Collections of the Lepidoptera Section
Important Collections
Coll. Esper
Coll. Herbulot
Coll. Heterocera Sumatrana
Coll. Klimesch
The historic Esper Collection
Left: The birdwing Ornithoptera hippolythus as published in the original description of Esper ca. 1800.
Right the original specimen (type) in our collection today. Such collections may, under accurate and appropriate curation, be stored for many hundred years without problems (Photograph: M. Müller) (from: SPIXIANA, Suppl. 17, 1992).
Drawer with Catocalinae of coll. Esper in ZSM.
The type catalogue of the Esper collection has been published in the following two articles:
1. Hacker, H. (1998): Die Typen der von E. J. Ch. Esper (1742-1810) in seinem "Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur" beschriebenen Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) (PDF, 191 KB). - Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Bd. 6: Schwanfeld.
2. Hacker, H. (1999): Die Typen der von E. J. Ch. Esper (1742-1810) in seinem "Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur" beschriebenen Bombycoidea, Drepanoidea, Geometroidea, Hepialoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Noctuoidea, Pyraloidea, Tineoidea (PDF, 96 KB) (Lepidoptera) II.- Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Bd 7: Staffelstein.
Coll. Herbulot (Geometridae)
Species catalogue :
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q-R S T U V W X-Z
Claude Herbulot lecturing at the Symposium "The role of Biogeography in understanding Evolution in Lepidoptera" (ZSM, 15 June 1999).
Photograph: Manfred Sommerer
Callhistia grandis DRUCE in Coll. Herbulot. Photograph: Ulf Buchsbaum
Coll. Klimesch (Microlepidoptera)
Species catalogues and lists of types available as Access database.
Left: Dr. Josef Klimesch (Photograph: B. Ecker, Biologiezentrum Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum).
Right: The Klimesch collection in the collection hall of the Lepidoptera section.
Coll. Heterocera Sumatrana
Material of the Heterocera Sumatrana Society (collection area "Heterocera Diehliana").
Left: Dr. E. W. Diehl at his 80th birthday in Pematangsiantar ( Sumatra). Photograph: Ulf Buchsbaum.
Right: Members of the Heterocera Sumatrana Society e. V. (HSS) during the inauguration of the collection area "Heterocera Diehliana" (ZSM, 15 March 2000). Photograph: Ulf Buchsbaum.
See also Heterocera Sumatrana Society e.V.