Gavin Svenson and Rick Wherley visited the collections at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, just outside of Brussels, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Natural History Museum in Geneva to examine mantids and photograph type specimens for the online image database.

Gavin amazed by a specimen in Tervuren

Roger Roy, Nicolas, and Gavin outside the MNHN in Paris

Gavin, John Hollis, and Peter Schwendinger in the collection in Geneva