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An extraordinary new family of spiders from caves in the Pacific Northwest (Araneae, Trogloraptoridae, new family)
The new spider genus and species Trogloraptor marchingtoni Griswold, Audisio & Ledford is described as the type of the new family Trogloraptoridae. The oblique membranous division…
Two additional new species of the Stenus indubius group (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from China
Two new species of the Stenus indubius group from China are described: S. huapingensis sp. n. from Guangxi Province and S. zhujianqingi sp. n. from Zhejiang Province. Habitus phot…
Arbeitsberichte aus der Forschungsstation Bardai/Tibesti III
KAISER, K.: Der känozoische Vulkanismus im Tibesti-Gebirge ; BRUSCHEK, G. 1.: Soborom — Souradom — Tarso Voon. — Vulkanische Bauformen im zentralen Tibesti-Gebir…
A charismatic new species of green lacewing discovered in Malaysia (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae): the confluence of citizen…
An unusual new species of green lacewing (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae: Semachrysa jade sp. n.) is described from Selangor (Malaysia) as a joint discovery by citizen scientist and prof…
Fachsession Geowissenschaften, Kartographie und Geobasisdaten
Die beiden von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Fachinformationsdienste Geowissenschaften (FID GEO) und Kartographie und Geobasisdaten (FID Karten) stellen ihre Di…
Cucujus tulliae sp. n. – an endemic Mediterranean saproxylic beetle from genus Cucujus Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera, Cuc…
Cucujus tulliae sp. n. is described as a new member of genus Cucujus Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Cucujidae), which enumerates at present eleven species distributed in Eurasia and…
On immature and adult forms of Trichognathus marginipennis Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Galeritini)
The pupa of Trichognathus marginipennis Latreille, 1829 is described for the first time and the adult is redescribed. Habitus and important structures of larva, pupa and adult are…
Four new species of the leafhopper genus Kapsa Dworakowska from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), with a …
In the present paper, four new species, Kapsa acuminata, K. quadrispina, K. puerensis and K. yanheensis spp. n. from southwest China are described and illustrated, and a key to th…
Problems of landslide chronology in the Mátra mountains in Hungary
Im letzten Jahrzehnt wurden bei der Untersuchung der Rutschungsprozesse und -formen in Ungarn in den Mittelgebirgen, die zumeist in der Mitte und am Ende des Miozäns entstanden si…
A new species of Peucoglyphus Bernhauer from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
Peucoglyphus ken sp. n., a new species from New Guinea is described. Adding the new species, this rare Wallacean genus from the tribe Staphylinini (subtribe Philonthina) currently…
A new species of Pseudaulacaspis MacGillivray, 1921 from China (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Diaspididae) with a key to Chines…
A new species of armored scale, Pseudaulacaspis zhenyuanensis Wei & Feng, sp. n. is described and illustrated from specimens collected on Spermadictyon suaveolens in China. A key …
Integrating specimen databases and revisionary systematics
Arguments are presented for the merit of integrating specimen databases into the practice of revisionary systematics. Work flows, data connections, data outputs, and data standard…
Der Anstieg des Ostseespiegels im deutschen Küstenraum seit dem Mittelatlantikum
Nach neuen Untersuchungen zur jungholozänen Entwicklung im Küstenraum der südwestlichen Ostsee ist der Meeresspiegel dort klar phasenhaft in Undulationen und nicht kontinuierlich …
From documents to datasets: A MediaWiki-based method of annotating and extracting species observations in century-old f…
Biological field notebooks are records of lives spent outside in nature. Part diary, part scientific record, field notebooks often contain details required to understand the locat…
The notes from nature tool for unlocking biodiversity records from museum records through citizen science
Legacy data from natural history collections contain invaluable and irreplaceable information about biodiversity in the recent past, providing a baseline for detecting change and …
Image based Digitisation of Entomology Collections: Leveraging volunteers to increase digitization capacity
In 2010, the Australian Museum commenced a project to explore and develop ways for engaging volunteers to increase the rate of digitising natural history collections. The focus wa…
Nomenclatural benchmarking: the roles of digital typification and telemicroscopy
Nomenclatural benchmarking is the periodic realignment of species names with species theories and is necessary for the accurate and uniform use of Linnaean binominals in the face …
DScan – a high-performance digital scanning system for entomological collections
Here we describe a high-performance imaging system for creating high-resolution images of whole insect drawers. All components of the system are industrial standard and can be ada…
HANS SCHREIBER in memoriam
Es wird über den Moorforscher HANS SCHREIBER berichtet, der 1899 im Erzgebirge/Böhmen die Moorkulturstation Sebastiansberg gründete, die bis 1945 bestanden hat. HANS SCHREIBER war…
InvertNet: a new paradigm for digital access to invertebrate collections
InvertNet, one of the three Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs) funded in the first round of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Advancing Digitization of Biological Collection…
Whole-drawer imaging for digital management and curation of a large entomological collection
Whole-drawer imaging is shown to be an effective tool for rapid digitisation of large insect collections. On-line, Whole-drawer images facilitate more effective collection managem…
No specimen left behind: industrial scale digitization of natural history collections
Traditional approaches for digitizing natural history collections, which include both imaging and metadata capture, are both labour- and time-intensive. Mass-digitization can only…
Results and insights from the NCSU Insect Museum GigaPan project
Pinned insect specimens stored in museum collections are a fragile and valuable resource for entomological research. As such, they are usually kept away from viewing by the public…
Seismicity in the Northern Rhine Area (1995–2018)
Since the mid-1990s, the local seismic network of the University of Cologne has produced digital seismograms. The data all underwent a daily routine processing. For this study, we…
Increasing the efficiency of digitization workflows for herbarium specimens
The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium has been databasing and imaging its estimated 7.3 million plant specimens for the past 17 years. Due to the size of the collection, we have…
Developing integrated workflows for the digitisation of herbarium specimens using a modular and scalable approach
Digitisation programmes in many institutes frequently involve disparate and irregular funding, diverse selection criteria and scope, with different members of staff managing and o…
‘From Pilot to production’: Large Scale Digitisation project at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
By the end of 2009 the Dutch Government awarded the establishment of NCB Naturalis with €30M funding. The amount is invested in three programs: Scientific Infrastructure for DNA B…
The development of a digitising service centre for natural history collections
Digitarium is a joint initiative of the Finnish Museum of Natural History and the University of Eastern Finland. It was established in 2010 as a dedicated shop for the large-scale…
The US Virtual Herbarium: working with individual herbaria to build a national resource
The goal of the US Virtual Herbarium (USVH) project is to digitize (database, image, georeference) all specimens in all US herbaria, enabling them to be made available through a s…
OpenUp! Creating a cross-domain pipeline for natural history data
Multimedia data held by Natural History Museums and Universities are presently not readily accessible, even within the natural history community itself. The EU project OpenUp! is …
Five task clusters that enable efficient and effective digitization of biological collections
This paper describes and illustrates five major clusters of related tasks (herein referred to as task clusters) that are common to efficient and effective practices in the digitiz…
Mass digitization of scientific collections: New opportunities to transform the use of biological specimens and underwr…
New information technologies have enabled the scientific collections community and its stakeholders to adapt, adopt, and leverage novel approaches for a nearly 300 years old scien…
Bergordnung Schlaggenwald 1548
Im Jahr 1547 wurde Capar Pflug, der Besitzer des im Elbogener Kreis liegenden Bergbaugeländes um Schlaggenwald, aufgrund seiner führenden Rolle im Prager Ständeaufstand durch den …
Mariapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), a new genus of Neotropical microgastrine parasitoid wasp discovered through bi…
A new genus of microgastrine parasitoid wasps, Mariapanteles Whitfield & Fernández-Triana, gen. n., is described from rain forests of the Neotropics. The new genus is related to t…
Bias correction of daily precipitation for ungauged locations using geostatistical approaches: A case study for the COR…
Climate model simulations typically exhibit a bias, which can be corrected using statistical approaches. In this study, a geostatistical approach for bias correction of daily prec…
A new combination expands the range of the African araneid spider Singafrotypa (Araneae, Araneidae)
Study of the syntype of Larinioides subinermis, a species known from Ethiopia only, revealed that it actually belongs to Singafrotypa Benoit, 1962. We redescribe Singafrotypa subi…
Water Content of the Dehydration Melting Layer in the Topmost Lower Mantle
The water‐rich mantle transition zone and dry lower mantle suggest that a dehydration melting layer can form at the 660‐km depth boundary. However, the water content of the meltin…
Zeitschrift für Geophysik, 20 / 1
David, E,: Materie im Erdinnern . . . 1 ; Reich, H.: Über die Ausbreitung seismischer Impulse in de Malmkalkplatte des schwäbisch-fränkischen Jura . . .8 ; Pietsch, D.: Ein Ve…
A taxonomic revision of the genus Sinotrisus Yin & Li (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)
The genus Sinotrisus Yin & Li, comprising four species, is redefined and revised. Members of Sinotrisus are often found with ants of the subfamily Formicinae, or in humid forest h…
MOSCHweb — a matrix-based interactive key to the genera of the Palaearctic Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera)
We provide a general overview of features and technical specifications of an original interactive key web application for the identification of Palaearctic Tachinidae genera. The …
Die messenische Mani
Seit Jahrhunderten verlief die Entwicklung in der Mani offensichtlich anders als im übrigen Griechenland und auch die letzten Jahrzehnte brachten noch keine Angleichung im wirtsch…
A new species of Chalicodoma from Saudi Arabia with modified facial setae (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)
Some bees and pollen wasps have independently evolved simple, stiff, erect, apically-curved, curly or hooked facial setae as adaptations to collect pollen from nototribic flowers.…
Antarctic, Sub-Antarctic and cold temperate echinoid database
This database includes spatial data of Antarctic, Sub-Antarctic and cold temperate echinoid distribution (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) collected during many oceanographic campaigns …
Mantle Anisotropy in NW Namibia From XKS Splitting: Effects of Asthenospheric Flow, Lithospheric Structures, and Magmat…
The presence of the Etendeka flood basalts in northwestern Namibia is taken as evidence for the activity of the Tristan da Cunha mantle plume during the continental breakup betwee…
A review of the genus Neopsocopsis (Psocodea, “Psocoptera”, Psocidae), with one new species from China
A review of species of the genus Neopsocopsis Badonnel, 1936 is presented. Four species are redescribed, viz. N. hirticornis (Reuter, 1893), N. quinquedentata (Li & Yang, 1988), N…
Schichtungen in Schächten gefluteter Eisenerzbergwerke
Bei hydraulischen und hydrochemischen Untersuchungen zur geothermischen Nutzung gefluteter Erzbergwerke im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge wurden Dichte-Schichtungen in einem Schach…
Two new species and one newly recorded species of Elaphropeza Macquart from Taiwan (Diptera, Empididae, Tachydromiinae)
Previously 11 Elaphropeza species were known from Taiwan. The following two species of the genus Elaphropeza are described: Elaphropeza flaviscutum sp. n. and E. trimacula sp. n. …
Four new species of Dolichopoda Bolivar, 1880 from Southern Sporades and Western Turkey (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae, …
A description of four new species of Dolichopoda Bolivar, 1880 (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) from Eastern Aegean region (Southern Sporades), including Western Turkey, is reported…
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