Internship in the Entomological Collections in the Smithsonian Institution (SI), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH): A species-level inventory of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera).

Authors

Sherry V. Spriggs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

4-2015

Document Type

Thesis

Comments

Master of Science Degree Project Paper Entomology 888, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Abstract

The internship was completed in the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History located in Washington, DC. The internship started November 2014 and ended April 2015 and consisted of working in the collection room one day per week, usually on Tuesdays. One of the goals of the Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution is to compile a comprehensive inventory all of the species in its collections. As a component of this over-arching goal, the primary project of the internship was to compile a species-level inventory of the superfamily Gelechioidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera).