Towards a revision of the South American genus Praocis Eschscholtz (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), with estimation of the diversity of each subgenus

A review of the subgenera of the South American genus Praocis Eschscholtz (Pimeliinae: Praociini) is presented. Praocis comprises 77 species and 8 subspecies arranged in nine subgenera distributed in arid lands from Central Peru and Bolivia to the Southern part of Patagonia in Chile and Argentina. For each subgenus of Praocis: Praocis Eschscholtz, Mesopraocis Flores & Pizarro-Araya, subgen. n., Anthrasomus Guérin-Méneville, Filotarsus Gay & Solier, Postpraocis Flores & Pizarro-Araya, subgen. n., Hemipraocis Flores & Pizarro-Araya, subgen. n., Orthogonoderes Gay & Solier, Praonoda Flores & Pizarro-Araya, subgen. n., and Praocida Flores & Pizarro-Araya, subgen. n., we present a diagnosis using new and constant characters of adult morphology such as clypeal configuration, length and proportion of antennomeres 9, 10 and 11, arrangement of apical tomentose sensory patches on antennomeres 10 and 11, anterior margin of prosternum, lateral margin of elytron, ventral surface of profemora, and shape of protibiae. An identification key for the nine subgenera of Praocis is presented. Type species are designated for the five new subgenera; for Mesopraocis: Praocis calderana Kulzer, for Postpraocis: Praocis pentachorda Burmeister, for Hemipraocis: Praocis sellata Berg, for Praonoda: Praocis bicarinata Burmeister, for Praocida: Praocis zischkai Kulzer, and for the previously described subgenus Orthogonoderes: Praocis subreticulata Gay & Solier. The current number of species and the estimated number of species to be described are presented. The distribution ranges of the subgenera, including new records from collections and recent expeditions, are given. Habitat preferences and a discussion of the biogeography of the genus are also presented.Fil: Flores, Gustavo Ernesto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas; ArgentinaFil: Pizarro Araya, Jaime. Universidad de la Serena; Chil

Lexicon and Word Formation in Indonesian Bajo

This paper1 deals with the phonology and the lexicology of the Indonesian Bajo language and more specifically with the dialect or variant that can be heard all around the Flores Sea in Kangean, South-East Sulawesi, Sumbawa, and Flores. The phonological survey focuses on vowel lengthening, gemination, pre-nasalized phonemes, and sandhi. The second part of this paper proposes an insight into Bajo lexicology, restricted to nominal and verbal derivation

TARI TENARERE DI ADONARA, FLORES TIMUR ANALISIS TEKSTUAL DAN KONTEKSTUAL

Abstrak Adonara island community in east Flores of East Nusa Tenggara has one of traditional dance called “Tenarere Dance”. Tenarere dance is a term of traditional dance, which is always performed by the ladies dancer, adults as well as children. This dance is considered as a “Sacred” as it has a strong related with “Knirek Wuun Matan” (this ceremony which is always done by a group of ladies dancer to renewing relationship among their family which symbolized by purifying the new plants is “Corn”). Tenarere Dance is aimed to name the dance, which is telling about ancestor’s trip by boats from Seran Goran of Maluku to Adonara Island, East Flores. Tenarere dance is only owned and performed at Redontena village, Adonara island-East Flores. The traditions of Tenarere is still kept everlasting by the community as the consider that it has culture value that can be bequeathed to the young generation

Anomia

The text below serves as program notes for Anomia. It was written by Júlio Machado in response to the piece Anomia. The text, differently from the musical piece, has the title “Anomias”: Anomias by Júlio Machado adapted by Bruno Ruviaro Leve: Um: sumir de si o … em que pela primeira vez foi primavera. Três: após as flores, desordem dos frutos sem o conforto das caixas. Cinco: De hora em hora, insectos soltos, frouxos, no ar. Sete: 14 onças tem meu corpo se preso ao tempo e livre do … Severa: Dois: ou sumir de si o … em que isso foi, no fundo do quintal. Quatro: Estação parada, flowres de flores, nada. Seis: insects forgotten de si, pousados no seco e na lama. Eight: 400 gramas tem um corpo if preso ao … e livre do espaço Chrônic: sumir de si o … em que pela primeira vez foi primavera. or sumir de si o … em que isso foi, no fundo do quintal. after the flores, desordem dos frutos without the comfort das caixas. estação parada, flores de flowers, nothing. de hour em hour, soltos insects, loose, in the air. insects minding their own business, landed on seco and mud. 14 onças has a corpo if preso ao tempo and livre from … . 400 grams has a body if tied to … e free from spaçe

Uses and perceived benefits of green spaces in Buenos Aires

Los espacios verdes urbanos proveen de un amplio rango de beneficios (físicos, ambientales, sicológicos y sociales) pero algunos tipos de parques son aparentemente más importantes en la provisión de ciertos beneficios. En este estudio se analizó la calidad y la percepción en dos parques y dos plazas de los barrios de Caballito y Flores en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Se aplicó el índice de Bandera Verde para estimar la calidad y encuestas (n:232) para explorar la percepción de los usuarios por medio de 10 preguntas. Cuatro de ellas indagaban sobre el espacio público en general, seis sobre los espacios verdes seleccionados en particular. Los resultados indican que las áreas verdes son sitios valorizados, utilizados de diferente manera por los residentes o gente proveniente de otros lugares, atraída por la calidad de los espacios. Se observó que el tamaño y la oferta de actividades/infraestructura jugaba un rol importante en cómo se usa y en cuáles beneficios se reconocen y perciben.Urban green spaces provide a full range of community benefits (physical, environmental, psychological and social) but some parks types appear differentially important in providing certain benefit types. In this study we analyzed quality and perception of two parks and two plazas in Caballito and Flores neighbourhood (Buenos Aires city). We used the green flag index for green spaces´ quality and interviews (n:232) to explore people`s perception asking 10 questions, four referred to public spaces in general and six referred to the selected green spaces in both neighbourhoods. Results showed that parks and plazas are valued spaces, different visited by residents or by people coming elsewhere attracted by high-quality green spaces. Our findings showed that size and the offer of activities/infrastructure play a role in how a green space is used and how different benefits are recognised and perceived.Fil: Craik, Jonathan. Universidad de Copenhagen; DinamarcaFil: Faggi, Ana Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"; Argentina. Universidad de Flores; ArgentinaFil: Miguel, Sebastián Alfredo. Universidad de Flores; ArgentinaFil: Vorraber, Leslie Bárbara. Universidad de Flores; Argentin

Flores and Wells\u27 Slavery in the land of the free: A student’s guide to modern day slavery (Book Review)

A review of Flores, T., & Wells, P. (2016). Slavery in the land of the free: A student’s guide to modern day slavery. Boise, ID: Ampelon Publishing. 175 pp. ISBN 978098934198

The indigenization of catholicism on Flores

From the very outset of European expansion, scholars have been preoccupied with the impact of proselytization and colonization on non-European societies. Anthropologists such as Margaret Mead and Bronislaw Malinowski, who witnessed these processes at the beginning of the twentieth century while at the same time benefitting from the colonial structure, were convinced that the autochthonous societies could not possibly withstand the onslaught of the dominant European cultures, and thus were doomed to vanish in the near future. The fear of losing their object of research, which had just recently been discovered, hung above the heads of the scholars like a sword of Damocles ever since the establishment of anthropology as a discipline. They felt hurried to document what seemed to be crumbling away. Behind these fears there was the notion that the indigenous cultures were comparatively static entities that had existed untouched by any external influences for many centuries, or even millennia, and were unable to change. This idea was shared by proponents of other disciplines; in religious studies, for example, up to the late 1980s the view prevailed that the contact between the great world religions and the belief systems of small, autochthonous societies doomed the latter to extinction. However, more recent studies have shown that this assumption, according to which indigenous peoples have not undergone any changes in the course of history, is untenable. It became apparent that groups supposedly living in isolation have extensive contact networks, and that migration, trade, and conquest are not privileges of modern times. Myths and oral traditions bore witness of journeys to faraway regions, new settlements founded in unknown territories, or the arrival of victorious foreigners who introduced new ways and customs and laid claim to a place of their own within society

Heteroscedasticity irrelevance when testing means difference

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