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MONOGRAPHIC REVISION OF PLATYCOELIA 187<br />

Team Scarab at Selva Negra, Nicaragua. From the left, back row: Andrew Smith and Matt Paulsen; front row: Julio<br />

Torres, Federico Ocampo, Brett Ratcliffe, and Mary Liz Jameson. The rusted tank was used by the Sandinistas in<br />

the 1980s but now points travelers in the direction <strong>of</strong> the Hotel Selva Negra. Photo by Ron Cave.<br />

Alfried Vogler (United Kingdom, BMNH);<br />

Jean Menier (France, MNHN); Hella Wendt<br />

and Constanze Paetel (Germany, ZMHB); Ron<br />

Cave, Roberto Cordero, and Julio Torres (Honduras,<br />

EAPZ); Jean-Michel Maes (Nicaragua,<br />

JMMC); Eunice Echeverría and Flor Urrutia<br />

(El Salvador, National Collection <strong>of</strong> Insects);<br />

Miguel Monné and Fernando Vaz-de-Mello<br />

(Brazil); Al Newton, Margret Thayer, and Phil<br />

Parrillo (Chicago, Illinois, FMNH); David<br />

Furth, Nancy Adams, and Gloria House<br />

(Washington, D. C., USMN); Bob Anderson,<br />

François Génier, Henry Howden, and Anne<br />

Howden (Ottawa, Ontario, CMNC); Yves<br />

Bousquet, Ales Smetana, Monty Wood, and<br />

Bruce Gill (Ottawa, Ontario, CNCI); Doug<br />

Currie, Brad Hubley, Andy Bennett, Chris<br />

Darling, and John Swann (Toronto, Ontario,<br />

ROME); Steve Ashe and Rod Hanley (Lawrence,<br />

Kansas, SEMC); Terry Wheeler (Ste.<br />

Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, LEMQ); Dave<br />

Hawks, Doug Yanega, John Heraty, and Martin<br />

Barnes (Riverside, California, UCRC);<br />

Alex Reifschneider and family, Rich Cunning-<br />

ham and family, Frank Hovore and family,<br />

Chuck Bellamy, and Phil Harpootlian (Los Angeles<br />

[and vicinity], California, AJRC, RACC,<br />

LACM). I also thank the individuals and institutions<br />

mentioned in the Methods and Materials<br />

section for making material available to<br />

me for study. Daniel Curoe and Vladislav<br />

Maly are thanked for allowing specimens<br />

from their personal collections to be deposited<br />

at UNSM as holotypes <strong>of</strong> new species.<br />

I thank Peter Allsopp and an anonymous<br />

reviewer for excellent reviews <strong>of</strong> this manuscript.<br />

Dan Schmidt is grate<strong>full</strong>y acknowledged<br />

for the excellent Platycoelia carbon<br />

dust habitus illustrations and the cover illustration.<br />

Angie Fox is thanked for the cover<br />

layout and assistance with the illustrations.<br />

Linda Ratcliffe is grate<strong>full</strong>y acknowledged for<br />

her publication design and layout <strong>of</strong> the<br />

manuscript. Muchas gracias to Federico<br />

Ocampo for translating the abstract and keys<br />

into Spanish. This project was supported, in<br />

part, by an NSF/PEET grant (DEB-9712447)<br />

to B. Ratcliffe and M. Jameson.

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