Collection

Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) collection

The Dragonfly and Damselfly Collection (Insecta, Odonata) consists of 1,545 dry-preserved specimens.

Most specimens were collected in Croatia, but the collection also includes material from neighboring countries – Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Italy, Slovenia, and Serbia – as well as Switzerland.

The specimens were collected between 1869 and 2011.

The collection contains a total of 61 species.

The most numerous species represented are Ischnura elegans (Vander Linden, 1820) and Platycnemis pennipes (Pallas, 1771).

Collection manager: dr. Iva Mihoci, museum advisor

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