Systematic and Ecological Surveys on Some Plant-Parasitic Micro-arthropods in Southeast Asia

1. 1990-1992年在马来西亚半岛东部、沙捞越西部、马来西亚半岛西北部和菲律宾吕宋岛进行了调查，此前分别于1986年和1988年在马来西亚半岛中部高地和沙巴进行了调查。从可达性和植被的角度选择调查地点，以便有效地进行调查。需要准备的材料如下。1990年：采集605个样本，约400种球科；矿样486份，采叶蛾约80种；酒瓶约100瓶，囊翅目约60种；约120个标本及约30种双翅昆虫。1991年：498个样本，约200种；矿样550份，采叶蛾约80种；囊翅目265只，约100种；螨类标本约300份，约30种。1992年采集样本123份，球虫总科约80种；矿样117份，采叶蛾约60种。已经发表了六篇基于这些材料的科学论文，但大部分材料仍在研究中或有待研究。有关节肢动物群在东南亚并不为人所知，通过调查获得了一些新的形式。预计该项目最终将澄清东亚热带和温带的区系关系，推进有关类群的系统分类，并为应用领域积累有用的基础数据。在对有机进化的一般模式有浓厚兴趣的调查收集的大量资料的基础上，研究了双翅目蚧虫和细叶蛾的幼虫多态性。

1. Surveys were materialized in eastern Peninsular Malaysia, western Sarawak, northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, and Luzon Island, the Philippines, in 1990-1992 in succession to the preceding projects in central highlands of Peninsular Malaysia and in Sabah, materialized in 1986 and 1988, respectively. Survey localities were selected from the viewpoint of their accessibility and also of their vegetation so as to make surveys effectively.2. The materials obtained are as follows. 1990 : 605 samples and about 400 speceis of Coccoidea ; 486 mine samples and about 80 species of leaf-mining moths ; about 100 alcohol vials and about 60 species of Thysanoptera ; about 120 specimens and about 30 species of dipterous insects. 1991 : 498 samples and about 200 species of Coccoidea ; 550 mine samples and about about 80 species of leaf-mining moths ; 265 vials and about 100 species of Thysanoptera ; about 300 specimens and about 30 species of eriophyid mites. 1992 : 123 samples and about 80 species of Coccoidea ; 117 mine samples and about 60 species of leaf-mining moths.3. Six scientific papers based on the collection have been published, but the greater part of the materials is under study or remains to be studied. The arthropod groups concerned are not well known in the southeastern Asia,and a number of new forms have been obtained by the surveys. It is expected that the project eventually will clarify the faunal relationship between tropical and temperate east Asia, advance the systematics of the groups concerned and accumulate fundamental data useful for applied fields. Larval polymorphism in diaspidid scale insects and also in leaf-mining moths of Gracillariidae is studied on the basis of abundant materials collected by the surveys with deep interest at the general pattern of organic evolution.