A Checklist of the Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Madagascar and adjacent oceanic islands

Abbreviations
Abbreviations for type repository institutions or collections.
BMNH The Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History)), London, United Kingdom
HMUG
Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Scotland
ISNB
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
MNHN
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
MRAC
Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium
MRSN
Museo Regionale Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy
MZHF
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland
NHMB
Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland
NMPC
Narodni Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
RHCP
R. Hołyński collection, Milanowek, Poland
RMNH
Nationaal Natuurhistorische Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands
TSCB
T. Neef de Sainval collection, Brussels, Belgium
UZIU
Zoological Museum, Uppsala University, Sweden
ZINAS
Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
ZMHB
Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Germany

Abbreviations used in the text.
ab.
aberration, unavailable infrasubspecific name
gen.
genus, genera
gen. key
key to genera
ms. name
manuscript name, unpublished, unavailable
nom. nov.
nomen novum, new name
nom. nud.
nomen nudum, name without description, unavailable                                                                                  
nom. praeocc.
preoccupied name
nom. superfl.
superfluous name, unnecessary replacement name
sbg.
subgenus
spp.
species
spp. key
key to species
ssp.
subspecies
syn.
synonym
undef.
undefined
unvn.
unavailable name
var.
variety