TAXA and COLLABORATORS

Protista
Myxomycota
Myxomycetes (slime molds)
Rita de Cássia Sindrônia Maimoni-Rodella, UNESP/IB; rodella@ibb.unesp.br
Steven L. Stephenson, FSC; sstephenson@mail.fscwv.edu

Plantae
Chlorophyta
Trentepohliales (terrestrial green algae)
Russell L. Chapman, LSU; btruss@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu

Embryophyta
Bryophyta (hepatics & mosses)
Regina Célia Lobato Tavares, MPEG; regina@museu-goeldi.br
Anna Luiza Ilkiu- Borges, MPEG; alborges@br.homeshopping.com.br
Bruce H. Allen, MBG; ballen@lehmann.mobot.org

Tracheophyta (ferns & seed plants)
Regina Célia Viana Martins da Silva, Embrapa; rcvms@supridad.com.br
Rosângela Rodrigues Sarquis, IEPA; inacialIEPA@hotmail.com
Maria de Nazaré do Carmo Bastos, MPEG; nazir@museu-goeldi.br
Jorge Oliveira, MPEG; joliver@museu-goeldi.br
Rafael de Paiva Salomão, MPEG; salomao@museu-goeldi.br
João Ubiratan M. dos Santos, MPEG; bira@museu-goeldi.br
Ricardo de Souza Secco, MPEG; rsecco@museu-goeldi.br
Antônio Sérgio Lima da Silva, MPEG; sergio@museu-goeldi.br
Lúcia Garcez Lohmann, MBG; lohmann@mobot.org
Randall J. Evans, MBG; revans@lehmann.mobot.org

Fungi
Ascomycota
Foliicolous Pyrenomycetes, Loculoascomycetes, and Plectomycetes
Edson Luiz Furtado, UNESP/FCA; furtado@fca.unesp.br (?)
Richard T. Hanlin, UG; rhanlin@arches.uga.edu

Pyrenomycetes
insect-pathogenic Clavicipitales
Kathie T. Hodge, Cornell; kh11@cornell.edu

Laboulbeniomycetes
Insect-ectoparasitic Laboulbeniales
Alexander Weir, SUNY/ESF; aweir@mailbox.syr.edu

Basidiomycota
Basidiomycetes
Ectomycorrhizal Agaricales
Roy E. Halling, NYBG; rhalling@nybg.org

Teliomycetes
Uredinales (rusts)
Helen M. P. Sotão, MPEG; helen@museu-goeldi.br
Joseph F. Hennen, BRIT; rustax@aol.com

Metazoa
Arthropoda

Arachnida
Opiliones (harvestmen)
Palpatores (daddy-longlegs)
Pedro Gnaspini Netto, USP/IB; gnaspini@ib.usp.br

Acari (mites)

Trombidiformes, Tarsonemoidea, Tarsonemidae, Tetranychoidea, Tetranychidae, Tenuipalpidae, Eriophyoidea
Gilberto José de Moraes, USP/ESALQ; ghmoraes@carpa.ciagr.usp.br
Carlos Holger W. Flechtmann, USP/ESALQ; chwflech@carpa.ciagr.usp.br

Fungi-, insect-, and vertebrate-associated Sarcoptiformes
Barry M. Oconnor, UMich; bmoc@umich.edu

Parasitiformes
Ascoidea
Phytoseiidae
Gilberto José de Moraes, USP/ESALQ; ghmoraes@carpa.ciagr.usp.br
Carlos Holger W. Flechtmann, USP/ESALQ; chwflech@carpa.ciagr.usp.br Insecta

Isoptera (termites)
Reginaldo Constantino, UnB; constant@unb.br

Coleoptera (beetles)
Hydrophiloidea
Histeridae (hister beetles)
Alexey K. Tishechkin, LSU; atishe1@ lsu.edu

Staphylinoidea
Staphylinidae (rove beetles)
James S. Ashe, UK; ashe@falcon.cc.ukans.edu
Christopher E. Carlton, LSU; ccarlto@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu

Leiodidae (round fungus beetles)
Pedro Gnaspini Netto, USP/IB; gnaspini@ib.usp.br

Elateroidea

Elateridae (click beetles)
Cleide Costa, USP/MZ; cleideco@usp.br
Sônia Aparecida Casari, USP/MZ; casari@usp.br
Samuel A. Wells, CSU; samwells@aol.com
Slime mold- and fungi-associated Cucujoidea
Joseph V. McHugh, UG; jmchugh@bugs.ent.uga.edu

Tenebrionoidea
Melandryidae (false darkling beetles)
Darren A. Pollock, UMan; pollockd@cc.umanitoba.ca

Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)
Charles A. Triplehorn, OSU; triplehorn.1@osu.edu

Curculionoidea
Anthribidae (fungus weevils)
Barry D. Valentine, OSU; valentine.1@osu.edu (?)

Hymenoptera
Ichneumonoidea
Fungi-associated Ichneumonidae
Alexandre P. Aguiar, OSU; aguiar.2@osu.edu

Braconidae
Michael J. Sharkey, UKy; msharkey@ca.uky.edu

Vespoidea
Formicidae (ants)
Ana Yoshi Harada, MPEG; ayharada@museu-goeldi.br
Donat Agosti, AMNH; agosti@starnet.com.eg
John Lattke, UCV; piquihuye@hotmail.com

Vespidae
Orlando Tobias Silveira, MPEG; orlando@museu-goeldi.br

Apoidea (bees)
Halictidae
Beatriz Woiski Teixeira Coelho, USP/MZ; bwtcoelho@yahoo.com
Michael S. Engel, UK; engel@amnh.org (until September 2000)

Apidae: Anthophorinae
Isabel Alves dos Santos, USP/IB; isabelha@usp.br
Fernando Silveira (UFMG); fernando@mono.icb.ufmg.br

Apidae: Meliponinae
Arley José Silveira da Costa, UNIFAP; ajscosta@ib.usp.br
Giorgio Cristino Venturieri, Embrapa; giorgio@ib.usp.br

Diptera (flies)
Psychodoidea
Psychodidae (moth flies)
Laurence W. Quate, NHMLAC; lquate@compuserve.com    

Tabanoidea
Tabanidae (horse flies)
Inocêncio de Souza Gorayeb, MPEG; gorayeb@museu-goeldi.br
John F. Burger, UNH; jfb@christa.unh.edu

Asiloidea
Asilidae (robber flies)
C. Riley Nelson, UTA; capnia@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Platypezoidea
Phoridae (scuttle flies)
Brian V. Brown, NHMLAC; brianb@bcf.usc.edu

Syrphoidea
Pipunculidae (big-headed flies)
José Albertino Rafael, INPA; rafael@inpa.gov.br (?)

Ephydroidea
Drosophilidae (pomace flies)
Marlúcia Bonifácio Martins, MPEG; marlucia@museu-goeldi.br
Rita de Cássia O. dos Santos, MPEG rcos@museu-goeldi.br           

Muscoidea
Muscidae (Fanniidae) (muscid flies)
Claudio José Barros de Carvalho, UFPR; cjbcarva@bio.ufpr.br

Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera (bats)
Suely Aparecida Marques-Aguiar, MPEG; samaguiar@museu-goeldi.br

Dinosauria
Aves (birds)
David Conway Oren, MPEG; oren@museu-goeldi.br