— New synonymies and new data affecting North American Pityophthortis are proposed as follows: chalcoensis Hopkins { = herrerai Hopkins) and nigricans Blandford ( = chiapensis Bright). Neotypes are designated for the following species described by Eichhoff: concentralis, cribripennis, infans, puchellus, and tuberculatus. New species are: carinatus (Canada), cavatus (Manitoba, Saskatchewan), eut...

We describe a new species of the plethodontid salamander genus Cryptotriton from Honduras after comparing morphological, molecular, and osteological data from the holotype to that of the other nominal forms of the genus. The new species differs from all of the known species of Cryptotriton in at least one character from all three datasets. We also suggest placing C. wakei in the synonymy of C. ...

An annotated list of 19 species Pterophoridae recorded from Pakistan is given. Five are new to this country, namely Platyptilia avicennai Ustjuzhanin et Kovtunovich, 2016, Cnaemidophorus rhododactylus (Denis Schiffermüller, 1775), Stenoptilia stigmatodactyla (Zeller, 1852), Hellinsia pectodactyla (Staudinger, 1859), and Amblyptilia sp. A synonymy established: Exelastis ebalensis (Rebel, 1907) =...

As a result of a taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of Astragalus section Hymenostegis we identified a new species of Astragalus from northwestern Iran, namely A. remotispicatus spec. nov., which is described and illustrated here. It is morphologically similar to A. karl-heinzii in possessing a lax inflorescence. Phylogenetic inference of the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (...

Zemacrosaldula, new genus, is described with Salda australis White, 1876, as type species, resulting in the following new combination Zemacrosaldula australis (White, 1876). Three new species are described: Zemacrosaldula kapekape new species, Z. whakarunga new species, Z. pangare new species. A revision of the taxonomy of all taxa is presented. Species are keyed. Morphological descriptions are...

Zemacrosaldula, new genus, is described with Salda australis White, 1876, as type species, resulting in the following new combination Zemacrosaldula australis (White, 1876). Three new species are described: Zemacrosaldula kapekape new species, Z. whakarunga new species, Z. pangare new species. A revision of the taxonomy of all taxa is presented. Species are keyed. Morphological descriptions are...

The new combination Vincetoxicum arabicum is made for a species in Saudi Arabia and northeastern eastern Africa that has previously mostly been called Blyttia fruticulosa or fruticulosum. basionym, arabica, regarded as superfluous name, resurrected. A synonymy of V. provided, the illustrated by photographs. Rhinolobium, with R. tenue type, published simultaneously B. an older name Aspidoglossum.

MIT CSAIL’s entries for the TREC Question Answering track (Voorhees, 2005) focused on incorporating external general-knowledge sources into the question answering process. We also explored the effect of document retrieval on factoid question answering, in cooperation with a community focus on document retrieval. For the new relationship task, we present a new passage-retrieval based algorithm e...