The Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Costa Rica.

小行星9400632 这项请求寻求资金，主要是研究生研究助学金和暑期教师工资的形式，以完成关于哥斯达黎加和新热带地区毛翅目或石蛾动物群的系统学研究和教育。 该项目的一个新的重要组成部分将是强调对一名哥斯达黎加人进行系统昆虫学的研究生培训。 通过该项目产生的信息和数据，特别是手册的英文本以及标本一级的地点和分类信息，将输入数据库，并通过Gopher在因特网上提供。 石蛾与蝴蝶和飞蛾关系密切，尤其是对飞蝇捕鱼感兴趣的人，最熟悉的是它们的水生幼虫构成的箱子和捕获网。 石蛾幼虫在世界范围内的淡水沃茨中普遍存在，但在未受污染的河流和溪流中尤其多样。 幼虫在水生食物链中很重要，被用作淡水生境状况的生物指标。 这项研究的目的是确定哥斯达黎加石蛾动物群的全部多样性和分布，并出版一本物种一级的西班牙语动物群手册。 该手册完成后将成为拉丁美洲的第一本此类手册。 由于该手册将以单系分类群的订正分类学和系统发生学研究为基础，其出版将使哥斯达黎加以外的地区受益，从而使毛翅目学和新热带区昆虫的一般研究受益。 本计画所开发的人力资源、手册与资料库，将为未来新大陆热带毛翅目及其栖息地的分类学、生物学与保育研究，发挥重要的作用。

9400632 Holzenthal This request seeks funding, primarily in the form of graduate student research assistantships and summer faculty salary, to complete systematics research and education on the Trichoptera, or caddisfly, fauna of Costa Rica and the Neotropics. An important new component of the project will be emphasis on the graduate training of a Costa Rican in systematic entomology. Information and data generated through the project, specifically the English-language text of the manual and specimen level locality and taxonomic information, will be entered on a database and made available over the Internet through Gopher. Caddisflies are closely related to butterflies and moths and are best known, especially by those interested in fly fishing, for the cases and capture nets constructed by their aquatic larvae. Caddisfly larvae are ubiquitous in fresh waters worldwide, but are especially diverse in unpolluted rivers and steams. Larvae are important in aquatic food chains and are used as biological indicators of the well-being of freshwater habitats. The objectives of this research are to determine the full diversity and distribution of the caddisfly fauna of Costa Rica and to publish a species-level, Spanish-language manual of the fauna. When completed, this manual will be the first of its kind in Latin America. Since the manual will be based on revisionary taxonomic and phylogenetic research of monophyletic taxa, its production will extend benefits beyond Costa Rica to trichopterology and the study of Neotropical insects in general. The human resources, manual, and database developed under this project will serve important roles for future research on the taxonomy, biology, and conservation of Trichoptera and their habitats in the New World tropics.