| Summary: | Zoology Collection
of Istanbul University has a unique position among other institutional
collections found in Turkey. This collection has very oldest insect specimens
recorded from Turkey and especially from all around Istanbul. Actually the
collection owes this uniqueness to a hobbyist, Bernard Tubini. His personal
collection which contains specimens collected from 1920 to 1940 was later
donated to the Istanbul University. However this special collection has never
been studied, nor documented so far. In this study we aimed to make a checklist
of the insect species of Istanbul from the Zoology Collection of Istanbul
University and by the way take Tubini collection out into daylight. As a
result, beyond seven Orthoptera species, 313 species of Coleoptera were listed
from the collection.
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