Entomology
The collection comprises some 80,000 identified species among more than 1,000,000
individuals. It also contains several nominal collections.
The Grauvogel Collection (integrated the Museum
in 1986). Louis Grauvogel (1902-1987), was an Alsatian manufacturer
who dedicated his leisure time to nature study and more particularly
to entomology through the primitive lepidopteran family of Hepialidae.
For this specific group he produced a remarkable worldwide collection:
the 25,000 specimens were donated to the Museum before his death.
In addition, Grauvogel collected other insects such as mayflies,
Odonata, Hymenoptera and especially Symphyta.
The
Collection Herrenschmidt – Ungemach Collection (integrated
in 1993).
The mineralogist Henri Ungemach traveled to the Moroccan Atlas in 1922 accompanied
by F. Lecerf, a French specialist of Lepidoptera. He collected many specimens
in the region, and his collection contains types, and mainly paratypes, described
by Lecerf. His nephew François Herrenschmidt inherited the collection.
He himself was a collector of butterflies from Alsace and Drôme of which
he published a catalog in “Alexanor, la Revue des Lépidoptéristes
français”. His widow donated both collections to the Museum in
1993. Together they contain some 22,000 specimens. The
Klein Collection (integrated in 1980). Marcel Klein, an Alsatian
lawyer, initially got interested in Coleoptera and constituted
a collection he gave to Paul Scherdlin, who was curator of the
Museum at the time. The latter added the beetles to his own collection
that he later left to the Museum. Between 1930 and 1975, Marcel
Klein became more fascinated by Hymenopteran Aculeata, of which
he accumulated more than 50,000 specimens. His son later gave this
second collection to the Museum together with all pertaining documents. The
Schuler Collection (integrated in 1980). Louis Schuler collected
12,000 French beetles from the Coleoptera families Carabidae and Buprestidae, as well as 1000 Homoptera family Cicadellidae.
He described
several types. It should be mentioned that almost all known species
of the country are represented in his collection of French Carabidae. The
Fuchs Collection (integrated in 1920). Microlepidoptera with
types ; the collection was reviewed in 1970 by the Count Von
Hartig. The
Amiot Collection (integrated in 1970). Extensive collection of
hybrids between Saturnidae and Sphingidae.
The Sorel Collection (integrated in 2002). Collection of local
Coleoptera.
Over the last 30 years, the Alsatian
Society of Entomology has
contributed to the classification and organization of the huge
entomological collections of the Museum.
Crustaceans
More 3000 specimens, dry or in alcohol, with a large proportion
of Decapods. Numerous types collected by Döderlein in
Japan. Some spectacular specimens of crayfish and lobster.
A catalog in eight volumes was published by Ortmann on the
Decapods of the Museum, with many types included (A. Ortmann,
1890-1894 : Die Decapoden-Krebse des Strassburger Museums,
Zoologische Jahrbüchern, Abteilung für Systematik,
Ed. G. Fischer, Jena).
 list
of Crustacea types
Other Arthropods
An interesting dry collection of regional spiders (Nöldner
collection), several collections in alcohol among which is the
Myèvre collection that gathers spiders from Switzerland
and from the Nice area. The Museum also owns sizable Myriapod and
scorpion collections (dry and in alcohol).
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Arctiidae,
Herrenschmidt-Ungemach Collection
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Ibacus
ciliatus,
Döderlein Collection
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