Projects
Caloptilia parasitoids
Interaction of a new species of Caloptilia (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from Eastern Africa with its host (Gentianales: Rubiaceae) and its natural enemy (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
This project is intended to build bridges between several disciplines of natural sciences: botany, ecology, morphology, Lepidoptera science and Hymenoptera science. This project will connect the different parts of our huge insect collection to one integrative unit, showing the interaction of different insect orders in their natural environment, describe new species from our collection and solve certain taxonomic questions.
Principal investigator:
- Jurate De Prins
Dates:
2013 2014Museum staff:
- Eliane De Coninck
- Jurate De Prins
- Oleksiy Gumovsky