Acknowledgements

We thank the following people for donating specimens, loaning material for study, assisting with permissions and/or logistics for fieldwork, or for any other assistance with our research.

Argentina: Alfredo Peretti, Andrea Gonzalez-Reyes, Andres Ojanguren Affilastro, Camilo Mattoni, Cristian Grismado, Jose Corronca, Luis Acosta, Martín Ramírez, Marco Magnanelli

Australia: Claudia Arango, Erich Volschenk, Jürgen Gruber, Mark Harvey, Robert Raven,

Austria: Peter Keymar

Belgium: Fons Verdonck, Jan Tytgat, Rudy Jocque,

Benin: Severin Tchibozo

Brazil: Adriano Kury, Alessandro Giupponi, Antonio Brescovit, Humberto Yamaguti, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Rogerio Bertani,

Bulgaria: Pavel Stoev, Plamen Mitov

Cambodia: Dani Jump

Canada: Rick West, Tom Mason, Wayne Maddison

Chile: Jaime Pizarro, Jorge Artigas, Jorge Cepeda, Tomás Cekalovic

China: Kwok Chun Hei, Ming-Sheng Zhu,

Colombia: Eduardo Florez

Costa Rica: Carlos Viquez

Cuba: Luis de Armas

Czech Republic: Jiří Král

Denmark: Nikolaj Scharff

Dominican Republic: Eladio Fernandez, Kelvin Guerrero

Egypt: Hisham El-Hennawy

France: Christine Rollard, Eric Ythier, Wilson Lourenço

French Guiana: Joep & Bernie Moonen

Germany: Alex Tietz, Alex Winkler, Anja Klann, Bernhard Huber, Boris Striffler, Carsten Kamenz, Christian Wirkner, Dieter Mahsberg, Dietmar Huber, Gerd Alberti, Hieronymus Dastych, Jason Dunlop, Joachim Haupt, Peter Jaeger, Peter Michalik, Siegried Huber, Stefan Richter, Ute Schmiedel, Wolfgang Wranik

Guinea-Bissau: Mario Schuhmann

India: Flora Paul

Iran: Babak Vazirianzadeh, Hamid Goodarzi, Omid Mirshamsi, Seyed Abbas Moravvej, Shahrokh Navidpour

Israel: Sergei Zonstein, Yael Lubin

Italy: Valerio Vignoli

Japan: Akio Tanikawa Kazuaki Suzusaki

Kazakhstan: Alexander Gromov, Andrey Feodorov

Kenya: Charles Warui, Ian Gordon, Lucie Rogo, Samuel Mwangi

Mexico: Lourival Possani, Oscar Francke, Javier Ponce Saavedra, Maria Luisa Jimenez, Pablo Berea, Tila Maria Perez

Namibia: Chris & Tharina Bird, Joh & Inge Henschel, John Irish, Mike & Eryn Griffin

Nicaragua: Jean-Michel Maes

Norway: Jan Ove Rein

Peru: Jose Ochoa

Philippines: Jeffebeck Arimas, Ismael & Marie Lumawig

Portugal: Sergio Henriques

Puerto Rico: Alejandro Sanchez

Seychelles: Justin Gerlach

Singapore: Kian Wee

Slovenia: Matjaz Kuntner

South Africa: Adrian Armstrong, Alistair Mathie, Andre van Wyk, Andrew Turner, Anne Rasa, Annette van den Berg, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, Ashley Kirk-Spriggs, Astri & John Leroy, Atherton de Villiers, Beryl Wilson-Aitchison, Bill Branch, Bruno Lamoral, Carmen Kassier, Charles Haddad, Ernst Baard, Gerbus Müller, Hamish Robertson, Ian Engelbrecht, James du G. Harrison, James Harrison, James Pryke, John Visser, Jonathan Colville, Jurg van der Walt, Koos de Wet, Leon Lotz, Les Underhill, Margie Cochrane, Marie de Jager, Marius Burger, Martin Kruger, Michelle Hamer, Mike Mostovski, Mike Picker, Norman & Dawn Larsen, Peter Bradshaw, Peter Hawkes, Quinton Martins, Ross Wanless, Ruth Müller, Sarah Gess, Shelley Gastrell, Simon van Noort, Stefan Foord, Timothy Crowe

Swaziland: Richard Boycott

Sweden: Julio Ferrer, Lars Lundqvist, Lennart Cederholm, Roy Danielsson, Torbjorn Kronestedt, Torsten Nordlander

Switzerland: Christian Kropf, Marcel Jacquat, Matt Braunwalder, Peter Schwendinger

Tanzania: Joe Beraducci

The Netherlands: Ben Brugge, Erik van Nieukerken

Trinidad & Tobago: Chris Starr

Turkey: Ahmet & Ayşegül Karataş, Ersen Yagmur, Halil Koc

United Arab Emirates: Christel Griffioen, Peter Phelan

United Kingdom: Benjamin Gantenbein, Dimitri Lugonov, Greg Edgecombe, Janet Beccaloni, Mala Ram

United States of America: Aaron Bauer, Alessandro Catenazzi, Brice Noonan, Bruce Hammock, Cheryl Barr, Christopher Raxworthy, Darrin Vernier, Frank Somma, Jack Brookhart, Jack Werren, James Cokendolpher, James Lazell, Jason Bond, Jeremy Herren, Joel Hallan, John Pickering, Kristie Reddick, Lucian Ross, Paula Cushing, Robert Wharton, W. David Sissom, Warren Savary, William Shear, Andrew Gluesenkamp, Barney Tomberlin, Brian Fisher, Charles Griswold, Charles Savvas, Dana Price, Darrell Ubick, David Gaban, Don Cameron, G.B. Edwards, Gonzalo Giribet, Gustavo Hormiga, James Reddell, Jean Krejca, Jeffrey Shultz, Jeremy Huff, Joe Bigelow, Jonathan Coddington, Kari McWest, Laura Leibensperger, Manny Rubio, Mark Siddall, Michele Nishiguchi, Norman Platnick, Peter Sprouse, Petra Sierwald, Phillip Brownell, Roger Farley, Rowland Shelley, Sarah Crews, Tom Anton, Ward Wheeler, Zach Valois

Uruguay: Carlos Toscano Gadea

Venezuela: Fernando Rojas

Zimbabwe: Meg Cumming, Moira FitzPatrick