A Faunistic Survey of the Dynastinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador

9870202只金龟子甲虫是昆虫动物群中的重要成员。金龟亚科是金龟科最显眼的亚科之一，具有丰富的物种多样性和较大的体型。金鱼亚科约有1400种，在新大陆热带发现的物种比其他任何领域都多。这项研究将专著介绍洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多的所有蜘蛛亚科动物。这项调查将提供这些国家甲虫的分类、地理和时间分布的第一份广泛的文件，并将提供识别所有分类群的手段。为此，将对美国和加拿大的系统学研究收藏以及洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多的小收藏进行深入调查，以收集与标本有关的时空分布和生活史或栖息地信息的数据。洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多也将进行广泛的收集工作。所有三个国家的机构都将建立经权威鉴定的金龟亚科(以及其他金龟科)收藏品。这些材料还将存放在其他机构，包括美国国家博物馆和内布拉斯加州大学州立博物馆。这项研究将有助于开发计算机基础设施，以组织和获取有关金龟子的知识，并将为今后的金龟子系统学工作奠定基础。结果将是对洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多的国家进行专题调查。在这次治疗中将包括对这三个国家的简要介绍。将对每个部落和属进行描述和讨论，并将给出所有部落、属和种的分类检索表(英语和西班牙语)。每个物种账户将由完整的同义词、描述、诊断、分布和时间数据、HA和生态信息以及幼虫和生活史信息组成。这本专著将用大量的习性图、需要澄清的结构的线条图、分布图和主要栖息地的照片进行说明。这项研究将创建标本水平信息、地理和时间分布、目录和图像的电子数据库。该项目产生的其他产品包括：在洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多建立经权威鉴定的藏品；培训一名博士生学习分类学和专题学；培训洪都拉斯农业博物馆的一名学徒馆长和一名副分类学家；培训洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多其他藏品的馆长和学生，使他们了解现代数据收集和传播方法以及确保其藏品得到适当保护和使用的策展活动。

9870202 Ratcliffe Scarab beetles are prominent members of the entomofauna. The Dynastinae is one of the most conspicuous subfamilies of Scarabaeidae because of their rich species diversity and often large size. The Dynastinae is comprised of about 1,400 species, and more species are found in the New World tropics than in any other realm. This research will monograph all the Dynastinae in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. The survey will provide the first extensive documentation of the taxonomic, geographic, and temporal distribution of dynastine beetles in these countries and will provide the means to identify all the taxa. To accomplish this, dynastines residing in systematics research collections in the United States and Canada and those small collections in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador will be intensively surveyed in order to gather data on spatial and temporal distribution and life history or habitat information associated with the specimens. Extensive collecting will be also conducted in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Authoritatively identified collections of Dynastinae (and by extension, other Scarabaeidae) will be established at institutions in all three countries. Material will also be deposited in other institutions, including the U.S. National Museum and the University of Nebraska State Museum. The research will contribute to the development of computer infrastructure for organizing and accessing knowledge about scarab beetles, and it will establish the foundation for future work in scarab systematics. The result will be a monographic survey of the Dynastinae of Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Included in this treatment will be a brief introduction to the three countries. Each tribe and genus will be characterized and discussed, and taxonomic keys (in English and Spanish) will be given for all tribes, genera, and species. Each species account will consist of complete synonymies, descriptions, diagnoses, distributional and temporal data, ha bitat and ecological information, and larval and life history information. The monograph will be profusely illustrated with habitus drawings, line drawings of structures requiring clarification, distribution maps, and photographs of principal habitats. This research will create electronic databases of specimen-level information, geographic and temporal distributions, catalogs, and images. Additional products resulting from the project will be the establishment of authoritatively identified collections in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador; training a PhD student in systematics and monography; training an apprentice curator and a parataxonomist at the Escuela Agricola Panamericana in Honduras, and training curators and students at other collections in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador in modern data gathering and dissemination practices as well as in curatorial activities that better insure proper conservation and use of their collections.