Queensland Museum Entomology

Our entomology collections focus on Queensland and adjacent Papua New Guinea and West Pacific regions. With the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area of Queensland having the highest insect diversity in Australia, these collections take on a special significance. Entomology collection strengths include: - all taxonomic groups and all habitats throughout Queensland and adjacent regions; - comprehensive collections from all major tracts of rainforest, with 60,000 specimen records from 750 sites within these rainforests; - internationally recognised collections of Australian parasitic wasps, dung beetles, ground beetles, ants, sucking bugs and New Caledonian insects; - an estimated 1,000,000 specimens from the University of Queensland Insect Collection, donated in 2011; one of Queenslandâ??s most important reference collections which serves as a repository for applied research voucher specimens, such as surveys of insects associated with particular crop and pollination studies.