Insect Collections in the Great Lakes Region

 

Illinois State Museum
Spring and Edwards Streets, Springfield, IL 62706
Curator: Dr. Everett D. Cashatt (Lepidoptera)
Phone: 217-782-6689
Fairly large Lepidoptera collection (over 30,000 specimens) with a total of approximately 55,000 arthropod specimens.

Illinois State Natural History Survey
Natural Resources Building, Urbana, IL 61801
Curators: Dr. Donald W. Webb (Diptera)
Dr. Philip W. Smith
Dr. Wallace E. LaBerge (Hymenoptera)
Phone: 217-333-6846 Fax: 217-333-4949
This major collection contains over 5 million specimens, with about 4,000 primary types. Strengths are in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera. Trichoptera, Plecoptera. Homoptera, and Collembola.

Field Museum of Natural History
Insect Division
Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive , Chicago, IL 60605
Curators: Dr. Alfred F. Newton, Jr. (Staphylinidae)
Dr. John B. Kiethley (Acari)
Curatorial Assistant: Mr. Philip P. Parrillo (Carabidae)
Curatorial Associates:
Margaret Thayer (Staphylinidae)
Mr. Harry G. Nelson (Dryopioidea)
Dr. Petra Sierwald (Araneae)
Dr. John A. Wagner (Pselaphidae)
Dr. Walter Suter (Scydmaenidae)
Mr. David Matusik (Lepidoptera)
Phone: 312-922-9410 x 354 Fax: 312-427-7269
Ca. 3.5 million pinned specimens, 6 million in organized alcohol collection. Outstanding world-wide collections of Coleoptera (esp. Staphylinidae, Histeridae, Pselaphidae, Ptiliidae), parastic insects, Berlese residues, misc. Acari, certain Lepidoptera (Strecker coll.), Nearctic, Neotropical, Palearctic and Australian regions strongest.

Purdue University
Entomology Research Collection
Department of Entomology
1158 Entomology, Hall, Purdue University, W.Lafayette, IN 47907-1158
Curators: Dr. W. P. McCafferty
Dr. Arwin Provansha
Phone: 317-494-0535 317-494-4554

Indiana University
Department of Zoology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
Dr. Frank N. Young (emeritus) - (Aquatic Coleoptera)
Phone: 812-335-5678

University of Michigan Insect Division
Museum of Zoology, 1109 Geddes Avenue, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079

Collection Coordinator: Mark F. O'Brien (Hymenoptera)
Curators: Dr. Richard D. Alexander Orthoptera)
Dr. Barry M. OConnor (Acari)
Dr. Thomas E. Moore (Cicadidae)
Adjunct Curators: H. Don Cameron (Arachnida); Theodore J. Cohn (Orthoptera); Paul B. Kannowski (Formicidae); Warren H. Wagner, Jr. (Lepidoptera)
Phone: 313-764-0471 Fax: 313-763-4080
Outstanding collections of Orthoptera, Odonata, Astigmatid Acari; Very good collections of Cicadidae, Coleoptera, Formicidae, Sphecidae, Lepidoptera, Hemiptera. Emphasis on Nearctic and Neotropical fauna, esp. Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala. Also valuable sound recording library with many thousands of recordings of acoustic insects; T.H. Hubbell library of photographed Orthoptera types; and field notebook library.


Michigan State University
Department of Entomology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Curator: Dr. Frederick W. Stehr (517- 353-8739)
Adjunct Curators: M.C. Nielsen (Lepidoptera)
Dr. Richard Snider (Collembola, Araneida) Jim Zablotny -Cerambycidae
Phone: 517-353-8739 Fax: 517-353-4354
Major strengths in Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Araneida, Collembola. Collection contains approximately 1.1. million pinned and labelled specimens, with another 400,000 yet to be fully prepared and integrated. Major emphasis is Nearctic, but substantial collections from other areas are also available (R.R. Dreisbach collection here).


Wayne State University Museum of Natural History
Department of Entomology, 637 Science Library, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.

Curators(s): Dr. Stanley K.Gangwere (Orthoptera)
Dr. David R. Cook (Acari)
Phone: 313-577-2886
Small research collection.

Univ. of Minnesota Insect Collection
Department of Entomology
1980 Folwell Avenue, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108

Curators: Dr. Philip J. Clausen (Ephydridae, Cerambycidae)
Dr. Ralph W. Holzenthal (Trichoptera)
Dr. William E. Miller (Lepidoptera)
Dr. Edwin F. Cook (Diptera)
Phone: 612-624-3636 Fax: 612-625-5299
2.7 million specimens representing 39,000 species, ca. 1950 primary types. Cosmopolitan in scope, but strongest in north central states fauna. Computerized. Taxonomic strengths in Mallophaga, Mutillidae, Aphididae, Noctuidae, Trichoptera, certain Coleoptera & Diptera.

Department of Entomology
Buffalo Museum of Science
Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14211

Donald G. Herold (Director)
Wayne K. Gall (Collection Manager)
Phone: 716-896-5200 Fax: 716-897-6723
This collection contains about 350,000 specimens, with emphasis on Lepidoptera.

SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
Entomology Collection
Department of Environmental & Forest Biology
SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
Syracuse, NY 13210
Curator: Dr. Frank E. Kurczewski (Aculeate Hymenoptera)
Dr. Roy A. Norton (Acarina, Arachnida)
Phone: 315-470-6753 Fax: 315-470-6934
Strong in forest Coleoptera, especially Scolytidae; Vouchers for wasp-behavior studies. Good collection of eastern Tabanidae, Aculeate Hymenoptera, Diptera. Collection oriented towards Great Lakes regions of New York and Pennsylvania. ca. 400,000 specimens.


The Ohio State University
Museum of Biological Diversity
1315 Kinnear Road, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212

Curators: Dr. Norman F. Johnson (Hymenoptera)
Andrey Sharkov (Associate Curator)
Dr. Charles A. Triplehorn (Coleoptera) [emeritus]
Phone: 614-292-6839 Fax: 614-292-2180
Outstanding collections:Homoptera, esp. Cicadellidae, Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Diptera, esp. Asilidae & Tabanidae. Also, the Acaralogical Laboratory has a large collection of Acari. The collection moved to a new facility in 1992.

Milwaukee Public Museum
800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233

Curators: Dr. G. R. Noonan (Coleoptera and all other orders except Lepidoptera and Odonata)
Dr. A. M. Young (Lepidoptera)
S.S. Borkin (Lepidoptera, Odonata)
Phone: 414-278-2758 Fax: 414-223-1396
Emphasis on Lepidoptera, Odonata, Carabidae; insects of Wisconsin and adjacent states, Costa Rican Insects.

University of Wisconsin
Department of Entomology
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Dr. Steven Krauth (Collection Manager)
Curator- Dr. Daniel K. Young (Coleoptera)
Phone: 608-262-3322
A major collection - aquatic insects, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera of the region are well-represented

Canada Forest Insect & Disease Survey
Great Lakes Forestry Research Laboratory
Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario P6A 5M7 CANADA
Dr. Paul D. Syme (Lepidoptera)
Phone: 705-759-5700 Fax: 705-949-9461
This collection contains over 130,000 specimens relating to forest entomology. Extensive larval Lepidoptera collection and color slide collection.

Royal Ontario Museum
Department of Entomology
100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6 Canada
Dr. D. Chris Darling (Hymenoptera)
Dr. Glenn B. Wiggins (Trichoptera)
Phone: 416-586-5533 Fax: 416-586-5863


General collections: strong in Trichoptera (N. Hemisphere); Odonata (Canada); Plecoptera (W. N. America); Orthopteroids (Canada); Lepidoptera (Ontario); Residue collections in alcohol (Brasil, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Peru, Philippines).

University of Guelph
Department of Environmental Biology
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada
Stephen A. Marshall (Sphaeroceridae)
Phone: 519-824-4120 ext.2720 Fax: 519-837-0442

Current emphasis is New World Diptera, but Lepidoptera, aculeate Hymenoptera and other groups are represented by strong regional collections. Size, approximately 1.2 million.