查看更多>>摘要：New records of water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) from South Africa are presented. Five species new to science, Atractides cooki, A. dracomontanus, A. meridianus, A. capensis and A, neoscutifer are described; a first description of the male is given for A. pulcher K. Viets, 1956 and A. assimilis K.O. Viets, 1964. A key to the species of Atractides from South Africa is presented.
查看更多>>摘要：Four species of the spider genus Mallinella are reported from Hainan Island, China, including one already described species: M. hainan Song & Kim, 1997, and three new species: M. digitata sp. nov. (male, female), M. rectangulata sp. nov. (male, female) and M. obtusa sp. nov. (male).
查看更多>>摘要：In the last years there have been renewed criticisms towards those who, theoretically, abuse of naming new taxa, supposedly with the only (or main) objective of having their names associated to the nomina of these taxa and, thus, being 'immortalized'(Pillon & Chase 20071; Dubois 2008; Evenhuis 2008). As Evenhuis (2008) has carefully shown, however, this kind of criticism is almost as old as taxonomy itself and those erecting supposedly unnecessary nomina are often considered to be suffering the mihiitch ('mihi' is the Latin for 'to me', alluding to an egotistical affliction). In fact, even Linnaeus has been later indirectly accused of being afflicted by the mihi itch: "It has often been pointed out that Linnaeus had no idea of a principle of priority. Indeed, he was in no moral position to hold any such idea, engaged as he was in rejecting nearly all existing names of species" (Melville 1995: 5) and, of course, giving them nomina of his own.
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