TAXONOMY

In this section are listed all the species we were able to illustrate. The species designation as originally published is used here to avoid confusion. If the genus changed subsequently, we list the reference. If we decided that a species was originally placed in an incorrect genus, or was otherwise improperly designated, we summarize our reasoning.

As might be expected, for several species, we had discussions regarding the affinity of the species; in these cases we have tried to represent the opinions of each author accurately. In general, Scott is more of a taxonomic "lumper"; Takayanagi and Hasegawa are more conservative.

The figure numbers listed for each species correspond to the slide-collection numbers and should be referenced specifically if you desire to obtain any one or all of this slide collection (see Appendix). All Japanese types and their references are listed in Takayanagi and Hasegawa (1987).

The figures are organized by the slide-collection numbers: Figure 1 consists of 1.1-1.20, Figure 2 consists of 2.21-2.40, and so on, to Figure 14, which consists of 14.261-14.278.

Throughout taxonomic list the abbreviation LD = longest dimension. The dimensions are given in millimeters.

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