U.S.-Australia Cooperative Research: Systematics and Biogeography of the East Indo-Pacific Orthotylini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae)

9316698阿斯奎斯该奖项将资助檀香山毕晓普博物馆昆虫学系的亚当·阿斯奎斯博士的旅行费用，使他能够在未来三年内每年访问一次，与悉尼澳大利亚博物馆昆虫学系的格拉西莫斯·卡西斯博士进行合作研究。合作工作将集中在印度太平洋地区的Miridae虫子上。Miridae是异翅目中最大的科，占该目所有已描述物种的三分之一以上。包括澳大利亚和夏威夷在内的东印度太平洋生物地理区域的Miridae动物群在很大程度上仍然未知。本研究将开启对该地区正特利尼族的系统回顾。这项工作将提供动物群的描述和识别关键，进化关系的假设，该地区现有生物地理模型的测试，并提出太平洋岛屿生物地理学的新假设。合作伙伴将直接受益于印度-太平洋地区两个最大的系统昆虫学研究收藏的设施和资源，澳大利亚博物馆和b.p.毕晓普博物馆。澳大利亚工业、技术和区域发展部为卡西斯博士访问夏威夷提供了支持。

9316698 Asquith This award will support the travel expenses for Dr. Adam Asquith, of the B. P. Bishop Museum Department of Entomology in Honolulu, to enable him to make one visit each year over the next three years, to conduct cooperative research with Dr. Gerasimos Cassis of the Department of Entomology at the Australian Museum in Sydney. The collaborative work will focus on the Miridae bugs from the Indo-Pacific Region. The Miridae is the largest family of Heteroptera, containing over a third of all described species in this order. The Miridae fauna of the east Indo-Pacific biogeographical area, including Australia and Hawaii, remains largely unknown. This research will initiate a systematic review of the tribe Orthotylini for this region. The work will provide descriptions and identification keys for the fauna, hypotheses of evolutionary relationships, tests of existing biogeographic models of the area, and propose new hypotheses for Pacific Island biogeography. The collaborators will directly benefit by combining the facilities and resources of the two largest systematic entomology research collections in the Indo-Pacific, the Australian Museum and the B. P. Bishop Museum. Support for Dr. Cassis to visit Hawaii is provided through the Australian Department of Industry, Technology and Regional Development.