Natural History Museum Maastricht (NL) - Entomological Collection

The collection includes a large number of insects and spiders. The main collections are the Lepidoptera collection (among others Maassen, Lücker, Rootbeen, Baltus), Erich Wasmann’s collection of Formicidae, Isoptera, myrmecophiles and termitophiles, and the Coleoptera collection (for example Poot). Indigenous material was mostly collected in Limburg (Southern Netherlands), foreign material was either collected by collectors who left their collections to the NHMM or it was sent to them because of their recognised expertise in their field or as exchange material.

Most of the material in the collection was collected in the twentieth century, though the Wasmann collection (not yet digitized) also contains a significant amount of 19th century material.

本集合汇聚了大量昆虫和蜘蛛样本。其中主要收藏包括鳞翅目收藏（例如 Maassen、Lücker、Rootbeen、Baltus 等），Erich Wasmann 所收藏的蚁科、白蚁科、嗜蚁虫和食白蚁收藏，以及鞘翅目收藏（例如 Poot）。本地样本主要采集于荷兰南部林堡地区，而外来样本则由将收藏品捐赠给荷兰国家历史博物馆（NHMM）的采集者提供，或因其在专业领域内的认可专长或作为交换材料而寄送。该集合中的大部分样本均采集于二十世纪，尽管 Wasmann 收藏（尚未数字化）亦包含大量十九世纪的材料。