Systematics and Biogeography of Afromontane Spiders

本研究的目的有三个：(1)利用分类数据划定非洲和马达加斯加寒温带山地雨林生物区系的特有区系并重建其生物地理历史；(2)对发生在非洲和马达加斯加的几种蜘蛛类群进行修正和分支分析，这些类群可能有助于形成(1)和(3)蜘蛛超科蛛总科、蛛总科和小总科的高级分类。由此产生的区域梯形图将提供有关非洲和马达加斯加森林生物群中模式的年龄和起源方式的若干假设的资料。要求经费用于人员、设备和旅费，以完成对飞蛾科、飞蛾科、飞蛾科、微蛾科、飞蛾科和飞蛾科的修订研究。这些修订将以博物馆现有的材料以及在喀麦隆、马达加斯加和坦桑尼亚收集的材料为基础。

The objectives of this research are threefold: (1) to use cladistic data to delimit areas of endemism in and reconstruct the biogeographic history of the cool-temperate afromontane rain forest biota in Africa and Madagascar; (2) to revise and provide cladistic analyses for several spider taxa occurring in Africa and Madagascar likely to contribute to (1), and (3) to contribute to the higher classification of the spider superfamilies Araneoidea, Lycosoidea, and Migoidea. The resulting area cladogram will provide information bearing upon several hypotheses regarding the age and mode of origin of patterns within the forest biota in Africa and Madagascar. Funding is requested for personnel, equipment, and travel necessary to complete revisionary studies on the Cyatholipidae, Zoropsidae, Migidae, Microstigmatidae, Amaurobiidae Phyxelidinae, and Orsolobidae. The revisions will be based upon material already in museums as well as that acquired on collecting trips to Cameroon, Madagascar, and Tanzania.