In Need of Stenamma

Dear fellow myrmecologists, my name is Michael Branstetter and I am a first year graduate student in Phil Ward's lab at the University of California, Davis. For my thesis project, I am planning to revise Stenamma in Mesoamerica. The first part of my project, however, will be to see if Mesoamerican Stenamma are monophyletic or not. To do this, I will be producing a molecular phylogeny using exemplar specimens from all of the recognized species groups. I have many specimens from Mesoamerica and the
western U.S., but am in need of species from the eastern U.S. (S. impar, S. meridonale, S. carolinense, S. foveolocephalum, S. schmittii) and from the Old World (westwoodii species group: S. westwoodii, S. debile, S. sardoum, S. orousseti, S. kashmirense S. petiolatum, S. jeriorum, S. msilanum, S. striatulum, S. lippulum, S. georgii, S. hissarianum, S. picetojuglandeti, S. sogdianum; punctiventre species group: S. punctiventre; owstoni species group: S. owstoni, S. nipponense, S. kurilense, S. ussuriense, S. bhutanense, S. gurkhalis; orientale species group: S. orientale).
Specimens need to be in 90-100% alcohol and should have been collected
within the last 20 years or so. If you have specimens that I could use please contact me. My email address is mgbranstetter@ucdavis.edu and my lab phone is (530)752-9977.

Thanks for your help.

Michael G. Branstetter
Ward Lab
Department of Entomology
University of California at Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
mgbranstetter@ucdavis.edu