Svatopluk Bílý
Paris, March 27, 2006

The type material of Buprestidae in the Muséum national d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris was selected from the whole collection and now it is deposited only in the following four collections:
           Générale collection - here
           Oberthür collection - here & thanks to Edo Jendek, there are now photos of the entire Oberthür collection - here
           Pic collection- here
           Théry collection- here

Each of these collections is treated in a separate file under species ordered alphabetically; each file contains columns A - K with the following information:

A - serial number

B - species name

C - genus in the collection the species can be found in

D - author of the species name

E - the precise citation of the locality label (labels); (P) = printed label, (H) = handwritten label, (P/H) = combined locality label; if the locality is written on two labels,
           the text is divided by double slash //; (H-round) = locality written on the historical, rounded label

F - status of the type specimen:
           Type - neutral designation of most old type specimens
           NT - neotype
           HT - holotype
           AT - allotype
           PT - paratype
           ST - syntype
           LT - lectotype
           PLT - paralectotype
           CT - cotype (this designation was used by various authors in different sense; e.g. Kerremans used this designation usually in the sense of syntype while Théry used it both
                 for syntypes and for specimens compared with the type)

G - year of description (can be added by specialists in different groups of Buprestidae)

H - the citation of the description (can be also added whenever needed)

I - original genus (i.e. the genus the species was described in)

J - current genus (i.e. the genus in which the species is treated at present)

K - important data concerning the type specimen, e.g.: - described as a variety/subspecies of … (var./ssp. of …); - who designated lectotype/paralectotype/neotype (LT des. by …);
           - if the specimen is damaged or destroyed; - other important information.

Editor's note: the tabular listings of the types in the four collections were submitted to me by Svata as Excel spreadsheets; I saved them as web pages directly from Excel into the format you see;
the spacing is narrow but upon a quick review all the lines in the various columns appear to line up properly.