A new species of Faronus Aube, 1844, endemic to Malta (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

Faronus rica sp. nov. endemic to Malta is described and illustrated, and placed in the Faronus hispanus species group. Faronus rica sp. nov. is closely related to F. siculus Fiori, 1913, an endemic species to Sicily, and they can be distinguished based on morphological features highlighted in the present work.peer-reviewe

A revision of the Chilean Brachyglutini Part 7. Revision of Achilia Reitter, 1890: A. cosmoptera species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

The Achilia cosmoptera species group sensu Jeannel (1962) of the species-rich genus Achilia Reitter, 1890 is revised. Of the twelve taxa placed so far in this informal group, four species A. andina Franz, 1996, A. maiopensis Franz, 1996, A. pseudangularis Franz, 1996, and A. quinteroi Franz, 1996 belong to different genera and will be treated in forthcoming papers, and one name is placed in synonymy A. picea Raffray, 1904 = A. elfridae Raffray, 1904 syn. nov. The remaining seven species are redescribed, and three new species fitting the concept of the A. cosmoptera group are described A. covidia n. sp., A. pandemica n. sp., and A. quarantena n. sp. The lectotypes of A. cosmoptera (Blanchard, 1851), A. blanchardi Raffray, 1904, A. elfridae Raffray, 1904, A. bifrons Jeannel, 1962, and A. nahuelbutae Franz, 1996 are designated, and the new synonymies A. nahuelbutae Franz, 1996 = A. angularis Jeannel, 1962 syn. nov., and A. caneloi Franz, 1996 = A. temporalis Jeannel, 1962 syn. nov. are also established. For all these species of the A. cosmoptera group their distribution is detailed and mapped, and habitat/collecting data are summarized

Revision of Neodeuterus Schaufuss and description of a new allied genus from Borneo (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

Kurbatov, Sergey A., Cuccodoro, Giulio (2015): Revision of Neodeuterus Schaufuss and description of a new allied genus from Borneo (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Zootaxa 4006 (2): 374-382, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4006.2.

Cognitive models in planimetric task text processing

A new cognitive approach is proposed for understanding the texts of planimetric tasks and for visualizing the task conditions to complement the syntactic-semantical sentence parsing. Two main difficulties in understanding texts of plane geometry tasks are observed: the ellipticity and vagueness of texts. To overcome the difficulties in understanding the task conditions it is proposed constructing cognitive models of objects and relations between them. The proposed cognitive approach is incorporated in an integrated system for automatic solving planimetric tasks with the natural language interface. The interactive visualization has been developed in the system. It depicts the syntactic and semantic structures as a result of natural language text analysis and searching for task solution. This visualization allows the users to obtain explanations associated with any elements of the images and to correct the tasks’ texts in dialog with the system. The destiny of the system is to serve for training schoolchildren in the domain of Euclidean geometry. The cognitive approach proposed can be a first step to automated analyzing plane geometry texts, in perspective, as a cognitively controlled parsing

FIGURES 15–16 in A review of the Tychus algericus species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), North Africa

FIGURES 15–16. Telisternites of female of Tychus algericus group species, dorsal view. Scale: 0,1 mm. 15—T. algericus, female from Akfadou Forest. 16—T. depexus, female from Mouzaia Mount.Published as part of Sabella, Giorgio, Besuchet, Claude & Kurbatov, Sergey A., 2011, A review of the Tychus algericus species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), North Africa, pp. 38-48 in Zootaxa 3065 on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20810

Schmidtinus annapurnensis, a new genus and species of Batrisitae from Nepal (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

Yin, Zi-Wei, Kurbatov, Sergey A., Ку, A. (2022): Schmidtinus annapurnensis, a new genus and species of Batrisitae from Nepal (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Zootaxa 5169 (1): 79-86, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5169.1.

FIGURES 5–6. 5 in A new species of Faronus Aubé, 1844, endemic to Malta (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

FIGURES 5–6. 5—Habitus of female, Faronus rica sp. nov.; 6—Wied Babu, type locality of F. rica sp. nov

FIGURES 7–12. 7, 8 in A new species of Faronus Aubé, 1844, endemic to Malta (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

FIGURES 7–12. 7, 8—Aedeagi; 9, 10—protibiae of males; 11, 12—female telisternites. (7, 9, 11— Faronus rica sp. nov.; 8, 10, 12—Faronus siculus

Features of the formation of the St. Petersburg agglomeration by the beginning of the XX century

The study of the Russian historical St. Petersburg agglomeration at all stages from its foundation (from 1703) until the final imperial stage (1917) required the use of complex functional, urban-planning and landscape, socio-economic, environmental, transport and communication analysis on the basis of data from archives, historical cartography and iconography. The main results were the conclusions that during the XVIII - early XX centuries, there was a crystallization of a huge agglomeration around the city of St. Petersburg, which included three belts: “external”, “middle”, “nearby”, which spatially extended from Yaroslavl (in Central Russia) to Riga (in the Baltic). The paper discusses the features of the formation of the “nearby belt” of agglomeration in the initial (1703 - January 1725) and in the final (1901-1916) development periods. The study revealed a significant role of special types of objects in these processes - estates of the aristocratic society and “garden cities” that provided a belt (around St. Petersburg and the largest settlements and complexes), linear (along radial and ring highways), and nodal (around individual large settlements) construction, spreading in the latitudinal direction from Narva and Ivangorod to the mouth of the Syas river, and in the meridian direction - from Vyborg to the city of Luga. Within the boundaries of this agglomeration zone, four sub-agglomerations had begun to emerge since the 1710s and have fully formed by the 1910s. The materials of the paper can be useful both for historians of urban planning and for modern urbanists