About this tool

Authors

Content

  • Patrick S. Gorring, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
  • Anthony I. Cognato, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Images

  • Sarah M. Smith, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
  • Patrick S. Gorring, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Website

  • Amanda J. Redford, USDA APHIS PPQ, Colorado

For questions about content, please contact Patrick S. Gorring (gorringp@msu.edu) or Anthony I. Cognato (cognato@msu.edu).

For questions about access or functionality, please contact ITP (itp@usda.gov).

Acknowledgements

We thank the following collections and curators for the loan of specimens used to create the tool: Natural History Museum, London (Max Barclay), Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (Brian Farrell, Crystal Maier), University of Idaho (Luc Leblanc), Texas A&M (Karen Wright), California Academy of Sciences (Christopher Grinter), and National Museum of Natural History (Lourdes Chamorro, Charyn Micheli).

We thank our colleagues for their generous contribution of data, photos, and for providing specimens crucial to this project: Hanna Royals (Colorado State University), Gino Nearns (USDA APHIS National Identification Service), Yunke Wu (USDA OTIS lab), Hannah Nadel (USDA OTIS lab), Larry Bezark (Sacramento, CA, USA), Lech Karpinksi (Polish Academy of Sciences), Masaru Nonaka (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Matt Bertone (NC State), Gareth Powell (NC State), Ted MacRae (Missouri, USA), Mei-Ying Lin (Mianyang Normal University), Bi Wen-Xuan (Shanghai, China), Jakub Goczal (University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland), Sang Il Kim (Seoul, Korea), Seunghyun Lee (Chinese Academy of Science), Dimitrios N. Avtzis (Forest Research Institute Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter, Greece), and Petr Svacha (Czech Academy of Sciences).

We thank the ITP team for their support and guidance: Amanda Redford and Julia Scher.

We thank the tool reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions: Gino Nearns, Steve Lingafelter, and Megan Asche.

Funding sources

This project was supported by: Cooperative Agreements from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) (AP18PPQS&T00C206, FY19-PPA 7721, and AP21PPQS&T00C136). It may not necessarily express APHIS’ views.