We plan to develop a seamless Web interface to access our collaborators' distributed databases. These include the following:
UGCA
The UGCA database at the University of Georgia, Athens, includes
information on over 267,000 specimens with barcodes that start with "UGCA".
Over 214,000 of these specimens have been identified to a level below order. They
are primarily Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, sawflies, and bees)
from over 9,500 collection events, typically 1 or 2-week samples from Malaise insect
traps.
ACG
The Rearing Voucher Database, Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)
and the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) of Costa Rica is
being developed by Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs. It contains data
on over 70,000 Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) larvae that have been collected
and reared in the ACG. This database includes information on host
plants and parasitoids associated with these Lepidoptera.