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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.