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Cryptophagidae (Coleoptera) in the collections of Ukraine: Species … 23

Table 1
Brief information about the investigated collections

Volume of the
Acronym Whole name (city)
collections
Collection of State Museum of Natural History (Lviv) [колекція 71 species,
SMNH
Державного природознавчого музею НАН України (м. Львів)] 224 specimens
57 species,
KOC K. Ocheretna’s collection (Uzhhorod)
1657 specimens
Collection of the National Museum of Natural History at the National 50 species,
NMNH
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv) 214 specimens
Collection of Zoological museum of T. H. Shevchenko Kyiv 85 species,
ZMKU
National University 304 specimens
Collection of Museum of Natural History of V. N. Karazin 21 species,
MNKU
Kharkiv National University 341 specimens
Collection of V. Lazorko in funds of the I. I. Schmalhausen Institute 48 species,
SIZK
of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv) 263 specimens

Brief description of zoological collections

The following are descriptions of the five investigated museum collections stored in the
Natural Museums of Lviv (SMNH), Kyiv (NMNH, ZMKU, SIZK) and Kharkiv (MNKU),
as well as the description of the author's collection (KOC) stored in Uzhhorod.

Collection of NMNH (Kyiv)
The collection includes 214 specimens belonging to 50 species of 10 genera. Another
1
4 species (7 specimens) belong to other families of the superfamily Cucujoidea . This
collection includes the collections of J.H. Hochhuth in the middle of the XIX century. The
collection was investigated with the support of A. Martynov. The vast majority of specimens
derives from Kyiv and its neighbourhood. The history of the collection originates from the
entomological collections of the Kyiv Pedagogical Museum [26], collected by various
researchers, in particular by J.H. Hochhuth [7], and described by M. Cherkunov [4]. There
are no modern descriptions of the collection (description of the collections of J.H. Hochhuth
is expected: A. Martynov, personal message). The general view of the box and its labels is
shown in fig. 1; the Cryptophagidae specimens from this collection with authorial labels are
presented in fig. 2.

Collection of SMNH (Lviv)
The collection is mounted in two boxes, along with representatives of other families of the
superfamily Cucujoidea – Erotylidae, Languriidae and others. In general, the collection was
collected and arranged during the period of the 19th and early 20th centuries, in particular,
many species were collected by the then director of the SMNH Marian Łomnicki. The
collection was investigated with the support of V. Rizun. This collection includes 224
specimens from 71 species of 13 genera of the family, which belong to 2 subfamilies.
Between materials of this collection there are 15 species from the Carpathian region. The
collection has not been described yet, but in works of M. Łomnicki there are separate

1 These are the families Languriidae – specimens of genera Leucohimatium (2 species) та
Macrophagus (1 species); Corylophidae – specimen of genus Orthoperus (1 species)