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An additional criterium may be the number or part of specimens, the age of which is more
than 100 years (older than 18-19 centuries), and the presence of old personal collections,
because they play an important role in the evaluation of time changes in the fauna of the
family.
The following collections are the principal ones under these parameters (tab. 3):
• by the number of specimens – a collection of the Museum of Natural History of
V. Karazin Kharkiv National University (341 specimens), a collection of the Zoological
Museum of T. Shevchenko Kyiv National University (304 specimens) and the
collection of V. Lazorko in the funds of the Institute of Zoology of the NAS of Ukraine
(263 specimens);
• by number of species – collection of the Zoological Museum of T. Shevchenko Kyiv
National University (85 species) and the State Museum of Natural History of the NAS
of Ukraine (71 species);
• according to the uniqueness of collections, a collection of the Zoological Museum of T.
Shevchenko Kyiv National University holds the leading position: there are 12 species
known only from this collection, the 2nd and 3rd collections are: the collection of V.
Lazorko from the funds of the Institute of I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the
NAS of Ukraine (10 species) and the collection of the Museum of Natural History of
V. Karazin Kharkiv National University (6 species).

Table 3
Indices of uniqueness of museum collections of Cryptophagids
Zoological collections
Species
NMNH SMNH SIZK KOC MNKU ZMKU
Species from the Carpathians 0 15 17 57 7 23
All of the species 50 71 48 57 21 85
Number of genera 9 12 6 13 11 12
Number of samples 214 224 263 1657 341 304
Number of unique species 3 2 10 7 6 12

Carpathian gatherings in collections
The richest for the number of species from the Carpathians – is the author's collection
(57 species), the second one is the collection of ZMKU (23 species), the third most significant
is the collection of V. Lazorko in IZAN (48 species in general and 17 carpathian species).
We have the following distribution of most common species collected in the Carpathians:
• presented simultaneously in four collections – three species (Atomaria fuscata,
A. apicalis, Cryptophagus scanicus);
• presented simultaneously in three collections – six species (Antherophagus pallens, Atomaria
linearis, A. nigrirostris, A. umbrina, A. analis, Cryptophagus acutangulus, C. dentatus);
• presented simultaneously in two collections – 21 species, 10 of which are presented in five
collections of six (including the author's collection) (Atomaria silaceus, A. fimetarius,
A. atra, Cryptophagus distinguendus, C. laticollis, Paramecosoma melanocephalum,
Pteryngium crenatum, Spavius glaber, Telmatophilus caricis, T. typhae).
In total, of the 122 species of Cryptophagidae recorded in the investigated collections
(along with the author's collection), 78 species (64%) occur in the Carpathian region, while