Hexapoda MZS

The insect collection stored in fluid is a small fraction of the global entomological collection (ca. 900,000 specimens) and consists mainly of local insects from Alsace and neighbouring regions. They were collected by Emil Nöldner, Arthur Speyer, Ludwig Döderlein, Edward Ortmann etc., generally end of the 19th century. From the same period there are a number of specimens from the area of Nice, collected by Alexandre Myèvre. One large collection is that of European Chironomidae (>2670 batches) from François Gouin and August Thienemann, gathered and studied between 1920 and 1950.