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Entomology

Texas Natural History Collections

The Insect Collection contains 250,000 specimens of dried pinned insects, their nests and host plant voucher specimens. It contains more than two thirds Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths, but all orders of insects are represented. Most of the specimens document geographic and seasonal occurrence of insect species across Texas, but there are important samples from other states, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia; as well as the historic Ludolph Heiligbrodt (1887) and Hugh Duval Collections from Bastrop County; and a collection of insect host plant voucher specimens. The entomology collection is now stored at the Brackendridge Field Laboratory.

Dr. John Abbott, Curator

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Entomology Collection at BFL

Odonata Central

Butterflies of Texas

Index of Insects Represented by Specimens at TNSC

 

Butterfly drawer

Butterfly drawer

 

Single butterfly

Butterfly

 

 

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