DNA was extracted from legs slices of Partial abdomen to avoid possible contamination by recent prey items. was extracted a high-sal extraction protocol modified from Pogson et al. (995) Anderson (2000). Extracted DNA pellets were stored The mitochondrial ochrome c oxidase subunit sequenced using universal primers COI/LCon from et al. O994) PCR am containing 1x HotStarTaq Mix (QIAGEN), 2.5 uL of 10 uM primer mix approximately 1 10 ng DNA template, and water. Reactions were run on a Stratagene RoboCycler with the following profile:95 Cfor 15 min: 35 cycles of 94 sc for 1 min, 40-45 C for l min C for 1 min 30 s; 72 oC for 7 mi PCR pr ere stored at -20 PC until further analysis gel-purified using 1% agarose gels and a QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit (QIA purified PCR products were sequenced in both directions using BigDye Terminator mix version 3.0 (PE Applied Biosystems) following modified protocol for and 1/8 reactions. Sequencing reactions were carried out either in 10-HL volumes containing 1 HL of 3.2 HM primer 4 HL BigDye of erminator mix, and a template/sterile water mixture containing 5-20 ng template or 20-HL volumes containing 1 HL of 3.2 HM primer, 1 HL of BigDye Terminator mix, 3.5 uL of 5x sequencing buffer, and a tem- plate/sterile water ontaining 5-20 ng template Cycle sequencing reactions were run on a GeneAmp PCR System 9700 thermal cycler (PE Applied Biosystems) following the manufacturer's protocol except that the number of cycles was increased to 99. Purification of the sequencing reactions was accomplished using Centri-Sep spin columns (Princeton Separations) packed with Sephadex G-50 Fine resin (Amersham Biosciences). Purified cycle-sequencing reactions were electro- phoresed on ABI PRISM 377 DNA sequencer (Applied Biosystems). Sequences of each haplotype present a available in GenBank under Accession nos AY790473- AY790532.