Acknowledgements

Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region
CJAI 05, February 19, 2008
doi: 10.3752/cjai.2008.05

Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K.B. Cheung

Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1

D. Acknowledgements

We are highly indebted to James Carpenter who provided invaluable feedback, criticism and information throughout the whole project. We thank Jim Carpenter, Rob Longair and Laurence Packer for their thorough reviews, and John Huber for the careful editing of this paper.

We are also thankful to John Huber (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa), James Carpenter (American Museum of Natural History, New York), Chris Darling (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto), Jim Wiley (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Museum of Entomology, Gainesville), Sam Droege (United States Geographic Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Beltsville), Laurence Packer (York University, Toronto), Rob Roughley (J.B. Wallis Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg), Terry Wheeler (Lyman Entomological Museum, McDonald College, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue), Ted Schultz (United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.), and Brad Arnal (Waterloo, Ontario) for the opportunity to study specimens under their care. A special thanks is due to Sam Droege, who supported the senior author’s field work in Maryland and donated many specimens to the Guelph collection.

Kevin Barber (Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario), Henri Goulet (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa), Rob Roughley and Terry Galloway (J.B. Wallis Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg) provided valuable information on the distribution of certain species of social wasps in northern Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba.

Jean-François Landry (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa) checked the validity of Lepidoptera family names mentioned in the literature.

We are also very grateful for the positive feedback from the Bugguide community. In particular we would like to thank Perry Babin, Tom Bentley, Patrick Coin, Jack Connor, Johnny Dell, Tony DiTerlizzi, Bill DuPree, Bobby Grizzard, Jeff Hollenbeck, Stephen Luk, Brian Malow, Charles Matson, Sean McCann, Tom Murray, Richard Orr, Loren Padelford, Lynette Schimming, Steve Scott, Edward Trammel, Charles Weber, Machele White, and Hartmut Wisch for permission to use their photographs of live vespids in the Atlas.

Addendum (added 17/03/08): We furthermore thank the following persons for loaning type material to us and/or for checking diagnostic characters of type specimens: Gavin Broad (British Museum of Natural History, London, U.K.), Bernhard Merz (Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Switzerland), Lars-Bjørn Vilhelmsen (Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark), Hege Vårdal (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden), Guido Pagliano (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Italy), Ted Schultz (United States National Museum, Washington D.C.), Kurt Pickett (University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont), and Jason Weintraub (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).