PEET

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

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. This includes some activities that are not being supported financially by the PEET grant, but are an inseparable part of it. This is especially true of our efforts to develop tools to integrate geographic information systems, relational databases, and the world wide web.
Project Summary
Personnel
Norman F. Johnson
Andrey Sharkov
Flávia Ejchel
Eric Dotseth
Alexandre P. Aguiar
Luciana Musetti
Taxonomic Catalogs
Database Queries
Many Areas - One Taxon (Pelecinus)
One Area (Virgin Islands) - Many Taxa (Coleoptera)
The Pelecinus Project: An Example of an Integrated Information Resource for Systematics
Other PEET Projects Around the Country
  1. Biodiversity of Australasian Ground Spiders - Norm Platnick (platnick@amnh.org), American Museum of Natural History
  2. Biogeography, Morphology and Molecular Systematics of Cumaceans: Training Taxonomists for the 21st Century - Irv Kornfield (irvk@maine.maine.edu) and Les Watling (watling@main.maine.edu), University of Maine
  3. Diatom Systematics and the Great Lakes Diatom Flora - Eugene Stoermer (stoermer@umich.edu), University of Michigan
  4. Filamentous Ascomycetes and Monographic Studies on Sarcoscyphineae Fungi - Mike Donoghue and Don Pfister (dpfister@oeb.harvard.edu), Harvard University
  5. Inventory, Systematics and Phylogeny of Sea Anemones: Training of Modern Systematists and Electronic Dissemination of Data - Daphne Fautin (DFautin@alive.bio.ukans.edu), University of Kansas
  6. Monographic and Phylogenetic Investigation of the Fossombroniineae (Hepaticophyta) - Barbara Crandall-Stotler and Ray Stotler (stotler@qm.c-plant.siu.edu), Southern Illinois University
  7. Monographic Research in Agaricales and Aphyllophorales (Basidiomycota, Fungi) - Karen Hughes and Ronald Peterson (repete@utk.edu), University of Tennessee
  8. Monographic Research in the Diptera - Wayne Mathis (mnhen030@sivm.si.edu) and Chris Thompson (mnhen121@sivm.si.edu), Smithsonian Institution
  9. Monographic Studies of Coccidia of the World - Don Duszynski (eimeria@unm.edu) and Steve Upton, University of New Mexico
  10. Monographs of Two Key Genera and Family-Level Phylogeny (Fungi, Ascomycetes, Sordariales) - Sabine Huhndorf (huhndorf@fmnh785.fmnh.org), Field Museum of Natural History
  11. Monography of the Diphyllidea, Lecanicephalidea and Tetraphyllidea: A Program to Train the Cestodologists of the Future - Janine Caira (jcaira@uconnvm.uconn.edu) and Charlie Henry, University of Connecticut
  12. Partnerships is Aleocharine Systematics (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): Phylogeny of Basal Lineages and Identification of North American and Mexican Genera - James Ashe (ashe@falcon.cc.ukans.edu), University of Kansas
  13. Revision of the Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Isopoda), with Monographs on Selected Genera and a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Family - Rick Brusca (bruscar@cofc.edu) and Brian Kensley, University of Charleston
  14. Systematics of Amphipod Crustaceans in the Families Crangonyctidae and Hadziidae - John R. Holsinger (jrhj100f@viper.mgb.odu.edu), Old Dominion
  15. Systematics, Ontogeny and Ecology of the Family Acaridae (Acari: Astigmata) - Barry O'Connor (bmoc@umich.edu), University of Michigan
  16. Taxonomic Monographs of Meteoriaceae Mosses - Bruce Allen and Robert Magill (magill@mobot.mobot.org)
  17. Taxonomy and Co-evolution of Trichomycetes (Gut-Inhabiting Fungi) and their Chironomidae (Diptera) Hosts - Leonard Ferrington (tendipes@falcon.ukans.edu) and Robert Lichtwardt (licht@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu), University of Kansas
  18. Training in Taxonomy of the Aplacophora, Deep-Sea Mollusks - Amelie Scheltema (ascheltema@whoi.edu), Woods Hole
  19. Training of Taxonomists for Monographic and Database Research on Tortricine Moths - Bernard Landry, Jerry Powell, and Felix Sperling (sperling@nature.berkeley.edu), University of California, Berkeley
  20. World Monograph of the Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera) - Mike Irwin (m-irwin2@uiuc.edu), Brian Wiegmann, and David Yeates (D.Yeates@mailbox.uq.oz.au), University of Illinois
Last updated: 17 December, 1996
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