PEET

Enhancing Taxonomic Expertise in Parasitoid Wasps
The Insect Family Scelionidae (Hymenoptera)

CREATED 20 December, 1996
LAST UPDATED 02 March, 2000

Norman F. Johnson
Contact us:Johnson.2@osu.edu


The National Science Foundation PEET program, Partnerships in Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy has three major components: (1) conduct of monographic research in systematics, (2) the training of new systematists, and (3) electronic dissemination of results. Our work in these areas is outlined below.

Original Project Summary
Personnel
Norman F. Johnson
Andrey Sharkov
Flávia Ejchel
Eric Dotseth
Alexandre P. Aguiar
Luciana Musetti
Kurt M. Pickett

RESULTS

  • Traditional Publications

    Forthcoming
    Johnson, N. F. A new species and revison of the concept of Thoronidea Masner & Huggert (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea: Scelionidae.) Accepted for publication in The Canadian Entomologist.
    Musetti. L & N. F. Johnson. First documented record of Monomachidae in New Guinea, and description of two new species (Hymenopetra, Proctotrupoidea.) Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
    Johnson, N. F., E. J. Dotseth and L. Musetti. Catalog of systematic literature of the superfamily Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera). Submitted to Contributions of the American Entomological Institute.

    Published.
    Johnson, N. F. and L. Musetti. 1999. Revision of the proctotrupoid genus Pelecinus (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae). Journal of Natural History 33: 1513-1543.
    Johnson, N. F. 1999. New synonymies in Australian Psix (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae, Telenominae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101: 460-461.
    Johnson, N. F., L. Musetti, J. B. Johnson and K. Katovich. 1999. The larva of Pelecinus polyturator (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101: 64-68.
    Johnson, N. F. and L. Musetti. 1998. Geographic variation of sex ratio in Pelecinus polyturator (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 7: 48-56.
    Johnson, N. F. 1998. The fossil pelecinids Pelecinopteron Brues and Iscopinus Kozlov (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea, Pelecinidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 100: 1-6.
    Sharkov, A. and J. B. Woolley. 1997. A revision of the genus Hambletonia (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 6: 191-218.

  • Presentations

    Johnson, N.F. "Biodiversity baseline data." Workshop for Recommendations to NASA for Joint Products and Research with the NGO/Museums Biodiversity Community, Washington, DC; 18 February, 1999.
    Johnson, N.F. & L. Musetti. "Data warehousing architecture and tools for Hymenoptera biodiversity informatics." 4th International Hymenopterists Conference, Canberra, Australia; 9 January, 1999.
    Dotseth, E. J. & N. F. Johnson. "Revision of the genus Acanthoscelio (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)." Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV; 9 November, 1998.
    Musetti, L. & N. F. Johnson "Hymenoptera On-Line database: an integrated biodiversity informatics resource." Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV; 9 November, 1998.
    Johnson, N.F. "The third leg of PEET: electronic dissemination of results." Entomological Collections Network Annual Meeting, Mesquite, NV; 7 November, 1998.
    Johnson, N.F. & L. Musetti. "An information system for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ATBI", Database Strategy Workshop, All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Project, Herndon, VA; 22-23 April, 1998.
    Johnson, N.F. & L. Musetti. "Live database access through the WWW: Integration of collecting information, literature, images, maps and other databases". Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy conference, Woods Hole, MA; 24 March, 1998
    Johnson, N.F. & L. Musetti. "Geographic parthenogenesis in Pelecinus polyturator (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae)." National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, 16 December, 1998.
    Musetti, L. & N.F. Johnson. "Systematics of the Pelecinidae (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae)." National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, 15 December, 1998.
    Johnson, N. F. "Why database: lessons from biotechnology." Annual Meeting of Entomological Collections Network, 13 December, 1997.
    Johnson, N. F. "Systematics collections and GIS-based technology in assessment of biodiversity." North Central Branch Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, 25 March, 1997.
    Johnson, N. F. "Web gateways to collection databases." Annual Meeting of the Entomology Collections Network, University of Louisville, 7 December, 1996.
    Ejchel, F. and N. F. Johnson. "Geographic information system technology applied to identification of areas of endemism." National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, 9 December, 1996.
    Johnson, N. F. and L. Musetti. "The Pelecinus project: integration of database, GIS, and WWW technology for systematics." National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, 11 December, 1996.

  • Electronic Dissemination of Information

    Mapping & Database Queries
    Find specimen data from distribution maps.
    Map the holdings of an institution.
    These clickable image maps are made "on-the-fly" according to the choice of institution made by the user.
    Integrated Information Access
    A single point to access the various kinds of information stored in our databases: you may generate a list of names included in a higher taxon; a summary of the taxonomic literature for a taxon; images (only a few available now); or draw a map of the distribution of a taxon. The families Pelecinidae and Monomachidae are most complete; if you'd like, you can explore through all the data presently available for the order Hymenoptera.
    Family Pelecinidae (Hymenoptera)
    Order Hymenoptera
    Live Database Queries
    Many Areas - One Taxon (Pelecinus)
    One Area (Virgin Islands) - Many Taxa (Coleoptera)
    Hymenoptera On-Line Database
  • Related Subjects

    Other PEET Projects Around the Country (note: requires frames-capable browser).

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Created: 20 December, 1996 || Last updated: 02 March, 2000
Norman F. Johnson: Johnson.2@osu.edu