Description: The ZSM collection of butterflies and moths actually includes about 12,000,000 specimens, representing far more than 130,000 species, stored in more than 80,000 drawers. More than 4,000,000 specimens ( HYPERLINK "http://www.insecta-web.org/MWM/" museum Thomas Witt) have been donated to the ZSM in 2010 and 2011 or are associated – as a public foundation – to the state collections. Thousands of historical specimens from original descriptions, the ‘name-bearing types’, are housed in Munich, a more exact number may soon be provided by the progress of the IT-inventorying. In the case of the >3,300 holotypes of the HYPERLINK "http://www.insecta-web.org/MWM/" Museum Witt (with >87.000 paratypes) the inventory and web-presentation is complete. Focusses of the collection are in the Rhopalocera (butterflies) and Geometridae. ‘Bombyces and Sphinges’ are extrememly well represented in the Museum Thomas Witt (see HYPERLINK "http://www.insecta-web.org/MWM/" homepage of the MWM). The recent bequests of the six outstanding collections Klimesch, Eitschberger, Pröse, Deschka, Grünewald and Derra (the last two still curated by the collector), brought, with approximately 600,000 specimens, a reasonable increase also in the Microlepidoptera. Further important collections: Historical collection of Esper (from the years 1790-1805), Herbulot (with historical collections of Mabille, Rambur, Chrétien, D. Lucas)
Collection
Tags: Motte ? Schmetterling ?
Region: Bundesrepublik Deutschland Munich
Bounding boxes: 5.8662503507406045° .. 15.041815656442171° x 47.27012360469913° .. 55.09916897710399°
License: Alle Rechte vorbehalten
Language: Englisch/English
Issued: 2013-04-23
Modified: 2024-05-23
Last harvest: 07.06.2026 23:33
Homepage der Sammlung
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