Australian National Insect Collection (1962 - )

Summary

The Australian National Insect Collection was gazetted by the Commonwealth Government in 1962, as part of the CSIRO Division of Entomology. Prior to that it was a dissparate series of collections in this Division and its predecessor, the CSIR Division of Economic Entomology. It is now one of the largest collections in the world of Australian insects and related groups such as mites, spiders, earthworms, nematodes and centipedes, and is growing by 1,000s of specimens per year. These specimens are an essential and authoritative resource for systematics, evolutionary biology, ecology, natural resource management, biosecurity and biogeography. Specimen information is contributed to a number of online resources such as the Atlas of living Australia and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. In 2014 the Australian National Insect Collection, together with other natural history collections in CSIRO, were brought together administratively to form the National Research Collections Australia. The Collection has published ANICdotes since 2012.

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Published resources

Books

• Upton, M. S., A Rich and Diverse Fauna: the history of the Australian National Insect Collection 1926 - 1991 (Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 1997), 386 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Brumley, Cameron, 'A checklist and host catalogue of the aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) held in the Australian National Insect Collection', Zootaxa, 4728 (4) (2020), 575-600. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4728.4.12. Details
• Day, M.F.C. et al., 'The Biological Collections in CSIRO: a National Heritage', Historical Records of Australian Science, 15 (1) (2004), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR04002. Details
• Edwards, Ted, 'Professor J.F.R Kerr's butterfly collection donated to ANIC', ANICdotes, 3 (2013), 4. Details
• Halliday, Bruce, 'Honorary Fellows - the ANIC community elders', ANICdotes, 1 (2012), 7. Details
• Halliday, Bruce, '"Because I enjoy the work" [Australian National Insect Collection Honorary Fellows]', ANICdote 11:2, 11 (2016), 2. Details
• Hodda, Mike, 'The Waite Institute nematodes come to ANIC', ANICdotes, 17 (2020), 6. Details
• Jennings, Deb, 'ANIC volunteer scheme 20th anniversary celebration', ANICdotes, 12 (2018), 8. Details
• Stevens, M. M. and Carver, Mary, 'Type specimens of Hemiptera (insecta) transferred from the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, to the Australian National Insect Collection', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 108 (4) (1986), 263-6. Details

Resource Sections

• Ward, Colin, 'Australian National Insect Collection', in CSIROpedia, CSIRO, 2011. https://csiropedia.csiro.au/australian-national-insect-collection/. Details

See also

• Edwards, Ted and Turco, Federica, 'News from the Lepidoptera collection [donations from Fred and Nel Gerrits, and John Kerr]', ANICdotes, 8 (2016), 5. Details