Jonathan Davies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Gareth Hempson, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Tristan Charles-Dominique, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China, Olivier Maurin, RBG Kew, London, United Kingdom, Muthama Muasya, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Barnabas Daru, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, United States, Michelle van Der Bank, University of Johannesburg, African Centre for DNA Barcoding, Johannesburg, South Africa and William J Bond, SAEON, Cape Town, South Africa