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Hungarian Taxonomic Facility (HU-TAF)
HU-TAF includes five scientific departments of
the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (HNHM). The departments
are close to each other (within 15 minutes by the excellent public
transport).
HU-TAF
Collections and expertise
The natural history collections of HU-TAF comprise more than
ten million natural history items, including 44,110 primary types.
The collections hold important reference and historical collections
for the whole of the Carpathian Basin and the Balkans.
In
addition, HU-TAF holds important historical collections; many of
them are 200-300 years old. These historical collections serve as
reference specimens and data for taxonomists and are also an important
source for science history. They can be used as ecological and genetic
reference data for comparison with those of the more recent material.
The best-represented areas in general are the Palaearctic, Oriental
and Ethiopian biogeographic regions.
The
collections are physically well arranged, therefore the desired
specimens or taxa can easily be found; moreover an ever-increasing
part of the collections is digitised.
The Library contains more than 300,000 volumes. An ever-increasing
part of the collection is digitised: the mineralogical, anthropological,
vertebrate, molluscs, parasitic worms, earthworms and some botanical
and insect collections, plus part of the library, is available in
digital format.
Many of the staff are leading experts in their fields.
Lisf of
facilities (Excel)
Some particular strengths of HU-TAF
collections
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Botanical
and zoological reference collections (ca. one-third of our
collections) represent the Carpathian Basin (Romania, Slovakia,
Croatia and W Ukraine). Particular strength in invertebrates.
Fauna and flora of the Balkan countries.
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Ca. 1.5 million specimens
from Mongolia (esp. significant Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera,
Diptera, Hemiptera)
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Insects from the
Korean Peninsula (esp. significant Coleoptera, Lepidoptera,
Hymenoptera, Diptera, Heteroptera)
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L. Gozmány's reference
collection of Tineidae & Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera, Old
World)
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Noctuidae and Thyatiridae
of the wide sense Himalayan-Pacific region (from Pakistan
to Vietnam, Taiwan)
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H. Sauter and recent
Diptera material from Taiwan
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Type collections
by Tömösváry (SE Asian myriapods), by J. Daday (SE Asian &
African Crustaceans and Paradoxosomatidae)
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Type collections
of K. Kertész (Diptera, esp. Old World), G. Horváth (Heteroptera
& Homoptera, Palearctic, Oriental), W. Treitschke &
F. Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera, W Palaearctic), L. Bíró (New
Guinea, insects), H. Steinmann (Dermaptera), E. Reitter &
Z. Kaszab (Palaearctic Coleoptera, esp. Tenebrionidae, Meloidae),
Gy. Szépligeti and S. Mocsáry (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea,
Chalcidoidea) J. Papp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)
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Oribatida type collections
of J. Balogh & S. Mahunka (worldwide)
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Important Nematoda
(A. Andrássy) and earthworm (A. Zicsi) type collection
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Gymnosperm collection
(worldwide)
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Cryoculture collection
of macrofungi (C Europe)
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Mesozoic, Jurassic and Triassic molluscs
and brachiopods
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Examples of unique / rare expertise
represented by HU-TAF staff
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Flora and fauna for entire Carpathian Basin
(as a biogeographic unit having strong connections to the
Balkans)
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Jurassic and Triassic
gastropods, brachiopods
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Facial reconstruction
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Pathology of historical
people
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Taxonomy & zoogeography
of oribatid mites
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Taxonomy of Diptera
(Lauxaniidae, Sphaeroceridae, Milichiidae, Pipunculidae)
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Taxonomy & zoogeography
of Palaearctic, Oriental and Ethiopian Lepidoptera (Noctuidae,
Thyatiridae, Gelechioidea, Tineidae, Lycaenidae (also from
the Neotropics))
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Taxonomy of Palaearctic
& Oriental Tenebrionidae and Lagriidae
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Taxonomy of Braconidae
(Old World)
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Taxonomy and biogeography
of earthworms (Neo- & Afrotropics)
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Taxonomy and phytogeography
of gymnosperms
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Tertiary plant taxonomy
and palaeoecology
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Soil mineralogy and micromorphology
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Metamorphic petrology and geochronology
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