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A father's story
(2004)
All across the world, in all walks of life, families everywhere look forward to Summer vacations as a way to spend meaningful time together. When my own children were young, I made it a point every year to take them to someplace exciting and new-Florida and New York in the United States, Switzerland and Italy in Europe, Ecuador and various Colombian cities in South America. I always hoped that, as adults, they would look fondly upon the memories they had of their vacation days with their father and one day do the same with their own children.
The authors describe Adpiasus riegeri sp. nov. (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae, Mirini), a new species of the genus from French Guyana. It is compared with the three existing species of the genus Adpiasus Carvalo & Schaffner, 1973, A. punctatus Carvalho & Schaffner, 1973, and A. mayanus Carvalho & Schaffner, 1973, from Mexico, as well as A. ecuadorianus Carvalho &
Carpintero, 1986, from Ecuador. The characteristic features of the new species are described in detail and illustrated by photographs. Adpiasus mayanus is recorded for the frst time from French Guyana.
The wolf spider genus Aglaoctenus is revised, and of the 12 original species only two are considered valid: A . castaneus
(Mello-Leitáo) and A. lagotis (Holmberg). Eight specific names are considered junior synonyms of A. lagotis: Porrimosa
granadensis (Keyserling), P. freiburguensis (Keyserling), P. diversa (O.P.-Cambridge), P. obscura (Keyserling), P. glieschi
(Mello-Leitáo), P. callipoda (Mello-Leitáo), Aglaoctenus bifasciatus Tullgren and A. harknessi (Chamberlin). Aglaoctenus
guianensis Caporiacco, described based on an immature specimen from French Guyana is considered species inquirenda
and Porrimosa securifera Tullgren, based on a female specimen from Argentina is transferred to Orinocosa Chamberlin.
The Aglaoctenus species are distributed exclusively in South America, except Chile.
A sketch of the lichen vegetation of the Haarwegskloof
Renosterveld Reserve near Bredasdorp (Western
Cape, South Africa) is presented. This reserve is a representative
example of renosterveld vegetation, which
replaces the better known fynbos in relatively dry regions
on more fertile, clay- and shale-based soils. Our
sketch is a first attempt to characterize the lichen biota
of a renosterveld area. The rather low number of 76 encountered
species reflects the absence of aged trees
and large rock formations and occasional bushfires.
However, the significance of the species is great because
most have very restricted distributions in southern
Africa. Among the epiphytic lichens Physciaceae and
Xanthoria-relatives prevail, while on soil and on rock
the genus Xanthoparmelia is by far the most important,
with 22 species, among them several endemics.
Alien Heteroptera in Belgium
(2014)
The subcomplete skeleton of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur recently acquired by the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe) is described. The specimen comes from the early Turanian of the Goulmima region, Morocco, and represents one of the most complete elas- mosaurs known in the world. Owing to the present uncertainties about elasmosaurs systematics, it is referred mainly on stratigraphical grounds to a new species of the genus Libonectes. Some of the bones of the holotype (e.g. cervical vertebrae, ulna) show an unusual type of preservation that might indicate an old-age related pathology. Some aspects of elasmosaurs anatomy suggest non obligatory feeding upon sea floor invertebrates.