The authors of the volume express their special thanks to Ivan Löbl and Ales Smetana for the constant help and consultations. We are very grateful to Jon Cooter (Oxford University Museum of Natural History, England) and Steven Lingafelter (Hereford, Arizona, USA) for checking English grammar and orthography.
Ivan Löbl looked through the draft version of the text and made valuable remarks recorded in the final version.
Our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who provided a lot of valuable information on Palaearctic Longicornes or loaned specimens for study: Andrey ABRAMOV, Leningradskaya, Russia; Evgeniy AKULOV, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Vitaliy ALEKSEEV, Kaliningrad, Russia; Richard AMBRUS, Prague, Czech Republic; Nikolay ANISIMOV, Blagoveshchensk, Russia; Yuriy ARZANOV, Rostov-on-Don, Russia; Maxwell V.L. BARCLAY, London, UK; Hassan BARIMANI, Sari, Iran; Arvids BARSEVSKIS, Daugavpils, Latvia; Lutz BEHNE, Senckenberg, Germany; Andrey BENKOVSKI, Moscow, Russia; Joan BENTANACHS, Barcelona, Spain; Larry BEZARK, Sacramento, USA; Patrice BOUCHARD, Ottawa, Canada; Yves BOUSQUET, Ottawa, Canada; Sergei CHURKIN, Moscow, Russia; Giulio CUCCODORO, Geneva, Switzerland; Galina DANILEVSKAYA, Moscow, Russia; Alexander DANTCHENKO, Moscow, Russia; Maria-Magdalena DASCALU, Iaşi, Romania; Sergey DEDYUKHIN, Izhevsk, Russia; Norbert DELAHAYE, Plaisir, France; Sergey DEMENTYEV, Moscow, Russia; Grigoriy DEMIDOV, Odessa, Ukraine; Konstantin EFETOV, Simferopol, Crimea; Dmitriy EFIMOV, Kemerovo, Russia; Leonid EGOROV, Cheboksary, Russia; Ivan ERMOLAEV, Izhevsk, Russia; Fardin FAIZI, Tehran, Iran; Dmitriy FEDORENKO, Moscow, Russia; Rudolf GABZDIL, Michalovce, Slovak Republic; Viktor GAZANCHIDIS, Moscow, Russia; Georgi GEORGIEV, Sofia, Bulgaria; Pavel GORBUNOV, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Xavier GOUVERNEUR, Rennes, France; Denis GRADINAROV, Sofia, Bulgaria; Walter GROSSER, Opava, Czech Republic; Alexander GUBIN, Donetsk, Ukraine; Aleksej GUSAKOV, Moscow, Russia; Karl HADULLA, Troisdorf, Germany; Jiří HAJEK, Praha, Czech Republic; Dan HEFFERN, Houston, USA; Erdem HIZAL, Istanbul, Turkey; Karel HODEK, Brno, Czech Republic; Carolus HOLZSCHUH, Villach, Austria; Gui-Qiang HUANG, Guizhou, China; Alexandr IVANOV, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Sergey IVANOV, Vladivostok, Russia; Eric JIROUX, Andresy, France; Stanislav KADLEC, Litvinov, Czech Republic; Rustem KADYRBEKOV, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Mark KALASHYAN, Erevan, Armenia; Lech KARPIŃSKI, Katowice, Poland; Denis KASATKIN, Rostov-on-Don, Russia; Ilhama KERIMOVA, Baku, Azerbayjan; Iziaslav KERZHNER, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Evgeniy KOMAROV, Volgograd, Russia; Alexandr KOMPANTZEV, Moscow, Russia; Boris KOROTYAEV, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Tibor KOVÁCS, Gyöngyös, Hungary; Alexander KOVAL, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Anton KOZLOV, Moscow, Russia; Tigran KREDJYAN, Gavar, Armenia; Marina KRIVOSHEINA, Moscow, Russia; Anatoliy KRUPITSKY, Moscow, Russia; Lech KRUSZELNICKI, Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland; Andrey KRYUKOV, Kirov, Russia; Emil KUCERA, Sobeslav, Czech Republic; Dmitriy KULESHOV, Tomsk, Russia;