Insect Collection at Vänersborg Museum

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Description

The insect collection at Vänersborg Museum includes insects from several collectors. The largest part of the collection comes from Gustaf Olof David von Hackwitz, lecturer in natural history at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg and curator of the Vänersborg Museum's natural history collections. His collection comes from several parts of the world and was collected between 1870 and 1914. Another part of the collection comes from the Vänersborg citizen Axel Wilhelm Eriksson (1846-1901), a well-known ornithologist and donor of the Vänersborg Museum's extensive collection of southwest African birds, a collection that also includes bird eggs, mammals, insects and ethnographica. Eriksson studied at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg from 1858 to 1862 and emigrated to southern Africa where, during the period 1869 to 1901, he ran an extensive trading business alongside zoological research. Most of the insects were collected by Eriksson and often have provenance and sometimes collection dates. The collection area is Namibia, Angola, South Africa and Botswana. Part of the collection was collected by the officer's son Gustaf Kylberg (1837-1917) from Såtenäs, Tun, Västergötland. He studied at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg during the 1840s and later worked as an office manager and architect in Göteborg. The insects come from Malacca, Malaysia. The date of collection is missing. Part of the collection was collected by the founder of the Vänersborg Museum, the merchant and philanthropist Adolf Andersohn (1820-1887). The provenance and date of collection are missing. Karl Gottfrid Schagerström (1863-1896), a student at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg 1873-1878, has donated a collection from the Belgian Congo where he served as a naval officer on the Congo River in the service of the Congo State during the years 1886-1896. The date of collection is missing. Knut Knutsson (1857-1930), from Sjöryd, Ås, Västergötland, student at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg 1867-1876, donated a collection from Cameroon and Sierra Leone. Knutsson worked as a businessman and acquired large areas of land in what is now Cameroon during the 1880s-90s and founded the trading house Waldau & Knutsson there. Knutsson also made collections for Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi. Knutsson has also donated a small collection of ethnographic items to the Vänersborg Museum. The collection date is missing. Lund Zoological Institute, a collection up to 1938. A small part was collected between 1996 and 1997 by biologist Torulf Greek, who was a project employee at Vänersborg Museum during the collection period. Both the provenance and collection date are included. It is also Torulf Greek who has identified all the insects in the collection.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 9,216 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

9216

9029

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Öberg A (2026). Insect Collection at Vänersborg Museum. Version 1.2. Vänersborgs Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=vm-insects&v=1.2

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vänersborgs Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 76642fd9-81ca-4176-93af-cc64983f4229. Vänersborgs Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Ann-Charlott Öberg

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Curator

Kulturlagret - Vänersborgs museum

Vänersborg

ann-charlott.oberg@vgregion.se

Geographic Coverage

Namibia, Angola , South Africa, Botswana ,Malacca, Malaysia , Congo, Cameroon, Sierra Leone

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers	76642fd9-81ca-4176-93af-cc64983f4229
	https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=vm-insects