Collaborative Research: ARTS: Taxonomy and systematics of selected Neotropical clades of arachnids

蜘蛛纲动物是最多样化的动物群体之一，在所有陆地生态系统中都有许多代表。除了估计总多样性可能高达100万种的螨类和扁虱类外，蜘蛛目(蜘蛛)和奥普利奥斯目(收割者或长腿爸爸)是最多样化的蜘蛛类血统。该项目的主要目标是对两个蜘蛛目(蜘蛛目[蜘蛛]和大脚蜘蛛[大腿爸爸])中选定的新热带类群的几个谱系进行分类修订(专著)。我们在这项提案中针对的群体主要是落叶落叶居民(除灭蚁类外)，抽样和研究严重不足，缺乏现代修订工作，包括许多物种水平及以上的未描述分类群，因此在现代专著和分类学方面提供了极好的研究和培训机会。我们的研究组在很大程度上重叠的新热带分布使我们能够在联合野外考察中有效地收集这些蜘蛛类动物。其中一些研究分类群还提出了类似的生物地理和进化问题，可以用共同的方法和专业知识来解决。为了实现我们的研究和培训目标，PIS组建了一支具有不同系统学和蜘蛛学背景的科学家团队，并展示了成功的合作研究努力的历史。结合研究努力解决这些分类问题，为我们以最广泛的方式培养博士生的多顺序和多学科方法提供了经验基础。除了联合实地考察之外，实验室轮换和参与项目的多名调查人员之间的合作也有助于这种协同作用。研究成果将在影响较大的门户网站上传播，如生命百科全书和生命树。还将制作在线互动身份识别工具。

Arachnids comprise one of the most diverse groups of animals, with numerous representatives in all terrestrial ecosystems. Aside from Acari (mites and ticks), whose total estimated diversity might reach up to one million species, the orders Araneae (spiders) and Opiliones (harvestmen or daddy longlegs) are the most diverse arachnid lineages. The main goal of this project is to carry out taxonomic revisions (monographs) of several lineages across selected Neotropical groups in two arachnid orders (Araneae [spiders] and Opiliones [daddy long legs]). The groups that we have targeted in this proposal are mainly leaf litter inhabitants (except for mimetids), grossly undersampled and understudied, that lack modern revisionary work and include many undescribed taxa at the species level and above, and thus provide excellent research and training opportunities in modern monography and systematics. The largely overlapping Neotropical distribution of our study groups allows us to effectively collect these arachnids in joint field expeditions. Some of these study taxa also pose similar biogeographic and evolutionary questions that can be addressed with common methodology and expertise. To carry out our research and training goals the PIs have assembled a team of scientists with diverse backgrounds in systematics and arachnology and a demonstrated history of successful collaborative research efforts. Combining research efforts to tackle these taxonomic problems provides the empirical basis for our multi-ordinal and multidisciplinary approach for training doctoral students in the broadest possible way. Lab rotations and collaboration among the multiple investigators participating in the projects, in addition to the joint field expeditions, also contribute to this synergism. Research results will be disseminated in high impact portals such as Encyclopedia of Life and Tree of Life. Online interactive identification tools will also be produced.