We were able to study material from all over the world for which we would like to thank the following institutions and the respective curators or collection managers.
ABSC: Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida, USA [M. Deyrup].
AEIC: American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA [D. Wahl].
AMGS: Albany Museum. Grahamstown, South Africa [S. & F. Gess].
AMNH: American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA [J. Carpenter & D. Grimaldi].
BMNH: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom [G. Broad & P. Brown].
CASC: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA [W. Pulawski & R. Zuparko].
CCPC: Charles C. Porter, Personal Collection in FSCA, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
CNCI: Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [A. Bennett].
CUIC: Cornell University Insect Collection, Ithaca, New York, USA [E. R. Hoebeke & J. Liebherr].
DJBC: Dennis Brothers, personal collection, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
DZUP: Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil [G. A. R. Melo].
FSAG: Faculte des Sciences Agronomiques, Gembloux, Belgium [R. Wahis].
FSCA: Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville, Florida, USA [J. Wiley].
HIC: United States, Kentucky, Lexington, University of Kentucky, Department of Entomology, Hymenoptera Institute Collection [M. Sharkey].
IAVH*: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos, Villa de Leyva,Colombia.
ICN*: Insituto de Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Nacional, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia [C. Sarmiento-M.].
INBio: Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica [M. Solis].
INHS*: Illinois Natural History Survey Insect Collection, Champaign, Illinois, USA [S. Taylor].
INBP: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, Inventorio Biologico Nacional, Asuncion, Paraguay.
IRCW: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA [S. Krauth].
IRSNB: Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium [Y. Braet] (Until further notice the specimen is still in the private collection of Yves Braet).
LACM: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California, USA [W. Xie].
LOHR: Volker Lohrmann, Personal Collection, Berlin, Germany.
LSAM: Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
MACN*: Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina [A. Roig Alsina].
MCZC: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [S. Cover].
MEMU: Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi, Mississippi, USA [T. Schiefer].
MIUP: Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Universidad de Panama, Panama [R. Cambra].
MNHN: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France [C. Villemant].
MUCR: Museo de Insectos, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica [P. Hanson].
MZLU: Museum of Zoology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden [R. Danielsson].
NCSU*: North Carolina State University Insect Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA [P. Mullins].
NMBE: Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Bern, Schweiz [C. Schüepp & H. Baur].
NMWA: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria [M. Madl, D. Zimmermann].
OLML: Oberöstereichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria [F. Gusenleitner].
PMAE: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [T. Cobb & M. Buck].
QSBG: Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Chaing Mai, Thailand.
RMNH: Natural History Museum, Leiden, Netherlands [K. van Achterberg, R. de Vries].
ROME: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [C. Darling, A. Guidotti].
RWHC*: Robert W. Hamilton, Personal Collection, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
SAMC: South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa [M. Cochrane, S. van Noort].
SEMC: Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA [M. Engel, J. Thomas].
SMNS: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany.
SMSU*: Southeast Missouri State University, Department of Biology, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA [D. Wood].
TAMU: Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA [R. Wharton].
UCDC*: Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, California, USA [L. Kimsey].
UCFC*: University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA [S. Fullerton].
UCRC: Entomology Research Museum, University of California, Riverside, California, USA [D. Yanega].
UFES*: Colecão Entomologica, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil [M. Tavares].
USNM: United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., USA [B. Harris].
ZMAN: Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands [W. Hogenes].
ZMB: Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany [F. Koch].
ZMUC: Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark [L. B. Vilhelmsen].
ZSM: Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany [S. Schmidt].