Appendix: Collection abbreviations

Where additional information has been gleaned from specimen labels the abbreviation of the collection is cited.

AMNH - American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A.
ANSP - Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
BBSL - Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, U.S.A.
CAS - California Academy of Science, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
GCH - Gundlach Collection, Havana, Cuba
IOC - Instituto Osvaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IZUT - Turin, Italy
Kiel - $$
MCZ - Museum of Comparative Zoology, University of Harvard, U.S.A.
MNHN - Musée National de Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
MNHU - Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin, Germany
Morato - Elder Morato, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
MPEG - Museu Paraense de Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
MZSP - Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
NMD - National Museum, Dublin, Ireland
NHML - Natural History Museum, London, England
NHMW - Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria
OUM - Oxford University Museum, England
Ras - Claus Rasmussen, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana, USA.
RAW - Collection of Anthony Raw
Roubik - D. W. Roubik, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
SMM - State Museum of München, Germany
UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
KANS - University of Kansas, U.S.A.
USNM - United States National Museum, Washington, DC. U.S.A.
ZMC - Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.