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Suguru Igarashi Insect Collection. Part II. Lepidoptera, Pieridae

Catalogue of the Suguru Igarashi Insect Collection, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo.
Part II.  Lepidoptera, Pieridae
Motomu Teshirogi, Motohiro Harada, Hideyuki Ozawa＊, Raiichiro Katsuyama, Kazushi Harada, Yasuhiro Ito & Masaya Yago
The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan
＊Present address: Tamachi Branch, Risona Bank, 5-34-2 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0014 Japan

Introduction

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Igarashi Tenguageha

The collection made by the late Dr Suguru Igarashi (1924-2008), a worldwide butterfly researcher, was donated to The University of Tokyo by his wife, Mrs. Yoshiko Igarashi, in June 2010. This great collection is composed of mainly butterfly specimens from SE Asia, and includes species on the current embargo list, very rare and valuable species known elsewhere in the world from only a few specimens, and original type specimens of taxa which he described. In the autumn of 2010, Mrs. Igarashi was awarded the “Shokumon Award” from The University of Tokyo in connection to the donation as a public honor for a person who has made a major contribution to the growth of the university.

The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, is currently databasing this important collection and making it available to the public. As a first step, we have compiled a list of the Papilionidae, which was published in the bulletin series and website of the museum in 2012 (Harada et al., 2012). His personal history and an overview of the collection were mentioned in the introduction of the bulletin.

Following publication of the Papilionidae, we have compiled a list of the Pieridae in his collection (Teshirogi et al., 2013), which is also published in the bulletin series of the university museum. This catalogue of the Pieridae contains 6,774 specimens arranged in 111 cabinets. The specific classification and identification of the catalogue follow mainly D’Abrera (1971, 1982, 1990) and Yata & Morishita (1981), and also other sources of literature (see the following references).

This database not only contributes much to taxonomy and biogeography, but also provides an inventory that can be used to address biodiversity conservation issues and other environmental concerns. We hope that by publishing this database, it will promote the importance of scientific specimens and museum collections to the wider public.


Acknowledgements

We express our sincere thanks to Mrs. Yoshiko Igarashi for donating the Dr Suguru Igarashi collection to The University Museum, The University of Tokyo. We are indebted to Mr. Tomoyuki Suzuki for organizing and photographing the specimens of this donation. Special thanks go to Dr Michael F. Braby for looking over the manuscript. This database was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (No. 248059) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.


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