Revision of the World Species of Gastrosericus Wasps

加州科学院的沃伊切赫·普拉斯基博士建议继续他的职业生涯中对斑马蜂的研究。天蚕属分布在亚洲和非洲的热带地区，但从未使用一致的现代方法进行过彻底的研究。这些黄蜂的栖息地正在不断减少，必须在它们灭绝之前进行仔细的研究。Pulawski博士建议在泰国、巴基斯坦和非洲收集新的代表性样本，描述它们的形态、行为和生态习性，并利用这些数据重建它们的进化和生物地理历史。这项提议的工作的影响超出了黄蜂单一属的范围。普拉夫斯基博士正在收集一个独特的数据资源，他最终将能够从中提炼出一个重要而广泛分布的热带种群的进化模式。然后，这段历史可以与其他群体（包括黄蜂和非黄蜂）的进化和生物地理历史进行比较，以检验因果过程的假设。

Dr. Wojciech Pulawski of the California Academy of Sciences proposes to continue his career-long study of the sphecid wasps. The genus Gastrosericus occurs across tropical Asia and Africa but has never been thoroughly studied using a consistent and modern approach. The habitat occupied by these wasps is continually diminishing, and careful study must be accomplished before they are extinct. Dr. Pulawski proposes to collect new representative samples of the genus in Thailand, Pakistan, and Africa, to describe their morphology, behavior, and ecological habits, and to use these data to reconstruct their evolutionary and biogeographic history. The proposed work has implications beyond the confines of a single genus of wasp. Dr. Pulawski is amassing a unique data resource, from which he will eventually be able to distill the evolutionary pattern of an important and widespread tropical group. This history can then be compared to evolutionary and biogeographic histories of other groups (both wasp and non-wasp), in order to test hypotheses of causal processes.