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the remaining 44 species are represented in collections only by specimens from territories
outside the Carpathians.
Some species of the general list of the Carpathian Cryptophagids, which are not
confirmed by museum specimens, have unequivocal evidence of the presence in the
Carpathian region in literature or available among the author's collections. One of the most
complete lists of fauna of the region is the articles of M. Łomnicki [14] and J. Roubal [22].
In the text of both works there are 21 species from the list, 7 species are indicated only by M.
Łomnicki, and 2 – only by J. Roubal. Other reviews are less in amount and most of them do
not contain unique species (with the exception of the works of M. Nowicki [17] and L. Miller
[16] [Atomaria norica], and the works of S. Tenenbaum [23] [Cryptophagus confusus]).

Personal collections and "migrations" of the collections
Among the investigated collections, the collections, created by the famous collectors
O. Marcu, K. Penecke, J.H. Hochhuth and M. Łomnicki, have a particular value, because we
can see the taxonomy, diagnostics and nomenclature of family species in the sense of the
highly qualified entomologists of that time.
The collection of O. Marcu has a difficult history of "migration" in the times during and
after World War II, in particular, it has experienced the conveyance from territory of Austria-
Hungary, in particular to Chernivtsi, and then to Kуіv. The collection of
J.H. Hochhuth changed its location in several different institutions, including the first Kyiv
Gymnasium, the Kyiv Pedagogical Museum, the Zoological Museum of T. Shevchenko Kyiv
National University, the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the
Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the National Museum of
Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine [26].
Everything testifies the remarkable attention of colleagues and custodians of funds to the
preservation of collections and this provides an opportunity to compare past and present
fauna and knowledge about it. Such examples demonstrate that at all times and periods of
academic and university difficulties the collections are regarded as one of the highest values,
and entomologists of that time were made utmost efforts to preserve the collections, despite
changes in the borders of the states, the status of institutions and their financing.

Famous collectors
Collections of Cryptophagids are created due to the work of dozens of collectors of
different times, different countries and institutions, both academic and educational. Among
them, it is important to note the following constellation of researchers:
• Bartenev, Aleksandr Fedorovych (1953-2015), Ukrainian entomologist, specialist in
coleopterology, especially Cerambycidae, worked in Department of Zoology and Animal
Ecology, Kharkiv National University, there are 4 records in database about 5 specimens of
3 species from Crimea and Baikal, which are stored in MNKU collection;
• Donets-Zakharzhevsky, Dmytro Andrijovych (1784-1871), Ukrainian scientist and
collector, a descendant of famous noble Zakharzevsky family, an honorary citizen of
Zmiiv. The database contains 8 records of 11 samples of 6 species from Hungary,
France, Germany and Ukraine (Kharkiv region), which are stored in the MNKU;
• Drogvalenko, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (born in 1966), Ukrainian entomologist, head of
the department of invertebrates of the Museum of Natural History of V. Karazin
Kharkiv National University, specialist in coleopterology. In the database are
44 records of 138 specimens of 10 species of Cryptophagidae, collected mainly in the
Kharkiv region, Crimea and Podіllya, and specimens are stored in the MNKU;