Preliminary Checklist of Bolivian Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) - II ...

This checklist would not have been possible without the hundreds of species identifications provided
by Ubirajara Martins and Miguel Monné. Additionally, Maria Helena Galileo, Jose Giorgi, Steven
Lingafelter, Paulo Magno, Jose Mermudes, Marcela Monné, Dilma Solange Napp, Antonio Santos-Silva,
Gerard Tavakilian, and Frank Hovore contributed to this process. Our heartfelt thanks to all of them
for their timely and willing assistance.
Special thanks and recognition to Miguel Monné , Frank Hovore (now deceased) and Larry Bezark
for their continuing work to provide timely updates to the original "Checklist of the Cerambycidae and
Disteniidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere" by Monné and Giesbert (1993). Their regular and
comprehensive updates have proved to be an invaluable resouce in preparing this checklist. We extend
a special thanks to Ubirajara Martins in recognition of his many contributions to the project. We
especially appreciate his helpfulness in responding to a constant flow of queries and his willingness to
interrupt his own projects, time after time, to help with ours.
Finally, our acknowledgements would not be complete without a bow to the late Edmund Giesbert.
It was his enthusiastic accounts of collecting in the Buena Vista area that first sparked our interest in
Bolivia.
Figure 1. Outline map of Bolivia showing departments and the
abbreviations used in the checklist. BO = Bolivia (country
record only); PN = Pando; BN = Beni; SC = Santa Cruz; CO =
Cochabamba; LP = La Paz; OR = Oruro; PT = Potosi; CQ =
Chuquisaca; TR = Tarija.
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