The photographs, scanning electron micrographs, half-tone drawings and line drawings in this database are being accumulated as potential illustrations for a guide to the aleocharine genera of North America and Mexico, with additional images of taxa from other geographical regions for comparison.  Seevers (1978) noted that it is probably impossible to identify most aleocharine genera without a substantial reference collection.  It is our ultimate goal to provide habitus illustrations, photographs and line drawings of structural features of all genera.  Hopefully, these will serve as the “reference collection” needed to accurately identify aleocharine genera (when used with appropriate keys).  Development of this image database is a on-going project, and new images will be added, and images of poor quality replaced, on a regular basis.  All images in this database are made available thanks to NSF PEET grant DEB-9521755 to James S. Ashe. The Aleocharine Image Database is made available thanks to the joint efforts of everyone involved in the Aleocharine PEET project.  The database was conceived and conceptually designed by J. S. Ashe; Kee-Jeong Ahn designed the Access database which maintains the data and images; Sara Taliaferro, J. S. Ashe and Kee-Jeong Ahn imported, formatted, and organized most of the images; Rod Hanley helped with proofing and design parameters; and, Thy Tang wrote the entire program code for all design and functionality of the web version of the database in Cold Fusion.  This database, and all the images in it, are made available thanks to NSF PEET grant DEB-9521755 to James S. Ashe.