This project, supported by the Swedish Species Information Centre (Artdatabanken), aims to database the collections of lower Brachycera in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the Zoological Museum in Lund. The information is provided through the Swedish and the global GBIF portal. As part of the project, we are evaluation different specimen-level databasing systems including Specify.
[Swe.] The project is now managed by Station Linné. In the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, we are charting the Swedish insect fauna. During three years, 2003-2006, roughly 40 million insects were collected at about 50 localities spread across Sweden. The material is now being sorted and identified by amateur entomologists as well as professional taxonomists and students working with poorly known insect groups. Already, a large number of new species have been added to the known Swedish insect fauna; surprisingly many of these are new to science. The long-term goal is to provide, for the first time, a complete characterization of a sizable insect fauna. Read project description from The Swedish Species Information Centre [Swe.]
In this project, funded by the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative, we use DNA markers to investigate whether or not certain forms of water mites described by Lundblad, one of the Department's former professors, constitute separate species or just morphologically different forms of other species, as suggested by the current classification.
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