Lund University Biological Museum - Insect collections Inventory
Citation
Fägerström C (2025). Lund University Biological Museum - Insect collections Inventory. Version 367.848. Lund University Biological Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/dahk2a accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-12.Description
The dataset is a species index of our museum’s holdings of pinned, dry specimens as well as microscope slides in our main collection, with only parts of our wet collection. Each record holds information on the number of specimens by country of origin. The dataset contains over 4 million specimens, of which 70% originate from Sweden. The majority of the material has been donated by amateur collectors, while a large proportion of the foreign material comes from several expeditions in the 1900s, especially from South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Taxonomic Coverages
Arthropoda: Insecta
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Insectarank: class
Geographic Coverages
Specimens from all continents, with the majority from the western Palaearctic and Sweden in particular.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Christoffer Fägerströmoriginator
position: Database manager
Lund Museum of Zoology
Sölvegatan 37
223 62 Lund
Skåne
SE
email: christoffer.fagerstrom@biol.lu.se
homepage: https://www.biologi.lu.se/biologiska-museet
Christoffer Fägerström
metadata author
position: Database manager
Lund Museum of Zoology
Sölvegatan 37
223 62 Lund
Skåne
SE
email: christoffer.fagerstrom@biol.lu.se
homepage: https://www.biologi.lu.se/biologiska-museet
administrative point of contact
Lund Museum of Zoology
Lund
Skåne län
SE
homepage: http://www.biomus.lu.se/zoologiska-museet
Christoffer Fägerström
administrative point of contact
position: Database manager
Lund Museum of Zoology
Sölvegatan 37
223 62 Lund
Skåne
SE
email: christoffer.fagerstrom@biol.lu.se
homepage: https://www.biologi.lu.se/biologiska-museet