Research on the insect fauna of Vietnam -in relation to the East Asian fauna

从2001年到2003年，东京国家科学博物馆和河内生态与生物资源研究所之间进行了四次合作考察。我们在以下国家公园和自然保护区对飞蛾、甲虫、蜘蛛、臭虫、蜻蜓、苍蝇等进行了广泛的调查：沙坝、丹岛和Cuc Phuong(越南北部)；Bach Ma(越南中部)；已发表或正在印刷的科学论文31篇，包括鳞翅目(14篇)、鞘翅目(3篇)、半翅目(4篇)、蜻蜓目(4篇)、膜翅目(1篇)、蜘蛛目(3篇)、双翅目(1篇)、昆虫纲(1篇)。在越南中部的巴赫玛国家公园，热带山林很发达，虽然大多数是次生的，但我们发现了一些有趣的与台湾物种有关的昆虫，这些昆虫在越南北部是没有分布的。虽然越南南部的大部分山区都是作为茶园和咖啡种植园种植的，但我们能够收集到许多昆虫，这些昆虫被认为是马来亚元素的成员。值得注意的是，此次合作调查不仅在越南北部和南部山区发现了原产于日本至中国南部的七叶蛛亚科(Liphistiidae)的原始蜘蛛。

Cooperative expeditions between the National Science Museum, Tokyo, and the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Hanoi, were made four times from 2001 to 2003. We investigated extensively moths, beetles, spiders, bugs, dragonflies, flies, etc. at the following national parks and nature reserves : Sa Pa, Dam Dao and Cuc Phuong (northern Vietnam) ; Bach Ma (central Vietnam) ; Da Lat and Bao Loc (southern Vietnam).As the results of this research project, thirty-one scientific papers have been published or in printing in the following groups : Lepidoptera (14 papers), Coleoptera (3 papers), Hemiptera (4 papers), Odonata (4 papers), Hymenoptera (1 paper), Arachnida (3 papers, Diptera (1 paper), Insecta (1 paper).In northern mountains of Vietnam (Sa Pa and Tam Dao), we were able to collect many Himalayan-Japanese insects. At Bach Ma National Park, central Vietnam, where the tropical mountain forests were well developed, though most were secondary, we found some interesting insects related to Taiwanese species, which were not distributed in the northern Vietnam. Although most of southern Vietnamese mountains were cultivated as tea and coffee plantations, we were able to collect many insects, which are considered to be members of the Malayan element. It is worth noting that the primitive spiders of Heptathelinae (Liphistiidae), formerly known from Japan to southern China, were discovered not only from northern but also southern mountains of Vietnam by this cooperative survey.