The Insect & Spider Collections of the World

Ross H. Arnett, Jr., G. Allan Samuelson, Gordon M. Nishida

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000697001
• Topic: Scienze biologiche
• Subtopic: Biologia

First published in 1993, completely rewritten, this second edition includes a list of all 210 countries of the world and all of the islands, with comments on the existence of insect and spider collections, both public and private. These listings are arranged alphabetically by country, state/province, and city, with private collections listed under the public collection with which they are registered. Part II of the directory is an alphabetical list of the codes assigned to each of the collections described in Part I. This list is also cross-referenced to variations of the codes used in other works, which will eliminate any confusion over this duplication. This classic work provides a ready reference to all collections and is required by all insect and spider systematists.

PART I

LIST OF INSECT AND SPIDER COLLECTIONS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY COUNTRY

[19_] =Date received reply.

(Abu Dhabi, see United Arab Emirates.)

(Aden, see Yemen.)

(Afars and Issas, see Djibouti.)

1. AFGHANISTAN, Democratic Republic of

[Palearctic. Kabul. Population: 14,480,863; Size: 251,773 sq. mi. Letter sent to Embassy, Washington, D. C., no reply. No known insect collection.]

(Ajman, see United Arab Emirates.)

(Aland, see Finland)

2. ALBANIA, People’s Socialists Republic of

[Palearctic. Tirana. Population: 3,147,352. Size: 11,100 sq. mi.]

INSECT COLLECTION, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, STATE UNIVERSITY, TIRANA. [Letter returned marked “Refused.”]. [MSUT] [1986]

(Aleutian Islands, territory of USA)

(Aldabra Island, see Seychelles.)

3. ALGERIA, Democratic and Popular Republic of

[Palearctic. Algiers. Population: 24,194,777. Size: 919,595 sq. mi.]

MUSÉE DE BENI ABBES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SUR LES ZONES ABIDES, BENI ABBES, W. BECHAR. [BAAC] [1986]

Director: Dr. N. Bounaga. Phone 649283. No professional staff. The collection consists of about 65 boxes of insects, half of which are arranged to family and otherwise identified. Several boxes of Coleoptera are from the Fezzan Mission of 1944. [1992]

4. AMERICAN SAMOA

[Oceanian (Polynesia). Pago Pago. Population: 39,254. Size: 75.2 sq. mi. Unincorporated territory of U.S.A.; wrote to Pago Pago, 96799. No reply. An agricultural insect collection exists.]

(Amirante Islands, see Seychelles.)

(Amsterdam Island, see New Amsterdam Island.)

(Andaman Islands, see India.)

5. ANDORRA, Valleys of

[Palearctic. Andorra la Vella. Population: 49,422. Size: 180 sq. mi. No reply. No known insect collection.]

6. ANGOLA, People’s Republic of

[Afrotropical. Includes exclave of Cabinda. Population: 8,236,461. Size: 481,354 sq. mi.]

MUSEU DO DUNDO, RUA DE NOSSA SENHORA DE MUXIMA, LUANDA. [MDLA] [No reply.]

7. ANGUILLA

[Neotropical. British dependent territory: technically part of the British associated state of St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, but administered as a British dependent territory. The Valley. Population: 6,875. Size: 36 sq. mi. No reply. No known insect collection.]

(Antarctica. Antarctic. The U.S.A. does not recognize sovereignty, but territorial limits may be noted by listing the unclaimed sector and the claimed sectors: Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom. No known insect collections.)

8. ANTIGUA and BARBUDA, State of

[Neotropical. St.John’s. Population: 70,925. Size: 171 sq. mi. British Commonwealth: includes Barbuda and Redonda. No reply. No known insect collection.]

(Antipodes Islands, see New Zealand.)

(Archipelago de Colon, see Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.)

9. ARGENTINA, Argentine Republic

[Neotropical. Buenos Aires. Population: 31,532,538. Size: 1,068,302 sq. mi.]

DIVISION ENTOMOLOGIA, MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES, AV. ANGEL GALLARDO 470 (C.C. 220, SUC. 5), 1405 BUENOS AIRES. [MACN]

Director: Dr. Axel O. Bachmann. Phone [phone]. Nine curators. The collection consists of about one million specimens, half of them mounted (mainly pinned); of these about 200,000 are arachnids preserved in alcohol. The insect collection is housed mainly in Deyrolle boxes, some in drawers; the unpinned material is dry-preserved on cotton sheets in paper envelopes. Special collections include some or all of the following: H. Burmeister; C. Berg; C. Bruch; J. Brethes; A. Frers, G. Pellerano; A. Breyer; E. Dallas; E. Giacomelli; R. N. Orfila; A. Stevenin; A. Piran; S. Ruscheweg; S. Nosswitz; P. Mendoca; Lynch-Arribalzaga; S. Schajovskoy; A. O. Bachmann; E. E. Blanchard. [1992]

DEPARTAMENTO DE PATOLOGIA VEGETAL, INTA. C. C. No. 25, CASTELAR, BUENOS AIRES. [DPBA]. [No reply.]

MUSEO DE LA PLATA, DIVISION ENTOMOLOGIA, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA, PASEO DEL BOSQUE, 1900 LA PLATA. [MLPA]

Director: Dr. Richardo A. Ronderos. Phone: [phone]. Professional staff: 18 curators. The collection has excellent coverage of Argentina and neighboring countries (Bolivia, southern Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay). All orders are represented but Collembola, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Mallophaga, Anoplura, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, and Thysanoptera are the most important. Nearly 3,500,000 specimens and 3500 types, and an equal amount of unpinned specimens are housed in 4,000 drawers, boxes, and on slides. A special Acarina collection is also housed in the Entomology Division. Limited material is available for exchange; loans for study to specialists is possible by official application. Special collections: Breyer; Berg; Bosq; Denier; Jorgensen; Ogloblin; Pertovsky; Richter; Tremoleres. Publication sponsored: “Revista del Museo de La Plata (Nueva Serie) Seccion Zoologia.” [1986]

COLECCION ENTOMOLOGICA, CATEDRA DE ZOOLOGIA AGRICOLA, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS AGRARICA, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO, ALTE BROWN 500, C. P. 5505, CHACRAS DE CORIA-LUJAN DE CUYO, MENDOZA. [CZAA]

Director: None listed. Phone: 960 004. Professional Staff: Ing. Agr. Guido S. Macola; Ing. Agr. Jose G. Garcia Saez; Ing. Agr. Silvio J. Lanati. Essentially this is an entomological collection of species from the province of Mendoza, with a few from other countries. The collection is housed in about 550 Deyrolle boxes. [1986]

INSTITUTO INVESTIGACIONES ENTOMOLOGICAS SALTA “INESALT,” 9 DE JULIO 14, ROSARIO DE LERMA, SALTA 4405. [IIES]

Director: Mr. Manfredo A. Fritz. Phone: [phone]. Professional staff: Antonio Martinez (Coleoptera), and Manuel J. Viana (Coleoptera). The collection contains about 50,000 specimens, mainly Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera; includes 150 primary types. [1992]

INSTITUTO PATAGONICO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES DE SAN MARTIN DE LOS ANDES, CASILLA DE CORREO #7, 8370 SAN MARTIN DE LOS ANDES, NEUQUEN. [IPCN]

Director: Sr. Mario O. Gentili. Phone: [phone]. Professional staff: Lie. Patricia Gentili. The collection consists of 60,000 pinned specimens, 70% of which are Lepidoptera, the remainder other groups; no spiders. Most of the collection is from Patagonia, south of the Rio Colorado, from the cold temperate forests and arid areas surrounding it (steppes and high Andes above the tree line). There is a special collection by the Fundacion Bariloche consisting of 6,500 pinned specimens from the Isla Victoria, Lago Nahuel Huapi, Neuquen. [1986]

FUNDACION E INSTITUTO MIGUEL LILLO, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMAN, MIGUEL LILLO 251, 4000 TUCUMAN. [IMLA] [=FML]

Director: Lie. Zine D. A. de Toledo. Phone: 230056. Professional staff of 25. About 500,000 insects pinned and 2,300,000 in cotton beds. Housed in Deyrolle size boxes in metal cabinets (now being arranged in unit trays). Some specimens in alcohol including about 5,000 spiders. Publications sponsored: “Acta Zoologica Lilloana” (37 vols.), and “Opera Lilloana” (monographs, irregular). [1986]

10. ARUBA

[Part of Netherlands Antilles. Neotropical. Oranjestad. Population: 62,322. Size: 74.5 sq. mi. Received reply. No insect or spider collections.]

(Ascension Island, see St. Helena.)

(Ashmore and Cartier Islands, see Australia.)

(Auckland Islands, see New Zealand.)

(Austral Islands (=Tubuai), see French Polynesia).)

11. AUSTRALIA, Commonwealth of

[Includes Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Coral Sea Islands Territory (Cato Island and Diamond, Coringa and Willis Islets), Australian Antarctic Territory, and Macquarie Island (Australian). Canberra. Population: 16,260,436. Size: 2,966,151 sq. mi.]

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Canberra

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL INSECT COLLECTION, DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY, CSIRO, P.O. BOX 1700, CANBERRA CITY, A.C.T. 2601. [ANIC]

Director: Dr. Ebbe S. Nielson. Phone: [phone]. Fifteen professional staff. This is the largest and most comprehensive assemblage of specimens of Australian insects and related arthropods (mites and spiders) in the World. The collection currently comprises about ten million specimens of which about 15,000 are primary types. Most specimens are dry mounted and pinned, in over 12,000 cabinet drawers. Other specimens are either stored in liquid preservative or on microscope slides. [1992]

NEW SOUTH WALES

Beecroft

FOREST COMMISSION OF N. S. W., P. O. BOX 100, BEECROFT, N. S. W.. [FCNI]

Director: Mr. Robert Eldridge. Phone: [phone]. Professional staff: Ms. Chris Ann Urquart, Ms. Deborah Kent. The Commission has one of the largest specialist collections of forest and timber insects in Australia and dates back to 1923, when W. W. Froggatt was appointed as New South Wales’ first Forest Entomologist.

Currently, the pinned collection is housed in 400 drawers (estimated at 50,000 specimens). Most orders are represented but approximately 40% of the specimens are Coleoptera (Scarabaeoidea 5%; Bostrichoidea 4%; Chrysomeloidea 10%; Curculionoidea 6%). Lepidoptera form another 20% and a further 10% consists of voucher specimens. The alcohol stored collection consists of approximately 3,000 series of larval stages, 5,000 series of Isoptera, and 20,000 series of soil and litter fauna awaiting sorting. The slide collection is composed mainly of Psyllidae.

Although there are some paratypes in the collection, all holotypes are lodged with the Australian Museum, Sydney, or the Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra. The collection is used principally for reference and research; all material is available for loan to approved institutions. [1992]

Sydney

AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, P. O. BOX A285, SYDNEY SOUTH N.S.W. 2000. [AMSA]

Director: Mr. M. S. Moulds. Phone: [phone]. Professional staff: Dr. D. Bickel, Mr. B. Day, Dr. D. McAlpine, Mr. M. Moulds. The collection contains about 4 million specimens, including approximately 3,500 primary and 6,000 secondary types. The majority of specimens are Australian but there is strong non-Australian representation for Psocoptera, Coleoptera, higher Diptera, and butterflies. Notable collections include the World’s largest holdings of Psocoptera and Australian Acalyptrate Diptera, major collections of Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Coleoptera, University of Sydney’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Acalyptrate Diptera, Hardy Diptera, Waterhouse butterflies, Phillips Fijian moths, Bock Diptera (Drosophilidae), Goldfinch moths, Evan’s Homoptera, Elston Coleoptera, and McNamara New Guinea insects. The spider collection, the largest collection of Australian spiders, consists of 600,000 specimens, with 302 primary and 1092 secondary types. Special collections of spiders includes about 10,000 Australian cave spiders and the V. V. and J. L. Hickman collection of Tasmanian spiders.

The museum produces “Records of the Australian Museum; Technical Reports of the Australian Museum” and “Australian Natural History.” [1992]

MACLEAY INSECT COLLECTION, MACLEAY MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, SYDNEY, N.S.W. 2006. [MAMU]

Director: Dr. D. S. (Woody) Horning, Jr. Phone: [phone]. The Macleay Insect Collection is the oldest and most historic insect collection in Australia. There are more than 600,000 specimens in the collection dating from the 1750’s and more than 60% are exotic, making it the largest collection of exotic insects in Australia. Over 9,000 types so far have been recognized in the collection but there are many yet to be discovered. The collection was started in Great Britain before 1800 by Alexander Macleay (1767-1848). He purchased and traded specimens with significant entomologists of the day. For instance, he purchased all of the non-British material from the Donovan collection, and a selection of material from Sir Ashton Lever’s collection. These and other collections contain much type material. When he came to Australia as Colonial Secretary in 1826, he brought the finest and most extensive collection in the hands of a private individual at the time. His son, William Sh...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Use of the Information contained in this Directory
• Rules for submitting specimens for identification
• PART I. List of public insect and spider collections arranged alphabetically by country
• Unknown and Unregistered Collections
• PART II. List of codens for each collection
• References
• Index of taxa
• Index to personnel
• Questionnaire