novahebridensis Keifer, 1977 was described from coconut (Cocos nucifera L., Arecaceae) fruits from Vanuatu. A description of a Thai population of this species is given in this...

Two brachyuran species of the families Dynonemidae and Iphiculidae are reported from red coral beds in northern Taiwan. The dynonemid Acanthodromia margarita (Alcock, 1899) has hitherto been reported from the Andaman Sea, Japan, and Philippines and the species is here recorded for the first time from Taiwan. A new species of iphiculid, Pariphiculus stellatussp. n., is also described. The new Pa...