The Michael von Tschirnhaus Insect Collection help

Abbreviation	Description
X (ciphers)	all countries except for Germany
16-5 A (16/5A)	16 specimens, 5 species Agromycidae
16-5 C	16 specimens, 5 species Cloropidae
N' E' S' W'	northern, eastern, southern, western
no data of collector	leg. v. Tschirnhaus
Rest	remains of the preserved sample
	other Diptera and remains of the sample under number L522 kept in the Biological Collection of the University of Bielefeld
Präp. 422	preparation of genitalia 422 (see blue & white A6 file card)
3. Fgl.	3rd antennal segment
u. a.	and other
extra Kons. / ex:	a separate sample tube for the specimens
81:64; 0:1	81 ♂♂, 64 ♀♀; no ♂, 1 ♀
• (in the original red)	sum has been transferred to the red file card
Ausfanggefäß, Eklektor-Ausfang	numerous samples by sweep net stored in a black box collected by emerging thru a bright funnel in a pot with water and detergent during a half hour up to two days.
ca. / ≈	Circa, about
a) b) c)	subsamples with special collecting data
33.36 S, 120.06 E	geographical coordinates
siehe Karteikarte!	A6 file card of the University of Bielefeld, arranged by number, indexed by families and other groups.
33°36.03'	english system, if minutes followed by decimal
a.s.l.	above sea level

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... contains the altitude above sea level of a collecting locality.
The operator 'is equal' finds also altitudes between a range of values, e.g.: 'is equal' '820' finds records 500-1000 m as well as 820 m.

... contains the name of the collector at a locality.
To search for names use either the last name, the first name or both names. The sequence is last name, first name and the delimiter is comma (,). E. g.: collector 'starts with' 'naumann', ',clas' or 'naumann, clas' will find C. M. Naumann.
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... contains the date or the period of collecting at a locality, e. g. 1973-07-26 ... 1973-07-28.
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... contains the number of a collecting locality. The numbers originally used in the card file are composed of one or two letters for the country and one to four ciphers.
In this database the ciphers have been padded left with zero (0) to get an equal length of four. To search for numbers please enter this pre-zero, e. g. instead of X 37 always X0037.