The Entomological Collection of Departamento de Zoologia of Universidade Federal do Paraná (DZUP) accommodates about 5,000,000 insect specimens. The collection of Diptera is represented by approximately 2,000,000 specimens, being Muscidae, Culicidae and Syrphidae the most representative families. The Diptera order consists of approximately 150,000 described species and in the Collection about 103,000 specimens within 78 families are registered. The list of species of the family Culicidae presents 9,579 specimens within 2 subfamilies, 7 tribes, 17 genera, 26 subgenera and 85 species. Most specimens were captured in forest remnants in urban and rural areas, wild and urban environments in coastal regions or urban areas of different cities of Paraná State, including some species captured in the States of São Paulo, Mato Grosso and Santa Catarina and at Distrito Federal. The specific information of each specimen, such as collection site, latitude, longitude, collector, collection date, collection method and the specialist's name who identified it, as well as taxonomic data (order, tribe, genus, subgenus and species), was included in a electronic data base.
Brazil; mosquitoes; taxonomy