ABBREVIATIONS
AC - Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada;
AC - coll. Alain Coache, La Brilanne, France (for African species);
AJ - coll. A. Jadwiszczak, Olsztyn, Poland;
AJGC - coll. Arthur J. Gillbert, Clovis, California, USA;
ANIC - Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia.
BM - Bishop Museum, Honolulu, USA;
BMB - Bloemfontain Museum, Bloemfontain, South Africa;
BMNH - British Museum Natural History, London, England;
BYUC - Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Provo, USA
CAS - California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA;
CMN - Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada;
CMNH - Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, USA;
CNCI - Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada;
CTM - Cape Town Museum, Cape Town, South Africa;
DBET - Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland (formerly coll. L. Borowiec);
DEI - Deutsche Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalde, Germany;
DNSM - Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa;
DS - coll. D. Sassi, Castelmarte, Italy;
DZPAS - Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland;
ER - coll. E. Riley, Texas, USA;
FK - coll. Frantisek Kantner, Lipi, Czech Republic;
FMNH - Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA;
GM - coll. Gerard Moragues, Marseille, France;
HEC - Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University, Oxford, England;
HNHM - Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary (coll. E. Reitter);
HU - Zoological Museum, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland;
IFAN - Institut Fondamental d\rquote Afrique Noire, Dakar, Senegal;
IL - coll. I.K. Lopatin, Belorussian University, Minsk, Belarus;
IMC - Insectarium, Ville de Montreal, Montreal, Canada;
INBIO - Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Rica;
IRSN - Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles, Belgium;
ITZ - Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoölogie, Amsterdam, The Netherland;
IZAS - Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China (coll. S. Chen);
IZPAS - Zoological Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland;
JAS - coll. A. Jasiński, Piastów, Poland;
JB - coll. Jan Bezdek, Brno, Czech Republic;
JS - coll. J. Strejcek, Prague, Czech Republic;
JV - coll. J. Vorisek, Jirkov, Czech Republic;
KL - coll. K. Łoś, Warsaw, Poland;
LB - Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland (formerly coll. L. Borowiec);
LM - Luxemburg Museum, Luxemburg;
LS - coll. L. Sekerka, Prague, Czech Republic (now at the Narodni Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic);
LU - Zoological Museum, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;
MCSNG- Muzeo Zoologico di Storia Naturale, Genova, Italy;
MCSNM - Muzeo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano, Italy;
MCSNT- Muzeo Zoologico di Storia Naturale, Trieste, Italy;
MCSNV- Muzeo Zoologico di Storia Naturale, Verona, Italy;
MCZC - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, USA;
MD - coll. M. Döberl, Seeweg, Germany;
MHNG - Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneve, Switzerland;
MKB - Museum Koenig, Bonn, Germany;
ML - Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Leyden, Leyden, Netherland;
MLBP - Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Provo, USA;
MLM - MacLeay Museum, Sydney, Australia;
MM - Manchester Museum, Manchester, England (coll. F. Spaeth, W. Wagener);
MNHN - Muséum National d\rquote Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France;
MNHW - Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland;
MNRJ - Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
MRAC - Musée Royal d'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium;
MRSNT - Muzeo Regionale di Storia Naturale, Torino, Italy;
MS - coll. M. Snizek, České Budéjovice, Czech Republik;
MTD - Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany;
MSU - Montana State University, Bozeman, USA;
MZUF - Museo Zoologico dell'Universita, Firenze, Italy;
NDSU - North Dakota State University Insect Reference Collection, Fargo, North Dakota, USA;
NHB, NHMB, NMB - Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland;
NIC - National
Collection of Insects, Plant Protection Research Institute,
Pretoria, South Africa;
NMM - National Museum and Monuments, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe;
NMP - Narodni Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic;
NMW - Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria;
NRS - Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (coll. C. Boheman);
OSU - Ohio State University, Columbus, USA;
OXUM - Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University, Oxford, England;
PIME - P.I.M.E. Entomological Museum, Monza, Italy (coll. C. Brivio);
PMNH - Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, USA;
PU - Modern College, Pune, India;
QM - Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia;
RSME - Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland;
SAM - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia;
SEM - Snow Entomological Museum, Lawrence, USA;
SMF - Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany;
SMNS - Staatliches Musem fur Tierkunde, Stuttgart, Germany;
SZ - coll. S. Zoia, Milano, Italy;
TAMU - Texas A&M University Insect Collection, Texas, USA;
TARI - Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Taichung, Taiwan;
TAU - Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;
TM - Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa;
UCE - Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador;
USNM - United States National Museum, Washington, USA;
UWRC - University of Wisconsin Insect Research Collection, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;
WM - Windhoek Museum, Windhoek, Namibia;
ZIRAS - Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia;
ZMK - Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen, Danmark (coll. J.Ch. Fabricius);
ZMH - Zoological Museum Hamburg;
ZMHU - Zoologisches Museum, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, Germany (coll. J. Weise);
ZMMU - Zoological Museum, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia;
ZSM - Zoologische Staatssamlung, Munchen, Germany;
AT - allotype;
HT - holotype;
LT - lectotype;
PT - paratype(s);
PLT - paralectotype(s);
ST - syntype(s);
TE - type (status of type unknown);
! - type examined.