The Museu Entomológico Fritz Plaumann (English: The Fritz Plaumann

Entomological Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the ...

Museum) is an entomological museum located in

Seara Seara is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil. The Museu Entomológico Fritz Plaumann is located in the town. See also *List of municipalities in Santa Catarina This is a list of the municipalities in t ...

(formerly Nova Teutônia), Santa Catarina,

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. The museum contains the collections of famed

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

Fritz Plaumann and is kept by an agreement between the municipal government of Seara, where the entomologist lived, and the Santa Catarina State University (UFSC). It is a relatively small collection, with about 80,000 individuals from 17,000 species, most of them collected by Plaumann himself around the Upper Uruguai river region. The biggest entomological collections in Brazil are the ones from Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ, approx. 7,000,000 specimens), Museu de Zoologia de São Paulo (MZSP, approx. 4,700,000 specimens) and

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(DZUP, approx. 3,000,000 specimens).Marinoni, L. ''et al.'' 2005
Coleções Entomológicas Brasileiras - Estado-Da-Arte e Perpectivas Para Dez Anos
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External links

Official website

References

Natural history museums in Brazil Museums in Santa Catarina (state) Entomological organizations {{Brazil-sci-stub