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

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

The Frivaldszky Imre collection Material - At the time of writing only a small part of the former FRIVALDSZKY collection became assembled from the general collection: 1,327 specimens are kept in 15 standard museum drawers of the cabinet number 85 (Fig. 14). These specimens are representing all the butterflies, bombycid, geometrid and sphingid macromoths from the Palearctic region, plus some exotic species. The remaining material, what I consider to be voluminous (see below), still has to be assembled form the other macro- and micromoth parts of the Lepidoptera collection. All the FRIVALDSZKY specimens possess a small (5x7 mm) black bordered label with the inscription "FRJV." (printed) in the upper and below the handwritten number in the lower part corresponding with the catalogue (Fig. 15). The specimens are pinned on long silver pins commonplace in the 18-19

th centuries. Because of the characteristic labels and the silver pins FRIVALDSZKY specimens are easy to locate in series of more recent material (Fig. 16). Figs 12—13. 12 = Syntype specimen of Shargacucullia thapsiphaga (TREITSCHKE, 1826) and its labels from the TREITSCHKE collection, 13 = Type material of Heliothisfrivaldszkyii TREITSCHKE, 1835 in the TREITSCHKE collection showing original curation with labels