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Der hallesche Biodiversitätsforscher Josef Settele hat schon viele Ehrungen bekommen. Doch diese hier dürfte eine ganz besondere für ihn sein. Denn Schmetterlinge sind sein Leben. Und jetzt gibt es eine ganze Gattung, die nach ihm benannt wurde, sodass gleich vier neu entdeckte Arten künftig so heißen wie er.
Prof. Josef Settele sagt: Die Hälfte der Schmetterlinge weltweit ist noch unbekannt.
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Wenn es um Schmetterlinge geht, dann ist der Experte vom Umweltforschungszentrum Halle immer zur Stelle. Prof. Josef Settele ist Schmetterlings-verliebt. Sein Forschungsgebiet: Insektenkunde. Seine Spezialität: Lepidopterologie – die Schmetterlingskunde. Er leitet das Tagfalter-Monitoring in Deutschland, das einzige deutschlandweite Langzeitmonitoring für Insekten. Er selbst hat bereits mehrere Bücher über Schmetterlinge geschrieben. Und auch sein aktuelles, Die Triple-Krise , hat einen Falter
From mentorship to Nintendo Switch raffles, Bridgeport schools see drop in chronic absenteeism
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Desks are in place at a safe social distance in a classroom of Johnson School, in Bridgeport, Conn. Aug. 27, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT At the Geraldine W. Johnson School in Bridgeport, about a third of the students were repeatedly not showing up for class.
It was a trend seen district-wide with some schools seeing chronic absenteeism rates upward of 50 percent as the pandemic shifted learning online and took kids out of the classroom.
The surge was staggering for the neighborhood school, though, which serves approximately 800 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade. Before the pandemic closed school buildings last spring, Principal Luisa Wolf said just 9 percent of students were chronically absent.
New freshwater crab genus discovered
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Genus has been named Rajathelphusa after Rajakumari
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Genus has been named Rajathelphusa after Rajakumari
Researchers have come across a new genus of freshwater crab with two new species from the Western Ghats region in Idukki district. The genus has been named
Rajathelphusa after Rajakumari, the place where the specimens were spotted.
The discovery has been published in the latest issue of
Zoological Studies by Smrithy Raj and A. Biju Kumar of the Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala, and Prof. Peter Ng, head, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, an authority on crabs. The two new species in the genus have been christened
Arielulus pipistrelles (once included within
Pipistrellus), the Silver-haired bat
Nycticeius) (Roehrs
If serotines, butterfly bats and evening bats
do form a clade, the names Eptesicini and Nycticeini (or Nycticeiini) are both available: Nycticeini Gervais, 1855 very much has priority (Eptesicini wasn t used - I think - until published by Volleth & Heller (1984)), but Roehrs
et al. (2010) noted that more effort will be required to resolve the position of
Nycticeius [and what impact it might have] on the nomenclature of this clade (p. 1084) [the relevant part of the cladogram is shown here: if you need help, see the article on the vesper bat cladogram].