| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,850,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,350,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Diversity and natural history of herbivorous insects were studied at several moist forests in Gondwanaland. As hotspots where archaic herbivorous insects were recorded, tropical forests at the Peruvian Andes and Amazon headwaters, Nothofagus forests in Chilean Patagonia, and tropical and temperate forests of Eastern Australia and Tasmania were chosen as study sites. Among diverse herbivorous insects, I focused on Micropterigidae (Lepidoptera), Rhagionidae, Cylindritomidae, Chironomidae (Diptera) and Attelabidae (Coleoptera). By molecular phylogenetic analyses and phylogenetic comparisons of plant-feeding habits of these herbivorous insect groups, we explored when and how herbivory, especially bryophyte-feeding, originated in Micropterigidae and Rhagionidae and how plant-manipulation behavior has diversified in Attelabidae.
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