PEET: World Monograph of the Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera)

PEET：Therevidae 世界专着（昆虫纲：双翅目）

• 批准号: 9521925
• 负责人: Michael Irwin
• 金额: $ 71.5万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-15 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9521925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PEET; World; Monograph; Therevidae; Insecta

9521925 Irwin The Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera: Asiloidea) is a speciose group of flies inhabiting particularly fragile, xeric environments. The family radiated in warm desert regions of the world, and its species are particularly abundant in Australia, western North America, southwestern South America, the Mediterranean area, and southwestern Africa. Larvae are voracious predators of soil-dwelling arthropods. Thus, these flies are critical to the functioning of natural and managed systems, are potential control agents of fossorial pests, and are probable indicators of environmental heterogeneity and productivity. Yet, worldwide, the family Therevidae is among the poorest known and least understood of the flies because the larvae are difficult to locate and the adults are secretive, frequenting habitats rarely sampled. The family contains an estimated 3,000 species worldwide, of which fewer than one-third have been described. The poor state of knowledge of this family is a major constraint to its potential use for protecting agriculture and for gauging habitat health. %%% This grant proposes to further the task of comprehensively elucidating the world Therevidae. The team that has been assembled is talented, complementary in function, and well integrated in approach. The grant will create and manipulate comprehensive databases of specimen character, collection, and geographic information, produce monographic treatments of genera, initiate a higher level classification of the family, organize and disseminate knowledge contained in databases and monographs to targeted clientele, and educate five next-generation Diptera systematists through a combination of formal and informal training, including participation in field expeditions. Molecular character sets will test and extend hypotheses derived from morphological character analyses. Diskettes and CD-ROMs that contain descriptions and expert keys will be disseminated to museum curators. A larger audience will be targeted for more ge neralized information through a home page on WWW, where anyone with access to the Internet can browse and learn about the Therevidae. ***

9521925 Irwin the vidae（昆虫：双翅目：asloidea）是一群居住在特别脆弱的Xeric环境中的苍蝇。 这个家庭在世界上温暖的沙漠地区散发出来，其物种在澳大利亚，北美西部，南美西南部，地中海地区和非洲西南部。 幼虫是土壤居民节肢动物的狂热捕食者。 因此，这些苍蝇对于自然和托管系统的功能至关重要，是植物害虫的潜在控制剂，并且可能是环境异质性和生产率的指标。 然而，在全球范围内，家族属于苍蝇最贫穷，最不知所措，因为幼虫很难找到，成年人是秘密的，频繁的栖息地很少采样。 该家庭估计包含全球3,000种，其中描述了三分之一。 对这个家庭的知识状态差是对保护农业和衡量栖息地健康的潜在用途的主要限制。 这笔赠款提出了%% %%，以进一步全面阐明世界上的世界。 组装的团队很有才华，功能互补，并且在方法中融合了良好。 该赠款将创建并操纵标本特征，收集和地理信息的综合数据库，生成属的专着，启动对家庭的更高级别的分类，组织和传播针对目标客户的数据库和专着中的知识，并通过将正式培训（包括正式培训）与Inflighal Consitions一起进行，并教育五个下一代Diptera Systematist，包括五个下一代Diptera Systematist。 分子特征集将测试和扩展从形态特征分析得出的假设。 包含描述和专家钥匙的磁盘和CD-ROM将被传播到博物馆策展人。 通过www上的主页，将对更大的受众群体进行针对更多信息，以获取互联网访问的任何人，可以浏览并了解esluevidae。 ***