Tetrasphaeropyx of the world

We are grateful to the following people. Thanks to Dr. Robert Wharton (Texas A&M University; TAMU) for invaluable advice at the beginning of this study and for assistance in procuring loaned material from the TAMU collection. Thanks also to Drs. Scott Shaw and Paul Marsh for their timely publication of Aleiodes itamevorus and Aleiodes maritimus (Shaw and Marsh 2004), and for their collegiality in publishing the Aleiodes coxalis group (Shaw et al. 2006, both of which were crucial in completing this study. Thanks also to Dr. Jason Weintraub (Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia; ANSP) for assistance and hospitality while studying holotype material at ANSP, and for loaned material. Thanks to Derek Sikes (University of Alaska Fairbanks; UAF) for opening the Insect Lab at UAF to me, without which my work in Alaska would have been much more difficult. Many thanks to the Jesuits in Alaska for their warm and gracious hospitality in Fairbanks, and also to Bishop Donald Kettler of Fairbanks.

Also we thank the following curators, collection managers and others for their generosity in time and labor in arranging loaned material used in this study: Dr. Patricia Doak, UAF; Dr. Zachary Falin, Snow Entomological Museum; Dr. David Smith, National Museum of Natural History; Dr. Steven Heydon, Bohart Museum of Entomology; Dr. E.R. Hoebeke, Cornell University Insect Collection; Dr. John Huber, Canadian National Collection; Dr. Steven Krauth, Insect Research Collection at University of Wisconsin, Madison; Dr. Gary Parsons, Arthropod Research Collection at Michigan State University; Dr. Edward Riley, TAMU; Dr. Mark Shaw, National Museums of Scotland; Dr. Scott Shaw, Entomology Collection at University of Wyoming; Dr. David Wahl, American Entomological Institute; Dr. Doug Yanega, Entomology Research Museum at University of California Riverside, and Dr. Robert Zuparko, Essig Museum.

Shaw, S.R. and P.M. Marsh. 2004. Two new Eastern North American species of the Aleiodes coxalis (Spinola) species-group (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) reared from Geometridae. Zootaxa 656: 1-10.