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Richard B. Dominick Moth and Butterfly Collection
University of South Carolina, Columbia.
<<- Hyalophora cecropia, a wild silk moth common to North America
Some other moths worth considerably more than their body mass include:
Antheraea polyphemus;
Actius luna;
Automeris zephyria;
Manduca sexta.
This collection consists of over 26,000 individuals representing >1,100 species.
The strengths of this collection are that it is comprised primarily of moths, the
specimens were all collected at a single site, The Wedge, during a 10 year period, the
collection is of extremely high quality and was made by a collector of
extraordinary expertise.
The Dominick Catalog
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The moths were collected by Dr. Richard B. Dominick at
his home on The Wedge Plantation, (on the South Santee River near McClellanville,
South Carolina) from around 1965-1975. The collection was moved from The Wedge
Plantation to the Columbia Campus of the University of South Carolina in March,
1993. It is currently a University of South Carolina McKissick Museum Collection,
and is housed in the Department of Biological Science under the charge of its
curator.
The collection includes information of catch times (time of day,
month and year) and method of collection (reared, light trap, bait, etc); host
plant information is preserved with certain species, as are life stage forms
(freeze dried larvae and pupae). The collection is fully catalogued.
The collection is available for research use; however, we are not able at this
time to make loan of any specimens.
This site is maintained by
Dr. Richard G. Vogt. For information regarding the collection, please contact him at vogt@biol.sc.edu
The catalog information was compiled by Dr. F. Lance Wallace of
The Citadel, Charleston SC. The current WWW site for this catalog is temporary;
it will be relocated to a Department of Biological Sciences Home Page as soon
as that home page is constructed. Pointers to the biology home page will be maintained
on both the zebrafish home page and the University of South Carolina home page; a pointer
to the collection will also be placed on the University of South Carolina home page.
[This document last modified
19 June 2003]
In accordance with USC Policy ACAF 7.04
the following information is included:
Department: Biological Sciences;
Maintainer: Richard Vogt vogt@biol.sc.edu
Copyright 1998
by the Board of Trustees of the
University of South Carolina.
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