The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust financed a six-week Travelling Fellowship to China during 1995 by Dr Anthony R. Pittaway. We thank the trustees and Sir Henry Beverley (former Director General) for making this possible.
In 2002, the Science Database Board of the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK) provided funding for a Data Capture Project, which permitted the following work to be undertaken for this site by Ms Desiree Douglas MSc. We are grateful to both.
Additionally, numerous people in mainland China have provided support and help in photographing living material and arranging access to collections and locations. We thank the following for their generous and courteous help: The late Prof. Chou Io (Entomological Institute, Northwest Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi); the late Prof. Zhu (Chu) HongFu (formerly Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing); Prof. Hou TaoQian (formerly Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing); Prof. Huang DaWei (Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing); Dr Xiao Hui (Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing); Dr Jin XingBao (formerly Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Academia Sinica, Shanghai); Dr Zhang WeiNian (Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Academia Sinica, Shanghai); Prof. Li BaoPing (Department of Plant Protection, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Ürümqi, Xinjiang); Dr Li WuHan (Department of Forest Protection, Northwestern College of Forestry, Yangling, Shaanxi); Prof. Liu MingTang (Department of Forest Protection, Northwestern College of Forestry, Yangling, Shaanxi); Prof. Meng XuWu (Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui); Prof Tang DeRui (Shaanxi Forest Science Institute, Yangling, Shaanxi); Dr Wang Ren (Beijing & formerly Ascot); Prof. Xiang BenChun (Shihezi Agricultural College, Shihezi, Xinjiang); Prof. Xue DaYong (Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing); Dr Zhang YaLin (Entomological Institute, Northwest Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi); Prof. Zhu Jian (Forestry Bureau, Weinan, Shaanxi); and Prof. Ou XiaoHong (Southwest Forestry College, Kunming, Yunnan).
Special thanks are due to Lin ChihCheng (aka Felix Lin) of Taiwan for donating his entire collection of photographs of live Sphingidae for use in this site, to Viktor Sinjaev of Russia for allowing us to use his photos of live adults and larvae from mainland China, to Vladimir Dubatolov (also of Russia) for valuable distributional data and photographs from Siberia and the Russian Far East, and to CheongWeei Gan of Singapore for making available his photos from Frasers Hill, Malaysia. Also, Serge Yevdoshenko, who has dedicated a great deal of time and effort to tracking down, rearing and photographing the early stages of many lesser known species, especially members of the genus Hemaris.
We are also grateful to Roger C. Kendrick and the late Li HingKun (aka Kent H. K. Li) of Hong Kong, China, for allowing us to reproduce their photographs of early stages; to John Horstman (Yunnan, China), for allowing us to use his photos of live adults and larvae; to Leong Tzi Ming (Singapore), Shipher Wu (Taiwan) and Anton Kozlov (Russia) for donating numerous larval, pupal and adult photos; to John Tennent (UK) for the use of his set adult images taken in Hong Kong; to Roger Perkins (UK) for supplying livestock to photograph; and to Kenichiro Nakao (Japan), Henry Tzuoo (Taiwan), Sanjay Sondhi (India) and Thomas Ihle (Thailand) for allowing us to freely use their images of live adults.
Many thanks are also due to Takayuki Suzuki for going out of his way to obtain permission from copyright holders to use images used on his site on Japanese moths -- Moths of Japan.
Recently, several people in mainland China have gone out of their way to supply high quality data and photos of moths, larvae and habitats from that country in connection with their work/interests; this has improved the information available from the web site. They are ZhuoHeng Jiang, ZhenBang Xu, YuChen Zhang, YungJen Chang, JiBai He, and ChunTang Chen. We thank them for their generosity and interest.
Thanks are also due to the following individuals for contributing photos and/or data. Without their generosity this resource would not be what it has become -- A. S. Batalov, Adam Cotton, Alan Marson, Alexandre Teynié, Allen Liu, Alok Mahendroo, Andrew Hardacre, Andrey Zagorinskiy, Anna Hundsdoerfer, Antonio Giudici, Aras Sandi, Awoki Itzuzai, Axel Hinz, Azan Karam, C. S. Lin, Carla Kishinami, ChangQiu Liu, Chris Khaosok, Clas Naumann, Danny Kruger, David in Miyazaki, David Mohn, Dmitry Shovkoon, Dominic Funnell, Dong Wei, Evgenyi S. Koshkin, Erich Mangl, Evgenij Komarov, Gary Saunders, George Beccaloni, George Fyson, H. K. Tang, Harmenn Huidrom, Hiromi Matsui, Hsu TienChuen, Ian Kitching, Inoue Takashi, Issunno Mushi, Izumi Kimura, J. M. Garg, Jaakko Pohjoismäki, Jan Petersen, Jarek Bury, Jatishwor S. Irungbam, JiongAo Yang, John Chainey, Jue Liao, Jurgen Vanhoudt, Karma Jamtsho, Kelvin Lim, Kenji Yamamoto, Keo Keomany, Klaas van Haeringen, Koich Kimura, KunYuan Li, Kurt Orion, Laszlo Ronkay, Leonid Strelok, Linda Chan, Lindsay Warren, M. Owada, M. Yokota, Maan Barua, Marcus Ng, Mark Boddington, Markku Pellinen, Masamichi Furukawa, Meenakshi Mallik, Michal Řezáč, Mike Allan, Muhammad Ather Rafi, Nikolay Ivshin, Oleg Korsun, Osamu Fukuda, Pascal Régnier, Peng Zheng, Purnendu, QianLe Lu, Qiaoqiao Zhang, R. Agenjo, Robert Young, Ronald Brechlin, Rudi Haller, Shen Horn Yen, S. Ivanov, Sergei Gordeev, Sergei Rybalkin, ShiWei Guo, Stefan Wils, Steven Tong, Sune Hauch, Svyatoslav Knyazev, Takahiro Yano, Teo Nam Siang, Timo Veteli, Tomáš Melichar, Toru Sakaguchi, Toshihiko Ishikawa, TuoZhan Fang, V. Shubhalaxmi, Vyacheslav Ivonin, WangDa Cheng, Wendy Lim, Xue DaYong, Yang Nan, Yanina Ivonina, Yasuhisa Ueda, Yoshiaki Sakai, and YuanSheng Li.
Additional photographs of set adults for species which were appended later (mainly Japanese) were supplied by Harry Taylor of the Natural History Museums' Photographic Unit (London), for which we are grateful.
We thank Dr Zhang QiaoQiao (Hangzhou & Wallingford) for effecting introductions, contacting hosts, writing letters of introduction and translating various important Chinese papers.
Thanks are also due to the late Jean-Marie Cadiou (Belgium), Sergei Toropov (Kyrgyzstan), the late Vadim Zolotuhin (Russia), Alfonso Iorio (Italy), Jean Haxaire (France) and Rodolphe Rougerie (France) for valuable distributional data and/or photographs.
Finally, thanks are also due to the late Charles Y. Schotman (Schiedam, Netherlands) and Mike Amphlett for introducing us to the wonderful world of computer graphics, picture scanning and manipulation, and databases.
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