REVSYS: Multilevel Revision within the Praying Mantises (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Mantodea)

REVSYS：螳螂（昆虫纲、网翅目、螳螂纲）内的多级修订

• 批准号: 1216309
• 负责人: Gavin Svenson
• 金额: $ 35.75万
• 依托单位: Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-23 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1216309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REVSYS; Multilevel; Revision; within; Praying

The charismatic predatory insect group of praying mantises (order Mantodea) includes over 2,400 described species that exhibit an incredibly rich diversity of morphology and life history strategies. Despite the long tradition of ecological, behavioral, and physiological research focused on the group, mantises have received limited taxonomic attention and the current classification scheme does not reflect genetically based, evolutionary relationships. This project will unify traditional and modern morphological and genetically based systematic methods to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships for all praying mantises, which will guide the construction of a natural classification that reflects true evolutionary groups. This research will also produce two species-level taxonomic monographs (representing about 21% of the praying mantis diversity) while building new museum collections, describing numerous new species, producing online, interactive identification keys for mantis genera, and producing a publicly accessible database of taxonomic information and scientific literature references.This project will represent a significant first step in modernizing the systematics of these insects that are often used to control such pests as aphids. The project will also provide a model for future revisions of other insect groups. This research will impact the broader community by: 1) producing high-quality images of mantises and their morphology, organized in an evolutionary framework that will facilitate community identifications through online, interactive taxonomic keys; 2) opening annually scheduled workshops to include university students, high school teachers, and the public, which will provide information and training in praying mantis taxonomy, morphology, and biology; 3) providing new scientific training at the post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate student levels; and 4) immediately complementing current comparative research in mantis sexual ecology, prey recognition physiology, and auditory evolution by providing a stable and predictive classification.

具有魅力的掠夺性祈祷的掠夺性昆虫群（Mantodea订单）包括2400多种描述的物种，这些物种表现出非常丰富的形态和生活历史策略的多样性。 尽管生态，行为和生理研究的悠久传统集中在该群体上，但Mantises仍受到了有限的分类学关注，并且当前的分类方案并不能反映基于遗传的进化关系。 该项目将统一传统和现代的形态和基于遗传学的系统方法，以重建所有祈祷救世物的进化关系，这将指导自然分类的构建，反映了真正的进化群体。 This research will also produce two species-level taxonomic monographs (representing about 21% of the praying mantis diversity) while building new museum collections, describing numerous new species, producing online, interactive identification keys for mantis genera, and producing a publicly accessible database of taxonomic information and scientific literature references.This project will represent a significant first step in modernizing the systematics of these insects that are often used to control such pests as蚜虫。该项目还将为其他昆虫群体的未来修订提供模型。 这项研究将通过以下方式影响更广泛的社区：1）在进化框架中组织的救护物及其形态的高质量图像，该框架将通过在线，交互式分类学钥匙来促进社区识别； 2）每年开放的研讨会，包括大学生，高中教师和公众，该讲习班将提供祈祷的信息和培训，以祈祷螳螂分类学，形态学和生物学； 3）在博士后，研究生和本科生级别提供新的科学培训； 4）立即通过提供稳定且预测性的分类来补充螳螂性生态学，猎物识别生理学和听觉进化的当前比较研究。