d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneve), MHNP (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris), 

 MRHN (Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels), MZUT (Museo 

 Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino), NRM (Naturhistoriska Rijkmuseet, Stockholm), 

 NMW (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien), ZMB (Zoologisches Museum Berlin), OUMNH 

 (Oxford University Museum of Natural History), QCAZ (Museo de Zoologia, Pontificia 

 Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Quito), UIMNH (Museum of Natural History, 

 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), UMMZ (University of Michigan, Museum of 

 Zoology, Ann Arbor), USNM (National Museum of Natural History, Washington), UUZM 

 (Uppsala University Zoological Museum), ZFMK (Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und 

 Museum Alexander Konig, Bonn), ZMH (Zoologisches Museum Hamburg), ZSM 

 (Zoologische Staatsammlung, Munich). 



Acknowledgements 



I am grateful to Aaron Bauer, Wolfgang Bohme, Luis A. Coloma, Sammy de Grave, 

 Kevin de Queiroz, William E. Duellman, Richard Etheridge, Henry Fitch, Linda S. Ford, 

 Ned Gilmore, Jakob Hallermann, Marinus S. Hoogmoed, Sven Kullander, Colin McCarthy, 

 Linda Trueb and Luis Vinueza for their comments and help. 



