Staff and collaborating taxonomists

The INBio staff working for this proyect is composed by one technician (Xinia Fernández), one parataxonomist (Braulio Hernández) and one curator (Guillermo Chaverri). The technician is in charge of larva rearing, adult mounting, exuviae and genitalia slide mounting, and the general looking after the collection. The parataxonomist´s work is to collect adults and larvae in the field, obtain larval and pupal exuviae, data-entry habitat information of collected specimens, and slide-mounting of adults and exuviae. The curator has to supervise the collecting, rearing and mounting processes, to up-date the taxonomy in the database, to curate the collection, and to expand the generated knowledge throughout different publications.

This project has the collaboration of Dr. Richard Wilkerson, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, who is a specialist in the Anopheles genus; and Dr. Mario Vargas from the Universidad de Costa Rica who is a specialist in collecting and rearing of adults and larvae, and in general taxonomy.

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