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140 Carolinea 78 (2020) V artian in Iran and Afghanistan, by J. K limesch in the Canary Islands, and by E. A renberger in Tur- key. Paratypes collected by Z. K aszab in Mongolia for the Natural History of Budapest are current- ly kept in SMNK as well. Most type specimens of the taxa described by H. A msel from material collected by himself are deposited at the SMNK (Fig. 7). This is also true for most of types initially stored at the Übersee-Museum Bremen, which were transferred partly with the A msel collection of Gelechiidae to the SMNK after World War II (K. S attler , pers. comm., B . von B riskorn and V . L oh - mann , pers. comm.). The SMNK also holds seve- ral paratypes of taxa described by T . W alsingham and P. C hretién from Northern Africa, which were received in exchange from the Natural History Museum London, which is confirmed by corre- sponding labels. Some type specimens of Orna- tivalva species described by K. S attler (1967) as well as types of many recently described species of Bryotropha ( K arsholt & R utten 2005) are also stored at the SMNK. For years the collection served as the basis for many taxonomic and faunistic publications, in- cluding several of outstanding scientific value. H. A msel published his pioneering papers on the Lepidoptera of Palestine ( A msel 1933, 1935 a,b,c and others) based on material now stored at the SMNK. Later, A msel ’s material was incorpora- ted in a series of generic revisions (e. g. S attler 1967, 1976, P itkin 1984, K arsholt & R utten 2005 and others). Numerous papers by D. P ovolný on Figure 4. Type series of Tecia solanivora P ovoln ý , 1973 . – one of several Neotropical species of Gelechiidae in the collection of the SMNK. Figure 5. Approximately 35,000 specimens of Gelechi- idae are currently arranged in 91 drawers in the SMNK collection.