Acknowledgments
TortAI was developed and published by the Identification Technology Program (ITP), Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST), as part of
a cooperative agreement with Colorado State University (CSU) and in collaboration with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).
The authors would like to thank USDA/APHIS/PPQ/CPHST, CSU and CDFA for funding the development of TortAI. This work would not have been possible
without the help of numerous individuals, which we attempt to list on this page. The efforts of everyone listed here are greatly appreciated,
and we apologize in advance if anyone who contributed to this project was omitted.
Terrence Walters (ITP - USDA/APHIS/PPQ/CPHST, Fort Collins) and Paul Opler (Colorado State University, Fort Collins) provided logistical and technical support.
John Brown (USDA/ARS/SEL, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.) assisted considerably with the construction and coding of the larval key.
Amanda Redford and Christina Southwick (ITP - USDA/APHIS/PPQ/CPHST, Fort Collins) provided access to ITP's Visionary Digital camera system and technical support.
Ella Gilligan (Loveland, Colorado) assisted with website creation and wrote code for the DNA Sequence Search Tool.
The following persons provided extensive reviews with numerous helpful comments and suggestions:
John Brown, USDA/ARS/SEL, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.;
Boris Kondratieff and Paul Opler, Colorado State University, Fort Collins;
Eric LaGasa, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Olympia;
Obie Sage and Shaun Winterton, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento;
James Young, USDA/APHIS/PPQ, Baltimore, Maryland.
The following individuals and institutions assisted with, provided logistics for, or provided permits for field work in various countries:
Leif Aarvik, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway; David Agassiz, Weston-Super-Mare, England; Joaquin Baixeras Almela,
Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Gianfranco Anfora, Claudio Ioriatti, and Valerio
Mazzoni, IASMA, S. Michele all'Adige, Italy; Bruno Bagnoli, Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Firenze, Italy;
Frans Groenen, Luyksgestel, Netherlands; Bobbie Hitchcock, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra; Marianne Horak,
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra; Margaret Kinnaird, Mpala Research Centre, Kenya; Esther Kioko, Grace Ngugi, and J. Mugambi
Ruthiiri, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi; Andrea Lucchi, University of Pisa, Italy; Max Moulds, David Rentz, and Paul Zborowski, Kuranda,
Queensland, Australia; Gionata Pulignani, Mazzei, Castello di Fonterutoli, Castellina in Chianti, Italy; Queensland Parks and Wildlife, Cairns,
Queensland; Angus Simpson, Gilgil, Kenya; Marja van der Straten, Plant Protection Service, Wageningen, Netherlands; Daniel Strickman and Rene Sforza,
USDA/ARS/European Biological Control Laboratory, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France.
The following persons and institutions provided loans of specimens or donated specimens for morphological study and/or DNA sequencing:
John Brown, USDA/ARS/SEL, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.;
Bong-Kyu Byun, Department of Biological Sciences, Hannam University, Korea; Soowon Cho, Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Korea;
Jamie Davies, Catherine Young, and Graeme Anderson, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Tasmania, Australia;
Jason Dombroskie, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca;
Ted Edwards, Bobbie Hitchcock, and Marianne Horak, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra;
Sabine Gaal-Haszler, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna;
Roberto Gonzalez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;
Frans Groenen, Luyksgestel, Netherlands;
Mark Hoddle and Doug Yanega, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside;
Esther Kioko and J. Mugambi Ruthiiri, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi;
Eric LaGasa, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Olympia;
Steven Passoa, USDA/APHIS/PPQ, Columbus, Ohio;
Jerry Powell, University of California, Essig Museum of Entomology, Berkeley;
Obie Sage, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento;
Marja van der Straten, Plant Protection Service, Wageningen, Netherlands;
Luis Miguel Torres-Vila, Servicio de Sanidad Vegetal, Spain;
Kevin Tuck, The Natural History Museum, London;
Richard Worth, Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem;
Doug Yanega, University of California, Riverside.
The following individuals and institutions assisted with or provided facilities for DNA sequencing, or provided sequence data used in the
DNA Sequence Search Tool:
Norman Barr and Lisa Ledezma, USDA/APHIS/PPQ/CPHST, Mission Lab, Edinburg;
BOLD Data Systems, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario;
Jonathan Brusch, USDA/APHIS/PPQ, Boston;
Paul Hebert, University of Guelph, Ontario;
Bobbie Hitchcock, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra;
Peter Kerr, Scott Kinnee, and Obie Sage, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento;
Richard Newcomb and Leah Tooman, The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, Auckland, New Zealand;
Rodolphe Rougerie, Universite de Rouen, France;
Mark Simmons, Colorado State University, Fort Collins;
Kendra Yakobson and Jack Munz, formally Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
The following persons provided special assistance or information on particular species:
Kevin Hoffman, California Department of Food and Agriculture;
Steven Passoa, USDA/APHIS/PPQ, Columbus, Ohio;
Obie Sage, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento.
Figures for various fact sheets and the larval key were used with permission of the authors as listed on the individual fact sheets.
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