The Orthoptera collection (EO) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 21,114

Media Records: 27,308

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-18

The Orthoptera collection is part of the Polyneoptera collection of the MNHN, which includes Orthoptera, Dictyoptera, Dermaptera and Phasmatodea, together with a diverse assemblage of so-called “small orders” (Embioptera, Psocoptera, Plecoptera, Zoraptera, Ephemeroptera and Trichoptera). The Polyneoptera collection has been assembled continuously since the beginning of the XIXth century, through the activity of many French and foreign Entomologists. At the beginning of 2012, it includes some 935 000 specimens, mostly dried and pinned, including 29 000 identified types, and incorporates regularly 2 to 3 000 specimens per year, including a variable number of new type specimens. Orthoptera represent more than 85 % of the Polyneoptera collection. The MNHN Orthoptera collection is particularly rich for Acridoidea originating from the Neotropics, French-speaking Africa and Madagascar, but also for Eumastacoidea and Gryllidea from the whole World. The best represented geographic regions are the Neotropics, Africa, Madagascar and New Caledonia. Occasional research programs and biological surveys lead to the rapid increase in the Collection richness for diversity hot spots (Vanuatu, the Comoros, India, Indonesia, MADANG expedition in New Guinea, etc, not mentioning French Guyana and the French West Indies). Since several tens of years, the Orthoptera collections has been enriched by the research activities performed at the MNHN for both Caelifera and Ensifera. These include intensive sampling in the Tropics, specimen identifications, taxa descriptions, and documentation of taxa biological attributes and behaviours. The main research axes have been the ecology and evolution of Orthopteran communities, mostly in the perspective of forest regeneration and fragmentation, phylogenetic analyses, and the evolution of biological attributes (invasive tendencies, diet and distributions in Caelifera, habitats and communication modalities in Ensifera). Recent studies in the evolution of acoustic communication contributes to the development of the MNHN Sound Library, which associates preferentially acoustic data with recorded specimens preserved in MNHN collections. The collection is progressively computerized. Specimens are photographed by S. Poulain and G. Lecorvec.

Contacts

Name	MNHN
Role	Provider
Email	none

Name	Simon Chagnoux
Role	none
Email	gbifprovider@mnhn.fr

Name	Laure Desutter
Role	none
Email	none

Name	Guy Lecorvec
Role	none
Email	none

Name	Simon Poulain
Role	none
Email	none

Name	Tony Robillard
Role	none
Email	none

Name	Laurent Albenga
Role	Correspondant
Email	none

Data Corrected
Data Use
Raw

This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.

Flag	Records With This Flag	(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added i	9800	46.415
dwc_kingdom_added i	9800	46.415
dwc_parentnameusageid_added i	9800	46.415
dwc_phylum_added i	9800	46.415
dwc_taxonid_added i	9800	46.415
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added i	9800	46.415
dwc_taxonrank_added i	9800	46.415
gbif_canonicalname_added i	9800	46.415
gbif_genericname_added i	9800	46.415
gbif_taxon_corrected i	9800	46.415
dwc_specificepithet_added i	9288	43.99
gbif_reference_added i	5816	27.546
idigbio_isocountrycode_added i	4446	21.057
dwc_continent_replaced i	4229	20.029
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced i	2889	13.683
dwc_originalnameusageid_added i	2427	11.495
geopoint_datum_missing i	2117	10.027
taxon_match_failed i	2085	9.875
gbif_vernacularname_added i	857	4.059
dwc_order_replaced i	737	3.491
rev_geocode_eez i	468	2.217
geopoint_low_precision i	447	2.117
dwc_country_replaced i	276	1.307
dwc_multimedia_added i	272	1.288
dwc_family_replaced i	203	0.961
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added i	152	0.72
dwc_genus_replaced i	148	0.701
dwc_class_replaced i	89	0.422
dwc_family_added i	75	0.355
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added i	53	0.251
dwc_continent_added i	21	0.099
dwc_taxonremarks_added i	12	0.057
rev_geocode_failure i	6	0.028
rev_geocode_mismatch i	4	0.019
dwc_kingdom_suspect i	3	0.014
dwc_class_added i	2	0.009
geopoint_pre_flip i	2	0.009
datecollected_bounds i	1	0.005
dwc_genus_added i	1	0.005
dwc_order_added i	1	0.005
geopoint_0_coord i	1	0.005
rev_geocode_corrected i	1	0.005
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign i	1	0.005

Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed	Media Viewed
05 / 2022	238,358,407	24,580	466	0	0
06 / 2022	243,629,237	89	242	0	0
07 / 2022	254,390,263	39,388	507	0	0
08 / 2022	252,091,572	41,185	344	0	0
09 / 2022	269,639,626	19,945	640	4	4
10 / 2022	332,494,923	118,420	143	0	0
11 / 2022	302,423,094	130,578	338	0	0
12 / 2022	242,057,311	21,653	296	0	0
01 / 2023	231,635,619	71,754	371	0	0
02 / 2023	2,648,954	0	0	0	0
03 / 2023	145,775,601	7	26	0	0
04 / 2023	310,394,591	19,747	328	0	0
05 / 2023	248,689,934	13,055	78	0	0
06 / 2023	256,303,798	20,343	291	0	0
07 / 2023	246,847,137	80,567	437	0	0
08 / 2023	233,558,046	0	240	0	0
09 / 2023	294,697,537	67,474	280	0	0
10 / 2023	380,754,810	596,141	3,458	0	0
11 / 2023	339,691,477	137,229	474	0	0
12 / 2023	279,570,361	318	7,225	0	0
01 / 2024	491,766,529	1,976	737	0	0
02 / 2024	678,631,257	184,627	941	0	0
03 / 2024	704,184,076	2,953,233	4,166	41	11
04 / 2024	913,741,950	209,486	8,299	397	123
05 / 2024	3,815,057,372	2,090,622	1,500	803	605
06 / 2024	1,437,714,446	185,499	571	60	48
07 / 2024	820,603,235	499,470	582	40	27
08 / 2024	4,609,561,944	749,026	1,781	476	368
09 / 2024	1,669,429,809	42,076	2,880	183	124
10 / 2024	1,123,559,380	400,236	6,556	334	260
11 / 2024	1,405,905,346	2,638	4,761	1,283	894
12 / 2024	713,565,186	110	472	1,850	1,715
01 / 2025	2,161,582,146	12	4,591	1,329	993
02 / 2025	1,203,255,393	42,798	1,482	2,478	2,311
03 / 2025	793,464,263	428,575	1,112	306	246
04 / 2025	1,059,280,726	82	3,464	521	387
05 / 2025	446,307,447	0	838	130	101

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Recordset

The Orthoptera collection (EO) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Contacts