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"Wenn mich die Leute fragen: 'Warum drehen sie Horror-Filme?', muss ich unmittelbar zu Aristoteles und seiner Theorie der Katharsis zurückgehen, als Rechtfertigung der Tragödie, oder sogar der Komödie. Für mich sind Horror-Filme Filme der Konfrontation, überhaupt nicht solche der Flucht, aber in einem Horror-Film wird man auf eine bestimmte sichere, traumhafte Weise mit Dingen konfrontiert, mit denen man im wirklichen Leben nichts zu tun haben möchte. Aber schließl ich wirst du diesen Dingen gegenüberstehen: Ich spreche vom Alter, von Tod und Einsamkeit." (D. C.)
Als Nachtrag zu "Neophytischs Kultur- und Anbaupflanzen als Kulturflüchtlinge des Rheinlandes" (Adolphi 1995) werden Neufunde und andere neue Beobachtungen mitgeteilt. Zu den bemerkenswerten Erstfunden gehören Malus toringo, Mirabilis jalapa, Morus nigra, Pistia stratiotes, Solidaga x erskinii, Spartium junceum und der Gattungsbastard x Mahoberberis.
Four new species of Ommatius Wiedemann, the female of O. stramineus Scarbrough, and the male of 0. nigellus Scarbrough from Hispaniola are described. A lectotype for O. gwenae Scarbrough and a neotype for O. cinnamomeus are selected. Notes of previously named species, new records, illustrations of terminalia, and a key to the species are included.
Several Coleopterists have been asked to revise the family sections, working from diskettes modified and provided from the original "Beetles of the United States." They will rewrite these sections, and will be recognized as the author of the section. They are asked to sign a writing contract with the publisher. Other Coleopterists have been asked to review the family sections of the new book. These persons are acknowledged in the family section text.
Six species of the genus Polyplectropns are recorded from the People's Republic of China. All the species are new to science. A key to the males is given. The larva of Polyplectropns nanjingensis sp. nov. is illustrated. The phylogenetic relationships among these species and with Polyplectropns species of the New World are discussed.
A revision is provided for the Cuban endemic tenebrionid genus Trimytcmtron. Material of Ardoin's five previously described species (Trimytalltron decui, poeyi, cub anum, viiiai and negrai) is compared with the extensive series of the senior author's collection (O.H.G). Eight new species are herein described and illustrated. Also their genitalia are illustrated, as well as some of the previously described species not illustrated by Ardoin in his original descriptions. Material from several eastern localities assigned to T. decui are not exactly identical, showing some variations at subspecific level. Although these variations are mentioned, they are not described. The same situation applies to populations assigned to the new species described from the northern part of Santa Clara (the cave complex of Caguanes). Genitalia of six of the eight new species are herein illustrated as are those of T. decui and T. poeyi . Photographs of the eight new taxa are also provided; as well as a synoptic table of the principal diagnostic characters of all taxa of the genus.
The shape of the facial carina in Altastreplia is discussed. Although taxonomically useful, the protrudent form probably occurs by convergence in different species groups. Two species groups in which the carina is usually produced are revised. The belljamini species group includes: belljamini Lima (from southeastern Brazil), gigantea Stone (from Panama), magna, n. sp. (from Colombia and Venezuela), and superj1ua Stone (from Panama). Host data for this group are limited to only one record of benjamilli from a species of Pouteria (Sapotaceae). The pallidipennis complex, which is included in the pseudoparallela species group, is recognized to include: amnis Stone (from southern Brazil and possibly Trinidad), curitis Stone (from Colombia, Peru, and northern Brazil), pallida, n. sp. (from Panama), pallidipennis Greene (from Colombia and Venezuela), and vele::i, n. sp. (from Colombia). These species breed in fruit of Passij10ra (Passifloraceae) (P. ambigua Hems., ligularis Juss., Idtida H.B.K., quadrallgularis L., and seemannii Griseb.). The relationships of these Anastrepliaspecies are discussed, and diagnoses and ill ustrations are provided to permit their identification. A neotype is designated for A. consobrina (Loew), and the identity of this species is clarified.
Aus dem norddeutschen Tiefland wird eine neue Brombeerart, Rubus exstans Walsemann & Stohr (Subgen. Rubus Sect. Corylifolii Lindley Ser. Subthyrsoidei (Focke) Focke) beschrieben.
Sie ist über benachbarte Gebiete von Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Brandenburg verbreitet. Der Beschreibung sind Abbildungen
und eine Verbreitungskarte sowie eine Aufzählung exemplarischer Herbarbelege beigefügt. Auf
Unterschiede zu ähnlichen Arten wird hingewiesen.
Es wird eine Brombeerart (Gattung Rubus, Rosaceae) der Subsektion Hiemales E. H. Krause, Serie Vestiti (Focke) Focke neu beschrieben und abgebildet. Die Art kommt in Deutschland in Hessen (Taunus) und Rheinland-Pfalz (E-Hunsrück) vor. Weitere Aussagen werden zur Ökologie und Abgrenzung zu ähnlichen Arten gegeben.
Alten Literaturangaben aus der "Chloris Hanoverana" (Meyer 1836) und der "Flora Hanoverana Excursoria" (Meyer 1849) über das Vorkommen der boreal verbreiteten Seggen Carex loliacea, Carex heleonastes und Carex buxbaumii im westlichen Niedersachsen wurde nachgegangen. Alle drei Arten konnten anhand von Herbarbelegen bestätigt werden und sind damit erstmals sicher für Niedersachsen nachgewiesen. Carex loliacea ist sogar neu für ganz Deutschland. Zusätzlich wurde ein alter Herbarbeleg von Carex hartmanii aus der Umgebung von Meppen entdeckt, von wo diese Art bislang noch nicht bekannt war. Die Vorkommen dieser Seggen arten sind durch die radikale Umgestaltung der Landschaft längst erloschen. Auf weitere alte Angaben von Carex chordorrhiza, Carex binervis und Carex extensa aus dem Emsland wird ebenfalls eingegangen. Der Fund von Carex chordorrhiza erscheint auch ohne Beleg glaubhaft, wobei die übrigen Nachweise aus Niedersachsen und Bremen ebenfalls aufgeführt werden, während die Angaben zu den beiden anderen Arten sicherlich irrtümlich waren.
New Philology: Das ist zunächst ein Schlagwort gegenwärtiger mediävistischer Methodendiskussion, und fast möchte man meinen, es hätte noch prägnanter formuliert werden können, wenn man etwas auf eine Bildung in Analogie zu anderen kurrenten ‚New-isms’ – New Medievalism (…) oder New Historicism (…) etwa – verfallen wäre: ‚New Philologism’. (…) Als Interdependenz (…) [einer] relativ situationsabstrakten ‚Formiertheit’ der poetischen Rede und der spezifischen situationellen variance des Textes (…) müsste man die soziale, also kommunikative Logik des mittelalterlichen Textes rekonstruieren können. Dabei dürfte dann auch sichtbar werden, daß die ‚Schließung’ des Textes nicht nur eine Generalisierung und Anonymisierung von poetischen Kommunikationssituationen voraussetzt (…) Sondern es könnte sich dann auch zeigen, daß an die stabile soziale Institution des Autors sowie an generalisierte und anonymisierte Kommunikationsverhältnisse gebundene und daher weitgehend invariante Text fortschreitend verzichten kann (…) auf jene Formierungen der literarischen Rede, welche unter den Voraussetzungen okkasioneller poetischer Kommunikation die Bedingung ihrer Möglichkeit waren. Der Text und seine Textualität sind dann etwas ganz anderes, weil seine Situationalität sich grundsätzlich verändert hat.
Six new species ofTrichoptera are described and figured, belonging to the families Goeridae and Leptoceridae. The goerid species are Goera baishanzuensis new species and Goera recta new species. The leptocerid species are Setodes chlorinus new species, Ceraclea (Athripsodina) semicircularis new species, Ceraclea (Athripsodina) brachyclada new species, and Ceraclea (Athripsodina) vaciva new species (Leptoceridae).
Based on his studies of the genus Rubus in the Czech Republic, the author describes classification of brambles from Rubus subgen. Rubus in Europe, its recent history, present state, and current problems. In general, the author follows the adherents of "Weberian batology" which in the last 25 years has assumed European responsibility for attempting to ciassify that particular genus. The thesis that not every bramble plant can be inciuded in the ciassification is accepted. The objective reasons for taxonomic difficulties within Rubus subgen. Rubus are connected with special features of taxogenesis of its members, especially with incomplete apomixis, frequent hybridization, splitting of the progeny into different morphotypes, resexualization, transitory existence of segregants, etc. The progress of the evolution of a new taxon in the given taxonomic group can be ranked: individual bush - local type - regional species - species with an extensive distribution area. When classifying a taxon, alongside sufficient morphological characteristics,
great emphasis should be put on the distribution area; its extent can render possible the taxon to be accepted into the classification scheme. On the basis of experience gained from the Czech Republic, the author has accepted some modifications of the scale for acceptance of plants as species. The basic difference is in lowering the low limit of the extent of the distribution area for regional species, to be acceptable for their lnclusion to the classification, i.e. to 20 km in diameter. In contrast to taxa of other plant groups, species of apomictic brambles with more extensive distribution areas are phytogeographically more important than those with small distribution areas. In spite of the use of stricter requirements for the description of new species in Rubus, it appears that many (distinct) species have been neglected until now, and that the number of species in Rubus subgen. Rubus is continuously increasing. The author stresses the necessity of studying the group ser. Glandulosi in Central Europe and points out the usefulness of cooperation with population ecologists to describe the quantitative representation of taxonomically unclassified bramble plants in the field.
The sting apparatus and pygidium are described for eight of 20 Lordomyrma species and one of five Mayriella species. The apparatus of L. epinotaiis is distinctly different from that of other Lordomyrma species. Comparisons with other genera suggest affinities of species of Lordomyrma to species of Cyphoidris and Lachnomyrmex, while Mayriella abstinens Forel shares unusual features with those of Proatta butteli.
The following changes in nomenclature of some species of Amblyeems Thunberg, 1815, are proposed: A) Elevated to new taxonomic status- A. insuturatus (pic, 1902) from (Spennophagus subflavidus var.insuturatus); A. luteolineatus (pic, 1929) from (Spennophagus luteonotatus var .luteolineatus);A. paulonotatus (pic, 1906) from (Spennophagus luteonotatus var.paulonotatus). B) New synonymy-A. dispar(Sharp, 1885)(=Spermophagus longissimus Pic, 1902; =S. earyoborifonnis Pic, 1910; =S. guyanensis Pic, 1917; S.pieeosuturalis Pic, 1927; =S. earaeasensis Pic, 1954); A. gounellei (pic. 1902)(=S. eurtus Pic, 1911; =S. basipennis Pic, 1936); A. insuturatus (pic, 1902)(=A. woleotti Kingsolver, 1970;A.jatayensis (Pic, 1902)(=S.jatayensis var. bieolorieeps Pic, 1955; =S.jatayensis var. hahnelli Pic, 1955; A. IIwltimaculatus (pic, 1902)( =S. minasensis Pic, 1918); A. perfectus (Sharp, 1885)(=S. maeulatopygus Pic, 1927); A. reticulatus (Jekel, 1855)(=S. rufotestaeeus Pic, 1912);A.luteolineatus (pic, 1929)(=S. multisignatus Pic, 1954). C). Lectotype/s and paralectotype/s are designated for: S. luteonotatus Pic, 1902; S. multimaeulatus Pic, 1902; S. maeulatopygus Pic, 1927; S. subflavidus Pic, 1902; S. trisignatus Sharp, 1885; S.jatayensis Pic, 1902; S. longissimus Pic, 1902; S. earyoborifonnis Pic, 1910; S. dispar Sharp, 1885; S. subflavidusvar. insuturatus Pic, 1902. For all species listed in this paper, we provide a bibliography, label data on type material, sex of types and their repository.
The Nearctic members of the genus Oetophorus Foerster are revised. There are four species, 0. pleuralis (Cresson), and 0. obscurus, O. clavatus, and O. maculatus, new species. The name Oetophorus stretchii (Cresson) is placed in synonymy with the name Oetophol'us pleuralis (Cresson). Relationships of the genus with others in the tribe Perilissini and relationships of the species included in the genus are briefly discussed.