ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This research received support from the SYNTHESYS Project
http://www.synthesys.info/ which is financed by European Community
Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 ”Capacities” Program. We
would like to thank H. V. Grouw and M. Adams from the Natural History
Museum (Tring; UK), J. Fuchs and V. Bouetel from the Museum National
d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France), K. Thorup, J. B. Kristensen and N.
Manniche from the National History Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen,
Denmark), S. Frahnert, P. Eckhoff and M. Voß from the Museum für
Naturkunde (Berlin, Germany), J. B. Rodriguez and J. Cabarga from the
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid, Spain), U. Johansson and
I. Bisang from the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden), A.
Gamauf and A. Hille from the Natural History Museum Vienna (Vienna,
Austria), D. Berkowic and A. Belmaker from the Steinhardt Museum of
Natural History (Tel-Aviv, Israel), and A. Aleixo and S. Sainio from the
Finnish Museum of Natural History (Helsinki, Finland). Thanks to
volunteers who helped with fieldwork and to Eli Haviv for his help with
figures preparation.