The Caddisflies (Trichoptera) of Costa Rica.

9400632 Holzenthal本申请寻求资金，主要以研究生研究助学金和夏季教员工资的形式，以完成哥斯达黎加和新热带地区毛翅目动物或热蝇动物群的系统研究和教育。该项目的一个重要的新组成部分将是强调对哥斯达黎加人进行系统昆虫学的研究生培训。通过该项目产生的资料和数据，特别是手册的英文文本和标本一级的地点和分类资料，将输入一个数据库，并通过地鼠在互联网上提供。球蛾与蝴蝶和飞蛾有密切的关系，尤其是那些对飞蝇钓鱼感兴趣的人，最出名的是它们的幼虫和捕网。球虱幼虫在世界各地的淡水中普遍存在，但在未受污染的河流和蒸汽中尤其多样。幼虫在水生食物链中很重要，被用作淡水栖息地健康状况的生物指标。这项研究的目的是确定哥斯达黎加地虱动物群的全部多样性和分布，并出版一份物种一级的西班牙语动物群手册。完成后，这本手册将是拉丁美洲同类手册中的第一本。由于该手册将以修订的单系分类群的分类和系统发育研究为基础，因此它的制作将使哥斯达黎加以外的地区受益于毛虫学和一般新热带昆虫的研究。本项目开发的人力资源、手册和数据库将为今后新大陆热带地区毛翅目昆虫及其栖息地的分类、生物学和保护研究发挥重要作用。

9400632 Holzenthal This request seeks funding, primarily in the form of graduate student research assistantships and summer faculty salary, to complete systematics research and education on the Trichoptera, or caddisfly, fauna of Costa Rica and the Neotropics. An important new component of the project will be emphasis on the graduate training of a Costa Rican in systematic entomology. Information and data generated through the project, specifically the English-language text of the manual and specimen level locality and taxonomic information, will be entered on a database and made available over the Internet through Gopher. Caddisflies are closely related to butterflies and moths and are best known, especially by those interested in fly fishing, for the cases and capture nets constructed by their aquatic larvae. Caddisfly larvae are ubiquitous in fresh waters worldwide, but are especially diverse in unpolluted rivers and steams. Larvae are important in aquatic food chains and are used as biological indicators of the well-being of freshwater habitats. The objectives of this research are to determine the full diversity and distribution of the caddisfly fauna of Costa Rica and to publish a species-level, Spanish-language manual of the fauna. When completed, this manual will be the first of its kind in Latin America. Since the manual will be based on revisionary taxonomic and phylogenetic research of monophyletic taxa, its production will extend benefits beyond Costa Rica to trichopterology and the study of Neotropical insects in general. The human resources, manual, and database developed under this project will serve important roles for future research on the taxonomy, biology, and conservation of Trichoptera and their habitats in the New World tropics.