Sixty years of work on Italy’s Orthopteroids biodiversity, the big data of Galvagni collection

Abstract

Historical Natural History collections are very important in Nature study and environment protection of the environment ,being the depository of essential information. The Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto holds twomajor Orthopteroid insects collections that make this museum a landmark on Italian and Mediterranean Orthoptera diversity. Databasing of Galvagni collection allows considerations on geographic and taxonomic coverage fo the late specialist researches.Databasing of Galvagni collection make possibleconsiderations on the late specialist researches, geographic and taxonomic coverage.

Keywords

• Natural Science Museum
• Italy
• entomology collecti