Juhász Magdolna (szerk.): A kaposvári Rippl-Rónai Múzeum közleményei 7. (Kaposvár, 2020)
Ábrahám Levente: The Börzsöny lacewing collection I.
36 LEVENTE ÁBRAHÁM Material and methods László Börzsöny stored his collection in tightly closed plastic boxes (Fig. 2). He packed each specimen extremely precisely in transparent sachets with hard paper stiffeners (Fig. 3). Each sachet was numbered next to the name of the order and provided faunistic data with maximal care. The lacewing collection was undeterminate except for a few specimens. After transporting the collection to the museum, the first step was to give a number to the plastic boxes. This was followed by the determination of numbered specimens packed individually in each sachet. A determination label with the name of the species, author, description year, and the name of determinator was placed into the sachets. Subsequently, the data of the numbered sachets were entered into an excel spreadsheet. If the unprepared specimens did not show the identification features, those specimens were mounted out. Some alcohol-preserved owlfly specimens from the collection (11 specimens) were still stored in alcohol after their determination. Most species belonged to the families Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae, and Nemopteridae in the traditional phylogenetic sense. A few specimens can be found in Osmylidae (2 specimens), Mantispidae (1 specimen), Hemerobiidae (2 specimens), Chrysopidae (28 specimens). The collection also includes 43 large Megaloptera specimens from Southeast Asia and South America. We intend to involve external experts in the determination of these species in the future. Finally, small cardboard boxes were prepared for the determined materials and stored in glass-covered insect boxes grouped by species (Fig. 4). The pinned material was also placed into insect boxes. During the determination, I compared the material with type specimens, which are kept in the following collections: BAUC - Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China BMNH - The Natural History Museum, London, England MCZC - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts MIZ- Museum and Zoological Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw MNHN - Museum National d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France MRAC - Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren OXUM - Hope Entomological Collections, University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford, England SCMK- Rippl-Rónai Museum, Kaposvár, Hungary ZMHB - Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Bereich Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany Fig. 2. Collected specimens in a plastic box
