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A NEW SPECIES OF \u3ci\u3eGOLOFA HOPE\u3c/i\u3e, 1837 (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE: DYNASTINAE) FROM PERU
A new species of Golofa Hope is described from Peru along with supporting illustrations and a diagnosis.
Se describe una nueva especie de Golofa Hope de Peru soportado por ilustraciones y diagnosis
Georges Brossard, an Advocate for Insects
People are strange. Theyâve built botanical gardens for plants, planetariums for understanding the planets, zoos for large animals, aviaries for birds, and aquariums for fish, but nothing for insects! Itâs as though this class of animals doesnât count. And yet, of all the creatures on Earth, insects are some of the most important. They are food sources, garbage collectors, decomposers, producers, controllers and pollinators. And what do people do for them in return? We hunt them down with insecticides, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. Itâs time to reconcile humans with insects, a very classy class. Iâm going to build a temple to honour insects, and Iâm going to call it the Insectarium.
â Georges Brossard, 197
Insect Bronzes of George Foster
The artistâs fabulous bronze insect sculptures, including magnificent scarabs, have been exhibited at the MontrĂ©al Insectarium, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Museum of the University of Nebraska, and many art galleries. Others are in permanent exhibition at the Insectarium of Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia. George Foster appeared in the episode âLiving Artâ of the Insectia TV series in 1999. Some sculptures are part of the personal collection of StĂ©phane Le Tirant, Brett C. Ratcliffe, and the late Henry F. Howden and Roger-Paul Dechambre. We want to acquaint the readers of Scarabs about this artist
Description of a new species of Stenocrates Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini) from Peru and a revised catalog of the species of Stenocrates.
A new species of the South American genus Stenocrates Burmeister, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini) is described: Stenocrates theryi Ratcliffe & Le Tirant from western Peru. A description, diagnosis, distribution, and illustrations are provided for the new species. A revised catalog of the species of Stenocrates is presented
Editorial: crime patterns in time and space: the dynamics of crime opportunities in urban areas
The routine activity approach and associated crime pattern theory emphasise how crime emerges from spatio-temporal routines. In order to understand this crime should be studied in both space and time. However, the bulk of research into crime patterns and related activities has investigated the spatial distributions of crime, neglecting the temporal dimension. Specifically, disaggregation of crime by place and by time, for example hour of day, day of week, month of year, season, or school day versus none school day, is extremely relevant to theory. Modern data make such spatio-temporal disaggregation increasingly feasible, as exemplified in this special issue. First, much larger data files allow disaggregation of crime data into temporal and spatial slices. Second, new forms of data are generated by modern technologies, allowing innovative and new forms of analyses. Crime pattern analyses and routine activity inquiries are now able to explore avenues not previously available. The unique collection of nine papers in this thematic issue specifically examine spatio-temporal patterns of crime to; demonstrate the value of this approach for advancing knowledge in the field; consider how this informs our theoretical understanding of the manifestations of crime in time and space; to consider the prevention implications of this; and to raise awareness of the need for further spatio-temporal research into crime event
Spatial clustering in the ESO-Sculptor Survey: two-point correlation functions by galaxy type at redshifts 0.1 - 0.5
We calculate the spatial two-point auto and cross-correlation functions for
the 765 galaxies with Rc<21.5 and 0.1<z<0.51 in the ESO-Sculptor survey, and
explore the segregation effects among the populations of giant (early-type,
late spiral) and dwarf (dE, dI) galaxies. At separation of 0.3 h^-1 Mpc, pairs
of early-type galaxies dominate the clustering over all the other types of
pairs. At intermediate scales, 0.3-5 h^-1 Mpc, mixed pairs of dwarf and giant
galaxies contribute equally as pairs of giant galaxies, whereas the latter
dominate at ~10 h^-1 Mpc. We detect the signature of the transition between the
1-halo and 2-halo regimes which is expected in the scenario of galaxy formation
by hierarchical merging of dark matter halos. The early-type galaxies largely
outdo the late spiral galaxies in their 1-halo component, whereas the 2-halo
components of both giant populations are comparable. The dwarf galaxies have an
intermediate 1-halo component between the 2 giant galaxy types, and their
2-halo component is weak and consistent with null clustering. The present
analysis indicates that the early-type galaxies are preferentially located near
the centers of the most massive halos, whereas late spiral galaxies tend to
occupy their outskirts or the centers of less massive halos. This analysis also
unveils new results on the spatial distribution of dwarf galaxies: at the scale
at which they significantly cluster inside the halos (<0.3 h^-1 Mpc), they are
poorly mixed with the late spiral galaxies, and appear preferentially as
satellites of early-type galaxies.Comment: Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press. 29 pages, 15 color figures, 3
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The spatial clustering of X-ray selected AGN and galaxies in the Chandra Deep Field South and North
We investigate the spatial clustering of X-ray selected sources in the two
deepest X-ray fields to date, namely the 2Msec Chandra Deep Field North (CDFN)
and the 1Msec Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). The projected correlation
function w(r_p), measured on scales ~0.2-10 h^-1 Mpc for a sample of 240
sources with spectroscopic redshift in the CDFN and 124 sources in the CDFS at
a median redshift of z~0.8, is used to constrain the amplitude and slope of the
real space correlation function xi(r)=(r/r0)^-gamma. The clustering signal is
detected at high confidence (>~ 7 sigma) in both fields. The amplitude of the
correlation is found to be significantly different in the two fields, the
correlation length r0 being 8.6 +- 1.2 h^-1 Mpc in the CDFS and 4.2 +- 0.4 h^-1
Mpc in the CDFN, while the correlation slope gamma is found to be flat in both
fields: gamma=1.33 +- 0.11 in the CDFS and gamma=1.42 +- 0.07 in the CDFN (a
flat Universe with Omega_m=0.3 and Omega_L=0.7 is assumed; 1 sigma Poisson
error estimates are considered). The correlation function has been also
measured separately for sources classified as AGN or galaxies. In both fields
AGN have a median redshift of z~0.9 and a median 0.5-10 keV luminosity of
L_x~10^43 erg s^-1, i.e. they are generally in the Seyfert luminosity regime.
As in the case of the total samples, we found a significant difference in the
AGN clustering amplitude between the two fields, the best fit correlation
parameters being r0=10.3 +- 1.7 h^-1 Mpc, gamma=1.33 +- 0.14 in the CDFS, and
r0=5.5 +- 0.6 h^-1 Mpc, gamma=1.50 +- 0.12 in the CDFN. Within each field no
statistically significant difference is found between soft and hard X-ray
selected sources or between type 1 and type 2 AGN. (abridged)Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy &
Astrophysic
Intra-week spatial-temporal patterns of crime
Since its original publication, routine activity theory has proven most instructive for understanding temporal patterns in crime. The most prominent of the temporal crime patterns investigated is seasonality: crime (most often assault) increases during the summer months and decreases once routine activities are less often outside. Despite the rather widespread literature on the seasonality of crime, there is very little research investigating temporal patterns of crime at shorter time intervals such as within the week or even within the day. This paper contributes to this literature through a spatial-temporal analysis of crime patterns for different days of the week. It is found that temporal patterns are present for different days of the week (more crime on weekends, as would be expected) and there is a spatial component to that temporal change. Specifically, aside from robbery and sexual assault at the micro-spatial unit of analysis (street segments) the spatial patterns of crime changed. With regard to the spatial pattern changes, we found that assaults and theft from vehicle had their spatial patterns change in predictable ways on Saturdays: assaults increased in the bar district and theft from vehicles increased in the downtown and recreational car park areas
Using predicted patterns of 3D prey distribution to map king penguin foraging habitat
FUNDING The at-sea data collection and 50% of CLGâs Ph.D. studentship was provided by the Swiss Polar Institute as a grant âUnlocking the Secrets of the False Bottomâ to ASB. The School of Biology, University of St Andrews, funded the other 50% of CLGâs studentship. Work at South Georgia was supported by the Natural Environment Research Councilâs Collaborative Antarctic Science Scheme (CASS-129), a grant from the TransAntarctic Association grant to RBS, and a British Antarctic Survey Collaborative Gearing Scheme grant to RBS and ASB. ASB and RP were supported in part by UKRI/NERC under grant NE/R012679/1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the staff at the British Antarctic Survey base at King Edward Point (South Georgia), Quark Expeditions and the crew and staff of the Ocean Endeavour and the FPV Pharos South Georgia for their help with the fieldwork logistics. We also thank the Swiss Polar Institute and the ACE foundation for funding our ACE project, and all our colleagues who assisted with acoustic data collection at sea: Matteo Bernasconi, Inigo Everson, and Joshua Lawrence. We thank Yves Cherel for fruitful discussion on the role of prey patches for king penguins in the Kerguelen region. We also thank C. Ribout and the Centre for Biological Studies of ChizĂ© for conducting the sexing analyses of the birdsPeer reviewedPublisher PD
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