Raymond E. Henzlik’s scientific contributions

A plantation in the Nebraska sandhills, representing an expanded forest ecosystem in a prairie region, is effecting a changed biota. Dates, origins, and sites of the forest plantations are well documented, thereby allowing biogeographic correlation of animal species with the natural distribution and origin of the tree species. Distributional data for sixty species new to Nebraska are recorded, most of which represent insects. A lichen and a pseudoscorpion are included in the new locality data. Several new insect species plus a variety of undescribed insect forms provide evidence that the area has good potential for further taxonomic and biogeographic investigation.