Barinas guanenta sp. nov. is described from a cave in Santander, central Andes of Colombia. The new species recognized by the pedipalps and chelicerae entirely pale yellow without variegated pattern, areas I-IV with coloration pattern straight stylus penis. monotypic genus Vimina González-Sponga, 1987 synonymized , resulting virginis (González-Sponga, 1987) comb. New records piragua Ahumada-C. ...

The name Rodriguezia inconspicua, proposed as a replacement for Trichocentrum candidum, is homotypic synonym of the latter, well new combinations based on same name. genus Hybochilus, typified by reduced into synonymy under Trichocentrum. A combination, Leochilus candelariae, to accommodate species from Costa Rica. candelariae typified.

The second subspecies of Coladenia buchananii (de Nicéville, 1889), viz. Coladenia buchananii separafasciata Xue, Inayoshi & Hu, ssp. n., is discovered from south Jiangxi Province and west Fujian Province, southeast China. External and genital characters of both male and female of this new subspecies are illustrated and described. Coladenia neomaeniata Fan & Wang, 2006, syn. n. is proposed to b...

Howickia Richards 1951 is redefined to include all wingless or strongly brachypterous Sphaeroceridae in New Zealand as well as two newly described fully winged species, H. oliveri and H. lepidostylus. Biroina Richards 1973 is newly treated as a junior subjective synonym of Howickia. The following new flightless species are described from New Zealand: H. bicolor, H. cordata, H. exasperata, H. ha...

The New World species of Dohrniphora lacking large hind tibial setae are revised, with 139 species recognized, most from the Neotropical Region. Of these, 88 are described as new to science. New synonymies are as follows: D. denticulata Borgmeier is a junior subjective synonym of D. penicillata Borgmeier, D. caverna Disney and D. recurvata Borgmeier are both junior subjective synonyms of D. div...

The first record of Chlorophanus caudatus Fåhraeus, 1840 (Curculionidae: Entiminae, Tanymecini) from Western Siberia (Altaiskii Krai) is given. It the most north-eastern find this species. new synonym, var. simulans Faust 1897, syn. nov. to caudatus, established. distribution map, illustrations and redescription are presented.

The task of binary relation extraction in IE [3] is based mainly on high-frequent verbs and patterns. During the extraction of a specific relation from MEDLINE English abstracts, it is noticed that besides the high-frequent verb itself which represents the specific relation, some other word forms, such as the nominal and adjective forms of this verb, as well as its synonyms, also play a very im...

This paper describes the participation of ELiRF-UPV team at task 7 (subtask 2: homographic pun detection and subtask 3: homographic pun interpretation) of SemEval2017. Our approach is based on the use of word embeddings to find related words in a sentence and a version of the Lesk algorithm to establish relationships between synsets. The results obtained are in line with those obtained by the o...