OSUC Ohio State University Collection, Museum of Biological Diversity, Columbus,
 OH, (Norman Johnson)

OSAC Oregon State Arthropod Collection, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR,
 (Jason Leathers)

SBMN Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA, (Michael
 Caterino)

SEMC Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA, (Zack H.
 Falin)

TAMU Texas A&M University, Department of Entomology, College Station, TX, (Ed
 G. Riley)

TRSC Trevor Randall Smith Collection, Gainesville, FL, (Trevor Randall Smith)

UCDC University of California Davis, R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology, Davis,
 CA, (Steve L. Heydon)

UCRC University of California Riverside, Entomology Research Museum, Riverside,
 CA, (Doug Yanega)

UCFC University of Central Florida Insect Collection, University of Central Florida,
 Orlando, FL, (Stuart Fullerton)

WFBM W. F. Barr Entomological Museum, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, (Frank
 Merickel)

USNM United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., (Gary
 Hevel)

Methods

 If possible, genitalia were removed using minute pins glued to wooden applicator

sticks. The minutes were bent and twisted into whatever shape tools were necessary.

While it is possible to remove only the genital plate and then extract male genitalia, this

technique is extremely difficult and time-consuming. All dissections took place in

glycerine due to the convex body form of Cybocephalus beetles. Typically, the abdomen

was separated from the rest of the body and the entire aedeagus (Fig. 4-1) removed from

the abdomen. This technique leaves most of the specimen intact, and the removed