Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, 2011, 4: 131-156. Received 17 Feb 2011; Accepted 30 Oct 2011. UDC: 595.78.082.5:069.51(497.113) ; 929:59 Радовановић С. COLLECTION OF BUTTERFLIES BY STANKO RADOVANOVIĆ AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN KIKINDA (SERBIA) LJUBICA VOJVODIĆ National Museum in Kikinda, 23 300 Kikinda, Trg srpskih dobrovoljaca 21, Serbia, e-mail:
[email protected] The Collection of Butterflies at the National Museum in Kikinda is part of the legacy of Stanko Radovanović, renowned amateur entomologist from Jazovo. The material was collected in the period 1961-1971 at 15 localities, most in the region of ex Yugoslavia. Key words: Butterflies, catalogue, locality, National Museum, Kikinda INTRODUCTION According to the Legacy Agreement signed on June 1970 with the National Museum in Kikinda, Stanko Radovanović bequeathed a legacy of his “complete, unique collection of butterflies and insects of Yugoslavia to his people, while the care of the collection after his death [would] be performed by the National Museum in Kikinda”. Unfortunately, due to numerous circumstances, only a small part of this legacy is presently stored at the National Museum in Kikinda. After the author’s death in 1982, most of the collection was transferred to the Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia, Working Unit of Novi Sad. 132 VOJVODIĆ, LJ.: COLLECTION OF BUTTERFLIES BY STANKO RADOVANOVIĆ The insect collection includes 13 boxes (50 × 42 × 6 cm) with representatives of the following genera: Odonata, Orthoptera, Dictyoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Trichoptera, Lepidoptera and Hymeno- ptera. The collection with the greatest number of specimens is the Collecti- on of Butterflies, with seven boxes.