ABBREVIATIONS

Abb., Abbildung (German, figure). APP, private collection of Alberto F. Prosen, Buenos Aires, Argentina. AM, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa. AMS, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. ANG, Museu do Dundo, Luanda, Angola. ANSP, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. AVG, private collection of Alexander V. Gromov, Almaty, Kazakstan. BELUM, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. BFW, Bureau of Fish & Wildlife, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. BMNH, British Museum of Natural History, London, England, UK. BMS, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York, USA. BU, Birmingham University, Birmingham, England, UK. CAR, private collection of Carlton A. Rood, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. CAS, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA. CF, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle a la Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. CHNM, Cabinet d'Histoire Naturelle de Metz, Metz, France. CIURCA, private collection of Samuel J. Ciurca, Rochester, New York, USA. CMM, Civico Museo de Milano, Milan, Italy. CZAUNC, Centro de Zoologia Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ffsicas y Naturales de la

Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina. DAV, Departamento de Animales Venenosos, Ministerio de Salud Publica, Lima, Peru. DLD, private collection of David L. Douglass, Evanston, Illinois, USA. DM, Durban Museum, Durban, South Africa. ECBUH, Escuela de Ciencias Biologicas de la Universidad de la Habana, Havana, Cuba. EMLU, Entomological Museum, Lund University, Stockholm, Sweden. ESAUSP, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Universidad de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba,

Brazil. FAUCV, Facultad de Agronornia de la Universidad Central, Maracay, Venezuela. FHC, Facultad de Hurnanidades y Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay. fig., figure. FKCP, private collection of Frantisek Kovaffk, Prague, Czech Republic. FML, Fundaci6n Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina. FMNH, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA. FSCA, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainseville, Florida, USA. FWU, Friedrich-Wilhelm Universitat, Bonn, Germany. GDP, private collection of Gerard Dupre, Paris, France. GMNH, Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. GSC, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. GSE, Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. GSML, Geological Survey Museum, London, England, UK. GUM, Gottingen University Museum, Gottingen, Germany. HNHM, Hungarian Natural History Museum (Magyar Terrneszettudomanyi Museum), Budapest,

Hungary. HU, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. HUF, Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland. IADIZA, Instituto Argentino de Investigaci6n de Zonas Aridas, Mendoza, Argentina. IB, Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil. IBAS, Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China. IBUNM, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, Mexico. ICN, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. ICZN, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (London, UK).

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IES, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Instituto de Ecologia y Sistematica, Havana, Cuba. UK. lnstituto de Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. ILSB, Instituto de La Salle (Museo La Salle), Bogota, Colombia. IMRT, Instituto de Medicina Regional, Universidad Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina. INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil. IOC, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. IOS, incorrect original spelling. IPN, Laboratorio de Acarologia, Departamento de Zoologia de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias

Biologicas de! Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico. IRSNB, lnstitut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium. ISC, Institut Scientifique Cherifien, Rabat, Morocco. ISETM, Laboratorio de Entomologia, Instituto de Salubridad y Enfermedades Tropicales, Mexico City,

Mexico. ISM. Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, USA. ISPE, Instituto de Salubridad de Parasitologia y Enfennadada, Mexico City, Mexico. ISS, incorrect subsequent spelling. IZACC, Instituto de Zoologia de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Havana, Cuba. JAN, private collection of Jan Nilsson, Arizona, USA. JB, private collection of Julius Boos, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. JMAL, private collection of J.M. Ayala L., Venezuela. juv, juvenile. JVH. private collection of Jens von Holt, Hamburg, Germany. KM, Kilmarnock Museum, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. LMK, Landesmuseum, Klagenfurt, Austria. LS, Laboratoire Saharien, Institut Pasteur d' Algerie, Alger, Algeria. LSL, Linnean Society of London, England, UK. MACN, Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires, Argentina. MAGS, private collection of Manuel A. Gonzalez-Sponga, Caracas, Venezuela. MB, private collection of Max Biraben, La Plata, Argentina. MBSVE, Museo de Biospeleologia de la Sociedad Venezolana de Espeleologia, Venezuela. MBUCV, Museo de Biologia de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela. MCEP, Museo de Ciudad Eva Peron, Ciudad Eva Peron, Argentina. MCNC, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela. MCNCC, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Cali, Cali, Colombia. MCPUCRS, Museu de Ciencias da PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. MCSNB, Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo, Italy. MCSNG, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova, Italy. MCSNM, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, Italy. MCZ, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MEPRA. Misi6n de Estudos de Patologfa Regional Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. MEB, private collection of Matt E. Braunwalder, Zurich, Switzerland. MES, private collection of Michael E. Soleglad, California, USA. MG, Museum Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. MHNG, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland. MHNLS, Museo de Historia Natural "La Salle", Caracas, Venezuela. MIS, misidentification. MIZT, Museo ed Istituto di Zoologia Sistematica della Universita, Turin, Italy. MJH, private collection of M. J. Hintze, Hannover, Germany. MMK, MacGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa. MMUS, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Australia. MNA, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. MHNCI, Museu de Hist6ria Natural "Capao da Imbuia" (formerly lnstituto de Defensa do Patrimonio

Natural), Curitiba, Brazil. MNHM, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo, Uruguay. MNHN, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. MNRJ, Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. MNSD, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. MPEG, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil.

ABBREVIATIONS

MRAC. Musee Royal de l' Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium. MRHNB, Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium. MRSN. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy. MZR. Museo Zoologico Roma, Rome, Italy.

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MZUC. Museo Zoologico de Instituto de Biologia de la Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile. MZUF. Museo Zoologico "La Specola" dell ' Universita de Firenze, Florence, Italy. MZUCR. Museo de Zoologia Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria, Costa Rica. MZUSP. Museu de Zoologia. Universidad de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. NM. Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. NMB, Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland. NMG. Naturhistoriska Museet, Goteborg, Sweden. NMM, Naturhistorisches Museum, Mainz, Germany. NMPC, National Museum (Natural History), Prague, Czech Republic. NMS. National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. NMV. National Museum of Victoria, Australia. NMW. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria. NMWB. Naturhistorischcs Museum, Wiesbaden. Germany. NMZ, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. NRC. Naturhistoriska Riksmuscets Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. NRS. Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Stockholm. Sweden. NTM. Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. NYSM, New York State Museum. Alhany, New York, USA. N. V.. rdcrence was not seen hy the author. ONHM, Oman Natural History Museum, Muscat, Oman. OTS, Finca de la Selva Research Station, Organization of Tropical Studies, Costa Rica. PASW. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. PIRAN. Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. pl., plate. PU. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. QM, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. RC, private collection of Richard Cramer, Forrest Park, Illinois, USA. RM, Rochdale Museum, Rochdale, England, UK. RMNH, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands. RMS. Raffles Museum. Singapore. RSM. Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland. UK. RU, Rijksunivcrsiteit Utrecht, Utrecht. The Netherlands . SAIMR, South African Institute for Medical Research. Johannesburg, South Africa. SAM. South African Museum. Cape Town, South Africa. SAMA, South Australian Museum, Australia. SDNHM. San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego. California, USA. SM, Sedgwil.:k Museum, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, England, UK. SMF. Sern.:kcnberg Museum, Frankfurt. Germany. SM!. private collection of Sherman A . Minton, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. SMN. State Museum. Windhoe.k, Namibia. SMNG. Staatliches Museum fi.ir Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany. SMTD, Staatlichcs Museum fi.ir Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany. SNS, Stuttgarter Naturaliensammlung, Stuttgart, Germany. sub. subadult. SVO. private collection of Sergey V. Ovchinnikov, Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan. SWRS. Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Arizona, USA.

tab., tahle. TM, Transvaal Museum. Pretoria, South Africa. TMM. Texas Memorial Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA. TTU. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. USA. l AM. Centro dc Invcstigacinncs Medicas, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. UASD, lJniversidad Auttinoma de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic . UCB. University of California. Berkeley. California, USA. UCQ. Universidad Catolico de Quito. Quito, Ecuador.

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UCR, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica. UCVFAG, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad Agronomia, Caracas, Venezuela. UE, unjustified emendation. UI, University of Illinois Geological Museum, Urbana, Illinois, USA. UL, Universite de Laval, Cite Quebec, Quebec, Canada. UMMP, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. UNAM, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. UNC, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina. UNCB, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. UQIC, University of Queensland Insect Collection, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia. USNM, United States National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, DC,

USA. UT, Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France. UUZM, Upsala University Zoological Museum, Upsala, Sweden. UWI, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. UZM, Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. WAM, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia. WBM, private collection of William B. Muchmore, Rochester, New York, USA. WDS, private collection of W. David Sissom, Canyon, Texas, USA. WUP, Wroclaw Univeristy, Wroclaw (formerly Breslau), Poland. WL, private collection of Wilson Lourem;o, Vitry-sur-Seine, France. WUS, Wiener Universitat Sammlung, Vienna, Austria. YPM, Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. ZFMK, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut & Museum Koenig, Bonn, Germany. ZISP, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. ZIU, Zoologiska Institutionen, Upsala, Sweden. ZMA, Instituut voor taxonomische Zoologie (Zoologisch Museum), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ZMB, Zoologisches Museum, Humboldt Universifat, Berlin, Germany. ZMH, Zoologische Staatsinstitut, Zoologisches Museum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. ZMMSU, Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. ZMO, Zoologisk Museum, Oslo, Norway. ZMW, Zoologisches Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany. ZSI, National Collection, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India. ZSM, Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany. ZTS, Zootomiska Institut, Stockholm, Sweden.