Priority Taxa

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park management staff have requested the following priority organism groups for new ATBI projects starting in 2015.

  • Hemiptera (certain families, such as Miridae, Aradidae, Lygaeidae, Coreidae, Fulgoridae, Reduviidae, etc.)
  • Diptera (certain families, such as Bombyliidae, Mydidae, Stratiomyidae, Scathophagidae, Therevidae, Cecidomyiidae, etc.)
  • Hymenoptera (certain families, such as Braconidae, Trichogrammatidae, Eulophidae, Chrysididae, Mymaridae, Polistinae, etc.)
  • Thysanura (silverfish)
  • Dermaptera (earwigs)
  • Crustacea (fairy shrimp, ostracods)
  • Mites (terrestrial, parasitic)

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