Catalog of insect type specimens preserved at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science with corrections of some specimens

Kai-Qin Li; Yun-Zhen Wang; Da-Zhi Dong; Li-Kun Zhang

doi:10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.263

Catalog of insect type specimens preserved at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science with corrections of some specimens

Dongwuxue Yanjiu. 2015 Sep 18;36(5):263-84. doi: 10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.263.

Authors

Kai-Qin Li¹, Yun-Zhen Wang¹, Da-Zhi Dong¹, Li-Kun Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Yunnan 650223, China.
² Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Yunnan 650223, China. lkzhang@mail.kiz.ac.cn.

PMID: 26452692
PMCID: PMC4771958
DOI: 10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.5.263

Abstract

This article presents a list of insect types preserved in Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology (KNHMZ). As of March, 2015, 3 412 type specimens belonging to 266 species/subspecies of 37 families in 9 orders (Odonata, Isoptera, Mantodea, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera) are included. Information corrections of some specimens are provided in this article.

Keywords: Catalog; Information correction; Insects; KIZ; Type specimens.

MeSH terms

Academies and Institutes*
Animals
Catalogs as Topic*
Insecta / classification*
Zoology*

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the key project of Science-technology basic condition platform from The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2005DKA21402)