Odonata Glass Wing-Mounts at the UMMZ

 

In the earlier days, many Odonatologists prepared wings for study by securely mounting a set of wings between two sheets of thin glass with the edges sealed with black paper tape. We have a number of these prepared by E.B. Williamson, and a lesser number from C.H. Kennedy. Although they are not used much, they may still constitute a useful resource. The specimens listed below are stored with our main collection, but are kept seperate from the adults stored in envelopes.

  an example of one of the mounts made by Williamson

A few of the species listed below have been illustrated via a color flat-bed scanner, and if you feel it would be worthwhile for me to scan in a member of each genus in for web access, please let me know. I could certainly scan them more quickly via grayscale, but the color patterns would be lost for many of the species.



This web page updated 09/08/1997 by M.F. O'Brien