Revision of the World Species of Gastrosericus Wasps

加州科学院的Wojciech Pulawski博士提议继续他职业生涯中对球囊黄蜂的研究。天蚕属分布于亚洲和非洲的热带地区，但从来没有人用一致和现代的方法对其进行彻底的研究。这些黄蜂占据的栖息地正在不断减少，在它们灭绝之前，必须进行仔细的研究。Pulawski博士建议在泰国、巴基斯坦和非洲收集该属的新的代表性样本，描述它们的形态、行为和生态习性，并利用这些数据重建它们的进化和生物地理历史。这项拟议的工作的影响超出了单一黄蜂属的范围。普拉夫斯基博士正在积累一种独特的数据资源，他最终将能够从中提炼出一个重要而广泛的热带群体的进化模式。然后，可以将这段历史与其他种群(黄蜂和非黄蜂)的进化和生物地理历史进行比较，以检验因果过程的假说。

Dr. Wojciech Pulawski of the California Academy of Sciences proposes to continue his career-long study of the sphecid wasps. The genus Gastrosericus occurs across tropical Asia and Africa but has never been thoroughly studied using a consistent and modern approach. The habitat occupied by these wasps is continually diminishing, and careful study must be accomplished before they are extinct. Dr. Pulawski proposes to collect new representative samples of the genus in Thailand, Pakistan, and Africa, to describe their morphology, behavior, and ecological habits, and to use these data to reconstruct their evolutionary and biogeographic history. The proposed work has implications beyond the confines of a single genus of wasp. Dr. Pulawski is amassing a unique data resource, from which he will eventually be able to distill the evolutionary pattern of an important and widespread tropical group. This history can then be compared to evolutionary and biogeographic histories of other groups (both wasp and non-wasp), in order to test hypotheses of causal processes.