Inventory of the Lepidoptera Larvae and their Parasitoids ina Tropical Dry Forest

热带干燥林鳞翅目幼虫及其寄生蜂清查

• 批准号: 9024770
• 负责人: Daniel Janzen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-08-01 至 1995-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9024770&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Inventory; Lepidoptera; Larvae; their; Parasitoids

This is a 3-year major portion of the inventory of all caterpillars, their host plant relationships, and their parasitoids in the tropical dry forest of the Guanacaste Conservation Area in northwestern Costa Rica. The inventory results are designed to make caterpillars and their trophic relationships with food plants and parasitoids available to basic studies in ecology, systematics, behavior, physiology and evolution, and to applied users in natural products chemistry, education, and pest management. The overall goal is to establish this biological system as an integral part of the non-destructive sustainable use of a complex tropical wildland by science and by Costa Rican society. Specifically, this project will accomplish the following. Locate, rear and characterize the caterpillars of a minimum of another 500 species of macromoths (and some butterflies), and a minimum of another 335 species of microlepidoptera, so as to yield a total of approximately 1450 species characterized for this forest. This is approximately half of its caterpillar fauna. All information will be stored in computerized data bases; Maintain and enlarge the current collecting of voucher material for all rearings, and increase the number of duplicates so as to be able to easily donate specimens to studies of taxonomy and morphology of caterpillars and pupae; Publish field guides in Spanish and English to the caterpillars of this forest, family by family, as the rearing for each family is complete or nearly so; Publish survey papers listing the host plant records for all of the species reared, papers listing the parasitoids reared from the caterpillars collected in the field and papers on caterpillars and parasitoid natural history.

这是一个3年的主要部分的库存的所有 毛虫，它们与寄主植物的关系，以及它们的寄生蜂 在瓜纳卡斯特保护区的热带干燥森林中， 哥斯达黎加西北部。 清查结果旨在 制作毛虫和它们与食用植物的营养关系 和寄生性天敌，为生态学，系统学， 行为，生理和进化，并在自然界中应用用户 产品化学、教育和害虫管理。 整体 我们的目标是建立这个生物系统， 非破坏性可持续利用复杂的热带荒地 科学和哥斯达黎加社会的支持。 具体来说，这个项目 将实现以下目标。 定位、饲养和鉴定至少 另外500种大型蛾（和一些蝴蝶）， 最少另外335种小鳞翅目昆虫，以便产生 总共有大约1450个物种以这种方式为特征 森林 这大约是其毛虫动物群的一半。 所有 信息将储存在计算机化的数据库中; 维护和扩大当前凭证材料的收集， 所有的饲养，并增加重复的数量，以便 能够很容易地将标本捐赠给分类学研究， 毛虫和蛹的形态; 出版西班牙文和英文的实地指南， 这片森林，一个家庭接一个家庭，因为每个家庭的养育是 完成或接近完成; 发布调查文件，列出所有 饲养的物种，列出从该物种饲养的寄生虫的论文 在实地收集的毛毛虫和关于毛毛虫的论文， 寄生虫自然史