RMCA
Leuvensesteenweg 13
3080 Tervuren - Belgium
Tel. (+32) 02 769 52 11
Fax (+32) 02 769 52 42

Opening hours museum
Tuesday through Friday *:
from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday *:
from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
*even if public holiday

Closed
Every Monday (even if public holiday)
On 1 January, 1 May  and 25 December
On 24 and 31 December as from 3 p.m. on

 

17. Zoology hall

 

 

 

Zoology halls 13, 15 and 17 date from the 1960s – 1970s and form a unit.

 
 
 
 

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Currently, over 150,000 types of butterfly are known worldwide, 41,500 of which can be found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

4,000 of these types are papilionoidea, the others are moths and numerous types are yet to be discovered.
About ten new types of papilionoidea are discovered each year and many more moths.

The RMCA’s collection consists of about 500,000 butterflies, of which 1,800 holotypes. Holotypes are specimens that served for the description of a type; they in fact form the ‘definition’ of a variety.

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