Colección de entomología «Torres Sala», Museo Valenciano de Historia Natural

Description

Don Juan de Torres Sala was born in Pego (Alicante) in 1892. From the childhood he manifested a great vocation for the Zoology and particularly by the insects although he was not a biologist. When he was twelve years old he collected his first entomological collection. The magnificent work which consecrated more than sixty years of his life began at this age. The Entomological Collection Juan de Torres Sala is the origin and foundation of the Foundation that takes his name and the Valencian Museum of Natural History. This collection are mainly integrated by species of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from all the world. It also has an important representation of iberian fauna, particularly from the Valencian Community. This collection includes the important sub-collection of beetles of Don Emilio Moróder, another eminent valencian naturalistic. The collection Torres Sala is formed by the following elements: 700 entomological boxes with more than 6.000 species and 75.000 specimens, the file of data with the taxonomical determination and localities of each specimen, the Catalog of the «Collection Torres Sala» (compilation of two volumes in those the species of the collection are included until it publication data by the Diputación Provincial de Valencia in 1962), the author’s library, with important and valuable works that were donated by its proprietor to the Foundation Torres Sala. The type specimens of the collection Torres Sala corresponding to 31 species or subspecies of Coleoptera.

Strengths

1- Taxonomy of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera,

2- Conservation of endangered species,

3- To inventaried and catalogue the collection of natural history.

Access restrictions

The interested researches can request material in loan for their revision and study, previous application of a document emitted by the Museum.

Types of objects

Mainly whole organisms.

Types of resources

All preserved.

Preservation methods

Some alcohol, some arabic gum, some pricked, some microscopic preparations, some dried.

Taxonomic range

Kingdoms covered include: Animalia.

The Colección de entomología «Torres Sala», Museo Valenciano de Historia Natural collection includes members from the following taxa:
Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.

Geographic range

Mainly Comunidad Valenciana (Spain), rest of the world.

Number of specimens in the collection

The estimated number of specimens in the Colección de entomología «Torres Sala», Museo Valenciano de Historia Natural collection is 75,000.

Of these 30,000 are databased. This represents 40.0 % of the collection.

Click the Records & Statistics tab to access those database records that are available through the atlas.

Sub-collections

The Colección de entomología «Torres Sala», Museo Valenciano de Historia Natural collection contains these significant collections:

• Museu Valencià d′Història Natural - Fundación Entomológica Torres Sala: FETS

Metadata last updated on 2023-08-25 09:48:14.0