2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Investigations on immature stages of aquatic crane flies for use as indicator species
| Project/Area Number |
23570104
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Biodiversity/Systematics
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| Research Institution | Hirosaki University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 水生昆虫 / 生物多様性 / 幼虫 / 蛹 / 双翅目 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Though it is recognized that the aquatic crane flies are important as indicator species, they rarely become the subject of ecological investigations or assessment. It is because the immature stages of most of the Japanese crane flies have never been described before at the level capable to identify species. In this study, larvae of crane flies collected in fields were reared to obtain imagoes for strict identification of the species, and the morphology and the biology of immature stages of these captives are described in detail.
As a result, I could unveil immature stages of 42 species of Japanese crane flies.
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| Free Research Field |
昆虫分類学
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