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now considered veterans in the field (Gerry Cassis, Joe Eger, Jocelia Grazia, Barbara Lis, Jerzy Lis,
Philippe Magnien, J. E. McPherson, Pavel Štys), some are no longer with us (Richard Froeschner,
Izya Kerzhner, Yuri Popov, Larry Rolston, Carl Schaefer), and some are relatively new (Kim Barão,
Aline Barcellos, Felipe Bianchi, Luiz Campos, Mariom Carvajal, Eduardo Faúndez, José Fernandes,
Dmitry Gapon, Thereza Garbelotto, Caroline Greve, Jing-Fu Tsai, Michael Wall); to all, we give thanks.
Special thanks to Gerry Cassis (University of New South Wales), Tom Henry (United States National
Museum of Natural History), and Toby Schuh (American Museum of Natural History) for providing
specimens for study, including specimens and photos of pertinent type material. The list of other curators
of various museums (private, university, etc.) who have provided loans of specimens and types (or took
photos of types) is too long to provide here, but we thank you nonetheless. We greatly appreciate the help
with literature acquisition that many heteropterists have provided; DAR is especially grateful for the help
received from the North Dakota State University Inter-Library Loan Service.
We also appreciate the help of Gerald Fauske and Mariom Carvajal (North Dakota State University,
Department of Entomology), Petr Janšta (Charles University, Department of Zoology), and João Victor
de Lima Firmino (Universidade Federal de Alagoas) for their help with some of the photographs and
the podopine phylogenetic tree used in this chapter. Also, Bruno C. Genevcius (Museu de Zoologia da
Universidade de São Paulo) and Jussara Suzano Bento (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) provided
special help with the illustrations for the key characters. A special thanks to DAR’s wife, Jayma Moore
(North Dakota State University, Electron Microscopy Laboratory), who had to listen to DAR grumble
throughout the process of putting this chapter together; she also helped immensely in providing word
processing advice and in the assembly of the tables and plates.
Figures 2.16C and 2.32H were used by permission from the Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis
Pragae journal; Figure 2.25D was used by permission from the American Museum of Natural History;
Figure 2.12H was used by permission from Denisia; Figure 2.12A was used by permission from
Entomologica Americana; Figures 2.13F; 2.14A-D; and 2.27L were used by permission from the
Entomological Society of America; and Figures 2.4A-D, F; 2.14E, F; and 2.21D were used by per-
mission from Zootaxa. Also, all photos in Figure 2.9 were taken at the American Museum of Natural
History’s Microscopy and Imaging Facility.
The work of Cristiano F. Schwertner was supported by a research grant from FAPESP (Auxílio
Regular, proc 2014/00729-3). The research of Jitka Vilímová was supported by grant no. SVV 260
313/2016 of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic. Dávid Rédei received financial support
from the National Natural Science Fundation of China (grant no. 31472024) and the One Hundred
Young Academic Leaders Program of Nankai University. The work of Petr Kment was supported by the
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (DKRVO 2016/14 and 2017/14, National Museum, 00023272).
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