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PROJECT COLLABORATORS

Project Principal Investigators
John T. (Jack) Longino
Robert S. (Bob) Anderson
Phillip S. Ward

Institutional Collaborators
Jorge Leonel Le—n CortŽs
Jack Schuster
JosŽ Manuel Mora Benavides
Oliver Schlein
Jean Michel Maes
Eric Van Den Berghe

Taxonomic Collaborators
Gonzalo Giribet (Arachnida, Myriapoda)
Harry Brailovsky (Hemiptera)
Zachary Falin (Coleoptera)
Steve Marshall (Diptera)
Michael Sharkey (Hymenoptera)

Graduate Students/Student Coordinators
Michael Branstetter (current)
Laura S‡enz Dom’nguez (current)
Jesœs Luna Cozar (2007-2008)

Other Collaborators
Brian Fisher (Bioinformatics, Antweb)

Student Participants
2011 Nicaragua
2011 USA and Canada
2010 Honduras
2010 USA and Canada
2009 Guatemala
2009 USA and Canada
2008 Mexico (ECOSUR)
2008 USA (Evergreen)


Project Principal Investigators

John T. (Jack) Longino
E-mail: longinoj@evergreen.edu

Lab I, The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway
Olympia WA 98505 USA

www.evergreen.edu/ants

Research interests: Taxonomy and ecology of Neotropical ants (Formicidae).


Robert S. (Bob) Anderson
E-mail: randerson@mus-nature.ca

Canadian Museum of Nature
P.O. Box 3443, Station D
Ottawa, ON. K1P 6P4 CANADA

The Canadian Museum of Nature

Research interests: Taxonomy and ecology of weevils (Cuculionidae).


P. S. (Phil) Ward
E-mail: psward@ucdavis.edu

Department of Entomology
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616, USA

http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/ward/

Research interests: Taxonomy and phylogeny of ants (Formicidae).


Institutional Collaborators

Jorge Leonel Le—n CortŽz
E-mail: jleon@sclc.ecosur.mx

El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
San Cristobal de las Casas
Chiapas, Mexico

http://www.ecosur.mx/

Research interests: Lepidoptera biodiversity and systematics; conservation biology of fragmented habitats.


Jack Schuster
E-mail: jschuste@uvg.edu.gt

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Apartado 82
Guatemala GUATEMALA

http://www.uvg.edu.gt/

Research interests: Biodiversity, systematics and evolution of Passalidae (Coleoptera).


Dr. JosŽ Manuel Mora Benavides
E-mail: jmora@zamorano.edu

Regional Biodiversity Institute
Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad
Pan-American School of Agriculture
Zamorano, Honduras

http://www.zamorano.edu/


Dr. Oliver Schlein
E-mail: oschlein@zamorano.edu

Regional Biodiversity Institute
Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad
Pan-American School of Agriculture
Zamorano, Honduras

http://www.zamorano.edu/


Jean-Michel Maes
E-mail: jmmaes@ibw.com.ni

Museo Entomologico
Leon, Nicaragua

http://www.insectariumvirtual.com/termitero/nicaragua/MEL%20HOME%20PAGE.htm

Research interests: Biodiversity and systematics of insects.


Eric Van Den Berghe
E-mail: eric.vandenberghe@avemaria.edu.ni

Ave Maria University
San Marcos, Nicaragua

Research interests: Biodiversity and systematics of insects and orchids.


Taxonomic Collaborators

Gonzalo Giribet
E-mail: ggiribet@oeb.harvard.edu

Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Research interests: Arachnida, Myriapoda.


Harry Brailovsky
E-mail: coreidae@ibiologia.unam.mx

Departamento de Zoolog’a Instituto de Biolog’a, U.N.A.M.
Circuito Exterior s/n
Ciudad Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoac‡n
A.P. 70-233 MŽxico, Distrito Federal. C.P. 04510

Research interests: Hemiptera.


Zachary Falin
E-mail: ksem@ku.edu

Division of Entomology, KUNHM/BRC
Snow Entomological Collection
1501 Crestline Dr. Suite 140
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66049

Research interests: Coleoptera.


Steve Marshall
E-mail: samarsha@uoguelph.ca

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

Research interests: Diptera.


Michael Sharkey
E-mail: msharkey@uky.edu

Department of Entomology
S-225 Ag. Sci. North
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0091, USA

Research interests: Hymenoptera.


Graduate Students/Student Coordinators

Michael Branstetter
E-mail: mgbranstetter@ucdavis.edu

Department of Entomology
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616, USA

Research interests: Taxonomy and ecology of Neotropical Stenamma (Formicidae).

With LLAMA 2007 to present.


Jesœs (Chuy) Luna Cozar
E-mail: jluna@posgrado.ecosur.mx

El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
San Crist—bal de las Casas
Chiapas, Mexico

Research interests: Taxonomy, systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology of Apionidae, Curculionidae, and Bruchidae.

Featured researcher in March 2006 Curculio.

With LLAMA 2007 to 2008.


Laura S‡enz Dom’nguez
E-mail: laury.saenz@gmail.com

Escuela de Biolog’a
Facultad de Ciencias Qu’micas y Farmacia
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

Research interests: Taxonomy, systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology of Formicidae.

With LLAMA starting 2008.


Other Collaborators

Brian Fisher
E-mail: bfisher@calacademy.org

Entomology
California Academy of Sciences
875 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3009, USA

AntWeb

Research interests: Taxonomy of ants (Formicidae), Bioinformatics, Faunal Inventory.


2011 Student Participants from Nicaragua



2011 Student Participants from USA and Canada



2010 Student Participants from Honduras



2010 Student Participants from USA and Canada



2009 Student Participants from Guatemala


Upper left: Samanta Orellana, Universidad de San Carlos. Upper right: Diego Pons, Universidad del Valle. Lower right: Manuel Barrios, Universidad de San Carlos. Lower left: Cristi‡n Beza, Universidad del Valle.

2009 Student Participants from USA and Canada


Upper left: Steven Bylsma, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. Upper right: Jennie Russ, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. Lower right: Theo Sumnicht, University of California, Davis, CA. Lower left: Crystal Vincent, Carleton University, Ottawa.

2008 ECOSUR Student Participants


Upper left: Maria Dina Estrada Marroquin. Upper center: Yensy Mar’a Recinos Aguilar. Upper right: Ubaldo Caballero. Lower left: Irma Dinorah Miss Barrera. Lower right: Eslin Obed Reyes De Le—n.

2008 Evergreen Student Participants


Left to right: Brittany Broyles, D. J. Cox, Jesse McAlpine, Duke Brady (far right Jack Longino)
Page author: John T. Longino longinoj@evergreen.edu
Last modified: 3 June 2011