Collections
USNM
Diptera Collection
History
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Standards for the
Species Inventory
Search the Species Inventory
Find whether the United States National Museum has voucher specimens of flies
by search under the scientific name. Some 18,000 species' records are available,
representing 1/3 of our total holdings.
Standards for the Specimen Inventory
Search the Specimen Inventory
Two prototype records are available to illustrate the format and information content that we plan for all our Diptera holdings.
Selected List of Natural History Museums Having Diptera Collections
Entomological collections database, DEI
Europe
The British Museum of Natural
History, London
Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford; Bigot & Verral-Collin collections database
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien; Nematocera types and Tachinidae lists
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen; type and species lists
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm; species list
Museum of Zoology, Lund University; species lists
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Africa
Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg
North America
National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
Cornell
University Insect Collection, Ithaca; special collections database
Field Museum, Chicaco, Diptera Database
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; type database
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Los Angeles County
Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; type database
Ohio State University Insect Collection, Columbus; primary types
North Carolina State University, Raleigh; types
Canadian National Collection, Ottawa; Diptera Site
Meso & South America
INBio (National Institute of
Biodiversity), Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Oceania
The Bishop
Museum, Honolulu
Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra
Australian Museum, Sidney
Standards and Other
Documents
Bar Codes for Specimen
Data Management (Thompson)
Where's the Management
in Collection Management? (McGinley)
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