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World's
Largest Entomological Collections
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# |
Collection |
Location |
No. of Specimens |
1 |
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle |
Paris, France |
30,000,000 |
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2 |
The Natural History Museum |
London, UK |
30,000,000 |
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3 |
Smithsonian Institution |
Washington, D.C., USA |
30,000,000 |
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4 |
Zoologische Staatssammlung |
Munich, Germany |
16,566,000 |
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5 |
American Museum of Natural History |
New York, USA |
16,204,000 |
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6 |
Canadian National Collection |
Ottawa, Canada |
15,000,000 |
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7 |
Alexander Koenig Zoological Museum |
Bonn, Germany |
14,000,000 |
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8 |
Bernice P. Bishop Museum |
Honolulu, USA |
13,250,000 |
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9 |
Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale |
Tervuren, Belgium |
10,510,000 |
10 |
Australian National Insect Collection |
Canberra, Australia |
10,000,000 |
11 |
Museum
für Naturlunde der Humboldt University |
Berlin,
Germany |
10,000,000 |
12 |
Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
9,685,000 |
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13 |
Field
Museum of Natural History |
Chicago,
USA |
9,000,000 |
14 |
Institut
Royal des Sciences Naturelles |
Brussels, Belgium |
8,000,000 |
15 |
Museum
of Comparative Zoology |
Cambridge, Mass., USA |
7,601,000 |
16 |
California Academy of Sciences |
San
Francisco, USA |
7,000,000 |
17 |
Hungarian Natural History Museum |
Budapest, Hungary |
6,700,000 |
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18 |
New
Zealand Arthropod Collection |
Auckland, New Zealand |
6,560,000 |
19 |
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet |
Stockholm, Sweden |
6,500,000 |
20 |
Finnish
Museum of Natural History |
Helsinki, Finland |
6,500,000 |
21 |
Florida
State Collection of Arthropods |
Gainesville, Fla., USA |
6,500,000 |
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22 |
Bohart
Museum of Entomology |
Davis,
Calif., USA |
6,241,000 |
23 |
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien |
Vienna,
Austria |
6,000,000 |
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24 |
National
Museum of Natural History |
Sofia,
Bulgaria |
6,000,000 |
|
25 |
Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
6,000,000 |
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26 |
Illinois
Natural History Survey |
Champaign, Ill., USA |
6,000,000 |
|
27 |
Carnegie
Museum of Natural History |
Pittsburgh, Pa., USA |
5,500,000 |
|
28 |
National
Natuurhistorische Museum |
Leiden,
Netherlands |
5,200,000 |
|
29 |
South
African National Collection of Insects |
Pretoria, South Africa |
5,000,000 |
|
30 |
Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde |
Dresden,
Germany |
5,000,000 |
|
31 |
Los
Angeles County Museum |
Los
Angeles, USA |
5,000,000 |
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Sources
Resh, V. H. and R. T. Cardé. Encyclopedia of Insects.
Amsterdam; Boston: Academic Press, 2003. |
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