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

小行星9316698阿斯奎斯 该奖项将支持B的亚当阿斯奎斯博士的差旅费。P.毕晓普博物馆昆虫学系在檀香山，使他能够作出一个每年访问在未来三年，进行合作研究与博士Gerasimos Cynthia昆虫学系在澳大利亚博物馆在悉尼举行。合作工作将集中在印度太平洋地区的盲蝽科昆虫上。盲蝽科是异翅目中最大的一科，包含超过三分之一的已知种类。 印度太平洋东部包括澳大利亚和夏威夷的盲蝽科动物区系仍基本未知。这 这项研究将对该地区的Orthotylini部落进行系统的审查。这项工作将提供动物群的描述和识别关键词，进化关系的假设，该地区现有地理模型的测试，并提出太平洋岛屿地理学的新假设。 合作者将直接受益于印度-太平洋地区两个最大的系统昆虫学研究收藏馆，澳大利亚博物馆和B的设施和资源。毕晓普博物馆对Cynthia博士访问夏威夷的支持是通过澳大利亚工业、技术和区域发展部提供的。

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.