Tony Robillard, Frédéric Legendre and Claire Viilemant are Maitres de conférences and curators of insects at the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, and Maurice Leponce is tropical ecologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels. All four have been involved at various stages of the project supervision, including the sampling protocol design, field collection, and the sorting and identification of specimens involving an international network of taxonomists.