Museum Witt

About

The Museum Witt Munich (MWM) is a department of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology. The former independent museum was located in Munich, Germany, and had the world's leading collection of certain moths. The museum was closed in 2023. The entire collection was handed over to the Bavarian State Collection.

The museum was established in 1980 by Thomas J. Witt. His well-known family founded Witt Weiden, one of Germany's oldest mail-order houses.

Since 2000, the museum has been part of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München (The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology) in Munich. The collection consists of about ten million specimens from all over the world. It is the largest collection of certain moths in the world. The Museum Witt has a collection of three to three and a half million butterflies, and the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology additional seven million butterflies. A crew of scientists work at the museum and it has an impressive library.

Thomas J. Witt was awarded with the Ritter-von-Spix-Medal in 2001. He also received an honorary doctorate from LMU Munich in 2013.

- Thöny H. & Witt T. 2019. Entomologische Bibliographie von Dr. h.c. Georg Warnecke (28. April 1883 - 20. September 1962). Entomofauna. 40.

- Grehan J.R. & Mielke C.G.C. & Ignatyev N. & De Groof B. & Austin K. & Witt T.J. 2019. Three new species of Endoclita C. &. R. Felder, 1874 from northern Laos and Thailand (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). Entomofauna. 40.

- Ignatev N. & Przybylowicz L. & Witt T. 2019. A review of the genus Mecistorhabdia Kiriakoff, 1953 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Artciinae, Syntomini, Thyretina) with description of a new species from Central African Republic, Africa. Zootaxa.

- Witt T. 2019. Beitrag in Zwier, J.H.H.: Aganainae of the World. A Documentation and a guide to their identification. Proceedings of the Museum Witt. 8: 1-281.

- Yakovlev R.V. & Sinev S.Yu. & Naydenov A.E. & Penco F.C. & Witt T. 2019. Redescription of the genus Allocryptobia Viette, 1951 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Shilap.

- De Freina J. & Witt T.J. 2018. Beschreibung von drei neu entdeckten Amata FABRICIUS, 1807-Arten von Kalimatan, Borneo, Indonesien (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae, Syntomini). Entomofauna. 39(2): 863-880.

- Grehan J.R. & Witt T. & Ignatev N. 2018. New Species of Aenetus from Sumatra, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) representing a 5,000 km biogeographic disjunction. Entomofauna. 39(2): 849-862.

- Poltavsky A. & Kravchenko V.D. & Traore M.M. & Traore S.F. & Gergely P. & Witt T.J. & Sulak H. & Junnila A. & Revay E. & Doumbia S. & Beier J. & Müller G. 2018. The Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) fauna of the woody savannah belt in Mali, West Africa. Zootaxa. 4457(1): 39ff.

- Speidel W. & Hausmann A. & Witt T. 2018. Revision of the erythrophleps species-group of the genus Eospilarctia Koda, 1988 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Entomofauna. 39(2): 817-835.

- Yakovlev R.V. & Sokolova G.G. & Witt T.J. 2018. Cecryphalini Yakovlev et Witt, trib. n. — new tribe of Carpenter-Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Zeuzerinae). Russian Entomol.J.. 27(4): 415-424.

- Yakovlev R.V. & Witt T.J. 2018. Redescription of the genus Alophonotus Schoorl, 1990 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) based on the morphology of male and female genitalia. Shilap. 46(184): 647-652.

- Yakovlev R.V. & Witt T.J. 2018. Redescription of the little known Genus Eburgemellus Schoorl, 1990 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Far Eastern Entomologist. 364: 1-5.

- Yakovlev R.V. & Witt T.J. 2018. Redescription and Catalogue of little known Genus Pseudozeuzera Schoorl, 1990 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Russian Entomological Journal. 27(3): 289-292.

- Brechlin R. & Witt T. 2017. Automeris maximae n. sp., eine neue Saturniide (Lepidoptera) aus Kolumbien. Entomo Satsphingia. 10(1): 18-21.

- Hofmann A. & Spalding A. & Tarmann G. & Witt T.(eds.) 2017. Gerry Tremewan (1931 – 2016). The adventurous life of a Cornish entomologist. Entomofauna Supplement. 20: 1-215.

- Vakovlev R. & Witt T. 2017. Four new species of Azygophleps Hampson, 1892 (Lepidoptera, Cossidae, Zeuzerinae) from Africa. Zootaxa.