About the Authors

Benoît Fontaine

fontaine@mnhn.fr

Affiliation UMR 7204, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Kees van Achterberg

Affiliation NCB Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands

Miguel Angel Alonso-Zarazaga

Affiliation Depto. de Biodiversidad y Biologıa Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain

Rafael Araujo

Affiliation Depto. de Biodiversidad y Biologıa Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain

Manfred Asche

Affiliation Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Horst Aspöck

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ulrike Aspöck

Affiliation Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

Paolo Audisio

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Berend Aukema

Affiliation Renkum, The Netherlands

Nicolas Bailly

Affiliation WorldFish Center, Natural Resource Management, Laguna, Philippines

Maria Balsamo

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo, dell’Ambiente e della Natura, Università di Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’, Urbino, Italy

Ruud A. Bank

Affiliation Hoogezand, Netherlands

Carlo Belfiore

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Ecologiche e Biologiche, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Wieslaw Bogdanowicz

Affiliation Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

Geoffrey Boxshall

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Daniel Burckhardt

Affiliation Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland

Przemysław Chylarecki

Affiliation Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

Louis Deharveng

Affiliation Dépt Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Alain Dubois

Affiliation Dépt Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Henrik Enghoff

Affiliation Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Romolo Fochetti

Affiliation Universita degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Viterbo, Italy

Colin Fontaine

Affiliation UMR 7204, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Olivier Gargominy

Affiliation Service du Patrimoine Naturel, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Maria Soledad Gomez Lopez

Affiliation Laboratori de Parasitologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Daniel Goujet

Affiliation Dept. Histoire de la Terre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Mark S. Harvey

Affiliation Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool, Western Australia, Australia

Klaus-Gerhard Heller

Affiliation Institut für Zoologie, University of Erlangen-Nürenberg, Erlangen, Germany

Peter van Helsdingen

Affiliation Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, European Invertebrate Survey, Leiden, The Netherlands

Hannelore Hoch

Affiliation Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Yde De Jong

Affiliation Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ole Karsholt

Affiliation Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Wouter Los

Affiliation Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Wojciech Magowski

Affiliation Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Jos A. Massard

Affiliation Echternach, Luxembourg

Sandra J. McInnes

Affiliation . British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Luis F. Mendes

Affiliation Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, Centro de Zoologia, Lisboa, Portugal

Eberhard Mey

Affiliation Naturhistorisches Museum im Thüringer Landesmuseum, Rudolstadt, Germany

Verner Michelsen

Affiliation Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Alessandro Minelli

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Juan M. Nieto Nafrıa

Affiliation Departamento de Biodiversidad y Gestión Ambiental, Universidad de Leon, Leon, Spain

Erik J. van Nieukerken

Affiliation NCB Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands

Thomas Pape

Affiliation Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Willy De Prins

Affiliation Flemish Entomological Society, Leefdaal, Belgium

Marian Ramos

Affiliation Depto. de Biodiversidad y Biologıa Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain

Claudia Ricci

Affiliation Dipartimento di protezione dei sistemi agroalimentare e urbano e valorizzazione delle biodiversità, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Cees Roselaar

Affiliation NCB Naturalis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Emilia Rota

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Sezione di Sistematica ed Ecologia animale e vegetale, Universita di Siena, Siena, Italy

Hendrik Segers

Affiliation Freshwater Laboratory, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Tarmo Timm

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartumaa, Estonia

Jan van Tol

Affiliation NCB Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands

Philippe Bouchet

Affiliation Dépt Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BF PB. Performed the experiments: BF. Analyzed the data: BF CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KVA MAAZ RA MA HA UA PA BA NB MB RB CB WB GB DB PC LD AD HE RF MSGL DG MH KGH PVH HH YDJ OK WL WM JM SMI LM EM VM AM JNN EVN TP WDP MR C. Ricci C. Roselaar ER HS TT JVT. Wrote the paper: BF. Designed database used in analyses: OG.