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Summary: |
Create a Checklist of all the insect species known in the Country of
Panama and add the highest amount of information about distribution,
life history, and insect-plant relations as possible as the availability
of both time and budget. Also there is a guarantee for a species list
including all its taxonomic information. Besides the list, there will be
provided information of distribution, life history and insect-plant
interaction for 206 tropical bee species of Panama with information of
distribution and natural history of at least 1,400 insect species
(mainly butterflies) from Panama with records of another 500 insects of
Panama. This information will be gathered from publications. databases
and knowledge of the STRI experts. The databases will be created
according to the definition of new data of IABIN and will be generated
according to IABIN's standards and phylosophy.The information would be
available without cost in the IABIN and STRI websites. The proyect will
be coordinated and supervised by the entomologist of STRI, with
experience in insects and Steven Paton, who has experience in data
basing and digittion. |
