Acknowledgments concerning Proconiini project
Many people and funding agencies have been
contributing in different ways for the realization of the project concerning the
online interactive key to and phylogeny of genera of the tribe Proconiini and
evolution of egg-powdering behavior
Funding agencies:
- National Science Foundation, grant DEB-0089671, "Evolution of a Novel Ovipositional
Behavior in the Neotropical Leafhoper Tribe Proconiini (Insecta: Hemiptera:
Cicadellidae)", for C. H. Dietrich & R. A. Rakitov.
- National Science Foundation, grant
DEB-9978026, "Partnership for Monographic and Phylogenetic Research on
Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Membracoidea)", for C. H.
Dietrich & L. L. Deitz.
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento
Cientifico e Tecnologico, Proc. 200833-00-6, "Filogenia da Subfamilia
Cicadellinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), com enfase na tribo Proconiini",
for D. M. Takiya.
Collecting permits, logistics, and ethanol specimens:
- Eduardo Virla (PROIMI,Argentina)
- Gabriel Mejdalani (MNRJ, Brazil)
- Joao Spotti-Lopes & Rosângela Marucci (ESALQ, Brazil)
- Rodney Cavichioli (DZUP, Brazil)
- Man-Miao Yang, Jing-Fu Tsai, Person Huang, & Jen-Yean Liou (NCHU, Taiwan)
- Kun-Wei Huang & Mr. Yang (NMNS, Taiwan)
- Hsien Tzun Shih (TARI, Taiwan)
- Mike Irwin, M. Hauser, Kevin Johnson (INHS, UIUC)
- Sydney Cameron & Jim Whitfield (UIUC, USA)
- Stu McKamey, Terry Erwin, & Warren Steiner (USNM, USA)
- Doug Yanega (UCR, USA)\
- Norm Penny (CAS, USA
- Paul Freytag & Mike Sharkey (UKL, USA)
- Michael Whiting (BYU, USA)
- Gustavo Moya-Raygoza (UDG, Mexico)
- Pedro Lozada (SENASA, Peru)
- Gerardo Lamas, Juan Grados, & Carlos Peña B. (MUSM, Peru)
- Jason Cryan (NYSM, USA)
Comments, characters, literature, and photographs for interactive key:
- Chris Dietrich, Roman Rakitov, Jamie Zahniser, Natasha Novikova (INHS, USA)
- Jean-Michel Maes (Museo Entomologico, Nicaragua)
- Rodney Cavichioli (DZUP, Brazil)
- Marco Aurelio R. Mello (UniCamp, Brazil)
- Eduardo Virla (PROIMI, Argentina)
- Sean McCann (Florida Medical Entomology Lab, USA)
- Gernot Kunz (Universität Graz, Austria): please visit his many other stunning pictures at his website!
- Steve Marshall (University of Guelph, Canada)
- K. G. Andy Hamilton (CanaColl, Canada)