Invertebrate collections

These materials include non-insect arthropods, other invertebrates, and other materials resulting from Ecology Station activities that did not make it into the dry collections. In fact, a portion of the field-collected specimens require other conservation techniques because of their biological nature, or they are long series of insects of the same species, represented by a sub-set in the dry collections.

There are 334 historical artifacts. Those that make up the actual collection, determined, charted and cataloged are 5,130 and come from the Ferrara and Bologna area.

Most important among them are the types of three species (two polychaete annelids and one amphipod crustacean) described in recent years by researchers at the University of Ferrara and deposited at our Museum: in fact, regulations on the description of new species require that the types, i.e., the original specimens on which the description was made, be placed and kept in publicly accessible facilities.

Miscellanies resulting from collection campaigns focused on hoverflies, carabid beetles and hymenoptera apoidea amount to about 4,000 containers.