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Insects & Allies

 

The Royal BC Museum’s Entomology collection represents over 50 orders. Strengths of the collection includes Odonata (dragonflies), macro-Lepidoptera (butterflies and large moths), Vespidae (yellowjacket and related wasps), Apidae (especially bumble bees), some Coleoptera (beetles—especially Carabidae and Cerambycidae), Hemiptera (at least Heteroptera—true bugs), Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets), some Diptera (true flies—at least Asilidae) and Araneae (spiders). Much of the collection remains to be described and is not yet available through the public catalogue. 

Hits
Illustration
Name
Identifier
Date
Place
Enallagma annexum
ENT000-000354
1998/08/01
Merritt; Helmer Lake

Enallagma annexum
ENT000-000355
1998/08/01
Merritt; Helmer Lake

Aeshna sitchensis
ENT000-000356
1998/08/01
Merritt; Helmer Lake

Aeshna palmata
ENT000-000357
1998/08/01
Merritt; Helmer Lake

Aeshna eremita
ENT000-000358
1998/08/01
Merritt; Helmer Lake

Aeshna eremita
ENT000-000359
1998/08/01
Merritt; Helmer Lake

Aeshna sitchensis
ENT000-000360
1998/08/01
Merritt; Helmer Lake

Somatochlora semicircularis
ENT000-000361
1998/08/01
Merritt; Helmer Lake

Sympetrum obtrusum
ENT000-000362
1998/08/01
Taft; Eagle River

Lestes dryas
ENT000-000363
1998/08/01
Taft; Eagle River

Lestes disjunctus
ENT000-000364
1998/08/01
Taft; Eagle River

Lestes congener
ENT000-000365
1998/08/01
Taft; Eagle River

Lestes congener
ENT000-000366
1998/08/01
Taft; Eagle River

Lestes dryas
ENT000-000367
1998/08/01
Taft; Eagle River

Aeshna palmata
ENT000-000368
1998/08/01
Clanwilliam; Clanwilliam Lake