Diptera Collection

Main Collection: approx. 800 000 specimens, 6 000 Types (Online-inventory of Nematocera-Types)

 

Important collections:

• Coll. Winthem
• Coll. Wiedemann (including also several types by Th. Say)
• Coll. Schiner
• Egger
• Frauenfeld
• Adam Handlirsch
• Mik
• Brauer
• Bergenstamm (including Types by Rondani and Robineau - Desvoidy)
• Czerny
• Hendel

Links to following inventories:

• Chironomidae
• Tachinidae

 

From 2007 to 2010, the Diptera collection participated in a project on surveillance of bluetongue disease in Austria. In this study, phenology and geographical distribution of the vectors of bluetongue disease, biting midges of the genus Culicoides, were investigated.

Curator:
Dr. Alexssandro Camargo

Staff:

Judit Kerschbaumer-Stöckler BSc (part-time)