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

洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多的 Dynastinae（昆虫门：鞘翅目：金龟子科）动物区系调查

• 批准号: 9870202
• 负责人: Brett Ratcliffe
• 金额: $ 29.26万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-10-01 至 2006-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9870202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Faunistic; Survey; Dynastinae; Insecta; Coleoptera

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.

小行星9870202 金龟子是昆虫区系的重要成员。 金龟子亚科是金龟子科中最重要的亚科之一，因为它们的物种多样性丰富，而且往往体型庞大。 Dynastinae由大约1，400种组成，在新世界热带地区发现的物种比任何其他领域都多。 这项研究将专题研究洪都拉斯，尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多萨尔瓦多的所有Dynastinae。该调查将提供有关这些国家的dynastine甲虫的分类、地理和时间分布的第一份广泛文件，并将提供识别所有分类群的方法。 要做到这一点，dynastines居住在系统学研究收藏在美国和加拿大和那些小收藏在洪都拉斯，尼加拉瓜，萨尔瓦多萨尔瓦多将进行深入调查，以收集数据的空间和时间分布和生活史或栖息地的信息与标本。在洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多也将进行广泛的收集。 将在所有三个国家的机构中建立经作者鉴定的Dynastinae（以及其他金龟科）标本库。 材料也将存放在其他机构，包括美国国家博物馆和内布拉斯加州立大学博物馆。 这项研究将有助于发展用于组织和访问有关金龟子的知识的计算机基础设施，并将为金龟子系统学的未来工作奠定基础。 其结果将是对洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多的Dynastinae的专题调查。 本书将简要介绍这三个国家。 每个部落和属将被描述和讨论，并将给出所有部落，属和种的分类检索表（英语和西班牙语）。 每个物种帐户将包括完整的同义词，描述，诊断，分布和时间数据，生境和生态信息，幼虫和生活史信息。该专着将大量说明与习性图，线条图的结构需要澄清，分布图，和照片的主要栖息地。 这项研究将创建电子数据库的信息，地理和时间分布，目录和图像。 该项目产生的其他成果将是在洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜和萨尔瓦多建立经作者鉴定的收藏;培训一名系统学和专题论文方面的博士生;在洪都拉斯的Escuela Agricola Panamericana培训一名见习馆长和一名副分类学家，并在洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜、萨尔瓦多和萨尔瓦多在现代数据收集和传播实践以及在更好地确保适当保护和使用其收藏品的策展活动方面的经验。