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Entomology
Lepidoptera
Johann Rothenbach, Johann Rothenbach, 1796-1881 – ca. 3.500 specimens, mainly Microlepidoptera from Switzerland.
Karl Vorbrodt, 1938 – ca. 22.000 specimens of Macrolepidoptera; many type specimens.
This is a collection of voucher specimens for the classical monograph (2 vols.): Vorbrodt, K. & Müller-Rutz, J. Die Schmetterlinge der Schweiz.
Wyss, Bern, vol. 1, 498 pp. (1911), vol. 2, 727 pp. (1913).
Werner Fröhlich, 1938 – ca. 20.000 specimens.
Theodor Ernst, 1962 – ca. 30.000 specimens, mostly from outer Europe, many type specimens.
Anton Schmidlin, 1968 – ca. 15.000 specimens from Switzerland.
Fritz Schmidlin, 1985 – ca. 9.000 specimens, mainly Noctuidae from Switzerland.
Werner Moser, 1992 – ca. 13.000 specimens from Switzerland.
Peter Marmet, 1997/2002 – ca. 6.000 specimens, mainly Arctiidae and Nymphalidae from Switzerland.
Heiner Ziegler, 2005 – ca. 25.000 specimens, holarctic Pieridae.
Coleoptera
August Rätzer, 1908 – ca. 25.000 specimens, mainly from Switzerland.
Albert Mathey, 1963 – ca. 25.000 specimens, mainly from Switzerland.
Hans Pochon, 1968 – ca. 16.000 specimens, Buprestidae, world-wide, many type specimens.
Werner Marggi, 1990-2001 – ca. 35.000 specimens, palaearctic Carabidae.
Severino Kiener, 2000 – ca. 6.000 specimens, mainly Staphylinidae.
Pierre Scherler, 2003 – ca. 55.000 specimens, mainly Curculionidae, mainly from Switzerland.
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Diptera
August Gansser, 1962 – ca. 2.000 specimens, Oestridae.
Hans Bangerter, 1974 – ca. 1.300 specimens, Limnobiidae from Switzerland, type specimens.
Odonata
Otto Wenger, 1971/1983 – ca. 3.000 specimens from Switzerland.
René Hoess, 1992 – ca. 13.000 specimens, exuviae from Switzerland.
Hymenoptera
E. A. Goeldi, 1900-1905 – ca. 9.500 specimens from Brazil; including 100 type and paratype specimens of Adolf Ducke.
The list of type specimens is published in: Obrecht, E. & Huber, C. 1993. Ducke type specimens and other Brazilian insect
types in the Emil A. Goeldi collection in the Natural History Museum Bern (Switzerland). An annotated catalogue. Jahrb.
Naturhist. Mus. Bern 11: 163 – 184.
 Ducke type specimens
Frey-Gessner, 1911 – ca. 6.000 specimens, Apoidea, Sphecidae, many type specimens.
Felix Amiet, 1999-2005 – ca. 25.000 specimens, Apoidea, mainly from Switzerland.
General insects collection
Moritz Isenschmid, 1878 – ca. 14.000 specimens, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera from Switzerland and Sicily.
Paul Bucher, 1967 – ca. 16.000 specimens, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera from Switzerland.
Walter Burghold, 1978 – ca. 42.000 specimens, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera.
Ernst Kobel, 1980-2005 – ca. 6000 specimens, Coleoptera (Histeridae), Heteroptera.
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