ROCZNIK MUZEUM GÓRNOŚLĄSKIEGO W BYTOMIU PRZYRODA Vol. 22 (online 001): 1–63 ISSN 0068-466X, eISSN 2451-0467 (online) Bytom, 30.05.2016 ADAM LARYSZ1 Bagworm moths (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) in the collection of the Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom 1 Upper Silesian Museum, Department of Natural History, pl. Jana III Sobieskiego 2, 41-902 Bytom, e-mail:
[email protected] Abstract: The paper presents the species of bagworm moths (Psychidae) in the collection of the Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, Poland. A total of 3,994 specimens from 34 species has been identified and listed. Most of the material was collected between 1900 and 2015 in the southern part of Poland; a small proportion was collected elsewhere in Poland, in other European countries and Australia. The type material with the holotype of a female, paratypes of females, cases and larvae of the parthenogenetic bagworm moth Reisseronia imielinella MALKIEWICZ, SOBCZYK & LARYSZ, 2013 is deposited in the collection of the Upper Silesian Museum (USMB). Key words: Lepidoptera, Psychidae, Poland, Europe, Australia, type material, Upper Silesian Museum collection, Bytom. INTRODUCTION For many years, the rich and valuable entomological collections in the Natural Resources Department of the Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, have been the object of study and research on the part of entomologists. The work of many specialists has resulted in the description of different, unique collections and individual taxonomic groups of insects (SmreczyńSki 1932, STOBIECKI 1939, MAKÓLSKI 1952, MROCZKOWSKI 1955, SZUJECKI 1958, SZYMCZAKOWSKI 1959, BIELEWICZ 1963, SZUJECKI 1968, MAZUR 1973, BIELEWICZ 1978, DOBOSZ 1989, BOROWIEC 1992, LiS B. 1993, WiśnioWSki 1994, PiotroWSki & SzołtyS 2007a, 2007b, WiśnioWSki & Strumia 2007, króLik 2008, Greń 2009, 2011, DoBoSz 2011).