Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Tiphiid Wasp Subfamily Thynninae (Hymenoptera)

本项目是全面修订《 蜂亚科的一种。 Thynninae包括超过 已描述的有50属750种。 大概有30%的属 物种仍然没有被描述。 这些黄蜂出现在南美洲 和澳大拉西亚，显然是通过陆地到达这两个地区的 在7500万年前与南极洲建立了联系。 他们 是地面甲虫的寄生虫，包括那些 与日本甲虫有关。 横贯大西洋的分布， 形态学、分类学和 行为使这群黄蜂成为分析它们 进化和分布。 分类和进化分析 已经为南美的团体完成了。 拟议 在这个项目中对thynnines的研究包括进化 分析澳大拉西亚属，然后整体进化 和全世界整个亚科的地理分析。

This project is the second part of a comprehensive revision of the tiphiid wasp subfamily Thynninae. Thynninae includes more than 50 genera and 750 described species. Probably 30% of the genera and species remain undescribed. These wasps occur in South America and Australasia, apparently having reached both regions via land bridge connections with Antarctica some 75 million years ago. They are parasites of ground-dwelling scarab beetles, including those related to the Japanese Beetle. The transantarctic distribution, and distinctive relationship between morphology, taxonomy and behavior makes this group of wasps ideal for analyses of their evolution and distribution. Taxonomic and evolutionary analyses have been completed for the South American groups. The proposed research in this project on thynnines includes evolutionary analysis of the Australasian genera, and then overall evolutionary and biogeographic analyses of the entire subfamily worldwide.