Transcultural engagement with Polish memory of the Holocaust while watching Leszek Wosiewicz's Kornblumenblau

Kornblumenblau (Leszek Wosiewicz 1989) is a film that explores the experience of a Polish political prisoner interned at Auschwitz I. It particularly foregrounds issues related to Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust in its diegesis. Holocaust films are often discussed in relation to representation and the cultural specificity of their production context. However, this paper suggests thinking about film and topographies, the theme of this issue, not in relation to where a work is produced but in regards to the spectatorial space. It adopts a phenomenological approach to consider how, despite Kornblumenblau's particularly Polish themes, it might address the transcultural spectator and draw attention to the broader difficulties one faces when attempting to remember the Holocaust. Influenced particularly by the writing of Jennifer M. Barker and Laura U. Marks, this paper suggests that film possesses a body ¬¬- a display of intentionality, beyond those presented within the diegesis, which engages in dialogue with the spectator. During the experience of viewing Kornblumenblau, this filmic corporeality draws attention to the difficulties of confronting the Holocaust in particularly haptic ways, as the film points to the unreliability of visual historical sources, relates abject sensations to concentrationary spaces and breaks down as it confronts the scene of the gas chamber

Additional type designations for fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of the Biologia Centrali Americana housed in the Natural History Museum, London

Firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) taxonomy has undergone numerous changes over the past 100 years. In order to help provide stability to the group, types for several of the Lampyridae of the Biologia Centrali Americana were determined or designated in early 2019. Here we provide treatments for the remaining Lampyridae and determine the holotype specimens for four species and designate lectotype specimens for 33 species. ZooBank registration. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1EBF8DAB-3EC5-4671-9E15-C3D2213E316

Revision of Vanuatubasis Ober & Staniczek, 2009 (Odonata, Coenagrionidae), with description of seven new species

Vanuatubasis Ober & Staniczek, 2009 is an endemic genus of damselfly found on the island archipelago of Vanuatu. Previously only three species were assigned to the genus. Here, all known species of Vanuatubasis are formally described and treated, including the association of females for known species. The following new congeners are also described: V. discontinua sp. nov., V. evelynae sp. nov., V. insularivorum sp. nov., V. kapularum sp. nov., V. nunggoli sp. nov., V. rhomboides sp. nov., and V. xanthochroa sp. nov. from material collected across six different islands. An illustrated key to both males and females of all species within Vanuatubasis is provided as well as distributions for all known species

Additional type designations for fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of the Biologia Centrali Americana housed in the Natural History Museum, London

Firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) taxonomy has undergone numerous changes over the past 100 years. In order to help provide stability to the group, types for several of the Lampyridae of the Biologia Centrali Americana were determined or designated in early 2019. Here we provide treatments for the remaining Lampyridae and determine the holotype specimens for four species and designate lectotype specimens for 33 species. ZooBank registration. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1EBF8DAB-3EC5-4671-9E15-C3D2213E316

Additional type designations for fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of the Biologia Centrali Americana housed in the Natural History Museum, London

Firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) taxonomy has undergone numerous changes over the past 100 years. In order to help provide stability to the group, types for several of the Lampyridae of the Biologia Centrali Americana were determined or designated in early 2019. Here we provide treatments for the remaining Lampyridae and determine the holotype specimens for four species and designate lectotype specimens for 33 species

Oficanthon Paulian, 1985, a junior synonym of Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with redescription of Lepanus mirabilis (Paulian, 1985)

Gunter, Nicole L., Saxton, Natalie A., Weir, Thomas A. (2022): Oficanthon Paulian, 1985, a junior synonym of Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with redescription of Lepanus mirabilis (Paulian, 1985). Zootaxa 5194 (4): 575-584, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5194.4.

Two new species of coastal Atyphella Olliff (Lampyridae: Luciolinae)

Saxton, Natalie A., Powell, Gareth S., Martin, Gavin J., Bybee, Seth M. (2020): Two new species of coastal Atyphella Olliff (Lampyridae: Luciolinae). Zootaxa 4722 (3): 270-276, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4722.3.

Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of a Lone Pair−π Complex: Water–Hexafluorobenzene

The lone pair−π interaction between H₂O and C₆F₆ was studied using matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations. Co-deposition of H₂O with C₆F₆ in a nitrogen matrix at 17 K followed by annealing to 30 K, results in the appearance of multiple new peaks in the infrared spectrum that are shifted from the H₂O and C₆F₆ parent absorptions. These peaks only appear when both the H₂O and C₆F₆ are present and have been assigned to distinct structures of a 1:1 H₂O·C₆F₆ complex. Similar experiments were performed with D₂O and HDO and the corresponding infrared peaks for the structures of the D₂O·C₆F₆ and HDO·C₆F₆ complexes have also been observed. Theoretical calculations were performed for the H₂O·C₆F₆ complex using the B3LYP, MP2, and CCSD­(T) methods. Geometry optimizations at the B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ and MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ levels of theory located three structural minima, all of which involve the lone pair−π interaction between the H₂O and the C₆F₆ ring, but with different relative orientations of the H₂O and C₆F₆ subunits. BSSE corrected interaction energies were estimated at the CCSD­(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ level and found to be between −11.2 and −12.3 kJ/mol for the three H₂O·C₆F₆ structures. Vibrational frequencies for the each of the structures were calculated at the B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ and MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ levels. The frequencies calculated with both methods support the assignments of the observed new peaks in the infrared spectra to the structures of the H₂O·C₆F₆ complex; however, the B3LYP calculated frequency shifts were found to be in better quantitative agreement with the experimentally observed frequency shifts