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USNM - USA: Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution
UTAT - USA: University of Texas, Austin
ZFMK - Germany: Zoologisches Forschunginstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn
ZIMG - Germany: Zoologisches Institut und Museum, Ernst Moritz Arndt- Universität, Greifswald
ZISB - Bulgaria: Institute of Zoology, Sofia
ZKAS - Kazakhstan: Zoological Institute, Kazakh Academy of Sciences, Alma-Ata
ZMAN - Netherlands: Zoological Museum, Amsterdam
ZMAS - Russia: Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
ZMHB - Germany: Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
ZMKG - Germany: Zoologisches Museum, Kiel
ZMMU - Russia: Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Moscow
ZMPA - Poland: Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw
ZMUC - Denmark: Zoology Museum, Copenhagen University
ZSCI - India: National Zoological Collection, Calcutta
APPENDIX 4: NOTES ON SOME AUTHORS' COLLECTIONS AND TYPES
The following notes should help interested persons locate several authors' types and collections or at least to
learn what happened to them. Subject authors are listed in alphabetical order.
Bremi, J.J. Most of this author's extant collection is in the Entomologisches Institut, Eidgenössische
Technische Hochschule in Zurich. Box #66 of the entomological collection contains three rows of Bremi's pinned
cecidomyiid adults (Gagné 1990b). A few of Bremi's pinned specimens are also in the Rondani collection in Florence
(Gagné and Solinas 1996). Material of Bremi's species that were based only on galls and larvae appears to be lost.
Felt, E.P. The complete slide collection consisting mostly of type material is on indefinite loan from the New
York State Museum in Albany, New York, to the Systematic Entomology Laboratory of the U S. Department of
Agriculture in Washington, DC. The type deposition is given here as the New York State Museum to reflect the true
ownership. Specimens on pins and a collection of galls remain in the New York State Museum in Albany.
Jaschhof, J. As of January, 2009, the Jaschhof collection of Cecidomyiidae, formerly deposited in the
Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, is housed in the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches
Institut, Müncheberg.
Kieffer, J.-J. Most of Kieffer's types can be considered as certainly lost. No collection remains in Bitche
where Kieffer lived (Gagné 1994a), but some collections elsewhere, not all yet surveyed, contain Kieffer material.
Among his type specimens that still exist are those in The Natural History Museum in London and the Muséum
National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris of at least some of his Seychelles and East African species. Others may have been
returned following their description to the National Zoological Collection in Calcutta. Still other Kieffer specimens, not
necessarily types although some are labelled as such, are in the Felt Collection (Gagné 1994a) and could possibly serve
for designation as lectotypes or neotypes. Galls of some species are present in the Houard Collection in the Muséum
National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. In addition, Kieffer occasionally based species on published references to galls
by Rübsaamen and Löw, among others. Such specimens might someday be found in the original authors' home
museums. Not being certain which of Kieffer's types are definitely lost, I have indicated most of them as lost followed
by a question mark.
Loew, H. Horn & Kahle (1937) indicate that part of Loew's collection of European Cecidomyiidae is in Berlin
and that part of his cecidomyiid collection is in Vienna, but I have not searched for them. Some of Loew's sciarid types
have been found in the Museum of Natural History, Humboldt University, Berlin (Jaschhof in litt.), so there is a chance
the types of some of his European gall midge species are also there. I have indicated the type deposition of Loew's
species as "ZMHB?," except for the types of two North American species that reside in the Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mamaev, B.M. Most of Mamaev's and co-authors' types are in the Zoological Museum of Moscow State
University (Krivosheina & Ozerov 2006), others are in the Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan
(Yagi & Sawada 2000). Both museums claim the holotype of several Mamaev holotypes. Others are still listed here as
in the Mamaev collection or the A.N. Severtzov Institute for Evolution, Morphology, and Ecology of Animals,
Moscow. Information with the original descriptions of those species indicated that the types were earlier intended for
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