Genomic Investigation of Color Polymorphism and Phylogeographic Variation among Populations of Black‐Headed Bulbul ( Brachypodius atriceps ) in Insular Southeast Asia

New species of Anelosimus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Africa and Southeast Asia, with notes on sociality and color polymorphism

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.1147.1.1 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 1147 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

INGI AGNARSSON ◽

JUN-XIA ZHANG

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

Social Behavior ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Color Polymorphism ◽

Undescribed Species ◽

Phylogenetic Placement ◽

Unknown Species ◽

Behavioral Information

The cobweb spider genus Anelosimus contains species showing various levels of social behavior. American Anelosimus are well known and several species have been described from Europe, China, Japan, and Madagascar. However, to date, only two behaviorally unknown species have beendescribed from continental Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australasia combined. In this paper we describe seven new Anelosimus species, A. agnar n. sp. (Malaysia), A. biglebowski n. sp. (Tanzania), A. dude n. sp. (Tanzania), A. linda n. sp. (Malaysia), A. monskenyensis n. sp. (Kenya), A. nelsoni n. sp. (South Africa), and A. sulawesi n. sp. (Sulawesi) from Africa and Southeast Asia. We also redescribe A. kohi Yoshida, 1993 and provide evidence for subsocial behavior in that species. Anelosimus kohi shows a marked color polymorphism that is apparently habitat-related, both in populations in Malaysia and in Singapore. Several of the undescribed species were included in previous phylogenetic analyses, and the likely phylogenetic placement of each species is discussed. Based on new behavioral information we discuss the phylogenetic and geographical distribution of temporary and permanent sociality in Anelosimus.

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On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

Journal of Southeast Asian History ◽

10.1017/s0084255900007944 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 73-105 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John R. W. Small

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Contemporary History ◽

The Past ◽

History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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