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Fig. 2. Samples of Cryptophagidae from the J.H. Hochhuth’s collection which is stored in NMNH
of Ukraine as the oldest museum items with the representatives of this group of beetles in natural
museums of Ukraine: a, collection sample of the species Cryptophagus saginatus; b, collection sample
of the species C. badius; c, the original label of C. badius written by the Hochhuth's hand;
d, the original label of C. saginatus written by the Hochhuth's hand. Photo by A. Martynov.

Collection of SIZK (collection of V. Lazorko) (Kyiv)
This academic collection of Cryptophagids is the only one stored in SIZK. The collection
was gathered by V. Lazorko during the 1920- 1960's and given to the Institute of Zoology of
the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR [20]. The collections until 1939 mainly
comprises the territory of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast; specimens collected after 1944
come from Austria, Poland and Sweden; in 1948, the researcher emigrated to Canada, so
there are no later collections from Europe. The samples are mounted in two large boxes,
which contain 263 individuals of 48 species of 6 genera; they are stored together with the
beetles from other families Erotylidae, Languriidae and Latridiidae. The collection was
researched with the support of V. Korneyev. The collection has not been described in any of
the works, in particular, it is not mentioned in the recent review of the collections of SIZK
[1].

Author’s collections (Uzhhorod)
The collections include 1657 specimens belonging to 13 genera and 57 species of two
subfamilies. Most of the collection is stored on entomological mattresses, some individuals
are mounted in the box. Specimens were collected on the territory of Uzhhorod, Perechyn,
Velykyy Bereznyi, Volovets, Mizhhirya and Tiachiv Raions. On the basis of these
collections, two articles have been prepared – the species composition of the family on the
Carpathian foothills [10] and the species of the genus Cryptophagus of the Mountain Valley
Borzhava [11], but a detailed description of the species collected by the author will be
published in separate work.