Archives of the Richard B. Dominick Moth and Butterfly Collection, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

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 during a 10 year period, the collection is of extremely high quality and was made by a collector of extraordinary expertise.

The Dominick Catalog


The Art of Collecting Moths
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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. For information regarding the collection, please contact: Richard Vogt 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. Back to Biology Home Page


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