Catalogue of the Entomological Collection
of the
Macleay Museum,
University of Sydney

compiled by
Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )

(updated 8 June 2006)

This is the beginnings of a set of web pages providing an online catalogue of the specimens in the Entomological Collection of the Macleay Museum. It is going to take a long time to make it comprehensive, but we have to start somewhere, so here goes.

The collection includes specimens from the collections of the Macleay family, and also:

  • John Abbot,
  • Richard Vratislav Bejsak,
  • Revd. Thomas Blackburn,
  • Charles Darwin,
  • Frederick Parkhurst Dodd,
  • E. Donovan,
  • Dru Drury,
  • Kathleen English,
  • R. Forsius,
  • John Francillon,
  • Walter W. Froggatt,
  • A.A. Girault,
  • Hangay,
  • J.C.F. Klug,
  • Pierre Andre Latreille,
  • W.E. Leach,
  • Lee,
  • Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles,
  • Peale,
  • W. Swainson,
  • Waterhouse, and
  • J.O. Westwood.

    • typical container of ARACHNIDA in spirit

    The specimens in spirit in the collection include :

    CLASS/ORDER
    specimens in spirit
    approx. number
    Arachnida   1000
    Insecta : Diptera (larvae)   500
    Insecta : Lepidoptera (larvae)   100

    The pinned specimens in the collection include representatives from :

    CLASS
    drawers
      55x40 cms average
    Arachnida   2
    Chilopoda   1
    Crustacea   1
    Diplopoda   1
    Insecta   1108
    Monopoda   1


    Also featured are:

  • Australian Lepidoptera parasitoids

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