International Research Fellowship Program: Revision of the European Thereva

0301853霍尔斯顿国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。 该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用独特或互补的设施，专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持博士24个月的研究奖学金。霍尔斯顿将与瑞典斯德哥尔摩自然历史博物馆的托马斯佩普博士一起修订《欧洲特莱瓦》（昆虫纲：双翅目：刺蝇科），一个对刺蝇的区域性研究。这个项目将建立在世界范围内对刺蝇的系统发育研究的结果上（昆虫纲：双翅目：菊头蝠科）和Neartic Thereva物种的修订，大约70个欧洲Thereva物种的修订。 第一年的目标是汇编和组织对Thereva分类修订至关重要的生物学水平数据，其结果将与涉及该属的跨学科研究计划有关。 分类学数据将作为标本标签数据从西班牙南部和希腊的博物馆收藏和实地收藏中获得，这些数据将组织在一个关系数据库中，该数据库自1966年以来一直用于对Thereva的研究。 第二年的目标是利用印刷和电子传播方法向国际科学界提供这项研究的结果。 这次奖学金的结果将被报告，以扩大我们对欧洲动物群的了解，并加强研究计划的基础，重点是北美和欧洲动物群。 此外，由于缺乏双翅目和许多其他昆虫类群的物种水平分类数据，通过互联网提供的，将使基于网络的信息源，为Threva物种的测试案例项目，为双翅目开发和生产可行的互联网分类资源。瑞典自然历史博物馆有一个长期的，支持苍蝇分类学研究的长期承诺，以及最近发展和促进地方和全球多样性研究进展的倡议。 佩普博士是昆虫学系主任

0301853HolstonThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad.This award will support a twenty-four month research fellowship by Dr. Kevin C. Holston to work with Dr. Thomas Pape at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm, Sweden on a revision of the European Thereva (Insecta: Diptera: Therevidae), a regional study of stiletto flies.This project will build on results from worldwide phylogenetic work on Thereva Latreille (Insecta: Diptera: Therevidae) and the revision of the Neartic Thereva species, a revision of the approximately 70 European Thereva species. The goal of the first year is to compile and organize specimen-level data that is fundamental to taxonomic revision of Thereva, whose results will be relevant to interdisciplinary research programs involving the genus. Taxonomic data will be acquired as specimen label data from museum collections and field collections in southern Spain and Greece, with the organization of these data in a relational database that has been in use for research on Thereva since 1966. The goal of the second year is to provide the international science community with the results of this research using printed and electronic methods of dissemination. The results of this fellowship will be reported to broaden our understanding of the European fauna and strengthen the foundation of research programs with an emphasis on the North American and European fauna. In addition, the lack of species-level taxonomic data for Diptera, and many other insect groups, provided via the internet will make the web-based information source for Thereva species a test case project for developing and producing viable internet taxonomic resources for Diptera.The Swedish Museum of Natural History has a long-standing commitment to support taxonomic research on flies and recent initiatives to develop and promote advances in studies of local and global diversity. Dr. Pape is the Head of Entomology.