Entomology Research Museum

For many of the special taxonomic collections, such as specimens from southern California, the effective rank is considerably higher.

Additional specialty taxa represented as slides or pinned specimens are Apoidea, Asiloidea (esp.

The holdings include over 1,100 primary types and many thousands of paratypes of the preceding taxa (the majority attributable to P.H.

In addition to substantial northern California holdings and other U.S. and Mexican material, there are also significant amounts of material from Central and South America, the Russian Far East and its European part, India, Australia, South Africa, and Thailand.

The parasitic wasp collection is the most geographically diverse, with material from all biogeographic regions, and dating back to the early 1900s.