The Hymenoptera collection of Lars Huggert housed in the Swedish Museum of Natural History

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  • Hege Vårdal

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Hymenoptera, wasps, collections, Swedish Museum of Natural History

Abstract

In the autumn of 2006 the large insect collection of Lars Huggert (1942–2003) was kindly donated to the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm by the siblings of the collector. A first assessment of the size of the collection, estimated more than 30 000 specimens of Coleoptera, 23 000 specimens of Hymenoptera and about 2 000 specimens of Diptera. Here an inventory of the Hymenoptera part of the Lars Huggert donation is given including an account of type specimens of 32 taxa described by Huggert and currently housed in NHRS. Specimens of more than 1 330 species of Hymenoptera were included in the donation which enriched the existing NHRS collections immensely. Huggert described 80 species and 34 genera/subgenera in the families Diapriidae Haliday, 1833, Platygastridae Haliday, 1833, Scelionidae, Haliday 1839 and Pteromalidae Dalman, 1820 and these families are particularly well-represented in the donation.

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2021-12-09

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Vårdal, H. (2021). The Hymenoptera collection of Lars Huggert housed in the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Entomologisk Tidskrift, 142(4), 207–220. Retrieved from https://et-online.nu/index.php/contents/article/view/96

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