Brian Hanich
Technical Officer, Entomology

Qualifications

BSc Zoology 

Research

  • Maintains and organises the preserved and wet and dry collections of insects of around 500,000 dry specimens and estimated over 5,000,000 wet specimens. 
  • Maintains and updates the electronic collection database. 
  • Identifies and registers new acquisitions into the collection. 
  • Organises specimen loans to Australian and international scientists. 
  • Photographs preserved specimens for documentation or internet. 
  • Co-ordinates collection access for external researchers and students. 
  • Co-ordinates volunteer work on the collection. 

Services (to other bodies)

  • Provides identifications to industry, other government departments and enquiries from the public.

Exhibitions and Public Programs

  • Derives new information and specimens from the collection for exhibitions. 
  • Answers enquiries from scientists, students, the public, private organisations about taxonomy and biology relating to the relevant material within the WA Museum collection.

Selected Publications

Houston, T.F., Zhang, J. & Hanich, B.P. (2010). Diet of the flightless trogid beetle Omorgus rotundulus (Haaf) (Coleoptera: Trogidae) in the Little Sandy Desert of Western Australia. The Australian Entomologist 36(4): 207-212.