The Coleopterotheca of the Natural History Museum of Álava began in 1974 and nowadays, it holds around 160.000 specimens, of which 133.700 are databased. The number of taxa is approximately 5.000.
The main collectors are Juan María Marcos, Imanol Zabalegui, Federico Zuazo, Ibon de Olano, Diego Sánchez Miyares, Pablo Bahillo, Felipe Calvo, José María Salgado y José Sebastián Estévez.
The collection is particularly numerous in specimens of the Caraboidea superfamily from the Basque Country (Northern Spain)(Ortuño & Marcos, 2003); and in cave fauna, including many paratypes, collected in different locations in the Northern half of Spain.

Ortuño, V.M. & Marcos, J.M. (2003). Los Caraboidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco. Tomo I: Cincidelidae y Carabidae. Gobierno Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 573 p.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5978f9a9-c6e9-4f45-aa12-54743b72fe78
Homepage: http://www.araba.eus/cs/Satellite?c=DPA_Cultura_FA&cid=1193045760162&pa…
Citation: Marcos Alonso J M, de Olano I, Infante Sánchez M (2023). VIT-Coleopterotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava). Version 2.3. Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15470/qzikh6 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-06-17.