Revision of North American Trichogramma (Hymenoptera)

赤眼蜂属的黄蜂是其他昆虫卵的寄生虫，是最广泛使用的生物防治剂之一。尽管它们作为防治剂很受欢迎，但北美赤眼蜂的系统分类还很初级，阻碍了它们最有效的利用。该项目将持续提供资金，以确定大约50种北美赤眼蜂的物种定义、物种多样性、地理和寄主分布、栖息地联系和种内特征变化。这项研究将导致详细的物种处理；物种的钥匙；形态、寄主、分布和生殖资料综述；以及该属的系统发育分类。

Wasps of the genus Trichogramma are parasites of the eggs of other insects and are among the most widely used agents for biological control. Despite their popularity as control agents, the systematics of the North American species of Trichogramma is rudimentary, hampering their most efficient use. This project will provide continuing funding to determine species definitions, species diversity, geographic and host distributions, habitat associations and within-species character variation of approximately 50 North American Trichogramma species. The research will result in detailed species treatments; a key to species; a summary of morphological, host, distribution, and reproductive data; and a phylogenetic classification of the genus.