Acknowledgements The
Economic Planning Unit of the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department funded
this project and I thank the British Council for a scholarship under the
British High Commissioner’s Chevening Award. I
would like to thank Dr. John Mumford (Imperial College) for his inspiring
guidance and untiring efforts in helping me make sense of these fireflies. A
huge thanks to Dr. Michael Cox and Dr. Roger Booth (CAB International
Institute of Entomology, London) for their expertise in identifying the
firefly specimens. I
am hugely indebted to Ayu, Bohari, Chan and Ezam (Firefly Research Team,
FRIM) for their untiring efforts throughout this project. I
gratefully acknowledge the humble people of Kampung Kuantan, especially the
family of the late Pakcik Jalaludin for their warm hospitality, kindness,
assistance and support during the course of this work. This
study is part of the author’s Ph.D thesis and copyright for the above data
and information is held by the author and Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom. For further enquiries and
correspondence, please contact the author (n.kumari@ic.ac.uk
/ kannadev@aaahawk.com). This
paper should be cited as:
Nallakumar, K, "The Fireflies of Peninsular Malaysia: where are
they?", ASEAN Review of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (ARBEC), http://www.arbec.com.my/fireflies/,
Kuala Lumpur, October 2002.
