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The genus Zingiber contains about 180 species distributed mainly in tropical regions. Several species of Zingiber are cultivated globally for their medicinal and culinary value, such as true gingers (Z. officinale), bitter gingers (Z. zerumbet), and Z. purpureum. In Taiwan, two endemic species and one incompletely known taxon were recorded in the last edition of Flora of Taiwan, and several taxonomic issues still remain unresolved. Therefore, we revised the Taiwanese Zingiber based on morphological, palynological, anatomical, and molecular evidence, as well as their distribution. The results showed that floral characters such as labellum, fertile bracts, and corolla tubes are of great taxonomic value in distinguishing taxa of Zingiber of Taiwan. Accordingly, five species are treated in the present study, namely Z. chengii Y.H.Tseng, C.M.Wang & Y.C.Lin, Z. mioga Thunb., Z. oligophyllum K.Schum., Z. pleiostachyum K.Schum., and Z. shuanglongense C.L.Yeh & S.W.Chung. Zingiber mioga might be a newly naturalized species to Taiwan. Zingiber kawagoii Hayata and Z. koshunense C.T.Moo are treated as synonyms of Z. pleiostachyum.
Löst man seinen Blick, vielleicht nur für einen kurzen Augenblick, vom Gros der den Weltmarkt des Kinos (gemessen an Verbreitung, Umsatz und Publikumszuspruch) vielleicht mehr denn je beherrschenden Mainstream-Produktionen Hollywood’scher Prägung und richtet diesen etwa gen Osten, genauer: auf die asiatische Filmproduktion der letzten zehn bis fünfundzwanzig Jahre, so fällt auf, dass neben vielen Filmemachern, die bereitwillig auf den reichen Fundus an filmischen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten, an Genrekonventionen, etc. zurückgreifen, zum Teil auch einen eher spielerischen Umgang damit pflegen, diese etwa mit geographischen/kulturellen/etc. Spezifika zu mitunter aufregenden hybriden Filmwerken amalgamieren, einige wenige Regisseure unbeirrt an ihrem je eigenen, persönlichen Blick auf die Welt – damit durchaus auteurs im Sinne Astrucs – festhalten, die Sehgewohnheiten des (westlichen) Zuschauers herausfordern, das Kino somit zu einem „privilegierte[n] Ort der Fremderfahrung“, zu einer „Schule der Wahrnehmung“ werden lassen.
Review of the clavatus group of the lanternfly genus Pyrops (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)
(2017)
The clavatus group of Pyrops Spinola, 1839 is reviewed and redefined. The new combination Pyrops atroalbus (Distant, 1918) comb. nov. is proposed, as atroalbus is reinstated as a full species from status of subspecies of Pyrops watanabei (Matsumura, 1913). Pyrops nigripennis (Chou & Wang, 1985) and Pyrops clavatus mizunumai (Sato & Nagai, 1994) are proposed as junior synonyms of P. clavatus (Westwood, 1839). The Philippine species P. polillensis (Baker, 1925) is removed from the group and not attributed to any of the currently defined species groups. Hence, the clavatus group is restricted to continental Southeast Asia and Taiwan and contains three species: P. atroalbus comb. nov., P. clavatus and P. watanabei. A key to the species of the group and illustrations of the male genitalia are provided. The intraspecific colour variation in the group is discussed and illustrated. The genus Pyrops is removed from the subfamily Fulgorinae and not attributed to any of the currently defined subfamilies of Fulgoridae.
The genus Stephostethus LeConte, 1878 of minute brown scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Latridiidae: Latridiinae) is recorded from Taiwan for the first time, which extends the southernmost boundary of this genus in the Palaearctic realm. Two new species, S. taiwanus sp. nov. and S. yuanfengensis sp. nov., and one new record, S. chinensis (Reitter, 1877), are described in this study. A taxonomic key to the three species of this genus in Taiwan is also provided. The distributions, habitats and collecting methods of these three species, as well as the structure of the genital segments of this genus are discussed.
Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass Botschaften als Repräsentanten ihrer jeweiligen Länder nicht nur politische sondern auch handfeste ökonomische Interessen vertreten. Die US-Entertainment-Industrie zeichnete sich hierbei in der Vergangenheit durch besondere Aktivität auf internationaler Ebene aus (es sei hier nur auf ACTA verwiesen). WikiLeaks macht es nun möglich, den Umfang dieser Lobbyarbeit nachzuvollziehen.In Spanien wurde Ende 2011 nach langem Kampf ein Gesetz verabschiedet, dass es ermöglicht Seiten, auf denen Filme, Musik o.Ä. zum Download angeboten werden, zu sperren. Dieses Gesetz kam überhaupt nur zu Stande durch eine Kombination geschickter Lobbyarbeit der Entertainment-Industrie in Spanien und tatkräftiger Beihilfe durch die USA, vor allem koordiniert über die amerikanische Botschaft in Madrid. Ars Technica bietet dazu bereits einen hervorragenden Überblick...
The bee fauna of Taiwan was studied intensively in the first half of last century and was based in large parts on the extensive material collected by Hans Sauter between 1902 and 1914. Subsequent studies on bees of Taiwan have only been sporadic. Within a cooperation between the above mentioned institutions the bee fauna was reinvestigated. It was shown how insufficiently the bee fauna of Taiwan had been investigated so far, in particular, the higher mountain regions. Now about 150 species of bees, belonging to 32 different genera, are known from Taiwan, ten of which have been described or recognized as new for science by the recent cooperation.
The present article analyzes a prominent yet relatively understudied contact space among Native American, New Zealand Maori, and aboriginal Taiwanese literatures: the struggle of indigenous peoples to negotiate optimal relationships between themselves and the natural world, particularly in light of capitalist modernity and globalization. Many indigenous narratives draw sharp distinctions between native peoples and outsiders, predictably portraying the former as protectors and the latter as destroyers of both nature and indigenous local cultures. The Native American Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan's (1947-) novel 'People of the Whale' (2008), the Maori writer Patricia Grace's (1937-) novel 'Patiki' (1986), and the aboriginal Taiwanese writer Topas Tamapima's short story "Zuihou de lieren" are no exception. But these texts also problematize notions of the so-called "ecological native." They do so most conspicuously by revealing the ambiguous relationships those peoples believed closest to nature have with the nonhuman world, that is to say their environmental ambiguity ('ecoambiguity') (Thornber 2012).
Twenty previously known species of Fissocantharis Pic, 1921 and Micropodabrus Pic, 1920 from Taiwan are illustrated and described with the genitalia of both sexes and or abdominal sternite VIII of female. The following reconfirmed combinations are proposed, Micropodabrus chujoi (Wittmer, 1972), M. mucronata (Wittmer, 1979), M. multicostata (Wittmer, 1982) and M. nodicornis (Wittmer, 1982), which were all originally described in Kandyosilis Pic, 1929. Two new species are described, Fissocantharis nigriceps Y. Yang & Okushima sp. nov. and Micropodabrus brunneipennis Y. Yang & Okushima sp. nov., which are provided with the illustrations of aedeagus and photos of male habitus.