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Major Collections
Approximately 30,500 solifuge specimens or specimen
lots are housed in collections around the world. These collections are a
valuable resource, serving as something of a 'lending library' from which
researchers borrow material for study. It is largely through the study of
specimens from these collections that our understanding of the taxonomy and
phylogeny of the Solifugae develops. Approximately 48% of this material is
identified, and only 35% is databased. The largest collections, including
50% of the world’s unprocessed material, are housed in southern Africa, while
the bulk of the type specimens (54%) reside in European institutions.
The graph and table below further summarize the distribution of these holdings.
The legend at the bottom of this page explains the abbreviations used in the
table.
Abbreviations: ACE (Arachnid Collection of Egypt, Caïro); NMK (National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi); ISC (Institut Scientifique Chérifien, Rabat); DERU (Desert Ecological Research Unit, Gobabeb); NMWN (National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek); AMGS (Albany Museum, Grahamstown); MMK (McGregor Museum, Kimberley); NMBA (National Museum, Bloemfontein); NMSA (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg); PPRI (National Collection of Arachnida, Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria); SAMC (South African Museum, Cape Town); TMSA (Transvaal Museum, Pretoria); NHMZ (Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo); IZA (Institute of Zoology, Baku); IZB (Institute of Zoology, Beijing); GSMT (Georgian State Museum, Tbilisi); IMC (Indian Museum, Calcutta); HU (Hebrew University, Jerusalem); UTA (University of Tel-Aviv); AGC (A.V. Gromov Collection, Almaty); IASE (Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk); ONHM (Oman Natural History Museum, Muscat); ZISP (Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg); ZMMU (Zoological Museum, Moscow State University); NUT (Nigde University); TTC (T. Türkeş Collection, Ankara); NMWA (Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien); MRAC (Museé Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren); NMS (National Museum of Natural History, Sofia); MMB (Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Brno); NMPC (National Museum of Natural History, Prague); SPC (S. Pekar Collection, Brno); ZMUC (Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen); ZMHU (Zoological Museum, Helsinki University); ZMTU (Zoological Museum, Turku University); MNHN (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris); GPIUH (Geological-Palaeontological Institute, University of Hamburg); JWC (J. Wunderlich Collection, Hirschberg-Lauetrhausen); MFNC (Museum für Naturkunde, Chemnitz); NMWD (Naturhistorischen Museum, Wiesbaden); SMF (Naturmuseum und Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main); SMTD (Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden); UMB (Uberseemuseum, Bremen); ZMHB (Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin); ZMUG (Zoological Insitute & Museum, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald); ZMUH (Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg); ZSM (Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich); ATC (A. Toschi Collection, Bologna); MIZT (Museo ed Instituto di Zoologia Sistematica della Universita di Torino); MSNG (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria”, Genova); MSNM ( Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano); MZUF (Museo de Zoologia dell Universita di Firenze); VVC (Valerio Vignoli Collection, Siena); AMC (A. Melic Collection, Zaragoza); IBAB (Iniversitat de Barcelona); MNCM (Museum of Natural Sciences of Madrid); NHRM (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm); NMBS (Naturhistorishen Museums zu Basel); ZMLU (Zoological Museum, Lund University); RMNH (Naturalis, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden); ZMA (Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam); BMNH (Natural History Museum, London); OUMNH (Oxford University Museum of Natural History); IBUNAM (Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico); AMNH (American Museum of Natural History, New York); ANSP (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia); BNHM (Boston Society of Natural History, Boston); BYU (Brigham Young University, Provo); CAS (California Academy of Science, San Francisco); DMNS (Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver); FMNH (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago); FSCA (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville); MCZ (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge); UCB (University of California, Berkeley); UCR (University of California, Riverside); UNMC (Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico); USNM (National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC); YPM (Peabody Museum, Yale); IES (Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente, La Habana); BIOECO (Centro Oriental de Biodiversidad, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente, Santiago de Cuba); MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturale, Buenos Aires); MLP (Museo de La Plata); MMA (Museo de Mendoza); IBSP (Instituto Butantan, Sao Paulo); INPA (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus); MCTP (Museu de Ciencias e Tecnologia da Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre); MNRJ (Museo Nacional Rio de Janeiro); MZUSP (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo); UFMT (Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Cuiaba); MZUC (Museo Zoológico, Universidad de Concepción); MHNLS (Museo de Historia Natural ‘La Salle’, Caracas). |
