A critical evaluation of the exotic bird collection of the Šariš Museum in Bardejov, Slovakia

The ornithological collection of the Zoological Museum of Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Part 1: the catalogue of bird skin specimens

This paper reviews the bird skin collection housed in the Zoological Museum of Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The collection includes 925 specimens, belonging to 193 species from 53 families and 20 orders, collected between 1859 and 2021. Due to its historical background and the presence of rare species, it is considered to be one of most important ornithological collections in Eastern Europe. Such a collection can serve as a basis for valuable ornithological studies. Furthermore, a map representation with new distribution data for bird species is provided, which represents a source of information for the status of the avifauna of the Carpathian basin in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Documenting museum records of West African Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in Benin and Senegal

Background

This work provides a preliminary inventory of West African Coccinellidae.

This was based on the West African Coccinellidae (WAC) specimens in the holdings of insect collections at the Laboratoire de Zoologie des Invertébrés Terrestres at the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire Cheikh Anta Diop (IFAN), Senegal and the Biodiversity Center at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITAB), Benin.

New information

A total of 129 species representing 11 tribes and 40 genera is reported, including one species of the subfamily Microweiseinae and 128 species of the subfamily Coccinellinae. The geographic distribution of collection localities is presented for these species. Cheilomeneslunata (Fabricius, 1775), Cheilomenespropinqua (Mulsant, 1850), Cheilomenessulphurea (Olivier, 1791), Chnootribaelaterii (Rossi, 1794), Chnootribasimilis (Thunberg, 1781), Exochomuslaeviusculus Weise, 1909, Hyperaspisdelicatula (Mulsant, 1850) and Hyperaspispumila Mulsant, 1850 are the best represented species in these collections.