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NSF Grant Number: DEB-0542864 Based on the successful Insect Survey of a Megadiverse Country, Phase II: Colombia, Dr. Michael Sharkey and Dr. Brian Brown began a Thailand biodiversity inventory in 2006. Thailand has a diversity of habitat types, including tropical rain forest, dry or semi-evergreen forest, montane evergreen forest, coniferous forest, swamp forest (including mangroves), deciduous forest, and savanna. Collections occurred in 25 National Parks in Thailand over a three year period. With the project currently in its final stages, we are continuing to add species identifications to the TIGER database and publications to our ever exanding list (all posted on the TIGER website). Link to Project (Opens in new window) |
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NSF Grant Number: EF-0337220 HymAToL is a large collaborative project funded by the National Science Foundation under the “Assembling the Tree Of Life” initiative, which aims to reconstruct the evolutionary history of all organisms. Our goal is to construct a large-scale phylogenetic analysis of the Hymenoptera, an insect order that encompasses approximately 10% of the species diversity of life. Approximately 115,000 species have already been described and estimates for the total number of species range up to 2.5 million. Solving the taxonomic problems within the Hymenoptera will aide researchers in many biological fields, as Members of the Hymenoptera have an enormous impact on ecosystem function and our everyday lives. Link to Project (Opens in new window) |
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NSF Grant Number: DEB 0205982 The Colombia Biodiversity Project (spanning 2002-2005) was a collaborative arrangement among the Humboldt Institute in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, the University of Kentucky, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The goal of the project was to survey arthropod diversity in a wide range of habitats in Colombia. Colombia is one of the most species-rich countries in the world, but also one of the least known for arthropods. As expected, a wealth of spectacular new taxa was discovered. Specimens are being used to estimate the total number of species in various habitats, for a range of taxa, and to build reference collections in the Humboldt Institute and cooperating institutions elsewhere. Link to Project (Opens in new window) |
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Grant Number: 2002-35316-12270 The braconid genus Cotesia (Microgasterinae) contains a number of species used throughout the world in the biological control of pest caterpillars, as well as many non-manipulated, but important, species acting in their native settings to help regulate populations of important pests. Members of this genus generally attack large caterpillars, most commonly in temperate regions of the world. The web page contains an interactive key, synonym finder, host record finder, and description and diagnoses for the economically important species of Cotesia worldwide. Habitus images link to the individual species page in which images of the cocoon, forewing, hindleg, lateral metasoma, dorsal mesosoma, propodeum, and the first three metasomal terga can be found. These diagnostic images may be compared with images from all of the other Cotesia species by clicking on the pertinent body region. The Cotesia project is a collaborative project between Dr. Michael Sharkey at the University of Kentucky and Dr. James Whitfield at the University of Illinois and has been funded by the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. Link to Project (Opens in new window) |
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Developed as part of many projects, these interactive keys are available. Unlike dichotomous keys,
interactive keys are non-linear. The user of the key may choose any character from a list of
characters. These characters correspond to an exhaustive list of taxa, and taxa are removed from
the list as character states are selected. The interactive keys using here were developed using INTKEY,
part of the DELTA (DEscription Language for Taxonomy)created at the Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) between 1971 and 2000. Directions for using INTKEY and building your own keys may be found in K. Seltmann's Thesis on Building Interactive Keys using INTKEY or on the Delta Programs Page
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| Agathidinae Genera of the Orient. Khoikhoiinae. |
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Funding in part from NSF Grant Number: EF-0337220 Braconidae name index provides an alphabetised list of 23,927 scientific names published to the present. The list was originally compiled from Taxapad Ichneumonoidea database updated to 2007. Currently, information on the original name, reference to the original description, the unique taxon identifier, and distribution are provided for each taxon. Link to Project (Opens in new window) |
