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abdominal pelts of both sexes were stained with Chlorazol Black (Direct Black 38/
Azo Black) or, occasionally, mercurochrome, and mounted in Euparal.
Fig. 5. Study and photography of tischeriid genital slides at the Zoological Museum,
University of Copenhagen (1995–1996)
Illustrations of adults were drawn in Indian ink by Mrs Lina Jasiukonytë
(VPU) using preliminary sketches and notes by the author and with additional
observations using a stereoscopic microscope. In a few cases, they could be
described as reconstructions from damaged specimens. Some species were
photographed (fig. 5).
Genitalia and wing venation drawings were made using a camera lucida, mainly
from permanent slides, but occasionally from temporary glycerin mounts (see above).
Types of all newly described species are deposited in the institution from
which the specimen was received.
This study was conducted as a part of 10 research projects of Biosystematics
Division at Zoology Department of Vilnius Pedagogical University (fig. 6) with a
financial support given from the International Science Fundation (USA, 1993–
1994), the Prof Hering Memorial Research Fund (England, 1993), the EU SYS-
RESOURCE Programme administrated at the BMNH (2002), the Lithuanian
State Science and Study Foundation (2002–2004) and other foundations.
Substantial unidentified, identified or type material was available to the author
of the dissertation, collected during the last thirty years and deposited mainly in
European and American institutions (together with material that we have collected
in Central Asia and Lithuania): BMNH – The Natural History Museum, London,
Great Britain; HNHM – Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary;
VUIE – Institute of Ecology of Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania; NMM –
National Museum of Namibia, Namibia; NMW – Naturhistorisches Museum Wien,
Austria; NNM – Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Naturalis), Leiden, The
Netherlands; TMSA – Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa;
USNM – National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA; VPU –
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