Acknowledgements

I'd like to thank the following individuals for their assistance in the development of this project:

For database, HTML development and many discussions of how to set up this project, Benn Blincoe; for developing the splash page and overall website design, Paul Gordon, both of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

For photographs and slides I’d like to thank Steve Lingafelter, Jim Wappes, the late Ed Giesbert, Dick Penrose, the late Frank Hovore, the late John Chemsak, Victor Toldeo, Gino Nearns, Miguel Monne, and Juan Barriga Tunon.

For permission to use images in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, I would like to thank Phil Perkins and Allison Schellhammer.

For access to collections I'd like to thank Dave Kavanaugh and Vince Lee (CAS), the late John Chemsak and Cheryl Barr (EMEC), and Mike Thomas and Paul Skelley (FDACS).

For discussions on databasing of photographs I'd like to thank Gordon Nishida of UC Berkeley and Gino Nearns.

Thanks to Annie Ray for the updated information regarding pheromones and chemical communication which appears in the master checklist introduction (2009 version).

Thanks to Mr. Alfonso Iorio for permission to use the beautiful images of Macrodontia from the 2008 publication by Marazzi, Pavisi & Marazzi. This publication can be purchased at www.natura-edizioni.it.