Speakers of the Collections's working group

Daniela Matenaar. Photo: Jan Köhler

Board Member and 1st Speaker of the Collections working group

Dr. Daniela Matenaar

Daniela Matenaar is the curator of the invertebrate collection at Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. She has researched biodiversity in central European soils as well as the species diversity and behavior of South African short-horned grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Caelifera). Since then, she has continued to focus on the taxonomic studies of cryptic, wingless species of the African Orthoptera family Lentulidae (particularly the genus Betiscoides) using phylogenetic and photogrammetric analyses, and has recently expanded the geographical focus to South America.Since March 2024 Matenaar is Speaker in the GfBS's Collections working group.

Contact

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Friedensplatz 1
64283 Darmstadt
Phone: +49 (6151) 36 01 268
E-mail: daniela.matenaar [at] hlmd.de

Viktor Hartung. Photo: Christoph Steinweg

Deputy (2nd) Speaker of the Collections working group

Dr. Viktor Hartung

Viktor Hartung is curator of invertebrates at the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia. His tasks include faunistic research on the fauna of the region, where he works on Hemiptera and coordinates volunteer and citizen science activities. Here he is i.a. engaged in common projects with the biodiversity portal observation.org. Hartung conducts research on systematics, morphology, ecology and evolution of Hemiptera, especially the true bug taxa Colobathristidae and Dipsocoromorpha.

Contact

LWL-Museum für Naturkunde
Sentruper Str. 285
48161 Münster
Germany
Phone: +49-251-591-6014
E-mail: Viktor.Hartung [at] lwl.org