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Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo

Edited by mpvalim on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 19:04
Acronym: 
MZUSP
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Address
Institute name: 
Museu de Zoologia
University: 
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Department: 
Collection of ectoparasites (formerly LR Guimarães coll.)
Street: 
Avenida Nazaré, 481 - Ipiranga
City: 
São Paulo
Postcode: 
04263-000
State/Province: 
São Paulo
Country: 
Brazil
Contact
Contact: 
Prof. Dr. Carlos José Einicker Lamas, invertebrate curator,
Telephone voice: 
(55) (11) 2065-8135
Email: 
einicker@usp.br
Web pages: 

http://www.mz.usp.br/

Collection details
Phthiraptera collection: 

The card index of the Phthiraptera collection held in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (MZUSP) comprises about 1,719 entries relating to specimens from many hosts around the world (e.g. Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Americas), which are either slide-mounted (72% of them) or preserved in alcohol (28%). This collection originated in the mid-1940’s through the efforts of Lindolpho Rocha Guimarães (1908‑1998), a prominent Brazilian ectoparasitologist. This collection include types of more than 140 nominal species of Phthiraptera (Valim, 2009).



The list of types held at MZUSP was published in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia at http://www.scielo.br/pdf/paz/v49n17/v49n17.pdf
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