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Collection of ZMKU (Kyiv)
This collection is an important source of information and an assemblage of factual
material on the Cryptophagids of Bukovina and other districts of the former Austria-Hungary.
It was investigated with the support of M. Bilyashivsky. The collection is in ZMKU
approximately since 1947, due to the redistribution of museum collections – as contributions
2
after World War II . The collection was collected by O. Marcu and K. Penecke; it contains
304 specimens, which belong to 85 species of 12 genera of Cryptophagidae. Also, the
3
collection includes species from other families previously considered as Cryptophagidae .
Collection materials require a minor renewal of labels due to changes in the taxonomy of the
family and the presence of species which belong to other families. The collection has a
considerable value for the study of Carpathian Cryptophagids. Detailed information about
the specimens will be published by the author in separate article [18].

Collection of MNKU (Kharkiv)
The collection contains 341 individuals, representing 21 species of 12 genera. The largest
number of individuals is collected in the eastern Oblasts of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Luhansk,
Sumy, etc.), as well as in Russia, Germany, Italy, and Austria. Species are identificated by
A. Drogvalenko; he also supported this investigation. In the collection there are two
specimens, collected by E. Reitter. The collection contains specimens of 7 species from the
Carpathians, 5 of which are collected in the mountainous regions of the Zakarpattia Oblast,
one is from Lviv Oblast (Ootypus globosus) and one is from Hungary (Caenoscelis sibirica).

General characteristics of the collections

Content of the collections. In total, all museum collections contain 115 species, but data
about 10 species is limited exclusively to labels (specimens are lost). Accordingly, in the five
studied academic and educational collections, Cryptophagids are represented by 105 species
(Table 2). The total number of species of the family per collection varies from 21 (MNKU)
to 85 (ZMKU). None of the collections has a complete composition of species that are found
on the territory of Ukraine.
Table 2 contains data on collectible specimens, the number of samples of every species
in each collection and information about the presence of gatherings from the Carpathian
region. The order of taxa in the table is alphabetical; names of species are listed according to
the modern nomenclature. Numerals indicate the number of individuals of the corresponding
species in each of the collections: the number in brackets refers to individuals from the
Carpathian region, without brackets – the specimens collected outside the Carpathians,
asterisk designates lost specimens.

2 After the World War II, the peace treaty (1947) stated the inadmissibility of
contributions, and the Geneva Convention (1949) prohibits their charging (by Wikipedia).

3 These are Diplocoelus fagi, 7 specimens (Biphylidae); Cryptophilus integer,
Leucohimatium arundinaceum, Macrophagus robustus, and Toramus pilifer, 8 specimens
(Languriidae).