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Chief Editor & Founder
Zhang, Z.-Q.  (zhangz@landcareresearch.co.nz)
New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Road, St. Johns, Auckland 1072, New Zealand; phone 0064-9-5744110; Fax 5744101

Editors for Major Zootaxa/Subject Areas
Adams, Byron J. (ztnemepneditor@gmail.com) Nematoda: entomopathogenic
Microbiology and Molecular Biology Dept., 775 WIDB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-5253, USA
Ahyong,  Shane T. (shane.ahyong@austmus.gov.au) Crustacea: Anomura & S
tomatopoda
Marine Invertebrates, Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
Alderslade, Phil (phil@alderslade.net) Coelenterata: Octocorallia
PO Box 211 Margate Tasmania Australia 7054
Almeida,  E. A.B. (eabalmeida@gmail.com) Hymenoptera: Apoidea
Centro de Ciencias Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC. Rua Santa Adelia, 166. CEP: 09210-170. Santo Andre, SP, Brazil
Alonso, Miguel (Miguel_Alonso@URSCorp.com) Crustacea: Branchiopoda
URS Urgell, 143, 08036 Barcelona (Spain)
Anderson, Robert (randerson@mus-nature.ca) CUCUJIFORMIA, CURCULIONOIDEA, except Scolytinae and Platypodinae
Research Division Canadian Museum of Nature PO Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON. K1P 6P4 CANADA

Baehr, Barbara (BarbaraB@qm.qld.gov.au) Araneae: Entelegynae reliquae
Biodiversity, Arachnology, Queensland Museum, South Bank, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane Qld 4101, Australia 

Bamber, Roger (roger.bamber@artoo.co.uk) Pycnogonida
Environment: Coastal & Marine, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Bauer, Aaron (aaron.bauer@villanova.edu) Reptilia:
Geckos
Department of Biology, Villanova University 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085 USA
Bellamy, C.L. (cbellamy@cdfa.ca.gov) BUPRESTOIDEA 
Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Dept. of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento CA 95832-1448 USA
Bernard, Ernest C. (ebernard@utk.edu) Insecta: small orders not covered by others
The University of Tennessee Entomology and Plant Pathology 213 Plant Biotechnology Building Knoxville, TN 37996-4560 USA
Bickel, D.J. (dan.bickel@austmus.gov.auInsecta: Diptera, Acalyptratae
Australian Museum, 6-8 College Street Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Bieler, Rüdiger (bieler@fieldmuseum.org) Mollusca: Bivalvia 
Field Museum of Natural History, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA.
Blagoderov, Vladimir
(v.blagoderov@nhm.ac.uk)
Diptera
Department of Entomology The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK

Bochkov, Andrey
(prostigmata@zin.ru) Acari: Acariformes
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
Brown, J.W.
(John.Brown@ars.usda.gov) Lepidoptera
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, MRC 168 Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A.
Brunetti, R. (ric.brunetti@gmail.com) Ascidicea
Department of Biology, University of Padua (Italy), Via U. Bassi 58/b, 35131 Padova Italy
Buffington, Matt L. (matt.buffington@ars.usda.gov) parasitic Hymenoptera
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, c/o Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Ave., NW, Washington DC 20013, USA.
Butler, Richard (butler.richard.j@gmail.com) Fossil reptilia  
Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany

Calder, Dale R. (dalec@rom.on.ca) Scyphozoa, Cubozoa and Staurozoa
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6
Carranza, S. (salvador.carranza@ibe.upf-csic.esAll the other reptile groups
Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF) Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49 E-08003 Barcelona Spain 
Carvalho, M. R. de (mrcarvalho@ib.usp.br) Pisces: Chondrichthyes; South American freshwater
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Trav. 14, no. 101, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brasil 
Castro
P. (pcastro@csupomona.edu)
Crustacea: Brachyura 
Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona CA 91768, USA 
Castroviejo, Santiago (zootaxa.treefrogs@gmail.com) Amphibia: Centrolenidae, Hemiphractidae, Hylidae
Chamorro-Lacayo, M.L. (lourdes.chamorro@gmail.com) CHRYSOMELOIDEA, particulary Chrysomelidae s.lat. 
Department of Entomology, MRC 187 National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution P.O. Box 37012 Washington, DC, 20013-7012 USA

Chesser, T. (chessert@si.edu) Aves: New World birds
Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Division of Birds, NHB MRC 116, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F. (diegofrancisco.cisneros@gmail.com) Reptilia: Snakes (except Asian snakes) 
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas & Ambientales, Campus Cumbayá, Edif. Darwin, of. DW-010A, calle Diego de Robles y Vía Interoceánica, Casilla Postal 17-1200-841, Quito, Ecuador

Cline, A.R. (acline@cdfa.ca.gov) CUCUJIFORMIA, particularly LYMEXYLOIDEA; BOSTRICHIFORMIA 
Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Dept. of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento CA 95832-1448 USA

Collins, A. (COLLINSA@si.edu)
Coelenterata: Hydrozoa
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA
Constantino, R. (constant@unb.br) Isoptera
Depto de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brasil
Contreras-Ramos, Atilano (acontreras@ibiologia.unam.mx) Neuroptera
Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Depto. de Zoologia, Apdo. Postal 70-153
04510 Mexico, DF, MEXICO.

Cordeiro-Estrela, Pedro
  (pedrocometa@gmail.com
) Mammalia
Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamíferos Silvestres Reservatórios, IOC / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Courtney, G.W. (gwcourt@iastate.edu)
Diptera: Culicoidea
Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3140, USA
Craig, Matthew T. (matthew.craig@upr.edu) Marine and estuarine fishes
Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes Department of Marine Sciences University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez P.O. Box 9000 Mayaguez, PR 00681
Cruickshank, R.  (cruicksr@lincoln.ac.nz
) Molecular systematics
Bio-Protection & Ecology Division, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, New Zealand 
Curler, Greg R. (gcurler@utk.edu)
Diptera
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology 2431 Joe Johnson Drive 205 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg. The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4560 865-974-8411

Dahlgren, T. (Thomas.Dahlgren@zool.gu.se) Polychaeta
Göteborg University, Department of Zoology, Box 463, 405 30  Göteborg, Sweden
Davies, Kerrie (kerrie.davies@adelaide.edu.au) Nematoda
School of Agriculture Food and Wine The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005
deMaintenon, Marta (demainte@hawaii.edu) Mollusca: Caenogastropoda
Marine Science Department, University of Hawaii at Hilo, 200 West Kawili Street, Hilo, HI 96720-4091, USA

DeWalt, R. Edward (edewalt@inhs.uiuc.edu) Plecoptera, Megaloptera
Illinois Natural History Survey , Critical Trends Assessment Program (CTAP), Natural Resources Bldg, Rm. 296a 607 E. Peabody Dr. Champaign IL 61820, USA 
Dietrich, Chris (dietrich@inhs.uiuc.edu) Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadomorpha
Center for Biodiversity, Illinois Natural History Survey, 1816 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 U.S.A.

Dippenaar, Susan (SUSAND@ul.ac.za) Crustacea:
Copepoda
Department of Biodiversity, SMLS, University of Limpopo, P/Bag X1106 Sovenga 0727 South Africa
Divakaran, Prathapan (prathapankd@gmail.com) CHRYSOMELOIDEA, particulary Chrysomelidae s.lat.
Department of Entomology, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellayani P. O., Trivandrum - 695 522, Kerala, INDIA

Dronen, Norm Jr.
(n-dronen@tamu.edu) Parasitic Platyhelminthes
Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77807, USA
Dubois, Alain (adubois@mnhn.fr) Zoological nomenclature
Reptiles & Amphibiens, USM 602 Taxonomie et Collections (Vertébrés), Département de Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 25 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France

Edgecombe, Gregory D. (g.edgecombe@nhm.ac.uk) Trilobita and other Palaeozoic groups
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
Eleaume, M. (eleaume@mnhn.fr) Echinodermata
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Dept des Milieux et peuplements Aquatiques CP 26 57 Rue Cuvier 75005 PARIS France
Fannes, Wouter (wouter.fannes@africamuseum.be) Araneae: Haplogynae (excl. Dysderidae)
Section Invertebrates non-insects, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren, Vlaams Brabant, Belgium 3080
Fautin, Daphne G.
(fautin@ku.edu) Coelenterata: Anemones and other groups
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Curator, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center Haworth Hall University of Kansas 1200 Sunnyside Avenue Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7534 USA
Fletcher, Murray (murray.fletcher@dpi.nsw.gov.au) Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoromorpha
Orange Agricultural Institute, Forest Road, Orange NSW 2800, AUSTRALIA 

Forrester, Juanita A.  (juanita.forrester@gmail.com) CUCUJOIDEA
Mount Pisgah Preparatory School, 9820 Nesbit Ferry Road, Johns Creek, Georgia, 30022-9881

Franz, Nico M.
(nico.franz@upr.edu) CUCUJIFORMIA, CURCULIONOIDEA, except Scolytinae and Platypodinae
Department of Biology Call Box 9000 University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, PR 00681-9000 U.S.A.
Friel, John  (jpf19@cornell.edu) Pisces:  African freshwater
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Fritz, Uwe (Uwe.Fritz@senckenberg.de) Reptilia: Testudines
Extraordinary Professor, University of Leipzig , Museum of Zoology (Museum fuer Tierkunde), Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, A. B. Meyer Building, D-01109 Dresden, Germany
 
Gall, Lawrence (Lawrence.gall@yale.edu) Lepidoptera: Noctuidae and other macrolepidoptera 
Computer Systems Office, Peabody Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 208118, Yale University New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Gaubert, Philippe
(gaubert@mnhn.fr) Mammalia
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 43, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, FRANCE
Geiger, Daniel L.
(geiger@vetigastropoda.com) Other Molluscan Groups
Research Associate, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
Gerber, Jochen (jgerber@fieldmuseum.org) Mollusca: Land Snails - Pulmonata
Field Museum of Natural History, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA
Gerken, Sarah (sarah.gerken@uaa.alaska.edu) Crustacea: Tanaidacea & Cumacea
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska , Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr . Anchorage, AK 99508 USA
Gerstmeier, Roland (r.gerstmeier@googlemail.com)
Coleoptera:
CLEROIDEA
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Lehrstuhl fuer Tieroekologie, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, D-85350 Freising, GERMANY

Gibson, Gary A. P. (gibsong@agr.gc.ca) Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea
Biodiversity and Integrated Pest Management, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, K. W. Neatby Bldg., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0C6
Gibson, Ray (R.Gibson@livjm.ac.uk) Nemertea
School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
Giłka, Wojciech (scorpio@ocean.ug.gda.pl) Diptera: Chironomidae
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, University of Gdansk,  Gdynia, Poland
Goldschmidt, Tom (tomgoldschmidt@web.de) Acari: water mites (Americas & Caribbean)
Zoologische Staatssammlung München Sektion Arthropoda varia Münchhausenstraße 21 81247 München Germany
Gordon, Dennis P. (d.gordon@niwa.cri.nz) Bryozoa
National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 14-901 Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
Gower, David  (d.gower@nhm.ac.uk) Amphibia: Gymnophiona; Reptilia: Asian snakes
Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Goy, Joseph (jwgoy@harding.edu) Crustacea: Decapoda, Caridea
Department of Biology, Harding University, 900 E. Center Ave., Box 12251, Searcy, Arkansas 72149-0001 USA
Greenslade, Penelope (p.greenslade@ballarat.edu.au) Insecta: Collembola
Senior Research Fellow Centre for Environmental Management School of Science and Engineering University of Ballarat Mt Helen Campus, University Drive Mt Helen Victoria Australia PO Box 663, Ballarat, Victoria 3353, Australia
Gusarov, Vladimir I. (vladimir.gusarov@nhm.uio.no) Insects: STAPHYLINIFORMIA, except Hydrophiloidea, Histeroidea, Hydraenidae and staphylinid subfamily Staphylininae
University of Oslo, UNM, Zoological Museum, Department of Entomology, P.O. Box 1172, Blindern, NO-0318, Oslo, Norway
 
Hajdu, E. (porifera.zootaxa@gmail.com) Porifera
Museu Nacional, UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, 20940-040, s/n Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

Halliday, R. Bruce (Bruce.Halliday@csiro.au) Acari: Mesostigmata
CSIRO Division of Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 
Hodda, Mike (mike.hodda@csiro.au) Nematoda
Nematode Biosystematics & Ecology, CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700 CANBERRA ACT AUSTRALIA
Hodgson, Chris J. (HodgsonCJ@Cardiff.ac.uk) Hemiptera: Coccoidea 
Department of Biodiversity and Biological Systematics, The National Museum of Wales, Cathay's Park, Cardiff, CF1 3NP, UK
Hormiga, Gustavo (hormiga@gwu.edu) Araneae, Araneoidea + Deinopoidea
Ruth Weintraub Professor of Biology Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
Hubbard, Michael D. (michael.hubbard@famu.edu) Insecta: Ephemeroptera
Laboratory of Aquatic Entomology, Entomology Center, Orr Drive, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida 32307, USA
Hutchings, Pat (pat.hutchings@austmus.gov.au) Annelida: Polychaeta (all, but particularly Terebellida)
Marine Invertebrates, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney 2010 Australia 
 
Jäeger, Peter (Peter.Jaeger@Senckenberg.de) Araenae: Araneomorphae (non-Lycosoidea)
Arachnologie, Senckenberg Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Johnson, Kevin P. (kjohnson@inhs.uiuc.edu) Phthiraptera
Associate Curator Illinois Natural History Survey University of Illinois 1816 South Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Jones, Diana S. (jonesd@museum.wa.gov.au) Thecostraca (Cirripedia and others)
Western Australian Museum, Francis Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000 (Australia) 

Judson,  Mark (judson@mnhn.fr) Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei, Palpigradi
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Dept. Systematique & Evolution, CNRS UMR-7205, C.P. 53 (Arthropodes) PARIS, F-75005 France

Karaman, G.S. (karaman@t-com.me) Crustacea: Amphipoda
P.O.Box 40,  81000 Podgorica, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Karanovic, Tom (tomislav.karanovic@utas.edu.au) Copepoda
University of Tasmania, School of Zoology, Private Bag 5, Hobart Tasmania 7001, Australia

Kathirithamby, Jeya (jeyaraney.kathirithamby@zoo.ox.ac.uk) Insecta: Strepsiptera 
Research GroupDepartment of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Kawauchi, Gisele Yukimi (gykawa@gmail.com) Sipuncula
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Giribet Lab MCZ Labs 5th Floor Harvard University 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Kerr, Peter H. (pkerr@cdfa.ca.gov) Diptera: Sciaroidea (Cecidomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae, and Sciaridae)
California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, 3294 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832, USA
Kirkendall, Larry (lawrence.kirkendall@bio.uib.no) CUCUJIFORMIA, CURCULIONOIDEA, particularly Scolytinae and Platypodinae
University of Bergen, Institute for Biology, Allegaten 41, N-5007, Bergen, Norway
Knihinicki, Danuta K. (danuta.knihinicki@industry.nsw.gov.au) Eriophyoidea
Industry & Investment NSW (Primary Industries) Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit (Acarology) Orange Agricultural Institute Locked Bag 6006 Forest Road, Orange NSW 2800 AUSTRALIA
Landry, J.-F. (landryjf@agr.gc.ca) Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea and other microlepidoptera
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Canadian National Collection 960 Carling Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada
Lee, Daphne (daphne.lee@otago.ac.nz
Brachiopoda
Geology Department University of Otago 360 Leith Walk, PO Box 56 Dunedin Otago 9016 New Zealand
Lelej, Arkadiy S.
(lelej@biosoil.ru) Insecta: Hymenoptera
Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok-22, 690022, Russia
Longino, John T. (longinoj@evergreen.edu) Hymenoptera: Formicidae
Lab I, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA
Lowry, Jim (Jim.Lowry@austmus.gov.au)
Crustacea: Amphipoda
Crustacea Section, Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney 2010, Australia
 
Maciolek, Nancy J. (NJMaciolek@gmail.com) Polychaeta
ENSR Marine and Coastal Center, 89 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
MacRae, Ted C. (ted.c.macrae@monsanto.com) Coleoptera
Monsanto Company, 700 Chesterfield Parkway West, Mail Code GG3E, St. Louis, MO 63017, USA
Malipatil, M. B. (Mallik.Malipatil@dpi.vic.gov.au)
Hemiptera: Heteroptera
Bioprotection, Biosciences Research Division Department of Primary Industries Knoxfield Centre PB 15, Ferntree Gully Delivery Centre Vic 3156 AUSTRALIA

Mantovani, Barbara (barbara.mantovani@unibo.it) Insecta:  Phasmatodea
Dip. Biologia E. S., Via Selmi 3, Bologna, Italy
Martin,  Peter (pmartin@zoologie.uni-kiel.de) Acari: Water mites (Eurasia, Africa, Australia and Pacific islands)
Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Zoological Institute: Limnology Olshausenstrasse 40 D-24098 Kiel Germany  
Matzke-Karasz, R. (r.matzke@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) Ostracoda
Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences Section Palaeontology and GeoBioCenter LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-University Richard-Wagner-Str. 33 D 80333 Muenchen Germany 
Mayden, Richard (cypriniformes@gmail.com) Cypriniformes; North American freshwater fishes
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 63103-2010, USA.
Mayer, Georg (gmayer@onychophora.com) Onychophora
Institute of Biology II: Molecular Evolution & Animal Systematics, University of Leipzig, Talstrasse 33, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
McInnes, Sandra J. (
s.mcinnes@bas.ac.uk) Tardigrada
British Antarctic Survey Madingley Road Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
Meland, Kenneth (Kenneth.Meland@bio.uib.no) Crustacea
University of Bergen, Department of Biology, PO Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, NORWAY
Miller, Jeremy A. (miller@naturalis.nl) Araneae: Amaurobioidea 
Department of Entomology, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Postbus 9517 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Minelli, A. (minelli@bio.unipd.it) Myriapoda: Chilopoda and Nomenclature
Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58 B, 35131 Padova, Italy
Monks, S.  (smonks@uaeh.reduaeh.mx) Acanthocephala
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Apdo. Postal 1-69, Pachuca, C.P. 42001, Hidalgo, México.
Morse, John C. (jmorse@clemson.edu) Trichoptera
Clemson University Arthropod Collection (CUAC), Department of Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences, Clemson University, Long Hall, Box 340315, Clemson, SC 29634-0315, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Moulton,  John K. (johnkmoulton@yahoo.com) Diptera
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, 205 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4560, USA
Mound, Laurence A.  (laurence.mound@csiro.au) Insecta: Thysanoptera & Hemiptera (whitefly)
CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Mullin, Peter (mullin.peter@gmail.com) Nematoda
5136 14th Avenue S Minneapolis, MN 55417,
USA
Muster
, C. (muster@rz.uni-leipzig.de) Dionycha (excl. Gnaphosoidea s.l.)
Marienstr. 9 18581 Putbus, Germany

Neilson, Roy  (Roy.Neilson@scri.ac.uk) Nematoda: plant-parasitic/predatory soil
Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK
Nihei, Silvio S. (silvionihei@gmail.com) Diptera: Muscoidea 
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Trav. 14, n.101, 05508-900, São Paulo/SP, Brasil
Nygren,  Arne (arne.nygren@zool.gu.se) Annelida: Polychaeta (all, but particularly Phyllodocida)
Göteborg University, Department of Zoology, Box 463, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden.

O'Hara, James E.  (oharaj@agr.gc.ca) Diptera: Oestroidea & Hippoboscoidea
Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,  960 Carling avenue, Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0C6, Canada
Olson,  S. L. (olsons@si.edu) Aves
Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Division of Birds, NHB MRC 116, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA

Padial,  Jose (zootaxa.terrarana@gmail.com) Amphibia: TERRARANA: Brachycephalidae, Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae, Strabomantidae
Page, L.
(lpage1@ufl.edu Cypriniformes; North American freshwater fishes
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Paulson, D. (dennispaulson@comcast.net) Odonata
1724 NE 98 St. Seattle, WA 98115 206-528-1382

Pérez González, Abel 
(abelaracno@gmail.comOpiliones: Laniatores
Grupo de Sistemática e Biologia Evolutiva (GSE), Núcleo em Ecologia e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Ambiental (NUPEM), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) CP 119331, CEP 27910-970 Macaé RJ BRAZIL
Pérez-Ponce de León, Gerardo  (ppdleon@ibiologia.unam.mx) parasitic nematodes
Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ap. Postal 70-153. C.P. 04510 México D.F. México

Perkins, Philip D. (perkins@oeb.harvard.edu) Coleoptera: Hydraenidae, Dryopidae, Elmidae, Hydroscaphidae and Dytiscidae

Department of Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Pethiyagoda, Rohan (rohanpet@gmail.com) Pisces: Asian Freshwater Fishes
Ichthyology Section, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Prendini, Lorenzo (lorenzo@amnh.org) Scopiones, Uropygi, Amblypygi, Schizomida, Solifugae
Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, New York 10024-5192 USA

Ramirez, M. (ramirez@macn.gov.ar) Dionycha (Gnaphosoidea s.l.)
División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Av. Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rasmussen, p. (rasmus39@msu.edu) Aves
Michigan State University Museum, West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Raven, Robert J.
  (RobertR@qm.qld.gov.au) Araneae: Mesothelae, Mygalomorphae
Senior Biodiversity Scientist (Arachnology), Queensland Museum, Grey St, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, 4101, Q. Australia
Rezác, Milan (rezac@vurv.cz) Araneae: Haplogynae (Dysderidae)
Crop Research Institute Department of Entomology Drnovská 507 CZ-161 06 Prague 6-Ruzyne Czech Republic
Rentz, D. (orthop1@tpg.com.au) Insecta: Orthoptera
19 Butler Dr Kuranda, Qld. 4881 Australia
Rivera, J. (jrivera@lamolina.edu.pe) Mantodea
Museo de Entomología Klaus Raven Büller, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Apartado Postal 456, Lima 100, Peru
Rix, M. (michael.rix@museum.wa.gov.au) Araneae: Eresoidea, Palpimanoidea
Terrestrial Zoology - Invertebrates Western Australian Museum 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, WA 6106, Australia
Ronquist, F. (ronquist@scs.fsu.edu) Cladistics; theory and methods
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Rota,  Jadranka (jrota@snm.ku.dk) Lepidopetera: Choreutidae, Sesiidae, Immidae, and Cossidae
Postdoctoral Researcher Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark 

Salles, Frederico F. (ffsalles@gmail.com) Ephemeroptera
Departamento de Ciências da Saúde, Biológicas e Agrárias Centro Universitário Norte do Espírito Santo Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Rua Humberto de Almeida Franklin, 257, 29.933-415 São Mateus-ES Brazil
Schaefer, Carl W.  (carl.schaefer@uconn.edu) Hemiptera: Heteroptera
University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 75 North Eagleville Road Unit 3043, Storrs CT 06269-3043, USA
Schatz, Heinrich (heinrich.schatz@uibk.ac.at) Acari: Oribatida
Institute of Zoology, Technikerstr. 25 A-6020 Innsbruck Austria
Schönhofer, Axel (Axel.Schoenhofer@uni-mainz.deOpiliones: Dyspnoi, Eupnoi
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz,  Institut für Zoologie,  Abteilung IV Systematische Zoologie,  Müllerweg 6,  D-55128 Mainz, Germany

Schrödl, Michael (Michael.Schroedl@zsm.mwn.de) Mollusca: Opisthobranchia
Zoologische Staatssammlung München / Bavarian State Collection of Zoology Münchhausenstrasse 21 81247 München, Germany

Schwendinger, Peter J. (peter.schwendinger@ville-ge.chOpiliones: Cypho-
phthalmi, Dyspnoi and Eupnoi
Department of Arthropodology and Entomology I, Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 6434, CH-1211, Geneva 6, Switzerland

Seeman,  Owen (owen.seeman@qm.qld.gov.au) Acari: Acariformes
Arachnida Collection, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia
Segers, Hendrik (hendrik.segers@naturalsciences.be) Rotifera
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Vautierstraat 29 B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Serrano, J. (jserrano@um.es) CARABIDAE and other terrestrial Adephaga
Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo. 30071 Murcia, España
Shear, William (wshear@hsc.edu) Myriapoda
Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943, USA
Short, Andrew (aezshort@ku.edu) STAPHYLINIFORMIA: HYDROPHILOIDEA and HISTEROIDEA
Division of Entomology, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite #140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66049 USA
Sinclair, Bradley (Bradley.Sinclair@inspection.gc.ca) Diptera: Empidoidea
Entomology, Ontario Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
Sket, Boris ( Boris.Sket@BF.uni-lj.si ) Annelida (esp. Hirudinea & other non-Polychaeta)
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Smith, Andrew B.T. (asmith@unlserve.unl.edu) Insecta: Coleoptera (Scarabaeiformia)  
Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada
Solodovnikov, A.Yu. (asolodovnikov@snm.ku.dk) STAPHYLINIDAE: subfamily Staphylininae only
Natural History Museum of Denmark / University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Song,  Hojun (song@mail.ucf.edu) Insecta: Orthoptera
Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816 USA
Sterrer, W. E. (westerrer@gov.bm) Platyhelminthes, Gnathostomulida, Gastrotricha
Bermuda Natural History Museum, PO Box FL 145, Flatts FLBX, Bermuda
Svavarsson, Jörundur (jorundur@hi.is) Crustacea, Isopoda 
Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland

Taeger, A. (ataeger@senckenberg.de) Hymenoptera: Symphyta
Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut Müncheberg, Eberswalder Str. 90, D-15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Tang, Danny (copepods@gmail.com) Crustacea: Copepoda
School of Animal Biology (M092), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
Toliver,
Mike  (miketol@eureka.edu) Lepidoptera: Butterflies and other macrolepidoptera
Division of Math and Sciences Eureka College 300 East College Avenue Eureka, IL 61530, USA

Vélez, A. (avelez82@gmail.com) Blattodea
Estudiante de Maestría, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Departamento de Biología, Call Box 9000 - Mayagüez, PR 00681
Vences, Miguel (zootaxa@mvences.de) Amphibia
Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 8, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
When submitting or re-submitting manuscripts on amphibians, please follow instructions at: http://www.mvences.de/zootaxa
Vink, Cor J. (Cor.Vink@agresearch.co.nz) Lycosoidea
Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Lincoln Science Centre, Private Bag 4749, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand

Wallace, Carden (carden.wallace@qm.qld.gov.au) Coelenterata: Scleractinia
Museum of Tropical Queensland, 70-102 Flinders St. Townsville, Australia 4810, Australia
Wang, Qiao (Q.Wang@massey.ac.nz) Insecta: Coleoptera (Cucujiformia, particularly all Cerambycidae)
Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, PB 11122, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Weiner, Wanda M. (weiner@isez.pan.krakow.pl) Insecta: Collembola
Department of Invertebrates, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Slawkowska 17, Pl- 31 016 Krakow, Poland
Winterton, Shaun L. (wintertonshaun@gmail.com) Insecta: Neuroptera, Diptera (orthorrhaphous Brachycera); nomenclature
Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries 80 Meiers Rd. Indooroopilly, Queensland 4068, AUSTRALIA
Wörheide,  Gert (woerheide@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) Porifera 
Department for Geo- and Environmental Sciences Section Palaeontology Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10 80333 Muenchen (Germany)
Wright, Anre-Dennis G. (agwright@uvm.edu) Protozoa
Department of Animal Science, The University of Vermont, 570 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05405-0148 USA  
 
Yen, Shen-Horn (shenhornyen@hotmail.com) Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea and Pyraloidea
Department of Biological Sciences National Sun Yat-Sen University 70 Lien-hai Rd. Kaohsiung City 804, Taiwan, Republic of China  
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Theory & methodology
 
Molecular systematics

    Cruickshank
 
Zoological nomenclature  
    Dubois, Evenhuis, Minelli
  
Cladistics: theory & methods  
   
Ronquist  

Bryozoa Gordon
Protozoa Wright
Coelenterata  
 
Octocorallia Alderslade
 
Hydrozoa: Collins
 
Wallace: Scleractinia
 
Fautin: Anemones and others

Porifera Wörheide, Hajdu
Platyhelminthes Dronen, Sterrer
Acanthocephala Monks
Gastrotricha
Sterrer
Gnathostomulida
Sterrer
Nemertea Gibson
Nematoda Adams; Hodda; Neilson;
                 
de León; Davies
Annelida  
 
Hirudinea & others Sket
 
Polychaeta s.l. Hutchings, Nygren, 

                Dahlgren, Maciolek
Mollusca Bieler, Geiger, 
              
Schroedl, Gerber,
               deMaintenon, 

Tardigrada McInnes
Echinodermata  Eleaume
Other invertebrate phyla Vacant
Arthropoda
 
Trilobita and other Palaeozoic taxa
   
Edgecombe
 
Crustacea 
   
Amphipoda Karaman,
Lowry
   
Anomura Ahyong
   
Brachyura Castro
   
Copepoda
  Karanovic, Dippenaar
   
Cumacea Gerken
   
Decapoda Goy

   
Isopoda Svavarsson
   
Mysidacea Meland
   
Ostracoda
Matzke-Karasz 

   
Tanaidacea Larsen
   
Thecostraca Jones
   
Branchiopoda Alonso
    Others Meland
 
Myriapoda Minelli, Shear
 
Pycnogonida
Bamber
 
Arachnida 
   
Acari  
   
Parasitiformes
      Mesostigmata
Halliday   
   
Acariformes Seeman, Bochkov
     
Oribatida Schatz
      
Water mites Goldschmidt, Martins
   
Amblypygi
Prendini
   
Araneae Baehr, Jäger, Rezác, Muster, 
                    Ramirez, Raven, Rix,
                    Vink, Hormiga, Miller 
   
Opiliones Schönhofer, Schwendinger, 
                    Pérez González

   
Palpigradi
Judson
    Ricinulei Judson
   
Schizomida
Prendini
    
Scorpiones Prendini
    
Solifugae Prendini
   
Pseudoscorpiones Judson
   
Uropygi
Prendini
 
Insecta
   
Coleoptera  
      Anderson, Bellamy, Cline, Franz,
     
Gusarov, Kirkendall, MacRae, Perkins, 
      Serrano, Short, Smith, Wang, 
     
Solodovnikov, Forrester, Divakaran,  
     
Chamorro-Lacayo
          
    Diptera    Moulton, Gilka, Bickel,      
                     Courtney, Winterton, O'Hara, 
                      Kerr, Sinclair, Blagoderov,   
                      Curler, Nihei

    Hemiptera
     
Heteroptera: Schaefer, Malipatil
     
Cicadomorpha: Dietrich
     
Fulgoromorpha: Fletcher
     
Whiteflies: Mound
     
Sclae insects: Hodgson
      
Aphids &  psylloids: Mound
   
Hymenoptera Taeger, Longino,
                             Almeida, Lelej,
                            
Buffington, Aguiar
   
Lepidoptera Brown, Gall, Landry, 
                    Tolivar, Yen, Rota
   
Blattodea
Vélez
    Collembola: Greenslade, Weiner

    Ephemeroptera Salles, Hubbard
    Isoptera Constantino   
   
Megaloptera
DeWalt
    Neuroptera Winterton,              
                         Contreras-Ramos
   
Odonata Paulson

    Phasmatodea Mantovani
   
Phthiraptera:
Johnson
    Orthoptera Rentz & Song
   
Plecoptera DeWalt
    Psocoptera: Mound
   
Strepsiptera Kathirithamby
    Siphonaptera: Vacant  

   
Thysanoptera Mound
   
Trichoptera Morse
    Miscellaneous orders Bernard
 
Other arthropod groups Vacant
Chordata
  Urochordata
    Ascidicea Brunetti
  Vertebrata
   Pisces Pethiyagoda, Carvalho, 
                Friel, Page, Craig

   
Amphibia Vences,
Castroviejo,        
                       Padial, Gower

    Reptilia Butler, Carranza, Gower, Bauer,  

                  
Cisneros-Heredia

   
Aves Olson
   
Mammalia Gaubert, Cordeiro-Estrela

 

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