Mc ewen ecn_2012
-
Upload
ecnofficer -
Category
Technology
-
view
339 -
download
0
Transcript of Mc ewen ecn_2012
![Page 1: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Innovations and Challenges in Cynipid Gall Curation
Crystal McEwen University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
and Matthew Buffington
Systematic Entomology Lab, USDA c/o Smithsonian NMNH
![Page 2: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Cynipidae
• Parasitic Hymenoptera• High host specificity• Gall morphology is often
species specific
![Page 3: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Cynipid Galls
1 Photos by Joyce Gross, calphotos.berkeley.edu 2 Photo by Milan Zubrik, forestryimages.org3 Photo by Peter Bryant, bathistoc.bio.edu 4 Photo by Graham Calow, naturespot.org.uk5 Photo by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State Univ. 6 Photo by Gerald Lenhard, forestryimages.org
1 1 1 2
1 1 1 3
4 5 6
![Page 4: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Why Curate Galls?
• Extended phenotype – Morphological diversity is often
greater in galls than the wasps
Top photo from Cals.ncsu.edu
![Page 5: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Why Curate Galls?
• Diagnosis
![Page 6: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
USNM Collection
• Last cynipid-specific curator died in 1964
• Roughly 114 drawers • Traditional methods– The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly– Limitations and problems
• New methods• New problems and questions
![Page 7: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
The GoodTraditional Practices
Top (both) and bottom right photos from CP Gillette Museum, CSU
![Page 8: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
The BadTraditional Practices
![Page 9: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
The UglyTraditional Practices
![Page 10: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Problems
• Damage to insect specimens and galls
![Page 11: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Problems
• Lost type galls
![Page 12: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Problems
• Visibility
![Page 13: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
New Methods – Clear Boxes
![Page 14: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
New Methods – Clear Boxes
![Page 15: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
New Methods – Clear Envelopes
* Not that new but trying to increase usage
![Page 16: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
New Methods – Candy Trays
![Page 17: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Can cause space issues
![Page 18: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Electronic Curation - Gigapan
![Page 19: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
New Problems and Questions• What is the status of galls? Type galls?– How do polythalamus galls affect this?– What do we consider galls that don’t have a
corresponding wasp?• What are our options for barcoding? • What do we do with huge galls?
![Page 20: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Extra Notes and Treasures• Hand writing• Vials of nectar• “Pieces of history”
![Page 21: Mc ewen ecn_2012](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022052822/554de61fb4c905ee578b4660/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Thank you
Acknowledgments: Systematic Entomology Lab (USDA-ARS) for funding this project. Thanks are given to Ray Gagne (SEL Emeritus) and Boris Kondratieff (CP Gillette Museum, Colorado State University) for their assistance, and Smithsonian Combined Entomology for additional support.
Top photo by Whitney Cranshaw