The Syrphidae Foundation Zweefvliegen Museum (SFZM)
The museum is run by the Syrphidae Foundation and consists of the former private collection of the founder of the foundation.
It has more than 20.000 dry pinned specimens and also some alcohol material.
The main part of the collection consists of European species, while the fauna of the East-Palaearctic and Oriental region are also well represented.
The number of species almost reaches 1300 with 500 pupae of almost 65 species. The type collection is comparatively large with in total 348 primary and secondary types of 95 species.
To learn what a type-specimen is read following: What's a type?.
In the following sections you can see more of the museum.
There will be a list of species given in "Collecting data" including pictures of some of the cabinets and species.
The "Exhibition" tab will give information on the exhibitions on display, including photo galeries of garden hoverflies, type species and
drawers showing what role the specific species play in nature.
