Type Repository Codens
Following the system and abbreviations of Arnett, et al. (1993), the following codens are used to indicate the collections that contain, or are thought to contain, type specimens of Buprestidae. The determination about the deposition of any particular type comes from the recent literature when statements have been made by respective authors. There are, however, a number of taxa listed in the world catalogue without specific indication of where the type(s) may be held and these are listed as "type?." The ever-evolving The Insect and Spider Collections of the World website (aka: the master list) can be found here (link no longer works)
This list is also available (here) as a downloadable RTF file (102 KB).
Public Collections
| Coden | Institution |
| AMNH | American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. |
| AMSA | Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| ANIC | Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| ANSP | Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| BMNH | see NHM |
| BMSA | National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| BPBM | Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai`i, U.S.A. |
| CASC | California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
| CHUC | Charkov University, Charkov, Ukraine |
| CMNC | Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada |
| CMNH | Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
| CNCI | Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada |
| CNIN | Coleccion Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, México City, México (= IBUNAM = UNAM) |
| CNU | Capital Normal University, Beijing, China |
| CSCA | California State Collection of Arthropods, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, California, U.S.A. |
| DBMI | Dipartimento di Biologia Animale dell’Università, Messina, Italy |
| DEI | Deutsches Entomologisches Institut im ZALF, Müncheberg, Germany |
| EAUC | El-Azhar University or Alfieri collection (Faculty of Agriculture, El-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt |
| EBCC | Estación de Biología “Chamela”, UNAM, San Patricio, Jalisco, México |
| EIHU | Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan |
| EMEC | Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. |
| ESEC | Entomological Society of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt |
| ESUE | Erewan State University, Erewan, Armenia |
| GFBI | Gymnasium der Franziskaner, Bolzano, Italy |
| GONHS | Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society |
| GPPT | Plant Protection Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia |
| GSQC | Geological Survey of Queensland Fossil Collection, Brisbane, Australia |
| FIOC | Fundaçao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
| FLCT | J. M. Fernández López collection, Tenerife, Canary Islands |
| FMNH | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. |
| FNIC | Fiji National Insect Collection, Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji |
| HMUG | Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Scotland |
| HNHM | Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary |
| HUJI | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| IBUNAM | see CNIN |
| IEGG | Instituto di Entomologia, “Guido Grandi,” Università di Bologna, Italy |
| IFRI | Indian Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| IMLA | Fundacion e Instituto Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina |
| INBC | Instituo Nacional de Biodiversidad, Heredia, Costa Rica |
| INER | Instituto Nazionale di Entomologia, Rome, Italy |
| INIA | Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias, Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico |
| IREC | Institut de Recherches Entomologique de la Caribe, Pointe-a-Pitre, Gaudeloupe |
| IZBAS | Institute of Zoology BASc Scientif Found, Sofia Bulgaria |
| IRSNB | Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium |
| ISUI | Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. |
| IZAA | Institute of Zoology, Armenia Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia |
| IZAS | Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China |
| IZAV | Instituto de Zoologia Agricola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela |
| JSNC | Jiangxi Forest Pest and Disease Control Station, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China |
| KPMNH | Kanagawa Prefecture Museum of Natural History, Japan |
| LACM | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A. |
| LSUK | Linnean Society, London, United Kingdom |
| MACN | Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| MAGD | Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia |
| MBBF | Musée du Biterrois, Beziers, France |
| MBBJ | Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Bogor, Java, Indonesia |
| MCCI | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Carmagnola, Italy |
| MIH | Musée International d'Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland |
| MCPM | Milwaukee City Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| MCSN | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria”, Genoa, Italy |
| MCTI | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Trieste, Italy |
| MCZC | Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. |
| MGAP | Museu Anchieta, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil |
| MHNG | Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland |
| MHNL | Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Lyon, France |
| MIZT | Museo, Instituto di Zoologia Sistematica, Universita di Torino, Italy (= MRSN) |
| MLPA | Museo de Ciencias Naturales, La Plata, Argentina |
| MLUH | Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle, Germany |
| MMCT | Museum of Missioni Consolata, Turin, Italy |
| MMUS | Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Australia |
| MMWG | Märkisches Museum, Witten an der Ruhr, Germany |
| MNAP | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Asuncion, Paraguay |
| MNHN | Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France |
| MNMS | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain |
| MNNC | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile |
| MNRJ | Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
| MNSG | Museum für Naturkunde, Stetten, Germany |
| MRAC | Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium |
| MRSN | Museo Regionale Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy (= MIZT?) |
| MSIE | Museum of Shanghai Institute of Entomology, Academia Sinica, Shanghai, China |
| MSNG | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova, Italy |
| MSNM | Museo Civico di Storia Naturelle, Milan, Italy |
| MTTC | Museum of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia |
| MULH | Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle, Germany |
| MVMA | Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
| MZBS | Museo de Zoologica, Barcelona, Spain |
| MZCP | Museu e Laboratorio Zoologico da Faculdade de Ciencis, Universidade de Coïmbra, Coïmbra, Portugal |
| MZHF | Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| MZLS | Museé Zoologie, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| MZLU | Museum of Zoology, Lund University, Sweden |
| MZSP | Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil |
| MZUF | Museo Zoologico “La Specola”, Florence University, Florence, Italy |
| NHM | The Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History)), London, United Kingdom (= BMNH) |
| NHMB | Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland |
| NHRS | Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| NHMW | Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
| NMBS | Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland |
| NMEG | Naturkundemuseum Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany |
| NMPC | National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic |
| NMSA | Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
| NMWC | National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales |
| NMWN | National Museum, Windhoek, Namibia |
| NSMT | National Science Museum (Natural History), Tokyo, Japan |
| NYSM | New York State Museum, Albany, New York, U.S.A. |
| NZAC | New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Auckland, New Zealand |
| NZSI | National Zoological Collection, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India |
| PINAS | Paleontological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
| PPIE | Plant Protection Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Dokki, Giza, Egypt |
| PURC | Entomology Research Collection, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A. |
| OXUM | University Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| QCZA | Quito Catholic Zoology Museum, Departamento de Biologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador |
| QMBA | Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia |
| RMNH | Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands |
| SAMA | South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia |
| SAMC | South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa |
| SANC | South African National Collection, Pretoria, South Africa |
| SEMC | Snow Entomological Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. |
| SMFD | Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany |
| SMNK | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany |
| SMNS | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Baden-Württembürg, Germany |
| SMSM | Sarawak Museum, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia |
| SMTD | Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany |
| SNMB | Staatliches Naturhistoriches Museum, Braun-Schweig, Germany |
| SNMC | Slovenské Národné Muzeum, Prórodovedné Müzeum, Zoologické Oddelenie, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| SRJB | Coleção Campos Seabra, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
| TARI | Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Taichung, Taiwan |
| TAUI | Zoological Museum, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| TFMC | Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain |
| TICB | TAMMIN, Insecta Collection, Brno, Czech Republic |
| TMSA | Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa |
| UCCC | Museo de Zoologia, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile |
| UCDC | Robert M. Bohart Entomology Museum, University of California, Davis, California, U.S.A. |
| UNAM | see CNIN |
| USMP | Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, Poland |
| USNM | United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. |
| UZIU | Zoological Museum, Uppsala University, Sweden |
| WAMP | Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia |
| ZFMK | Zoologische Forschungsinstitut und Museum "Alexander Koenig", Bonn, Germany |
| ZILS | Museum of Zoology, Lund University, Sweden |
| ZIN | Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| ZLUO | Zoological Laboratory, University of Odessa, Ukraine |
| ZMAN | Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| ZMHB | Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Germany |
| ZMUC | Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| ZMUH | Zoologisches Insitut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| ZMUK | Zoologisches Museum und Museum für Völkerkunde, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany |
| ZMUM | Zoological Museum, University of Moscow, Russia |
| ZMUN | Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, Norway |
Private Collections
| Coden | Institution |
| MBBF | A. Baudon, Montpelier, France |
| AMIC | A. Martinez collection, Rosario de Lerma, Salta, Argentina [= MACN?] |
| ATCI | A. Ture, Abidjan, Ivory Coast |
| CBHG | F. Brechtel, Knittelsheim, Germany |
| CHBV | C. H. Ballou collection, Venezuela |
| CHCV | C. Holzschuh collection, Villach, Austria |
| COTJ | S. Ohmomo, Tsukuba, Japan |
| EJCB | E. Jendek collection, Bratislava, Slovak Republic |
| FTCI | F. Tassi collection, Rome, Italy |
| GHPC | G. Hauser collection, location unknown |
| GNWA | G. Novak collection, Wien, Austria |
| HMMG | H. Mühle collection, Münich, Germany |
| JEBC | J. E. Barriga collection, Chile |
| JFVC | J. F. Vayssieres collection, Contonou, Benin |
| LEPC | L. Peña collection, Chile |
| MACB | M. Alvarenga collection, Brasil |
| MHCA | M. Hanlon collection, Perth, Australia |
| MHCP | M. Hudson collection, Wau Ecology Institute, Papua-New Guinea |
| MJCG | M. Johanides collection, Czech Republic |
| MKAC | M. K. Arroyo collection, Chile |
| MNAG | M. Niehuis collection, Alberswiler, Germany |
| MTHJ | M. Tôyama collection, Hyogo, Japan |
| NEWC | Norman E. Woodley collection, Maryland, U.S.A. |
| PBKG | P. Brandl collection, Kolbermoor, Germany |
| RHMP | R. Holynski collection, Milanowek, Poland |
| TLGS | T. Lander, Geneva, Switzerland |
| TNSC | T. Neef de Sainval collection, Belgium |
| VCMF | J. F. Vayssieresi collection, Montpellier, France |
| VKCB | V. Kubán collection, Brno, Czech Republic |
| WBCA | W. Barries collection, Vienna, Austria |
Type Repositories of Major Authors
The works of Horn & Kahle (1935-1937) and Sachtleben (1961) list the known repositories of the collections of most historical entomologists. Many prolific or historically significant coleopterists or buprestid specialists have their entire collections, or major portions thereof, deposited in a single institutional collection. This isn’t always the case as some authors might have received material from other collections for study and identification and thus returned types of new species to the correspondent institution.
| Author | Collection Coden |
| Abeille de Perrin | MNHN |
| Akiyama | NSMT |
| Ballion | ZLUO |
| Baudon | ABMF |
| Blackburn | BMNH, MVMA |
| Blanchard | MNHN |
| Blatchley | PURC |
| Boheman | NHRS |
| Boisduval | MNHN |
| Bourgoin | MNHN |
| Bruch | MACN |
| Brullé | MNHN |
| Burmeister | MLUH |
| Carter | MVMA, AMSA |
| Chamberlin | CASC |
| Champlain & Knull | FMNH |
| Chevrolat | BMNH |
| Cobos | MNMS |
| Coquerl | MNHN |
| Dalman | NHRS |
| DeGeer | NHRS |
| Descarpentries | MNHN |
| Desmarest | MNHN? |
| Dohrn | MNSG |
| Donovan | BMNH |
| Dugès | CNIN |
| Erichson | ZMHB |
| Eschscholtz | ZMUM |
| Fabricius | ZMUC |
| Fåhraeus | NHRS |
| Fall | MCZC |
| Fåhraeus | NHRS |
| Fairmaire | BMNH, MNHN |
| Faldermann | MNHN |
| Fisher | USNM |
| Fleischer | NMPC |
| Frost | MCZC |
| Fügner | MMWG |
| Gahan | BMNH |
| Ganglbauer | NHMW |
| Gebhardt | RMNH |
| Gebler | ZIN |
| Géhin | MNHN |
| Germain | MNNC |
| Germar | ZMHB |
| Gerstäcker | ZMHB |
| Gestro | MCSN |
| Gistel | ZSMC |
| Gory | MNHN |
| Gredler | GFBI |
| Guérin-Méneville | ISNB |
| Gyllenhal | UZIU |
| Harold | ZSMC |
| Heller | SMTD |
| Herbst | ZMHB |
| Heyden | DEI, SMFD |
| Hope | OXUM |
| Horn | MCZC |
| Hoscheck | NHMB |
| Illiger | SNMB |
| Jakovlev | ZIN |
| Jacqueline du Val | MNHN |
| Kerremans | see below |
| Kiesenwetter | ZSMC |
| Kirby | BMNH |
| Kirsch | SMTD |
| Klug | ZMHB |
| Knull | FMNH |
| Kolbe | ZMHB |
| Kraatz | DEI |
| Kurosawa | NSMT |
| Küster | ZMHB |
| Lansberge | MNHN |
| Laporte | MNHN |
| Latreille | MNHN |
| LeConte | MCZC |
| Lesne | MNHN |
| Lewis | BMNH |
| Linnaeus | LSUK |
| Lucas | MNHN |
| Macleay | AMSA, ANIC |
| Mannerheim | MZHF |
| Marseul | MNHN |
| Melsheimer | MCZC |
| Ménétriés | ZIN |
| Motschulsky | ZMUM |
| Murray | BMNH |
| Nonfried | MNHN, ZMHB |
| Obenberger | NMPC |
| Obst | ZMUH |
| Olivier | see below |
| Palisot de Beauvois | BMNH |
| Pallas | ZMHB |
| Panzer | ZMHB |
| Paykull | NHRS |
| Péringuey | SAMC |
| Perty | ZSMC |
| Philippi | MNNC |
| Pochon | NMBS |
| Quedenfeldt | MNHN |
| Ratzeberg | DEI |
| Redtenbacher | NHMW |
| Reed | ? |
| Reiche | MNHN |
| Reitter | see below |
| Richter | ZIN |
| Roth | ZSMC |
| Rothkirch | MNHN |
| Roubal | SNMC |
| Saunders | BMNH |
| Say | lost |
| Schaefer | MNHN |
| Schaeffer | USNM |
| Schönherr | NHRS |
| Semenov-Tian-Shankij | ZIN |
| Snellen von Vollenhoven | RMNH |
| Solier | MNHN |
| Solsky | ZIN |
| Spinola | MRSN |
| Stepanov | ZIN |
| Théry | MNHN |
| Thomson | MNHN |
| Thunberg | UZIU |
| van de Poll | MNHN |
| Van Dyke | CASC |
| Vitale | DBMI |
| Waterhouse | BMNH |
| Westwood | BMNH, OXUM |
| Wickham | USNM |
| Wiedemann | ZMUC |
| Zhicharev | GPPT |
Kerremans The first collection to BMNH, the second collection with African species (excluding Madagascar) to MRAC and the remainder to MNHN; the dates of these donations are not clear.
Olivier While portions of Olivier’s collection were sold to Chevrolat and are thus in the BMNH, other portions were sold to L. E. de Jousselin (Horn & Kahle 1935-1937), with some types probably in MNHN.
Reitter Palaearctic spp. MNHN, and remainder to HNHM.