MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection

Julia Colby

doi:10.15468/d1zyd0

MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection

Citation

Colby J (2019). MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection. Version 1.7. Milwaukee Public Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/d1zyd0 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

Description

The Milwaukee Public Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection numbers about 800,000 specimens of which 70% are insects and 30% are other invertebrate groups encompassing a broad diversity of animals (52 zoological classes.) Lepidoptera and Coleoptera comprise the largest portions of the insect collections, and Mollusca and Crustacea the largest collections of other invertebrates. Special insect collections include the Type Collection (about 60 holotypes and 55 syntypes) of various orders, tropical Lepidoptera and gynandromorphs from James R. Neidhoefer, a worldwide collection of Sphingidae from William E. Sieker, the Albert Schwartz collection of West Indies Lepidoptera, determined Costa Rican cacao-pollinating midges (Ceratopogonidae and Cecidomyiidae) from Allen M. Young’s research. Other significant invertebrate collections include a comprehensive survey of WI crayfishes made by the WI Department of Natural Resources, Horton H. Hobbs III and Joan P. Jass, the Harold Mathiak collection of WI freshwater unionids, and the WI arachnid collection, including the historically important George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham Collection of jumping spiders. A more detailed description is available at http://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/invertebrate-zoology/collections-overview. For further information or loans, please contact Collection Manager Julia Colby (colby@mpm.edu).

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

Lepidoptera
common name: Butterflies & Moths rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Global

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Julia Colby
originator
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 West Wells Street
Milwaukee
53233-1478
Wisconsin
US
Telephone: 1-414-278-2760
email: colby@mpm.edu

Julia Colby
metadata author
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 West Wells Street
Milwaukee
53233-1478
Wisconsin
US
Telephone: 1-414-278-2760
email: colby@mpm.edu

Joanna McCaffrey
programmer
position: Biodiversity Informatics Manager
iDigBio
US
email: jmccaffrey@flmnh.ufl.edu
homepage: https://www.idigbio.org

Christopher Tyrrell
content provider
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 W Wells St
Milwaukee
53233
WI
US
Telephone: 4142782761
email: tyrrell@mpm.edu

Julia Colby
administrative point of contact
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 West Wells Street
Milwaukee
53233-1478
Wisconsin
US
Telephone: 1-414-278-2760
email: colby@mpm.edu