FSCA ODONATA COLLECTION.
(updated 19-November-2021)
Paul Skelly, Collection Manager, FSCA; Mauffray, Resident Research Associate, Curator of Odonata/p>
The Museum houses one of the largest Odonata collections of curated adults and immatures in the world, totaling over 800,000 specimens (including 130,000 immatures in vials). The collection includes over
150 primary types and hundreds of secondary types. The International Odonata Research Institute (IORI), managed by Mr. Bill Mauffray, is headquartered at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA)
in Gainesville, Florida.
The collection includes specimens from throughout the world with large holdings from Central and South America as well as the United States and Canada. Major components of the Odonata collection have come from George and Juanda Bick, Carl Cook, R. Duncan Cuyler, Jerrell Daigle, Thomas Donnelly, Sid Dunkle, Paul Harwood, Bill Mauffray, B. Elwood Montgomery, Dennis Paulson, Clark Shiffer, Fred Sibley,
S. C. Smith, Kenneth Tennessen, Minter J. Westfall, Jr. and others. Representative specimens from Clarence Kennedy, F. Campos, Philip Calvert,
J. Williamson and others. The IORI collection was merged into the FSCA in 2004.
Special features of the FSCA collection:
- 1504 drawers consisting of 17856 unit trays (3.6 in. x 5.6 in.) housing an estimated 800,000 specimens
- More than half of the 6317 currently desceibed species. 1701 Zygoptera species (plus 72 from incoming Paulson Collection, fall of 2021), 1737 Anisoptera species (plus 62 from incoming Paulson Collection, fall of 2021) [These figures are being updated as the Paulson Collection is being added to the main colelction]
- 96% Identified to species and stored in either
poly or cellophane envelopes with data cards. Less 1/10 of 1% pinned.
- 93,000 databased to specimen level.
- 18,000 vials of alcohol specimens including
larva, reared specimens, and teneral specimens
{includes the 6000 vial Ken Tennessen collection}
- Extensive library of Odonata literature and books, separate from that of the main library
Species list:
ZYGOPTERA-ANISOZYGOPTERA
ANISOPTERA
Types in the FSCA/IORI collection