Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 100. (Budapest 2008)

Bálint, Zs.: Lepidoptera collections of historical importance in the Hungarian Natural History Museum

It was well known that the TREITSCHKE collection could be found in the HNHM (HORN et al. 1990: 396, KUDRNA & WIEMERS 1990: 73). The micromoth material has been already studied intensively by experts, yielding many lecotype designations in the book series of Microlepidoptera Palearctica written by renowned microlepidopterists as GEORG AMSEL, ERNST ARENBERGER, ALEXEY DIAKONOFF, LÁSZLÓ GOZMÁNY, JÓZEF RAZOWSKI, ROLF-HANS REISSER, ULRICH ROESLER and KLAUS SATTLER. In spite of this there are still many not yet recorded primary types in the collection not only in macros, but also amongst the micros, which have to be clearly labelled after careful examination of the relevant literature. Fig. 10. An old Surinamese Morpho marcus (SCHALLER, 1785) individual, an original specimen from the TREITSCHKE collection, located in the Hungarian Natural History Museum Lepidoptera collection. The specimen lost its original head and received a pierid one subsequently Fig. 11. Two sections of one micromoth drawer of the TREITSCHKE collection showing specimens with subsequent typifications via newly attached red labels