I had the opportunity to visit and loan specimens from different Natural History Collections (NHC) around the world.

List of the studied collections: 

AMNH: American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America (U.S.A.)

BM: British Museum (Nat. Hist.), London, United Kingdom (U.K.)

CAS: California Academy of Science, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

CMN: Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada

CMNH: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

CTNI: Colección Taxonómica Nacional de Insectos "Luis María Murillo", Mosquera, Cundinamarca, Colombia

FMNH: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

IAvH: Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia

ICN: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

LUOMUS: Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finlande

MEUC: Museo Entomológico de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

MNHN: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France

MNHN: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile

MLP: Museo de la Plata, La Plata, Argentina

MCZ: Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

MEFLG: Museo Entomológico Francisco Luis Gallego, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia

MHN-UPN: Museo de Historia Natural - Universidad Pedagógica Nacional,  Bogotá, Colombia

MLS: Colecciones Zoológicas - Museo de La Salle, Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia

MPUJ: Museo Javeriano de Historia Natural, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

MZUSP: Museo de Zoología de la Universidad de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

NFM: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

NHM: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria

NHRS: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

NMB: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

NM CZ: National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic

OUMNH: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, U.K.

QCAZ: Museo de Zoología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

SDEI: Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg, Germany

UNMSM (MUSM): Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

UPTC: Museo de Historia Natural "Luis Gonzalo Andrade", Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia

USNM: United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

UMZC: University Museum of Zoology Insect Collection, Cambridge, U.K.

UNAB: Museo Entomológico Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

ZSM: Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany