Sixty years of work on Italy's Orthopteroids biodiversity, the big data of Galvagni collection

Abstract

Background: Historical natural history collections are very important for the study of nature and environmental protection of the environment, these being the depository of essential information. The Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto holds two major Orthopteroid insect collections that make this Museum a landmark on Italian and Mediterranean Orthoptera diversity. Databasing the Galvagni Collection allows considerations on geographic and taxonomic coverage by specialist researchers.

New information: Databasing of the Galvagni Collection makes possible considerations on the late specialist research, geographic and taxonomic coverage.

Keywords: Italy; Natural Science Museum; biodiversity; entomology collection.