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COLLECTING
TRIP TO
HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, AND EL SALVADOR
16 June-5 July, 2002
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This
was our fourth and final research/collecting trip for the
project entitled "A Faunistic Survey of the Dynastine
Scarab Beetles of Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador"
(NSF/BS & I DEB 9870202). Brett Ratcliffe (PI) and Mary
Liz Jameson along with post-doctoral associate Andrew Smith
and graduate students Federico Ocampo, and Matt Paulsen collaborated
with Ron Cave (co-PI in Honduras) to identify and curate collections
at the Escuela Agrícola Panamericana in Zamorano (Honduras)
as well as the Museo de Historia Natural in San Salvador,
El Salvador (Eunice Echeverría) and the Museo Entomológico
in León, Nicaragua (Jean-Michel Maes). Collecting was
conducted in all three countries, and a total of 43 scarabaeoid
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Parque
Nacional Monte Cristo, El Salvador. Matt Paulsen, Andrew Smith,
Federico Ocampo anticipating nightfall and associated good
beetles next to the light trap. Photo by Brett Ratcliffe. |
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Home-sweet-home
at Parque Nacional Monte Cristo, El Salvador, a cool and wet
cloud forest site. Photo by Federico Ocampo.
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| Parque
Nacional Monte Cristo, El Salvador. Matt Paulsen, Andrew Smith,
Federico Ocampo, and Brett Ratcliffe. Photo by Mary Liz Jameson.
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Newly
renovated main building of the Museu Nacional de Historia
Natural in San Salvador, El Salvador. Photo by Federico Ocampo. |
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Liz Jameson working with the collection of Jean-Michel Maes
in Leon, Nicaragua. Photo by Matt Paulsen.
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Brett
Ratcliffe and Federico Ocampo with billions of Dyscinetus
dubius. These specimens were collected at one light trap on
a single evening by Jean-Michel Maes and his assistants in
Nicaragua. Photo by Mary Liz Jameson. |
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Near
Hotel Selva Negra, Matagalpa, Nicaragua atop destroyed Sandanista
tank. Back row from left: Andrew Smith, Matt Paulsen, Brett
Ratcliffe. Front row from left: Julio Torres, Federico Ocampo,
Ron Cave, Mary Liz Jameson. Photo by "remote." |
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Andrew
Smith, Mary Liz Jameson, Federico Ocampo, and Matt Paulsen
dissecting a termite nest to find beetles at the light trap,
Roatan Island, Honduras. Photo by Brett Ratcliffe.
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| Roatan
Island, Honduras. Back row from left: Julio Torres, Ron Cave,
Brett Ratcliffe. Front row from left: Matt Paulsen, Federico
Ocampo, Andrew Smith, Mary Liz Jameson. Yellow plastic wrist
bands suggest recent escapees from a hospital. Previous photo
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Chrysina
cavei at Parque Nacional La Muralla, Honduras. Photo
by Federico Ocampo.
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| Field
station at Parque Nacional La Muralla, Honduras. Photo by
Federico Ocampo. |
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Pristine
stream at Monumental Nacional El Boqueron, Honduras. Photo
by Federico Ocampo. |
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