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

9316698 Asquith该奖项将资助檀香山B.P.毕晓普博物馆昆虫学部的Adam Asquith博士的旅费，使他能够在接下来的三年里每年访问一次，与悉尼澳大利亚博物馆昆虫学部的Gerasimos Cassis博士进行合作研究。合作工作的重点将是来自印度-太平洋地区的蝇科昆虫。盲蜂科是异翅目中最大的一科，包含了该目所描述的所有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-太平洋生物地理区的盲蜂科动物群在很大程度上仍然未知。这项研究将对该地区的Orthotylini部落进行系统的回顾。这项工作将提供动物群的描述和识别检索表、进化关系假说、对该地区现有生物地理模型的测试，并为太平洋岛屿生物地理学提出新的假说。合作者将直接受益于将印度-太平洋地区两个最大的系统昆虫学研究藏品--澳大利亚博物馆和B.P.毕晓普博物馆--的设施和资源结合在一起。对Cassis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.