Longicorn ID: Tool for Diagnosing Cerambycoid Families, Subfamilies, and Tribes

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Terrence Walters, Amanda Redford, and Julia Scher, USDA/APHIS/PPQ/ITP, the University of New Mexico (Department of Biology), and Purdue University (Department of Entomology) for funding the development of Longicorn ID. We are also grateful to the Natural Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and the Systematic Entomology Lab (SEL), USDA for supporting E.H. Nearns during the development of this project.

We thank Michael C. Thomas (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL, USA), Miguel A. Monné (Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Ian P. Swift (Orange County, CA, USA), Lindsey Seastone (Colorado State University Research Associate, Ft. Collins, CO, USA), and Laura Hartman (PPQ Biological Technician, Ft. Collins, CO, USA) for critical suggestions to an earlier version of this tool.

This work would not have been possible without the help of numerous institutions and individuals: Ian P. Swift (Orange County, CA, USA); John F. Lawrence (CSIRO, Canberra, Australia); Miguel A. Monné and Marcela L. Monné (Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Ubirajara R. Martins and Sonia Casari (Museu de Zoologia Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil); Michael C. Thomas and Paul Skelley (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, FL, USA); Gérard L. Tavakilian (Antenne IRD, Entomologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France); James E. Wappes (American Coleoptera Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA), Thierry Deuve, Antoine Mantilleri, and Azadeh Taghavian (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France); Max Barclay, Sharon Shute, and Roger Booth (The Natural History Museum, London, UK); David G. Furth and Floyd W. Shockley (US National Museum/Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA); Dan Heffern (Houston, TX, USA); Heather L. Paulsen, Cynthia Anne Worden, and Kimberly J. Montoya (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA); Alain Drumont (Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belge, Brussels, Belgium); Marc De Meyer (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium); Johannes Bergsten and Bert Viklund (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden); Alexey Solodovnikov, Sree Selvantharan, Adam J. Brunke, and Dave K.B. Cheung (Zoologisk Museum, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Klaus Klass and Olaf Jäger (Staatliches Museum fÃ¼r Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany).

For permission to use photographs of adult specimens, we're thankful to Jean-Philippe Roguet, (Paris, France), Kenji Nishida (Monteverde, Costa Rica), Benny Vereertbrugghen (Bariloche, Argentina), Ian P. Swift (Orange County, CA, USA), David Spiller (Davis, CA, USA), Tom Kennedy (Albuquerque, NM, USA), Alicia M. Hodson (West Lafayette, IN, USA), Roy Morris (Lakeland, FL, USA), and Kelly Swing (Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Ecuador). For permission to use photographs of larval specimens, we are grateful to Sindhu M. Krishnankutty (USDA/APHIS/PPQ & Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH) and Annie M. Ray (Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH).

Roy Larimer (Visionary Digital) provided support for the BK Plus and Passport imaging systems.

Matt Taylor and Damian Barnier (Lucidcentral.org) provided software support.


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