Types per museum
Select a museum acronym in the list below:
| Abbreviation | Name | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABSRC | AgroBioSys International Reference Collection | Wetteren | Belgium |
| AMCE | Agricultural Museum | Cairo | Egypt |
| AMNH | American Museum of Natural History | New York | United States, US |
| AMRU | Albany Museum, Rhodes University | Grahamstown | South Africa |
| AMUP | Adam Mickiewicz University | Poznań | Poland |
| ANHRT | African Natural History Research Trust | Leominster | United Kingdom |
| ANIC | Australian National Insect Collection | Canberra | Australia |
| ANSP | Academy of Natural Sciences | Philadelphia | United States, US |
| BMNH | London | United Kingdom | |
| BMSB | Buffalo Museum of Science | Buffalo | United States, US |
| BNHM | Berkeley Natural History Museum | Berkeley | United States, US |
| BPBM | Bernice P. Bishop Museum | Honolulu | United States, US |
| CAS | California Academy of Sciences | San Francisco | United States, US |
| CBG | Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph | Guelph | Canada |
| CDRS | Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos | Puerto Ayora | Ecuador |
| CEITEC | Central European Institute of Technology, Mendel University | Brno | Czech Republic |
| CESA | Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara | Ankara | Turkey |
| CIS | California Insect Survey | Berkeley | United States, US |
| CMCZ | Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology | Cambridge | United States, US |
| CMNH | Carnegie Museum of Natural History | Pittsburg | United States, US |
| CNC | Canadian National Collection of Insects | Ottawa | Canada |
| COGM | A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution | Moscow | Russian Federation |
| COPR | Centre of Overseas Pest Research | London | United Kingdom |
| CRDS | Collection Royal Dublin Society | Dublin | Ireland |
| CSCA | California State Collection of Arthropods | Sacramento | United States, US |
| CUIC | Cornell University | Ithaca | United States, US |
| CUMZ | Cambridge University, Zoological Museum | Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| DAEF | Deptartment of Agriculture, University of Molise | Campobasso | Italy |
| DEIB | Deutsches Entomologisches Institut Berlin | Eberswalde | Germany |
| DEUS | Department of Entomology, Univ. of Stellenbosch | Stellenbosch | South Africa |
| DEUU | Department of Entomology, University of Uppsala | Uppsala | Sweden |
| DMNS | Denver Museum of Nature and Science | Denver | United States, US |
| DMSA | Durban Natural Science Museum | Durban | South Africa |
| EDCU | Entomology Department, Cairo University | Giza | Egypt |
| EIBH | Entomologischen Institut, Graf Hartig | Bozano | Italy |
| EIHU | Entomological Institute, Hokkaido University | Sapporo | Japan |
| ELKU | Entomological Laboratory Kyusyu University | Japan | |
| EMAU | Zoologisches Institut der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University | Greifswald | Austria |
| EMEM | Entomologische Museum Eitschberger | Marktleuthen | Germany |
| EMUL | Entomological Museum of the University of Lund | Lund | Sweden |
| FRIM | Forest Research Institute of Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia |
| FRIZ | Forest Institute of Malawi | Zomba | Malawi |
| GD | Gerfried Deschka, Austria | Steyr | Austria |
| GNHM | Goulandris Natural History Museum | Kifisia | Greece |
| HES | Hawaii Entomological Society | United States, US | |
| HMUG | Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow | Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| HNHM | Hungarian Natural History Museum | Budapest | Hungary |
| IDEA | Colección Entomológica de la Universidad | Tarapacá | Chile |
| IEUT | Istituto di Entomologia della Università | Torino | Italy |
| IEVU | Institute of Ecology of Vilnius University | Vilnius | Lithuania |
| IFAN | Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire | Dakar | Senegal |
| IICT | Instituto de Investigação Cientiífica Tropical | Lisboa | Portugal |
| INBIO | Santo Domingo, Costa Rica | Santo Domingo | Costa Rica |
| INER | Istituto Nazionale di Entomologia Roma | Rome | Italy |
| IRSM | Institut de Recherches Scientifiques à Madagascar | Tananarive | Madagascar |
| ISEA | Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals | Kraków | Poland |
| IZAS | Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica | Beijing | China |
| IZFR | Istituto di Zoologia "Federico Raffaele" | Rome | Italy |
| KLMK | Kärntener Landesmuseum | Klagenfurt | Austria |
| LACM | Los Angeles County Museum | Los Angeles | United States, US |
| LEB | Laboratorio di Entomologia, Bengasi | Bengasi | Libya |
| LNK | Landessammlung für Naturkunde Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe | Germany |
| LSL | Linnaean Society of London | London | United Kingdom |
| MACN | Museo Argentino de Ciencas Naturales | Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| MAWR | Ministery of Agriculture and Water | Riyadh | Saudi Arabia |
| MBL | Museu Bocage | Lisboa | Portugal |
| MCSF | Museum Collegio de San Fiel | San Fiel | Portugal |
| MCSG | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova | Genova | Italy |
| MCSV | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona | Verona | Italy |
| MCZR | Museo Civico di Zoologia Roma | Rome | Italy |
| MDA | Museu do Dundo | Dundo | Angola |
| MGCL | McGuire Centre for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity | Gainesville | United States, US |
| MHNG | Muséum d'histoire naturelle | Geneva | Switzerland |
| MHNL | Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon | Lyon | France |
| MHNT | Musée d'Histoire naturelle de Toulouse | Toulouse | France |
| MINGA | Muzeul National de Istorie Naturala "G. Antippa" | Bucharest | Romania |
| MIZA | Museo del Instituto de Zoologia Agricola | Maracay | Venezuela |
| MLP | Museo de La Plata | La Plata | Argentina |
| MMNB | Merrick Museum | New Brighton | United States, US |
| MNCN | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales | Madrid | Spain |
| MNHN | Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris | Paris | France |
| MNNC | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Santiago | Santiago | Chile |
| MNUL | Museum für Natur und Umwelt | Lübeck | Germany |
| MNVD | Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte Dessau | Dessau | Germany |
| MNWU | Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University | Wroclaw | Poland |
| MRSN | Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali | Torino | Italy |
| MSNC | Museo di Storia Naturale di Calimera | Calimera | Italy |
| MSNF | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Firenze | Firenze | Italy |
| MSNM | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | Milano | Italy |
| MSNS | Museo di Storia naturale del Salento | Calimera | Italy |
| MUDH | Museon | Den Haag | Netherlands |
| MUNA | Museo de Naturaleza y Arqueología | Santa Cruz, Tenerife | Spain |
| MUZM | Makerere University Zoological Museum | Kampala | Uganda |
| MWM | Museum Thomas Witt | Munich | Germany |
| MWNH | Museum Wiesbaden Naturhistorische Landessammlungen | Wiesbaden | Germany |
| MZL | Musée de Zoologie | Lausanne | Switzerland |
| MfN | Museum für Naturkunde | Berlin | Germany |
| NASU | Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology | Kiev | Ukraine |
| NHMB | Naturhistorisches Museum Basel | Basel | Switzerland |
| NHME | Natural History Museum Addis Ababa | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia |
| NHMM | Natural History Museum of Maputo | Maputo | Mozambique |
| NHMO | Natural History Museum, University of Oslo | Oslo | Norway |
| NHMT | Natural History Museum at Tring | Tring | United Kingdom |
| NHMW | Naturhistorisches Museum Wien | Vienna | Austria |
| NIBR | National Institute of Biological Resources | Incheon | Korea, Republic of |
| NKUM | College of Life Sciences, Nankai University | Tianjin | China |
| NMB | National Museum of Natural History, Bulawayo | Bulawayo | Zimbabwe |
| NMK | National Museums of Kenya | Nairobi | Kenya |
| NMNW | National Museum of Namibia | Windhoek | Namibia |
| NMNZ | National Museum New Zealand | Wellington | New Zealand |
| NMPN | National Museum of the Philippines | Manila | Philippines |
| NWCAS | North Western College of Agriculture, Shaanxi | Yangling | China |
| NZAC | New Zealand Arthropod Collection | Auckland | New Zealand |
| ONHM | Oman Natural History Museum | Muscat | Oman |
| OOLL | Ober-Österreichisches Landesmuseum Linz | Linz | Austria |
| ORSTO | Centre O.R.S.T.O.M. | Tananarive | Madagascar |
| OUMNH | Oxford University Museum of Natural History | Oxford | United Kingdom |
| PCMB | Powell-Cotton Museum | Burchington-on-Sea | United Kingdom |
| PUV | Pedagogical University | Vilnius | Lithuania |
| PZBT | Parc zoologique & botanique de Tsimbazaza | Antananarive | Madagascar |
| PZDW | Plantenziektenkundige Dienst | Wageningen | Netherlands |
| RBINS | Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences | Brussels | Belgium |
| RMBH | Russian Museum of Biodiversity Hotspots | Arkhangelsk | Russian Federation |
| RMCA | Royal Museum for Central Africa | Tervuren | Belgium |
| RMNH | Naturalis Biodiversity Center | Leiden | Netherlands |
| RSME | Royal Scottish Museum | Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| SAMA | South Australian Museum | Adelaide | Australia |
| SAMC | Iziko South African Museum | Cape Town | South Africa |
| SANC | National Collection of Insects | Pretoria | South Africa |
| SCAC | South China Agricultural College | Wushan | China |
| SCDP | Socotra Archipelago Conservation & Development Programme | Hadibo, Socotra | Yemen |
| SCDPM | SCDP Museum, Hadibo | Socotra | Yemen |
| SDEI | Senckenberg, Deutsches Entomologisches Institut | Müncheberg | Germany |
| SEHU | Systematic Entomology Hokkaido University | Sapporo | Japan |
| SMCR | Sphingidae Museum Orlov / Czech Republic | Pribram | Czech Republic |
| SMNH | Steinhardt Museum of Natural History | Tel Aviv | Israel |
| SMNS | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde | Stuttgart | Germany |
| SMTD | Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde | Dresden | Germany |
| SNHM | Swedish Natural History Museum | Stockholm | Sweden |
| SNMF | Senckenberg Naturmuseum | Frankfurt-am-Main | Germany |
| SSUR | Saratov State University | Saratov | Russian Federation |
| SZCZ | The National Museum in Szczecin | Szczecin | Poland |
| SZMN | Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics | Novosibirsk | Russian Federation |
| TLMF | Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum | Innsbruck | Austria |
| TMSA | Ditsong Museum of Natural History (Transvaal Museum) | Pretoria | South Africa |
| The Linnean Society of London | The Linnean Society of London | United Kingdom | |
| The Trustees of the Natural History Museum | The Natural History Museum | London | United Kingdom |
| UAEIC | United Arab Emirates Invertebrate Collection | United Arab Emirates | |
| UCB | University of California | Berkeley | United States, US |
| UCCC | Museo de Zoología de la Universidad de Concepción | Concepción | Chile |
| UCD | University of California | Davis | United States, US |
| UPLB | University of Philippines | Los Baños | Philippines |
| USMB | Übersee-Museum | Bremen | Germany |
| USNM | United States National Museum (=Smithsonian Institution) | Washington | United States, US |
| USTTB | University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako | Bamako | Mali |
| WIGJ | World Insect Gallery, Joniškis | Lithuania | |
| ZFB | Zentrum für Biodokumentation des Saarlandes | Schiffweiler | Germany |
| ZFMK | Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum A. Koenig | Bonn | Germany |
| ZIMG | Zoologische Institut und Museum, Ernst-Moritz-Arnd | Greifswald | Germany |
| ZIN | Zoological Institute St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg | Russian Federation |
| ZIUL | Zoological Institute of the University of Lund | Lund | Sweden |
| ZMA | Zoological Museum Amsterdam | Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| ZMH | Zoologisches Museum Hamburg | Hamburg | Germany |
| ZMJU | Zoological Museum of the Jagiellonian University | Kraków | Poland |
| ZMKU | Zoological Museum, Kiev Nat. Taras Shevchenko University | Kiev | Ukraine |
| ZMPAS | Zoological Museum of the Polish Academy of Science | Lomna Las, near Warsaw | Poland |
| ZMS | Zoological Museum, Salisbury (Harare) | Harare | Zimbabwe |
| ZMUC | Zoological Museum of the University Copenhagen | Copenhagen | Denmark |
| ZMUH | Zoologial Museum of the University of Helsinki | Helsinki | Finland |
| ZSM | Zoologische Staatssammlung München | Munich | Germany |
| coll. A. Cipolla | coll. A. Cipolla | Belgium | |
| coll. A. J. Kingston | coll. A. J. Kingston | United Kingdom | |
| coll. A. Legrain | coll. A. Legrain | Hermalle-sous-Argenteau | Belgium |
| coll. B. Turlin | coll. B. Turlin | Gabon | |
| coll. B. de Groof | coll. B. de Groof | Lier | Belgium |
| coll. D. Agassiz | coll. D. J. L. Agassiz | Weston-super-Mare | United Kingdom |
| coll. D. Stadie | coll. D. Stadie | Germany | |
| coll. E. Poirier | coll. E. Poirier | Gabon | |
| coll. F. Aulombard | coll. F. Aulombard | France | |
| coll. G. Baldizzone | coll. G. Baldizzone | Italy | |
| coll. G. Bassi | coll. G. Bassi | Italy | |
| coll. G. Behounek | coll. G. Behounek | Hungary | |
| coll. G. Sircoulomb | coll. G. Sircoulomb | Dessau | Germany |
| coll. H. Hoppe | coll. H. Hoppe | Germany | |
| coll. H. Staude | coll. H. Staude | South Africa | |
| coll. J. Conde | coll. J. Conde | Spain | |
| coll. J. Wojtusiak | coll. J. Wojtusiak | Kraków | Poland |
| coll. J. de Freina | coll. J. de Freina | Germany | |
| coll. J.-L. Albert | coll. J.-L. Albert | Gabon | |
| coll. K. Larsen | coll. K. Larsen | Denmark | |
| coll. L. Kühne | coll. L. Kühne | Germany | |
| coll. M. Bakheet | coll. M. Bakheet | Sudan | |
| coll. M. Bippus | coll. M. Bippus | Réunion | |
| coll. M. Seizmair | coll. M. Seizmair | Germany | |
| coll. M. Ströhle, Weiden | coll. M. Ströhle | Weiden | Germany |
| coll. M. Weiss | coll. M. Weiss | Germany | |
| coll. O. Reunanen | coll. O. Reunanen | Finland | |
| coll. P. Basquin | coll. P. Basquin | La Vallette | France |
| coll. P. H. Haynes | coll. P. H. Haynes | United Kingdom | |
| coll. P. Schmit | coll. P. Schmit | Gabon | |
| coll. P. Trematerra | coll. P. Trematerra | Campobasso | Italy |
| coll. P. Ustjuzhanin | coll. P. Ustjuzhanin | Russian Federation | |
| coll. Ph. Darge | coll. Ph. Darge | France | |
| coll. R. & S. Fiebig & D. Stadie | coll. R. & S. Fiebig | Germany | |
| coll. R. Butler | coll. R. Butler | Harare | Zimbabwe |
| coll. R. Hulsbosch | coll. R. Hulsbosch | Netherlands | |
| coll. R. J. Borth | coll. R. J. Borth | Germany | |
| coll. S. Naumann | coll. S. Naumann | Germany | |
| coll. St. Schellhorn | coll. St. Schellhorn | Germany | |
| coll. T. Baron | coll. T. Baron | Turkey | |
| coll. T. Karisch | coll. T. Karisch | Germany | |
| coll. V. Kravchenko | coll. V. Kravchenko | Russian Federation |
