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The Lepidoptera collection (EL) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

Specimen Records: 41,214
Media Records: 9,984
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

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
Emailnone
Name Simon Chagnoux
Rolenone
Emailgbifprovider@mnhn.fr
Name Joël Minet
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Jérôme Barbut
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Laurent Albenga
RoleCorrespondant
Emailnone
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.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i7471
18.127
dwc_continent_replaced  i7283
17.671
geopoint_datum_missing  i7034
17.067
dwc_datasetid_added  i6120
14.849
dwc_kingdom_added  i6120
14.849
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i6120
14.849
dwc_phylum_added  i6120
14.849
dwc_taxonid_added  i6120
14.849
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i6120
14.849
dwc_taxonrank_added  i6120
14.849
gbif_canonicalname_added  i6120
14.849
gbif_genericname_added  i6120
14.849
gbif_taxon_corrected  i6120
14.849
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i5149
12.493
dwc_multimedia_added  i3781
9.174
geopoint_low_precision  i3620
8.783
taxon_match_failed  i2871
6.966
dwc_country_replaced  i1544
3.746
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1183
2.87
dwc_family_replaced  i688
1.669
gbif_vernacularname_added  i241
0.585
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i160
0.388
rev_geocode_eez  i120
0.291
gbif_reference_added  i60
0.146
dwc_class_added  i53
0.129
dwc_order_added  i53
0.129
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i36
0.087
dwc_class_replaced  i31
0.075
dwc_order_replaced  i30
0.073
rev_geocode_mismatch  i30
0.073
rev_geocode_failure  i20
0.049
dwc_genus_added  i15
0.036
dwc_genus_replaced  i12
0.029
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i11
0.027
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i6
0.015
dwc_continent_added  i5
0.012
dwc_family_added  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_corrected  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_flip_lon_sign  i1
0.002