Diptera Collection
Main Collection: approx. 800 000 specimens, 6 000 Types (Online-inventory of Nematocera-Types)
Main Collection: approx. 800 000 specimens, 6 000 Types (Online-inventory of Nematocera-Types)
Important collections:
From 2007 to 2010, the Diptera collection participated in a project on surveillance of bluetongue disease in Austria. In this study, phenology and geographical distribution of the vectors of bluetongue disease, biting midges of the genus
Culicoides, were investigated.
Curator:
Dr. Alexssandro Camargo
Staff:
Judit Kerschbaumer-Stöckler BSc (part-time)