Specimen Record

ContinentNorth America
CountryUnited States
State/ProvinceSouth Carolina
LocalityNorthern Greenville County
Institution CodeMnhn
Collection CodeEl
Catalog NumberEl24674
Collected ByPeigler R.s.
Date Collected1973-07-17

From Recordset

This dataset is the databased part of the Lepidoptera from the entomological collections of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris). At the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, the Lepidoptera collection gathers over 3 million specimens: ca. 1 million Rhopalocera (butterflies) and over 2 million Heterocera (moths). Essentially, these are pinned (dried) imagos but the collections also hold caterpillars (“blown” larvae or material preserved in alcohol), as well as a set of over 95.000 “genitalia” preparations. Amongst these collections, one can mention some particularly important ones: Mrs Fournier de Horrack, composed of precious exotical Rhopalocera, the type collection (ca. 11.000 Heterocera type specimens + numerous Rhopalocera), the rich Malagasy Heterocera collection (P. Viette’s achievement, essentially), and the Erebidae-Arctiinae collection (which includes ca. 30.000 neotropical specimens, most of them offered by H. de Toulgoët), the Psychidae collection (re-organized by J. Bourgogne), the Saturniidae collection (C. Lemaire and P.-C. Rougeot) and the Sesiidae collection (F. Le Cerf, notably). The Malagasy Heterocera and Saturniidae collections are the most important of their kinds worldwide (both qualitatively and quantitatively). Other collections are particularly precious, especially those associating imagos and early stages.

Contacts

Name MNHN
RoleProvider
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Name Simon Chagnoux
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Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Joël Minet
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Jérôme Barbut
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laurent Albenga
RoleCorrespondant
Emailnone

Citation

This is the constructed iDigBio Citation Format using information supplied by the data provider.
http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/el/el24674. EL24674. The Lepidoptera collection (EL) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris). The Lepidoptera collection (EL) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris). http://portal.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/75e3aff5-b3d0-45c3-835c-5ffde192c63f. Accessed on May 31, 2026.
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