Fiocruz-CCER - Coleção de Ceratopogonidae
Fiocruz - Fundação Oswaldo CruzLaborátorio de Diptera
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - IOC;
Av. Brasil 4365 - Manguinhos, Pavilhão Carlos Chagas - sala 410
Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brazil
21040-900
ccer@fiocruz.br
The Ceratopogonidae Collection (CCER) presents types and not types specimens with sanitary and agricultural importance. A thousand of specimens are slide-mounted, dry on pins and samples preserved with naphthalene or in Kahle-Drietrich solution. The majority of specimens is found in the Neotropics including hematophagous, predators and pollinators genera. CCER present the biggest Brazilian collection of Culicoides with hundreds neotropical species and the “Saulo Soria Collection" with 36 pollinator’s species from Theobroma cacau from different countries. The collection preserves hundreds type species from 11 genera belonging to 13 countries of Latin America and U.S.A.
Online since: 22/09/2011Last update: 15/08/2022
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Contacts
Director or head of department:Anthony Erico Guimaraes
diretoria@ioc.fiocruz.br
Curator:
Maria Luiza Felippe Bauer
mlfbauer@ioc.fiocruz.br
Technician:
Tiago do Nascimento da Silva
tnsilva@ioc.fiocruz.br
Scholarship holder:
Cristiane Santos da Silva
cssilva@ioc.fiocruz.br