Alignment and homology of male terminalia in Curculionoidea and other Coleoptera

I thank Drs John F. Lawrence, Petr Švácha, Adam Ślipiński, Alfred F. Newton Jr., Jarmila Kukalova-Peck, Michael Ivie, and Janusz Kubrakiewicz for their critical comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript, and the two anonymous referees for the great job they have done and hundreds of suggestions improving the text. Ms Anna Mucha and Dr Łukasz Pasśko are appreciated for their great technical help with the illustrations. I am indebted to Drs Beata M. Pokryszko and Robert A. D. Cameron for their linguistic advice and corrections, and to the editors for their hard work on the final version of the manuscript. Dr Adam Ślipiński is especially acknowledged for his encouragement and advice in selection of the non-weevil taxa for the study, and for the loan of some relevant species. The studies presented herein, as well as the presentation of their preliminary results at the XXII International Congress of Entomology (15–21 August 2004, Brisbane, Australia), were supported by the former State Committee for Scientific Research, currently the Ministry of Scientific Research and Scientific Technology, Poland (grant no. 3 P04C 08223).

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Appendix 1.  Alphabetical list of species studied

Appendix 2.  Systematic list of species studied

Appendix 2. (continued)