scholarly journals First Observation of the Yellow-Browed Warbler Phylloscopus Inornatus in Romania

Ring ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Lucian-Eugen Bolboacă ◽  
Emanuel Ştefan Baltag ◽  
Lucian Fasolă-Mătăsaru ◽  
Constantin Ion
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
First Record ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Danube Delta ◽  
Migratory Species ◽  
Juvenile Individual ◽  
North Western

ABSTRACT The Yellow-browed Warbler is a species of the Sylviidae family that breeds in Asia and winters in South East Asia and western Europe. In northern and north-western Europe it is considered one of the most numerous nocturnal migratory species from Siberia. In the southern and eastern part of the continent there are fewer observations of the presence of the species in passage or in winter. On 29 September 2013, during a ringing session in the southern part of the Danube Delta (Romania), we captured a juvenile individual of the Yellow-browed Warbler. This is the first record of the species in Romania.

What was the vegetation in northwest Australia during the Paleogene, 66–23million years ago?

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Macphail ◽  
Robert S. Hill
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
First Record ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Dry Conditions

Fossil pollen and spores preserved in drillcore from both the upper South Alligator River (SARV) in the Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory and the North-West Shelf, Western Australia provide the first record of plants and plant communities occupying the coast and adjacent hinterland in north-west Australia during the Paleogene 66 to 23million years ago. The palynologically-dominant woody taxon is Casuarinaceae, a family now comprising four genera of evergreen scleromorphic shrubs and trees native to Australia, New Guinea, South-east Asia and Pacific Islands. Rare taxa include genera now mostly restricted to temperate rainforest in New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and/or Tasmania, e.g. Dacrydium, Phyllocladus and the Nothofagus subgenera Brassospora and Fuscospora. These appear to have existed in moist gorges on the Arnhem Land Plateau, Kakadu National Park. No evidence for Laurasian rainforest elements was found. The few taxa that have modern tropical affinities occur in Eocene or older sediments in Australia, e.g. Lygodium, Anacolosa, Elaeagnus, Malpighiaceae and Strasburgeriaceae. We conclude the wind-pollinated Oligocene to possibly Early Miocene vegetation in the upper SARV was Casuarinaceae sclerophyll forest or woodland growing under seasonally dry conditions and related to modern Allocasuarina/Casuarina formations. There are, however, strong floristic links to coastal communities growing under warm to hot, and seasonally to uniformly wet climates in north-west Australia during the Paleocene-Eocene.

First record of the genus Pareumenes de Saussure, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Philippine Islands with description of a new species

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (17) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Marco Selis
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
First Record ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the genus Pareumenes de Saussure, 1855, from the Philippine Islands (Mindanao and Samar), P. impunctatus sp. nov., is described. This is the first record of the genus from the Philippines. A key to the species of the genus occurring in insular South-East Asia is provided.

scholarly journals First record of tail bifurcation in Tokey Gecko (Gekko gecko) from the Kaziranga, Assam, India : a field observation

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Manoj Gogoi ◽  
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Sumanta Kundu ◽  
Jadumoni Goswami ◽  
Dibyajyoti Saikia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Field Observation ◽  
Southern China ◽  
First Record ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Gekko Gecko ◽  
Northeastern India ◽  
Tokay Gecko

The Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko) is the second largest surviving Gecko species and are distributed across much of South-East Asia, Southern China and Northeastern India and Nepal. In Kaziranga landscape Tokay Gecko are fairly common and frequently seen around households in rural area. Though tail bifurcation is common in lizards but till date no recorded specimen of Tokey Gecko with bifurcated tail had been reported from Kaziranga Landscape.

The Netherlands and the Partition of Africa

1981 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. L. Wesseling
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Flash Point ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Commercial Expansion

The Netherlands was almost the only country in Western Europe which took no share of Africa in the course of Partition. This is at first sight surprising. For centuries the Dutch had had a presence on the Gold Coast, while at the Cape they had created the most important white colony in sub-Saharan Africa. True, the Netherlands had given up both possessions before the Partition, but by that time the Dutch were the chief traders on the Congo estuary, which after all was a major flash-point giving rise to the Partition. Curiously enough, no one has sought to examine this seeming paradox. It is therefore the aim of this article to consider the relationship between Dutch commercial expansion and the origins of Partition, and to place this question in the context of the Netherlands' principal imperial interests, in South-East Asia.

The Occurrence and Distribution of Aphomia gularis (Zell.) (Lep., Galleriidae), A Pest of Stored Products

1956 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. G. Smith
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Stored Products ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Warm Temperate ◽  
Storage Pest

A summary is made of the literature dealing with the bionomics of Aphomia gularis (Zell.), a storage pest of almonds, walnuts, groundnuts and prunes, and to a lesser extent of rice and grain. Additional information is also given on its habits and occurrence in Britain.An outline is given of its origins, introduction and establishment in various parts of the world. The evidence leaves little doubt that the species originated in south-east Asia, its occurrence elsewhere being, with few exceptions, confined to the major ports of western Europe and North America. Cases of the spread of the pest from south-east Asia can be traced to the export of infested goods from that area. Unless action is taken to prevent further dispersal and measures applied to wipe out the known centres of infestation, further establishment of this species can be expected in countries at present not affected.It would appear that A. gularis is a subtropical and warm-temperate species, rarely found in the tropics and only able to maintain itself towards the northerly limits of its range, as in northern Britain and Sweden, in heated premises. In the cooler temperate regions, such as Britain, it cannot compete with such species as Ephestia elutella (Hb.) while in the tropics its ecological niche is filled by the very closely related species Corcyra cephalonica (Stnt.).Its apparent absence from regions in the southern hemisphere, where conditions favourable for development exist, may be due to its presence not having yet been recognised.

scholarly journals Most trumpet moths don’t feed on plants of the nettle family but Paratischeria does: the first discovery of Tischeriidae (Lepidoptera) on Urticaceae in Asia

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5040 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-264
Author(s):  
JONAS R. STONIS ◽  
ARŪNAS DIŠKUS ◽  
ALEXANDRE K. MONRO ◽  
XIAOHUA DAI ◽  
JIASHENG XU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Host Plant ◽  
First Record ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Plant Family ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Leaf Mining

This is the first record of Urticaceae-feeding trumpet moths (Tischeriidae) from Asia. We describe Paratischeria boehmerica Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov. and P. grossa Diškus & Stonis, sp. nov., two distinctive new species of Tischeriidae recently discovered from Laos, South East Asia, feeding on plants of the nettle family. Urticaceae is a rare host-plant family for leaf-mining Tischeriidae worldwide. The new species are illustrated with photographs of the adults, male and female genitalia, and the leaf mines.  

Cultural Transactions: An Introduction to Medieval Seals from a Global Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Mutual Exchange ◽  
Geographic Coverage ◽  
Well Differentiated

Extensive geographic coverage, including China, South East Asia, Arabia, Sasanian Persia, the Muslim Empire, the Byzantine empire, and Western Europe allows the essays gathered in this volume to offer a well differentiated examination of seals and sealing practices between 400 and 1500 CE. Contributors expose rather than assume the inter-subjective, transnational, and transcultural connectivity at work within the varied processes mediated by seals and sealing – representation, authorization, identification, and transmission. These essays encourage an understanding that seals operated in liminal, transitional situations arising from legal, administrative, martial, mercantile, or diplomatic encounters, creating cross-cultural sealing networks in which adaption and accommodation underlay the force of seals as objects and images that generate sociocultural identification through mutual exchange and visual hybridity.

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