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ANSP-ENT

Academy of Natural Sciences Entomology Collection - LepNet

Live specimen data from The Academy of Natural Sciences Entomology Collection. Data in this collection includes LepNet and OrthopNet related records. Live data contributions towards SCAN for other TCN/PEN related projects where ANSP Entomology is a participant will be entered here.

Contact for LepNet: Jason Weintraub, weintraub@ansp.org
Contact for OrthopNet: Greg Cowper, cowper@ansp.org
Contact: Jason Weintraub, Collection Manager (weintraub@ansp.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: af7140c3-4aa2-41ac-b3e9-4c7415b3ce90
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Academy of Natural Sciences
Access Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

ANSP-ORTH

Academy of Natural Sciences Entomology Collection – OrthopNet

OrthopNet consists of specimen records from Orthoptera, Phasmatodea & Mantodea in the ANSP collection. It is a NSF-ADBC PEN project.
Contact: Cowper,Greg (gwc32@drexel.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e4c5903a-a7ef-4adc-96b0-71aa79c16f5d
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: ANSP
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

ANSP-PARA

Academy of Natural Sciences Entomology Collection – ParasiteTracker

This collection is comprised of arthropod parasites on vertebrates
Contact: jdw342@drexel.edu
Home Page: Jason Weckstein
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c85b2b63-71db-4426-aa2d-d404f915a2ab
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Actualización de la Colección de Artrópodos con importancia médica (CAIM), Laboratorio de Entomología, InDRE

Actualmente la colección biológica del InDRE cuenta en su acervo con más de 1,000 especies de nombres nominales de diferentes taxa que representan más de 168,000 ejemplares curados, los cuales han sido catalogados, rotulados y computarizados en el sistema de información Biótica 4.3. Es por ello, que el presente protocolo tiene por objetivo actualizar las bases de datos de la colección con nuevos registros curatoriales que hasta entonces no han sido incorporados de diferentes taxa. El Laboratorio de Entomología del InDRE cuenta con una red de laboratorios estatales de salud pública (LESP) que abarca 24 estados de la República Mexicana, los cuales aportan material biológico para su diagnóstico y control de calidad de forma continua o eventual y en su mayoría estos ejemplares son depositados en la colección para enriquecer el acervo biológico. La propuesta es incorporar a la colección nuevo material biológico y bases de datos de colecta que incluye nuevos datos de distribución de diversos grupos que tienen importancia médica para la salud pública de México. También se pretende incorporar material fotográfico de varias especies que están representadas por la colección de tipos. El material tipo corresponde actualmente a 152 especies de diferentes taxa en su mayoría al orden Diptera, los cuales se encuentran conservados en alcohol etílico al 75%, alfiler entomológico y laminilla con Bálsamo de Canadá, dicho material no ha sido fotografiado y en algunos casos existe cierto grado de deterioro, por ello es importante fotografiar las características de diferentes especies y conservar dichas imágenes para consulta o descripciones posteriores como material de referencia de los Holotipos. Cabe mencionar que esta colección contiene material tipo y ejemplares que no se encuentran representados en otras colecciones biológicas de México.
Contact: Sonia Alejandra Careaga Olvera (scareaga@conabio.gob.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Allan Smith-Pardo

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 October 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File

AMNH-IZC

American Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection

The Division of Invertebrate Zoology research collections contain more than 24 million specimens, representing ~500,000 species. Most of these specimens are terrestrial arthropods, but there are large collections of marine and freshwater invertebrates. Strengths of the collections reflect the research of current and past curators: Arachnids (especially spiders and scorpions), aculeate (sting-bearing) Hymenoptera (including bees, wasps and ants), gall wasps (Cynipoidea), certain Diptera (especially Drosophilidae, Syrphidae and Tachinidae), Hemiptera, Isoptera (termites) and their symbiotic protists, macro-Lepidoptera (particularly of the New World), rove beetles (Staphylinidae), the primitively wingless insects (bristletails and silverfish), marine Mollusca, and fossils in amber. Research centers around field exploration, the collections, and laboratory studies using morphology and DNA sequences to examine the evolutionary relationships of a spectrum of groups from species to phyla.
Contact: Christine Johnson (cjohnson@amnh.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 September 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: American Museum of Natural History

CAS-ANTWEB

AntWeb

This collection is comprised of an extract of specimen records from AntWeb.org. AntWeb is the world's largest online database of images, specimen records, and natural history information on ants. It is community driven and open to contribution from anyone with specimen records, natural history comments, or images. AntWeb records should be downloaded directly from AntWeb's portal (https://www.antweb.org/) or their GBIF page https://www.gbif.org/dataset/13b70480-bd69-11dd-b15f-b8a03c50a862 .
Contact: Dr. Brian Fisher (bfisher@calacademy.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 May 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The California Academy of Sciences - AntWeb.org

Apoyo para la infraestructura de la colección de artrópodos con y sin importancia médica del Laboratorio estatal de Salud Pública del estado de Guanaj

La colección de artrópodos con y sin importancia médica del Laboratorio Estatal de Salud Pública (LaESP) del estado de Guanajuato, se ha ido formando desde 1998, con base en los procedimientos de Laboratorio de Entomología del Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos (InDRE), en el diagnóstico y control de calidad de las muestras entomológicas con y sin importancia en la Salud Pública de México, provenientes de las ocho Jurisdicciones Sanitarias que abarcan los 46 municipios que comprenden el Estado de Guanajuato. El material colectado por el personal del Programa de Enfermedades Transmitidas por Vectores, es remitido al laboratorio de Entomología Médica del Laboratorio Estatal de Salud Pública (LaESP), ubicado en la ciudad de León, Gto., para su diagnóstico. Las colectas se llevan a cabo en un programa calendarizado de actividades en cada una de las 8 Jurisdicciones Sanitarias, donde se realizan muestreos continuos. Para el Programa de Enfermedades Transmitidas por Vectores, el personal adscrito al mismo en las diferentes Jurisdicciones Sanitarias, es la base para cumplir con los objetivos del Programa Estatal de Vigilancia Epidemiológica y Entomológica. El material colectado contiene ejemplares de diversos grupos de artrópodos, los cuales son preservados en alcohol al 70% y referenciados con sus respectivos datos de colecta, en la Colección del LaESP de Guanajuato. La intención de ésta propuesta, es crear una base datos para formar una Colección Regional y/o Nacional, que sirva para el uso y aprovechamiento en la consulta de los interesados en los artrópodos que se encuentran distribuidos en el territorio central del Altiplano Mexicano, ya que se pretende una computarización ordenada de los datos que contienen los ejemplares para los fines que al interesado convengan.
Contact: Jorge López Cárdenas
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

NCSU-NCSU_Hamblin

April Hamblin thesis collection

April Hamblin (now April Cherveny) and colleagues sampled bee communities at 15 residential yards and 3 urban natural areas around Raleigh, NC six times each in 2014 and five times each in 2015. Sampling occurred between May and August each year. Each site was sampled using multiple methods: pan traps, vane traps, and hand netting. Specimens uploaded here are from hand netting. Hand netting consisted of 20 minutes of active netting per site visit. As sites included residential yards, specific localities (i.e., addresses) have been removed to protect homeowner identities and decimal coordinates have been rounded from 4 decimal places to 3 decimal places. 1,737 specimens. See the following references for more information: Hamblin AL. Sizzling cities: Native bee community composition and thermal tolerances related to urban heat. North Carolina State University. 2015. Hamblin AL, Youngsteadt E, Frank SD. Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density. Urban Ecosyst. 2018;21: 419–428. doi:10.1007/s11252-018-0731-4
Contact: Steve Frank (sdfrank@ncsu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: fa11daea-2906-4f2c-83bc-0de81bead7f1
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: NCSU April Hamblin, Elsa Youngsteadt, and Steve Frank

ABS-ARTHARCH

Archbold Biological Station Arthropod Collection

This collection is unusually large for a field station, and serves multiple functions. There are more than 250,000 pinned and labeled insect specimens. Pinned specimens are in trays in glass-topped Cornell drawers, generally one species per tray. Many, but not all, identifications are by taxonomic specialists. Species occurring on the Station are the main focus of the collections, but there are specimens from elsewhere for comparative purposes. There is a large collection of North American ants, and the collection of wood-inhabiting insects includes many species of beetles and wasps from areas north of Florida.
Contact: Mark Deyrup (datamanager@archbold-station.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f52df103-0126-47fd-8836-934641444fcd
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Archbold Biological Station

Arizona State University - Social Insect Biodiversity Repository

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Contact: Dr. Christian Rabeling (Christian.Rabeling@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4f43e61f-4f4e-46e0-b7a0-081f05420ef8
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Digital Metadata: EML File

ASU-ASUCOB

Arizona State University Charles W. O'Brien Collection

The Charles W. O'Brien Collection (legacy coden: CWOB) is now (August, 2018) relocated to Tempe, Arizona, and contains approximately one million weevil specimens (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea sensu Bouchard et al. 2011), with a global range and emphasis on New World (and Neotropical) regions. Lois B. O'Brien - a planthopper specialist - has made invaluable contributions to this collection. In 2017, Arizona State University entered an agreement with the O'Briens to gradually transfer and permanently house and curate this world-class collection. As the collection is reactivated at the new location, specimens are digitized under this new identity. Hence the virtual SCAN collection "ASUCOB" (new coden) was created, with the purpose of making the O'Brien weevil specimens now residing at Arizona State University accessible on-line while maintaining their collector/expert provenance.
Contact: Nico M. Franz and Sangmi Lee (nico.franz@asu.edu and slee281@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 May 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

ASU-ASUHIC

Arizona State University Hasbrouck Insect Collection

The ASU Frank F. Hasbrouck Insect Collection contains approximately 1,000,000 insect specimens, representing at least 25 orders, 390 families, 4,000 genera, 12,000 species and 1,240 subspecies. Most specimens are from the southwestern United States; however considerable representative material is also available from other North American regions and Mexico. The collection was largely developed through the activities of past faculty - Drs. Frank Hasbrouck, Gordon Castle and Mont Cazier - and their students. An extensive reprint collection is available to visiting researchers. For further information and to arrange a visit or loan, please contact Curator Dr. Nico Franz (nico.franz@asu.edu) or Collection Manager Dr. Sangmi Lee (slee281@asu.edu).
Contact: Nico Franz and Sangmi Lee (nico.franz@asu.edu and slee281@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 September 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File

ASU-ASULOB

Arizona State University Lois B. O'Brien Collection

The Lois B. O'Brien Collection (legacy coden: LBOB) is is now (August, 2018) relocated to Tempe, Arizona, and contains approximately 250,000 planthopper specimens (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea sensu Bourgoin (2017)), with a global range and emphasis on New World (and Neotropical) regions. Charles W. O'Brien - a weevil specialist - has made invaluable contributions to this collection. In 2017, Arizona State University entered an agreement with the O'Briens to gradually transfer and permanently house and curate this world-class collection. As partial transfers occur, specimens are digitized under this new identity. Hence the virtual SCAN collection "ASULOB" (new coden) was created, with the purpose of making the O'Brien planthopper specimens now residing at Arizona State University accessible on-line while maintaining their collector/expert provenance.
Contact: Nico Franz and Sangmi Lee (nico.franz@asu.edu and slee281@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 May 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

AUMNH-ENT

Auburn University Museum of Natural History Entomology

The AUMNH Entomology Collection was historically the Auburn University Entomology Museum (AUEM). Our collection of roughly half a million specimens has its strengths in: Formicidae, Chrysomelidae, Orthoptera, Simuliidae, and Siphonaptera of Alabama; Tabanidae, Scale Insects, and Ceratopogonidae. The geographic scope of our holdings extend beyond the Southeastern United States and reflects research interests of previous and current curators and affiliated persons. The data is managed through Specify.
Contact: Melissa Callahan (msc0042@auburn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 February 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File

AUGIE-ENT

Augustana College Entomology Collection

This collection represents the research of Tierney Brosius and her undergraduate students. She is entomologist with special interests in insect conservation, urban ecology, and cultural entomology. She has an active ongoing research program that currently focuses on ground beetle diversity within urban landscapes. The goal is to understand how mesophication (lack of naturally occurring fire) and urbanization interact to influence forest ecosystem composition and structure at multiple trophic levels. Undergraduate students from Augustana have been directly involved in the data collection of the projects and have had the opportunity to present results at local and national scientific meetings.
Contact: Tierney Brosius (tierneybrosius@augustana.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 120bf21c-d066-48ee-b4c0-880596ea22e4
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Augustana College

MELU-AFI

Australian Freshwater Invertebrates

A collection of freshwater invertebrates collected in Australia. Approximately 1,000 specimens
Contact: Eddie Tsyrlin (tsyrline@student.unimelb.edu.au)
Home Page: NA
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9db8a512-5db0-4fd4-a883-83293674af75
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The University of Melbourne

Bark and Ambrosia Beetles of the New World

This is a personal database created and maintained by T.H. Atkinson. It can be viewed as a comprehensive virtual collection for a single taxonomic group. It includes:
  1. All published records of bark and ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae, Platypodinae) for North and Central America. It also includes the bulk of published records for the Caribbean and South America but is not complete for those regions. In some cases published records can be matched to specimens in museums. (for discussion see: http://www.barkbeetles.info/projects_database.php#records)
  2. All label data for specimens seen by T.H. Atkinson, regardless of collection where deposited.
  3. Trapping records for the U.S. Forest Service “Early Detection Rapid Response” database as provided by the USFS.
  4. While the database includes some records imported from other institutional databases (e.g. UAIC, ASUHIC, SEMC) these are not copied to the SCAN collection).
  5. In general databased specimens (with barcode or catalog number label on specimen) are not cited in this SCAN collection, especially if these data are available electronically elsewhere. Exceptions include primary type material and material from a few collections.
Contact: Thomas H. Atkinson (thatkinson.austin@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f2c9d173-0bec-4df9-9c27-7384f83cb4b5
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Digital Metadata: EML File

USDA-ARS

Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory

This is a one-time snapshot collection of data originally hosted by GBIF: http://www.gbif.org/publisher/1e26a630-7203-11dc-a0d8-b8a03c50a862

The Pollinating Insects -- Biology, Management and Systematics Research Unit (PIRU) was founded in the late 1940s as part of the alfalfa seed production unit. We focus primarily on pollination research with bees.The mission of the Pollinating Insect - Biology, Management and Systematics Research Unit is the development of non-Apis bees, for example the alfalfa leafcutting bee and blue orchard bee, as crop pollinators. Research emphasis areas include the development and improvement of management systems for bee populations, biological studies of bees, plant-pollination systems, and bee biosystematics. Cross-pollinated crops not effectively pollinated by honey bees have been targeted for improved pollination management, and the candidacy of selected pollinator species continues to be evaluated. Current research on established species, like the alfalfa leafcutting bee and blue orchard bee, is directed toward developing control programs for pests and diseases, improving management that will result in better bee health and demonstrating pollination efficacy and increased producer profitability on "new" crops.
Contact: Terry Griswold (Terry.Griswold@ars.usda.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 January 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Bee data from INABIO

Data copied from https://bndb.sisbioecuador.bio/bndb/collections/index.php on 10_1_23
Contact:
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 October 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: INABIO

CORN-URBAN

Bees in the Trees Cornell Collection

This is the raw bee occurence data Urban-Mead, K.R., Muñiz, P., Gillung, J., Espinoza, A., Fordyce, R., van Dyke, M., McArt, S.H. and Danforth, B.N., 2021. Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies. Forest Ecology and Management, 482, p.118903. This work expands our understanding of habitats where bees are likely foraging and reveals vertically stratified behavior. We emphasize deciduous forests as an important habitat for wild bee conservation and recommend further research into the behavior and diets of bees occupying the canopy, speculating that females forage for anemophilous tree pollen. Forest management plans that conserve above-ground deadwood may provide nest sites for wood-nesting bees.
Contact: Kass Urban-Mead (kru4@cornell.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b1ef1a9f-5f75-4fba-8a5b-273886d05123
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Cornell University

BPBM-ENT

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

The Entomology Collection has a long and distinguished record. The J. Linsley Gressitt Center for Research in Entomology serves as the principal U.S.-based entomological resource for documentation of biological diversity and ecosystem studies in the Pacific and Asian regions, and is a major national and international systematic resource. The uniqueness and breadth of the collections and their central Pacific location foster wide international recognition and use, including use as a type and voucher repository.
Contact: Neal Evenhuis (neale@bishopmuseum.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Biodiversidad de la apifauna de Yucatán

El proyecto tiene como objetivo desarrollar un inventario faunístico de las abejas de Yucatán. Se establecerá una colección entomológica con los especimenes (25 mil, aprox.), y una base de datos de las especies identificadas. Se espera encontrar y determinar taxonómicamente 70 especies de abejas y relacionarlas con información de su distribución geográfica, temporal y plantas en las que se colectó el insecto. Adicionalmente se registrarán abejas colectadas en cultivos agrícolas para proponer su uso potencial como polinizadores manejados. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 5 Género: 66 Subgénero: 40 Especie: 197
Contact: Carlos M Echazarreta González (carlos.echazarreta@uady.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Biodiversidad de la Sierra Tarahumara. Lepidoptera: Mimallonoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Bombycoidea y Pyraloidea

Este proyecto consistió en la elaboración de una base de datos de las familias Mimallonidae, Lasiocampidae, Bombycidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Arctiidae, Pyralidae y Crambidae con base en ejemplares recolectados en dos regiones prioritarias en la Sierra Tarahumara: Yécora-El Reparo (RTP 36) y Bassaseachic (RTP 33). Se presenta una lista sistemática de los taxones presentes en el área. Adicionalmente se estimó la riqueza de las áreas mediante curvas de acumulación de especies y se discutió la distribución estacional, altitudinal y vegetacional de las especies. Este proyecto contó el apoyo de parataxónomos locales. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 2 Familia: 8 Género: 188 Especie: 257 Infraespecie: 11
Contact: Manuel A Balcázar Lara (mabl@cgic.ucol.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

BUIC-ODO

Bishop's University Insect Collection (BUIC)

This dataset is provided by Canadensys https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=buic-specimens, please go there to obtain raw data.The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 228 records. Favret C (2018): Bishop's University Insect Collection (BUIC). v2.1. Bishop's University Insect Collection. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/nmcxfj
Contact: Colin Favret (colin.favret@umontreal.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 January 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File

BLM-MLFO

BLM Mother Lode Field Office: The Bees of Pine Hill Preserve

A georeferenced collection of bees from Pine Hill preserve and their associated flowering plants. Pine Hill Preserve is a chaparral environment on gabbro/serpentine soils. Pine Hill Preserve contains about 10% of California’s native plants in roughly 5,000 acres.
Contact: Landon Eldredge (leldredge@blm.gov / lge23@nau.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ae21df61-6c86-40c7-89eb-902217ce4b05
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: BLM

WSU-EHB

Bloom et al., 2021 Documenting pollinators, floral hosts, and plant–pollinator interactions in U.S. Pacific Northwest agroecosystems

Wild bee occcurence data from study, data extracted from supplementary file. Elias H. Bloom, Elisabeth C. Oeller, Rachel L. Olsson, Matthew R. Brousil, Robert N. Schaeffer, Saumik Basu, Zhen Fu, David W. Crowder. Documenting pollinators, floral hosts, and plant–pollinator interactions in U.S. Pacific Northwest agroecosystems First published: 13 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3606
Contact: Elias H. Bloom (bloomel1@msu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e84b56fb-4b4b-482e-8d30-e6a5521c2790
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Digital Metadata: EML File

CNC-CNC

Bombus of Canada

Bumble bee data transcribed from specimen labels; latitude and longitude added to database subsequently. Data served via Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Louise Dumouchel (dumouchell[AT]agr.gc.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

EKUY

Branson Museum of Zoology - Arthropods

The Branson Museum of Zoology was dedicated in 1996 in honor of Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) emeritus professor Branley A. Branson. The Branson Museum of Zoology is the largest zoological research collection in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and has major holdings in freshwater fishes, crayfish, gastropods, and unionid bivalves dating back to the 1950’s. The collection is primarily composed of species from within the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but also contains lots from throughout the southeastern United States.
Contact: Hayes, David (David.Hayes@eku.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: acec1fe2-9c45-408c-9424-c4f3f4a446a6
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Eastern Kentucky University
Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

BYU-BYUC

Brigham Young University Arthropod Museum

The BYU Arthropod Collection is housed in the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University. It totals approximately 2,000,000 specimens, mostly insects. Although worldwide in coverage, an emphasis is on western North America. Although taxonomically diverse, strengths include Coleoptera, Plecoptera, and Siphonaptera. The insect tissue holdings are outstanding. The principal aim is systematic study, but the collection is available to a wide variety of researchers.
Contact: Shawn Clark (shawn_clark@byu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ad64ad57-a281-457e-b398-964dddc7e953
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only.

BISON-BugGuide

BugGuide

BugGuide (http://bugguide.net) is an online community of naturalists who enjoy learning about and sharing observations of insects, spiders, and other related creatures. BugGuide collects photographs of insects and other arthropods from the United States and Canada for identification and research and summarizes findings in guide pages for each order, family, genus, and species. By capturing the place and time that submitted images were taken, BugGuide creates a virtual insect collection.

These data are mirrored from a GBIF instance, which may be found here: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/cca13f2c-0d2c-4c2f-93b9-4446c0cc1629 . This dataset is being provided as a service to SCAN users, please obtain data records directly from the GBIF instance.
Contact: John VanDyk (jvandyk@iastate.edu)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 July 2018
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Butterflies and Skippers of Alberta Project

Observational records transcribed from Butterflies and Skippers of Alberta Project cards, includes records from the Calgary Field Naturalists’ Society; latitude and longitude provided by CNC or collector. Data served via Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Gerald J. Hilchie (gerald.hilchie[AT]ualberta.ca)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

CSU-CSUC

C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity

The collection houses approximately 5 million specimens representing about 60,000 species with fifty primary types and 1,000 secondary types. More than 10,000 specimens are added to the collection each year. As a large and comprehensive holding of arthropods, predominately insects, in the Southern Rocky Mountains, it is a major resource for regional and national biodiversity investigations. Much of the material has been identified by specialists to the specific level. Examples of the unique quality of material include the aphids, other Homoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and all aquatic orders. It serves as the repository for arthropod inventories of several National Parks including Canyonlands, Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain, Dinosaur, and Yucca House and Colorado National Monuments.
Contact: Chuck Harp (Chuck.Harp@colostate.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6ca25e61-71fe-4605-848f-86f9b72a87df
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
Access Rights: Material is for loan to researchers throughout the US and for in-house use.

CAS-TYPE

California Academy of Sciences - Entomology Type Collection

Since the department's founding in 1862, our collection has grown to become one of the three largest entomology collections in North America, encompassing approximately 250,000 species of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. Led by curators Brian Fisher, Michelle Trautwein, and Lauren Esposito, and collection manager Chris Grinter, today's department includes scholars, curatorial staff, postdoctoral researchers, and students comprising a broad range of expertise.
Contact: Chris Grinter (cgrinter@calacademy.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 May 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: California Academy of Sciences

CAS-ENT

California Academy of Sciences Entomology

Through active fieldwork, laboratory research, and management our 10 million specimens, we advance knowledge about Earth's insects and arachnids — taxonomic groups vital to healthy ecosystems. These digitized occurrence records are here for you! Enjoy!
Contact: Chris Grinter (cgrinter@calacademy.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: California Academy of Sciences

CSUEB-CSUEBNHM

California State University East Bay Natural History Museum

California State University East Bay is home to thousands of preserved specimens gathered from around the world.
Contact: Nazzy Pakpour (Nazzy.pakpour@csueastbay.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: afb583ae-9c25-4696-a47a-e73625c70e54
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: California State University, East Bay

CMN-CMNEN

Canadian Museum of Nature Insect Collection

We are harvesting this data from Canadian Museum of Nature Insect Collection. Please harvest their recordset directly from GBIF to obtain primary data records.
Contact:
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

CNC-CNCC

Canadian National Collection

Transcribed from specimen labels; latitude and longitude provided by CNC or collector. Data is snapshot from IPT/GBIF
Contact: Don Lafontaine (lafontained@agr.gc.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 May 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

CMNH-IZ

Carnegie Invertebrate Zoology Collection

The insect collection of the Invertebrate Zoology collection contains an estimated 13 million specimens of which more than 7 million are prepared, labelled, and ready for study. Invertebrate Zoology’s overarching collection’s primary strengths are Lepidoptera and Coleoptera but with strong collections in Diptera, Odonata, Heteroptera, Homoptera, Hymenoptera, and Siphonaptera. These collections augment studies by staff, but they are also used for research by hundreds of specialists worldwide where they constitute the basis for numerous scientific publications. These collections benefit present and future generations, and in their immensity comprise a public trust as a unique record of the natural world.
Contact: Ainsley Seago (SeagoA@CarnegieMnh.Org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b1d6d5b9-28e2-41a4-bed3-990ae866ccbb
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: CMNH

Catálogo de insectos de la colección del Centro de Entomología

El presente proyecto forma parte de un proyecto más preciso el cual tiene por objeto formar una colección entomológica de la Meseta Central Mexicana , respaldada con una base de datos. Una vez que la base de datos se encuentre terminada, se podrá transferir al procesador de textos, con este paquete electrónico la información se podrá editar fácilmente para su publicación. Debido a que una colección es dinámica, es decir que constantemente se va integrando material nuevo y por otro lado el material que no está identificado se envía a especialistas para su determinación; la base de datos se podrá enriquecer con nueva información y por otro lado está coadyuvará al manejo de la colección. Al mismo tiempo una copia de la base de datos será puesta a disposición de los investigadores interesados en capturar información. Finalmente con la ayuda de la base de datos, se podrán publicar suplementos del nuevo material que se vaya integrado a la colección. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 7 Familia: 95 Género: 863 Subgénero: 50 Especie: 1962 Infraespecie: 95
Contact: Jesús Romero Nápoles (jnapoles@colpos.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Catálogo y recopilación de datos científicos de los lepidópteros nocturnos de México, pertenecientes a cinco familias

De acuerdo con Sbordoni y Forestiero (1988), el número de especies de Lepidópteros conocida a nivel mundial asciende a 165,000. En México, están representados más del 13.3%, por lo que la diversidad esperada de lepidópteros mexicanos es de alrededor de 22,000 especies, de las cuales se han inventariado sólo 1954. Debido a que en últimas fechas se han venido realizando exploraciones entomológicas en algunas localidades del sur del país, en especial en los estados de Veracruz y Chiapas, y de que existe un porcentaje importante de información contenida en diversas colecciones nacionales y estadounidenses principalmente , los responsables de este proyecto, apoyados por la CONABIO, se dieron a la tarea de recopilar y sistematizar los datos de los lepidópteros de las familias y sus subfamilias Lithosidnae, Arctiinae, Ctenuchhinae y Pericopinae y de las familias Zygaenidae y Megalopygidae,conformando la base de datos de lepidópteros nocturnos de México de estas cinco familias, con un total de 5673 ejemplares, correspondientes a 798 especies. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 6 Género: 207 Especie: 555
Contact: Roberto de la Maza Elvira
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 December 2019
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Digital Metadata: EML File

CEPANN-ENT

CEPANN - Coleção Entomológica Paulo Nogueira-Neto - IB/USP

Lucia Imperatriz Fonseca V, Alves dos Santos I (2022). CEPANN - Coleção Entomológica Paulo Nogueira-Neto - IB/USP. Universidade de São Paulo. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/bb5nnj accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-02-20. This dataset was put in Bee-Pollinator category becuase bees comprise 93% of this dataset. A Coleção Entomológica Paulo Nogueira Neto (CEPANN- IBUSP) é uma coleção de referência para Estudos Ecológicos, constantes dos trabalhos realizados no Laboratorio de Abelhas da USP. A coleção foi criada em 1983 para abrigar os espécimes de abelhas coletados nos levantamentos de campo dos projetos de Mestrado e Doutorado realizados no Laboratorio de Abelhas. Atualmente conta com um acervo de aproximadamente 36.000 espécimes e 432 espécies de abelhas.
Contact: Vera Lucia Imperatriz (vlifonse@ib.usp.br)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 February 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

CHAS-ENT

Chicago Academy of Sciences

The Chicago Academy of Sciences’ entomology collection consists primarily of insect species from North and Central America, with a focus on the Midwestern United States. The Academy has had several prominent entomologists in its history, primarily between 1930 and 1960. Donald C. Lowrie (1910-2000) studied spiders and their role in local dune ecosystems. Leonora K. Gloyd (b. 1902) conducted fieldwork on Odonata. Orlando Park published on the taxonomy and ecology of Coleoptera, particularly the Pselaphidae, in the 1940s. Stanley Auerbach researched centipedes in the Chicago area during the 1950s. Other major collectors include Andrew Bolter (collected between 1879-1910) and Harry D. Sicher (collected between 1940 and 1970), both of whom collected primarily Lepidoptera. The majority of the non-Lepidopteran specimens were collected in the Midwest and Western Great Lakes regions, with Canada, California, Florida, and the Southwestern U.S. also represented. Lepidoptera primarily include species from the Midwestern U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Alaska, California, Florida, and the Southwestern U.S. Temporal Coverage of this collection is 1834-Present, with the bulk of the non-Lepidoptera specimens collected between 1872 and 1911, and the bulk of Lepidopteran specimens collected between 1891 and 1964.
Contact: Dawn Roberts (droberts@naturemuseum.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 May 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File

CU-CUAC

Clemson University Arthropod Collection

The Clemson University Arthropod Collection (CUAC) supports the teaching, research, and extension activities of the University. The Collection consists of approximately 1.3 million specimens from Classes Insecta, Arachnida, Branchipoda, Copepoda, Diplopoda, and Chilopoda. The wet, alcohol-preserved collection is exceptionally rich, with over 1,000,000 specimens, nearly half of which are Trichoptera, or caddisflies, resulting from 40 years of work by Director Emeritus Dr. John Morse. The pinned, dry collection comprises only about 200,000 specimens, but also has strong regional representation of all the major orders. The CUAC collection serves as a permanent repository for specimens used in University research. It serves as a reference collection for identifying economically and ecologically significant samples sent in from all over South Carolina. The specimens in the collection also provide a historical record of the changing biota of the southeastern region dating back nearly 100 years. The Museum's educational displays are used to enhance University courses and are viewed by visitors to the Collection and by participants in demonstrations at off-campus venues.
Contact: Michael S Caterino (mcateri@clemson.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d198856b-3b84-4738-aa59-97ad8bc5c234
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Digital Metadata: EML File

CLEV-CMNHENT

Cleveland Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection

The Museum’s entomology collection houses approximately 300,000 specimens, primarily from the northeastern United States and collected beginning in the early 1900s. The collection represents a highly important record of biodiversity of our region. A subset of the Museum’s holdings is global in coverage and includes tropical beetles, butterflies and other insects. The department is home to the largest praying mantis (Mantodea) in the Western Hemisphere – totaling more than 14,000 specimens.
Contact: Gavin Svenson (gsvenson@cmnh.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 15 August 2019
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Digital Metadata: EML File

CNIN/Abejas de México/Apoidea

Data served via GBIF at https://orphans.gbif.org/MX/96b1aa66-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.zip This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF web portals.
Contact: Ubaldo Melo Samper Palacios (ubaldo@unibio.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

CNIN/Coleoptera

Data served via GBIF at https://orphans.gbif.org/MX/896f63a2-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.zip This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF web portals.
Contact: Joaquín Giménez Héau (joaquin@unibio.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

CNIN/Lepidoptera

Data served via GBIF at  https://orphans.gbif.org/MX/88d47c48-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.zip This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF web portals.
Contact: Ubaldo Melo Samper Palacios (ubaldo@unibio.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

Coleção Entomológica

RPSP - Coleção Entomológica Prof. J.M.F. Camargo, FFCLRP/USP A Coleção Entomológica Prof. J.M.F. Camargo (RPSP), sediada no Departamento de Biologia da FFCLRP/USP, começou a ser montada em 1965. Desde então, como resultado de várias expedições ao Amazonas e demais espaços neotropicais, e intercâmbio com museus do Brasil e exterior, foi montado o mais completo acervo de Meliponini Neotropicais ("abelhas sem ferrão"). A coleção inclui cerca de 250.000 espécimes de abelhas, dos quais mais de 150.000 são Meliponini. A maior parte dos espécimes encontra-se montada em alfinetes, e milhares de exemplares encontram-se preservados em fixador (incluindo larvas, jovens e adultos, operárias, machos e rainhas), representando cerca de 1000 ninhos estudados, além de constituir a única coleção com obras construídas pelas abelhas (peças de ninhos e cerca de 5.500 slides sobre a biologia do grupo). A Coleção abriga também um excelente acervo de abelhas em geral, incluindo material de estudos sobre estrutura de comunidades (mais de 30.000 espécimes, contendo dados sobre fenologia), obtido em coletas sistemáticas em vários ecossistemas (campos rupestres, cerrados, desertos, ambientes modificados, etc.). A Coleção inclui mais de 1000 espécimes tipos, dos quais 81 são tipos primários.
Contact: Eduardo A. B. Almeida
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 February 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: J.M.F. Camargo, FFCLRP/USP

Colección de insectos agrícolas del proyecto diversidad en sistemas de cultivos

Se elaboró la base de datos de la Colección del Proyecto Diversidad en Sistemas de Cultivos-ECOSUR, San Cristóbal de las Casas, mediante el programa Biotica 5.0. Dicha base incluyó 8160 registros de 249 especies y morfoespecies, 115 géneros y 37 familias en siete órdenes. El nivel de identificación taxonómica es 100 % a nivel genérico y de 93.5 % a nivel de especie (7634 registros). La familia más representativa es Melolonthidae (Coleoptera) con 7576 registros (93 %), los cuales se incluyen en 32 géneros y 138 especies. El estado con mayor número de registros es Chiapas, el cual incluye a 8097 registros (99 %). Para órdenes como Arachnida y Orthoptera, no fue posible alcanzar los porcentajes de determinación específica deseados, no obstante el número de registros totales y la identificación de órdenes como Coleoptera (el de mayor abundancia), superó al estimado inicialmente. La computarización de la colección permitió la adquisición de material y equipo para el manejo de la colección y su posterior crecimiento ordenado. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 2 Orden: 7 Familia: 40 Género: 128 Subgénero: 17 Especie: 216 Infraespecie: 2
Contact: Adriana Elena Castro Ramírez (acastro@ecosur.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

UniSierra-UniSierra-Invertebrates

Colección de Invertebrados de la Universidad de la Sierra

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Contact: Hugo Silva-Kurumiya (hskurumiya@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1a50fda3-c1e6-46e2-b417-7eccb866ccf0
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Colección de referencia de vectores de Leishmania spp (causante de Leshmaniasis cutánea localizada) de la Península de Yucatán y un estudio preliminar

Proyecto financiado parcialmente por la Fundación Gonzalo Río Arronte La Colección de insectos flebótomos depositada ahora en la Colección Entomológica Regional (CER), fue creada en 1994 por el CIR "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi" como parte de los estudios llevados a cabo en el Programa de Estudio, Vigilancia y Control de la Leishmaniosis en la Península de Yucatán financiado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Los primeros 400 especimenes de la colección en su totalidad pertenecen al área peri domestica y selvática de "La Libertad" comunidad endémica de leishmaniosis en Campeche. El resto de los especimenes datan de colectas realizadas desde 2001 en un proyecto sobre la ecología de Lutzomyia olmeca olmeca financiado por OMS. Se tienen registros de localidades en los estados de Yucatán, Quintana Roo y Campeche, aunque existen una mayor cantidad de especimenes del último estado. Trabajos sobre vectores para Quintana Roo son escasos a pesar de que este es endémico de leishmaniosis con estadísticas superiores a las reportadas para Campeche (7). El reciente impulso del estudio de Leishmaniosis en reservorios huésped y humanos en el sur de Quintana Roo por parte de ECOSUR (unidad Chetumal) y al creciente interés tanto de ECOSUR como del CIR "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi" por el crecimiento y desarrollo de colecciones biológicas, se propone; crear la primera colección de entomología medica de reservorios de leishmaniosis para la Península de Yucatán, la identificación de las especies-vector antropofílicas y la incidencia natural del parásito. Chetumal es una población de Quintana Roo considerada de alta prevalencia e incidencia de leishmaniosis (8). Con el propósito de identificar la estacionalidad de contagio y la identificación de los vectores flebótomos hemofílicos, se proponen realizar muestreos mensuales con trampas de luz, Shannon y Disney de una semana de duración a lo largo de un año en la región selvática y de uso agrícola y agropecuario del área peri-urbana de Chetumal. L
Contact: María del Carmen Pozo de la Tijera (cpozo@ecosur.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 June 2017
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Colección de referencia de vectores de Leishmania spp (causante de Leshmaniasis cutánea localizada) de la Península de Yucatán y un estudio preliminar

Proyecto financiado parcialmente por la Fundación Gonzalo Río Arronte La Colección de insectos flebótomos depositada ahora en la Colección Entomológica Regional (CER), fue creada en 1994 por el CIR "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi" como parte de los estudios llevados a cabo en el Programa de Estudio, Vigilancia y Control de la Leishmaniosis en la Península de Yucatán financiado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Los primeros 400 especimenes de la colección en su totalidad pertenecen al área peri domestica y selvática de "La Libertad" comunidad endémica de leishmaniosis en Campeche. El resto de los especimenes datan de colectas realizadas desde 2001 en un proyecto sobre la ecología de Lutzomyia olmeca olmeca financiado por OMS. Se tienen registros de localidades en los estados de Yucatán, Quintana Roo y Campeche, aunque existen una mayor cantidad de especimenes del último estado. Trabajos sobre vectores para Quintana Roo son escasos a pesar de que este es endémico de leishmaniosis con estadísticas superiores a las reportadas para Campeche (7). El reciente impulso del estudio de Leishmaniosis en reservorios huésped y humanos en el sur de Quintana Roo por parte de ECOSUR (unidad Chetumal) y al creciente interés tanto de ECOSUR como del CIR "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi" por el crecimiento y desarrollo de colecciones biológicas, se propone; crear la primera colección de entomología medica de reservorios de leishmaniosis para la Península de Yucatán, la identificación de las especies-vector antropofílicas y la incidencia natural del parásito. Chetumal es una población de Quintana Roo considerada de alta prevalencia e incidencia de leishmaniosis (8). Con el propósito de identificar la estacionalidad de contagio y la identificación de los vectores flebótomos hemofílicos, se proponen realizar muestreos mensuales con trampas de luz, Shannon y Disney de una semana de duración a lo largo de un año en la región selvática y de uso agrícola y agropecuario del área peri-urbana de Chetumal. L
Contact: María del Carmen Pozo de la Tijera (cpozo@ecosur.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 June 2017
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Colección Zoológica de la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

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Contact: Dr. Robert W. Jones (rjones@uaq.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File

Collaborative bee data from private collections

Records from the literature and the private collection of T. Hanson.
Contact: Chanda Bartholomew (chanda.bartholomew@agr.wa.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 95c34865-9892-42ee-94cc-1cabfe0825c8
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Digital Metadata: EML File

CC-OBE-COCOA

Colorado College Arthropod Collection

The Colorado College Arthropod Collection (COCOA) is one of four biodiversity collections housed in the Department of Organismal Biology & Ecology at Colorado College. This small collection is comprised of about 170 drawers of pinned insects and miscellaneous material in ethanol. Although the holdings are varied, the geographic focus is mostly Colorado, the Rocky Mountains, and the Southwest. The collection primarily serves as a teaching collection for Colorado College undergraduate students, but also supports student and faculty research projects.
Contact: Steven J. Taylor (sjtaylor@coloradocollege.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9c5e625b-3eb0-4643-96de-31045c6de05c
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Colorado College

Colorado Plateau Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity

Records included in this database were primarily transcribed as part of the SCAN TCN and LepNet TCN projects as well as other externally funded projects through the Cobb lab. Other records include specimens collected by DC Johnson and his colleagues, which is shown in the number of records from Mexico.
Contact: Neil Cobb (NeilSCobb@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c87a0756-fdd7-4cb6-9921-ca5774f8330e
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Computarización de abejas de la colección entomológica de la Frontera Sur

La colección de abejas de El Colegio de la Frontera Sur es una de las más grandes a nivel nacional. Además de 12,188 ejemplares colectados en el marco del proyecto CONABIO-BK063 entre 2003 y 2006, cuenta con: a) 7,000 ejemplares colectados entre 1986 y 2000, montados, en buen estado de conservación, pero cuya determinación requiere confirmación de especialistas, y deben ser capturados en una base de datos; b) 17,000 ejemplares colectados y montados en el marco de diversos proyectos entre 2006 y 2010, que requieren serdeterminados y capturados a la base de datos. En este marco, la presente propuesta consiste en confirmar la determinación y capturar en una base de datos los 24,000 ejemplares de abejas aquí presentados, así como hacer una base de datos fotográfica y realizar una colección de partes de abejas en alcohol, para su posterior análisis molecular iBol (Bar Code of Life). Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 6 Género: 95 Subgénero: 80 Especie: 272 Infraespecie: 9
Contact: Rémy Benoit Marie Vandame (rvandame@ecosur.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 June 2017
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Computarización de la colección de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera, de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM

La colección de abejas del Museo de zoología de la Facultad de Ciencias (MZFC), ha crecido considerablemente en los últimos cinco años, contando con alrededor de 22,000 ejemplares. Por tal motivo se requiere de la elaboración de una base de datos, objetivo que persigue el presente proyecto. Este grupo de insectos de alta importancia como polinizadores tiene una amplia representación en el país, pese a lo cual existen grandes huecos en su conocimiento a nivel taxonómico y geográfico. El Museo de Zoología de la Facultad de Ciencias, desde hace algunos años inició la computarización de las colecciones que alberga y en la actualidad recibe apoyos de diversas instancias, principalmente CONABIO, para dicha tarea, siendo una fuente considerable de datos a este respecto. La presente propuesta plantea la obtención final de una base de datos con aproximadamente 22,000 registros de la colección de esta institución. Se estima que este número de registros incluirán alrededor de 11,000 registros determinados a nivel específico, correspondiendo aproximadamente a 150 especies. Los registros restantes serán capturados como "sp" con números progresivos en cada género. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 6 Género: 115 Subgénero: 119 Especie: 415 Infraespecie: 18
Contact: Moisés Armando Luis Martínez (alm@ciencias.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Computarización de la Colección Nacional de insectos Dr. Alfredo Barrera Marín del Museo de Historia Natural de la Ciudad de México

La Colección Nacional de Insectos "Dr. Alfredo Barrera" del Museo de Historia Natural de la Ciudad de México se fundó con el museo en 1964. desde su orígenes se planteó la formación de una colección entomológica representativa del país, y particularmente del Valle de México. El punto de partida para su formación fueron las donaciones y depósitos efectuados por particulares y entomólogos. Su acervo se enriqueció con importantes colecciones como la de Muller que constituye el patrimonio más antiguo de la colección, ya que data de principios de siglo, en la actualidad la colección contiene aproximadamente 50,000 ejemplares. En 1998 se concursó en la convocatoria "Políticas de apoyo de la CONABIO a la infraestructura de las colecciones científicas institucionales 1998" con el número de referencia l 029, la cual fue aprobada, este patrocinio no procedió debido a que nuestra institución no contaba con la facultad jurídica para recibir esta donación. En la actualidad esto ha sido resuelto y por lo tanto pretendemos con esta "Política de Apoyo 1999 para la computarización de colecciones científicas institucionales" ser favorecidos para continuar con el trabajo que hemos propuesto realizar en esta colección. Se ofrece la base de datos de 50,000 ejemplares hasta el nivel de determinación en el que se encuentra en este momento, considerando que los ordenes mejor representados son Lepidoptera con 20,200 especímenes, determinados a nivel de especie en un 90% y el orden Coleoptera con 20,000 ejemplares determinados en 90% a familia y en un 50% por lo menos a nivel de género. El estimado del número de especies que contendrá la base de datos resultado del proyecto propuesto será de aproximadamente 6,150. El objetivo es generar una base de datos que facilite el acceso a la información y que contribuya a la formación del Inventario Nacional de las especies de la Clase Insecta. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 3 Familia: 40 Género: 1627 Especie: 4230 Infraespecie: 529
Contact: María Eugenia Díaz Batres
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 June 2017
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Computarización y actualización de la curación de la Colección de Lepidóptera del Museo de Zoología "Alfonso L. Herrera" y su base de datos MARIPOSA.

This IPT instance contains data from several US collections. There may or may not be duplicates of US records within this dataset.
Este proyecto tiene la finalidad de continuar con el proceso de curación de la colección Lepidoptera; así como, la actualización y el incremento de los registros de la base de datos curatorial MARIPOSA, las que pertenecen al Museo de Zoología "Alfonso L. Herrera", de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM con registro DFE.IN.071.0798 ante SEMARNAP. El desarrollo de la base de datos, comienza a mediados de la década de los 70's, para esta labor se ha contado con el apoyo de la Facultad de Ciencias, CONACyT, Papiit-UNAM, Papime-UNAM y CONABIO, con el principal objetivo de desarrollar proyectos faunísticos, taxonómicos, de repatriación de datos de las principales colecciones de Lepidoptera (Papilionoidea) de los Estados Unidos de América y la actualización tanto de la colección de Lepidoptera como de su base de datos, lo que ha dado como resultado la colección de Lepidoptera más importante y mejor representada para ambientes mesomontanos. Dicha colección cuenta con más de 200,000 ejemplares depositados en el Museo de Zoología y la megabase de datos MARIPOSA, la cual reúne la información de tres colecciones nacionales y ocho internacionales, contiene más de 435,000 registros (460,000 individuos), representados en seis familias, 423 géneros, 1182 especies más 708 subespecies. Geográficamente, esta base representa más de 5600 localidades distribuidas en la República Mexicana. Este proyecto se desarrollara en tres fases, cada una con duración de un año, de acuerdo con los lineamientos de la política de apoyo para la computarización o actualización de colecciones científicas, 2009. La primera fase se realizará durante el periodo 2011-2012, con una evaluación anual de acuerdo con los productos establecidos como resultados. Para esta fase, se efectuará la curación de 20,000 ejemplares, los cuales serán ingresados a la megabse de datos MARIPOSA; a
Contact: Moisés Armando Luis Martínez (alm@ciencias.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Arthropod Collection

Broad collection across all taxa, focused on Connecticut, from 1900 – 1950, followed more recently by intensive collections in particular taxa based on the interests of specific research programs, including: Apoidea, Buprestidae, and Cerambycidae. The collection holding is estimated at 160,000 specimens
Contact: Dr. Gale Ridge (Gale.Ridge@ct.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 601398a5-bdae-4361-a754-78e2d22f287b
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Crispin S. Guppy Collection

Lepidoptera observation data served via Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Cris Guppy (cguppy[AT]quesnelbc.com)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

DBG-DBGA

Denver Botanic Gardens Collection of Arthropods

The Denver Botanic Gardens Collection of Arthropods (DBGA) is small reference and research collection focused on arthropods from urban and suburban habitats. Specimen and observation data is primarily collected from the Colorado Front Range. The collection also contains specimens from other areas in the Southern Rocky Mountain Region, particularly sites with ongoing research projects organized by the Denver Botanic Gardens. Identifications are often only to family level.
Contact: Rick Levy (Richard.Levy@botanicgardens.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 05db5b76-3037-46db-ba55-79607d9fc050
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Rights Holder: Denver Botanic Gardens

DMNS-Arac

Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Arachnology

Worldwide in scope though with a focus on the American West, the Arachnology collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science comprises over 50,000 specimen lots and is growing every year. The holdings include primary types and paratypes. Holdings are particularly strong in Colorado species and in Solifugae, with 13 primary types and 65 paratypes. The Colorado Spider Survey, initiated at DMNS in 1999, has vastly expanded our knowledge of the Colorado spider fauna. The collection is housed in the Avenir Collections Center - an onsite state-of-the-art museum collections facility.
Contact: Dr. Paula Cushing (paula.cushing@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 722da3b7-73fe-41b6-b1c9-8801accd20f3
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Denver Museum of Nature & Science

DMNS-Ento

Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Entomology

Worldwide in scope though with a focus on the American West, the Entomology collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science comprises over 1,000,000 specimens and specimen lots. It contains over 950,000 specimens, with Coleoptera (750,000+ specimens) and Lepidoptera (130,000+ specimens) as primary foci. The holdings include at least 18 primary types and 150 paratypes, and dates of collection span from 1878 to the present. The dung beetle collection is the largest in the United States, and our scarab holdings are particularly strong in African as well as regional material. The Colorado Scarab Survey and the Colorado Microlepidoptera Survey, both long-term projects initiated and conducted by DMNS, are steadily growing our regional holdings and our knowledge of the Colorado fauna. The collection is housed in the Avenir Collections Center - an onsite state-of-the-art museum collections facility.
Contact: Dr. Frank Krell (frank.krell@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 610419d0-9c29-4a82-873e-14afbef0918f
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Rights Holder: Denver Museum of Nature & Science

DMNS-Para

Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Parasites

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science parasite collection was formally established in 2016 and grew out of a concerted effort to survey and collect parasites from vertebrate specimen deposited into the Museum’s amphibian, bird, mammal, and reptile collections. The collection consists of about 10,000 specimens or lots primarily housed in small vials (70%–95% ethanol)) and several hundred fleas and lice mounted on slides. The geographic focus of the collection parallels that of their vertebrate hosts with coverage across western North America. Taxonomic coverage includes ectoparasites such as insects (fleas, lice, streblids, and oestrids), arachnids (ticks and mites), and endoparasites, including representation from Nematoda and Cestoda. http://arctos.database.museum/dmns_para https://www.gbif.org/dataset/e8c6d072-2955-4c3e-955c-d9dfb0a2f91d
Contact: John R. Demboski (john.demboski@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 November 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

Derek A. Woller Insect Collection

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Contact: Derek A. Woller (asilid@gmail.com)
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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9638d427-3a06-4678-9170-d3b8c24611a9
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Diversidad de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de la Reserva de la Biosfera El Triunfo, Chiapas

Se propone conocer la diversidad de especies de abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) de la Reserva de la Biosfera "El Triunfo" y elaborar la primera base de datos georeferenciada, tanto de los especimenes de abejas como de las principales fuentes florales que utilizan. Se estima que cerca de 300 especies de abejas con alrededor de 20,000 ejemplares serán colectados para el áreas de estudio, se calcula que será posible determinar a nivel específico hasta 60% de la fauna de abejas, cerca de 180 especies. Además se reunirá información sobre los nombres populares de las especies de plantas más comunes y las utilizadas en la meliponicultura. La información se organizará en la base de datos del sistema BIOTICA. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 6 Género: 70 Subgénero: 49 Especie: 127 Infraespecie: 3
Contact: Rémy Benoit Marie Vandame (rvandame@ecosur.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Diversidad de ocho grupos de insecta (Odonata, Lycidae, Phengodidae, Lampyridae, Cantharidae, Cerambycidae, Syrphidae y Vespidae) en tres regiones con

El bosque tropical caducifolio (BTC) es uno de los ecosistemas tropicales más diversos en América, pero también es uno de los ecosistemas más amenazados (Janzen 1988). En México cubre 8% de su territorio (Trejo y Dirzo 2000) y alberga un gran número de especies endémicas (Ceballos y García 1995). Hasta 1990 solo 27% del BTC en México permanecía intacto (Trejo y Dirzo 2000), mientras que el resto ha sido alterado por actividades humanas, principalmente agricultura y ganadería (Maass 1995). Por otro lado, el conocimiento de la diversidad y distribución de insectos en el BTC en México es reducido y se circunscribe principalmente al generado en la región de Chamela, Jalisco (Pescador et al. en prensa, Rodríguez-Palafox y Corona-López en prensa). Considerando este escenario y el hecho de que el conocimiento de la diversidad biológica de cualquier comunidad es una premisa clave para cualquier esfuerzo de conservación (Wilson 1988), se inició un estudio a largo plazo para conocer la diversidad y distribución de Odonata, Lycidae, Phengodidae, Lampyridae, Cantharidae (Cantharoidea), Cerambycidae, Syrphidae y Vespidae (Insecta) en el BTC en México. Como parte de ese estudio, este proyecto tiene como propósito continuar estudiando la fauna de esos grupos de insectos en regiones con BTC aún no estudiadas y con ello incrementar nuestro conocimiento sobre estos grupos e identificar áreas que puedan ser importantes para su conservación por su riqueza o endemicidad. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 4 Familia: 16 Género: 230 Subgénero: 9 Especie: 406 Infraespecie: 26
Contact: Felipe Arturo Noguera Martínez (chamela@ibilogia.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

DUGWAY-DUG-ENT

Dugway Proving Ground Natural History Collection

The Dugway Proving Ground Natural History Collection houses more than 1,100 specimens of plants, insects, spiders, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals collected primarily from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground but also include some areas just outside the installation within Tooele County. The collection is used in support of the Army Mission on the West Desert of Utah, in scientific research, education and outreach efforts. One objective of this collection is to ensure preservation of species of concern and document localities and habitats for management of sensitive and/or rare species mandated by the endangered species act.
Contact:
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b192dbaf-eae2-4613-a48c-5e9d0c4cca5c
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Dugway Proving Ground Natural History Collection
Access Rights: CC BY-NC

ebut-e-obs

eButterfly

eButterfly was created in 2011 based upon two simple ideas. First, many people are passionate about observing butterflies and, second, every butterfly observation has potential research value for fundamental and conservation research. Even observations of common species from well-sampled areas have value for monitoring population change, phenology, and for other spatiotemporal studies. Using informal science education, eButterfly steers participants into standardized data collection and provides extensive resources to improve observers’ capacities for butterfly detection and identification. eButterfly users document the presence or presumed absence of species as well as abundance through checklist data collection.
Contact: Kent McFarland (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: eButterfly

Entomological Museum Francisco Luis Gallego -

This set of data corresponds to the results of the digitization process and publication of information on the orders Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera, developed by the Francisco Luis Gallego Museum of the National University of Colombia, Medellin. In total, 10,075 records of 27 families and 533 genera present in the Colombian territory were documented, collected from the 1940s to 2019. In addition, data is reported for 32 genera from other countries such as: Germany, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile , Costa Rica, United States and Mexico.D
Contact: Sandra Ines Uribe Soto (suribe@unal.edu.co)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 February 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: National University of Colombia

UMNH-ENT

Entomology Collection at the Natural History Museum of Utah

The Entomology Collection at the Natural History Museum of Utah consists of approximately 250,000 pinned and alcohol specimens from around the world, with greatest specimen numbers from the intermountain west. The collection dates back to the late 1800s, with heaviest collection periods in the 1930s and 1960s. The collection was relocated in 2012 to a new facility with optimal storage conditions. Areas of greatest strength include Lepidoptera, Cicadidae and Cicindelidae. Future project emphasis is on databasing the collection to increase research utilization of the collection.
Contact: Christy Bills (cbills@nhmu.utah.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 11991258-201f-460d-a69b-1ab112a01cf3
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Natural History Museum of Utah
Access Rights: not-for-profit use only, researchers are requested to let us know when they use our specimen data in publications

Entomology Collection of the Natural History Museum of the University of the Amazon

This data set includes 6,021 specimens with complete taxonomic information, most of which are identified to the Species category with 4,073 specimens, followed by 1,066 identified to order, 562 to Family, 299 to Genus, 15 to Subfamily and 6 to the category of Tribe. The specimens of the entomology collection are in the process of being curated and catalogued, in future updates of this publication the catalog numbers and information on collectors for 1,337 specimens will be included. This publication excludes 108 specimens from the collection that are still in the process of being catalogued.The Natural History Museum of the Universidad de la Amazonia UAM has been one of the most important extension, teaching and research support centers in the south of the country. It is linked to the Andean Amazon Biodiversity Research Center –INBIANAM. Its mission is to be a solid institution in the academic and research processes, through the formulation and development of projects framed in the hierarchical levels and attributes of biodiversity and the processes of sustainable development of the Amazon basin, which help to protect, conserve and study biological diversity, socialize and disseminate information among the scientific community, students and society in general. https://doi.org/10.15472/zpze4r
Contact: Edna Patricia Chilito Rodriguez
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 February 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Natural History Museum of the University of the Amazon

EGC-EGC_CRC

Eric G Chapman Coleoptera Research Collection

The research collection is entirely pinned Coleoptera. Families best represented are Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Noteridae, Gyrinidae, Elmidae, Hydrophilidae, Scarabaeidae, Buprestidae and Cerambycidae. The collection consists of 5,000-10,000 pinned specimens, 99% from North America north of Mexico.
Contact: Eric G Chapman (ericgchapman@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8a8d907e-43a2-4a32-83c6-f3607855a83d
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Eric G Chapman
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

Escarabajos y moscas de los bosques de niebla del sureste mexicano (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea; Diptera: Syrphidae y Calliphoridae)

El presente proyecto de investigación iniciará la evaluación y análisis de la riqueza faunística de los escarabajos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) y moscas (Diptera: Syrphidae y Calliphoridae) de los bosques de niebla del sureste mexicano. Los resultados obtenidos en este proyecto, constituirán la base inicial para un sistema permanente de estudio y monitoreo de la biodiversidad de este ecosistema tan diezmado en nuestro país. La investigación será producto de la unión de esfuerzos de dos instituciones mexicanas y tres extranjeras: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Instituto de Ecología A.C. (IE AC); el Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad, Universidad de Alicante (CIBIO-ESPAÑA), National Museum of Scotland (NMS-ESCOCIA) y Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (HMAG-ESCOCIA). El objetivo general que persigue el presente proyecto es establecer bases de información para el conocimiento de la diversidad de escarabajos y moscas asociados a un paisaje fragmentado de bosque de niebla en el Sureste de México. Aunado a ello, se proyecta recopilar información etnobiológica que los pobladores locales, principalmente de las etnias Mam y Cakchikel, posean acerca de los insectos a estudiar. Con todo lo anterior se pretende conformar una base de datos que es el principal producto de esta investigación. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 2 Familia: 6 Género: 63 Subgénero: 12 Especie: 143 Infraespecie: 1
Contact: Benigno Gómez y Gómez
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 July 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

EMEC-EMEC

Essig Museum of Entomology

The Essig Museum of Entomology maintains ca. six million pinned, slide-mounted, and fluid preserved specimens of terrestrial and fresh water arthropods with a focus on western North America, particularly California. Other well-represented regions include Costa Rica, Chile, Australia, New Caledonia, Hawaii, and French Polynesia. The collection was formalized in 1939 with the launch of the California Insect Survey, although some specimens date back to the 1890’s. New accessions continue to add to our holdings through faculty, staff, and student research, and generous donations from insect enthusiasts and other collectors. The Essig Museum is part of the Berkeley Natural History Museum consortium.
Contact: Peter Oboyski (essig.museum@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Regents of the University of California

EBD-EBDPC

Estación Biológica de Doñana Pollinator Collection

The EBD pollinator collection vouchers specimens of floral visitor insects with a focus on the Andalusian Region in Spain. The collection aims to hold well curated specimens for the more than 1000 bee species described in Spain.
Contact: Ignasi Bartomeus (ibartomeus@ebd.csic.es)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 01d33dde-dbf4-4d09-ba12-29cabc0f0d59
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: EBD-CSIC

Fauna de insectos sociales del estado de Campeche

Proyecto rescindido Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 2 Familia: 7 Género: 71 Subgénero: 12 Especie: 91 Infraespecie: 6
Contact: Luis Manuel Godínez García (lmgodine@jaina.uacam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 December 2019
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Digital Metadata: EML File

FMNH-FMNHINS

Field Museum of Natural History Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Myriapods

The Field Museum's Collection of Insects houses worldwide collections of Arthropoda (excluding Crustacea) that rank fifth in overall size among North American collections. At present, the collection includes approximately 4.1 million pinned insects and 8 million specimens or lots of insects and other arthropods in alcohol or on microscope slides. The collection receives heavy use by US and international visitors and borrowers. Collection data are now available online in KE EMu for many parts of the collection. Field Museum Collections Data is licensed CC0 (Public Domain), and media are licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.
Contact: Maureen Turcatel (Collection Manager) (mturcatel@fieldmuseum.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 January 2023
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Copyright © 2023 The Field Museum of Natural History
Access Rights: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/field-museum-natural-history-conditions-and-suggested-norms-use-collections-data-and-images

FLMNH-MGCL

Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, has become one of the world’s largest institutions for research on butterflies and moths, and an important research facility for insect science. The facility was constructed by combining the staff and merging the Lepidoptera holdings from the Allyn Museum of Entomology, the Florida State Collection of Arthropods and other University of Florida collections, and now may include over ten million specimens from all over the world, rivaling some of the largest Lepidoptera research collections globally. The facility includes a team of domestic and international researchers studying many areas of lepidopterology, including behavior, biodiversity, biogeography, ecology, genomics, physiology, systematics and taxonomy.
Contact: Akito Kawahara (kawahara@flmnh.ufl.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 December 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods

Contact:
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 50326ad3-c614-4903-98b7-c9dbcc9a3ea5
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Digital Metadata: EML File

SNIB-ECOSUR

Fortalecimiento de las colecciones de ECOSUR. Primera fase (Abejas)

Vandame R., J. Mérida, B. Prado y C. Pozo. 2019. Fortalecimiento de las colecciones de ECOSUR. Primera fase. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. Bases de datos (colección de abejas S.C.) SNIB-CONABIO, proyectos ME006, JE016, HA027 y BK063. Ciudad de México' En este proyecto se trabajará con 21 colecciones de ECOSUR las cuales se encuentran distribuidas en tres sedes. En Chetumal se tienen 11 colecciones (Zooplancton, Ictioplancton, Poliquetos, Nemátodos, Corales, Hormigas, Mariposas, Peces, Anfibios y reptiles, Aves y Mamíferos marinos), en San Cristóbal de las Casas 6 (Insectos, Abejas, Peces, Anfibios y reptiles, Mamíferos y un Herbario) y en Tapachula 4 (Insectos, Arañas, Herbario y Hongos). Para un mejor mantenimiento y uso de las colecciones, se hará trabajo curatorial en cada una de ellas y se actualizarán sus bases de datos, las cuales serán administradas por una Unidad de Bioinformática. Todas las especies registradas en las 21 colecciones de ECOSUR que participan en este proyecto, contarán con fotografías de alta calidad para su uso en identificaciones taxonómicas. Para lograr esta meta, se contará con la participación de 16 investigadores y 7 técnicos contratados por ECOSUR, además de 9 capturistas y 14 técnicos externos y una responsable de la Unidad de Bioinformática que se contratarán con recursos de este financiamiento. También se tendrá la participación de 13 taxónomos invitados y se comprará equipo necesario para el trabajo curatorial en estas 21 colecciones. Al término del proyecto se espera tener más de 98 145 registros en bases de datos administradas por la Unidad de Bioinformática, con datos de más de 5,000 especies de más de 1,000 localidades.
Contact: Patricia Ramos Rivera (patricia.ramos@conabio.gob.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 February 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File

PSUC-ENTO

Frost Entomological Museum

The research collection comprises over 1,300,000 specimens of insects representing at least 15,000 species. Specimens are pinned, slide mounted, and liquid preserved in alcohol with dried artifacts. The important collection holdings include the George and Alice Beatty Odonata Collection, John Pepper Aphid Collection, K.C. Kim Anoplura. Collection, archival collections from major inventory and assessment projects including several national parks and a PA National Guard Training Center and others.
Contact: Andrew R. Deans (adeans@psu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: http://grbio.org/cool/29fv-ztxs
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Digital Metadata: EML File

FU-FUIC

Furman University Insect Collection

FUIC is a small collection of almost 8000 specimens with a primary focus on Lepidoptera and Odonata. Our collection includes specimens from across the US, Canada, and Mexico, although the primary geographic focus is on South Carolina, USA. The oldest specimens are from the 1920’s, but more than half of the collection was made by John A. Snyder and Wade Worthen within the last 40 years.
Contact: Wade Worthen, Curator (wade.worthen@furman.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cfa99380-e71a-4aa5-ad32-c4ab689df57f
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Furman University

SCAN

General Research Observations

A collection of general, typically image-supported observations by general SCAN contributors. Also suited for adding external records that have no evident catalogue numbers and are 'communicated' via diverse (but trustworthy) sources.
Contact: Nico Franz (nico.franz@asu.edu)
Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 18cd2464-7d11-443b-bd21-3e4872c5a7fe
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Digital Metadata: EML File

GPSC

Gregory P. Setliff Collection - Kutztown University

TBD.
Contact: Gregory P. Setliff (setliff@kutztown.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 11c99ac1-da27-4232-88f0-6e0da3c5f4c1
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Guy Hanley Insect Research Collection

Approximately 20,000 coleopteran specimens in many families, a large portion from the Northern Great Plains of North America, and several focused areas research areas such as North American aphodiine scarabs, North Dakota water beetles, the scarab genus Serica and Coenonycha, and the weevil genus Listronotus.
Contact: Guy Hanley (Ghanley701@gmail.com)
Home Page: NA
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 December 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File

HNU-HNUSEL

Hannam University Systematic Entomology Laboratory

The Hannam University Systematic Entomology Laboratory is HNU-SEL's database maintained by Professor/Ph.D. Bong-Kyu Byun. KOERA of Lepidoptera.
Contact: Bong-Kyu Byun (bkbyun@hnu.ac.kr)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 46bc8fdb-2a8d-4367-9db1-58051d3adb3e
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UNL-NSM

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology Collection (HWML) Parasite Collection

The Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology (HWML) was established 29 March 1971 at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln as a new division in the University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM). The founding core of the collection was based on Dr. Manter's research collection of parasitic trematodes of oceanic fishes. In 1981 the HWML was designated as one of three National Resource Centers for Parasitology and many students associated with the lab have been trained in systematics as well as other aspects of parasitology. Three Henry Baldwin Ward Medalists (the highest annual award that is given by the American Society of Parasitologists) were students in Parasitology and in the lab while Professor Mary Hanson Pritchard directed the laboratory (Professor Pritchard is now Curator Emeritus). In the past 5 years, more than 150 publications have resulted from research both in the HWML and from specimens loaned from, or deposited into, the HWML as types or vouchers. On an annual basis we process more than 20 outgoing loans per year and we receive thousands of specimens into the collection from researchers world-wide for archiving and safe storage of valuable voucher specimens
Contact: Scott Gardner (slg@UNL.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 November 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

HDOA-HDOAPPC

Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Plant Pest Control Branch

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Plant Pest Control Branch’s Zoological Reference Collection is among the three largest in the State of Hawaii. It contains the largest representation of alien arthropods established in Hawaii, historical biological control agents released, and houses many Native Hawaiian species. In addition, HDOA has the largest representation of Hawaii Thysanoptera, parasitic Hymenoptera, and Sternorrhyncha.
Contact: Janis N. Matsunaga (Janis.N.Matsunaga@hawaii.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: da43acb9-0c86-422d-b297-915395cc7d3f
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Host Spiders

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 May 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

UKY-HIC-HIC

Hymenoptera Institute Collection

The Hymenoptera Institute Collection is a collection of largely parasitic Hymenoptera housed in Michael Sharkey’s Lab in the Entomology Department (Agricultural Science Center North) at the University of Kentucky. The museum houses over 350 drawers of Hymenoptera focusing on Braconidae, with the primary focus on the braconid subfamily Agathidinae. The braconid collection is of world-scope, having received samples from all continents except Antarctica and is primarily used to describe new species and conduct molecular phylogenetics studies. Major recent projects include the Thailand Biodiversity Project (TIGER), the Columbia Biodiversity Project, and the Hymatol Project (phylogeny of Hymenoptera). More information can be found at the Sharkey Lab webpage: http://sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/sharkeyProjects.php
Contact: Eric Chapman (ericgchapman@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a8a78602-8293-4636-943a-aa4e7a91dfe7
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Kentucky
Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

Ian Watkinson Lepidoptera Collection

Ian Watkinson's private entomological collection, primarily of micro-lepidoptera and Geometridae; currently located in Yuma, Arizona, U.S.A.
Contact: Ian Watkinson (monarchrst@aol.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 860c8319-165b-4281-943d-1c5d1472d177
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Digital Metadata: EML File

INHS-Crustacean

Illinois Natural History Survey - Crustacean Collection

We are harvesting records from this collection for the benefit of SCAN users. Please obtain records directly from their GBIF recordset to obtain primary data records.
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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 November 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

INHS-Insect Collection

Illinois Natural History Survey Insect Collection

The INHS Insect Collection, which comprises ca. 7 million prepared specimens as well as noninsect arthropods (e.g., arachnids and myriapods) and miscellaneous invertebrates (bryozoans), is one of the largest and oldest entomological collections in North America. The growth and wide-ranging scope of this collection can be credited to the diverse interests of the systematists who have spent all or part of their career at the Survey. Scientists such as Stephen A. Forbes, the first Director of the State Laboratory and Chief of the Natural History Survey; Theodore Frison, who succeeded Forbes; and H. H. Ross, who directed the intense systematics studies of the faunistic section for 40 years, placed considerable emphasis on enlarging the insect collection. These insects document the changing landscape and environmental conditions of the world. The INHS Insect Collection is one of the largest in North America. The most recent comprehensive size estimate was done in 1992. The heavy concentration of specimens from the last third of the 1800s also makes this one of North America's oldest insect and related arthropod collections. The INHS Insect Collection includes more than 3,079 primary and >10,000 secondary type specimens. Because of size, historical holdings, and wide breadth of coverage in certain groups, the collection is an important national and worldwide resource.
Contact: Tommy McElrath (monotomidae@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 June 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

iNat-RG

iNat research grade identified to species

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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 4 September 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File

iNaturalist-Observations

iNaturalist Research-grade Observations

iNaturalist.org is a website where anyone can record their observations from nature. Members record observations for numerous reasons, including participation in citizen science projects, class projects, and personal fulfillment.
Contact: Ken-ichi Ueda (kueda@inaturalist.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 February 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Rights for individual observations belong to the individual observers. In jurisdictions where collections of data are are considered intellectual property, the rights holder of this collection is the California Academy of Sciences.
Access Rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. Anyone is free to access it for non-commercial use.

CIQ-ENT

Insect Collection of Quebec (CIQ-ENT)

The description below comes from Canadensys, which serves CIQ data The Quebec Insect Collection was established in the 1970s and 1971s by bringing together the collection of the Department of Cultural Affairs, previously held at the Natural History Museum of Quebec, and those of the Department of Agriculture and Colonization and the Ministry of Lands and Forests of the time. These three collections included nearly 1,000 drawers and just over 60,000 specimens, several of which had been collected at the beginning of the century. The dataset published here represents the odonates of the CIQ.
Contact: Joseph Moisan-DeSerres (Joseph.Moisan-DeSerres@mapaq.gouv.qc.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 October 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

IMQC-ENT

Insectarium de Montréal (IMQC)

This dataset is provided by Canadensys https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ciq-specimens, please go there to obtain raw data. Favret C (2019): Quebec insect collection (CIQ). v2.1. Government of Quebec. Dataset / Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/msuujw Rights. The Montréal Insectarium was created thanks to the initiative of notary and self-taught entomologist Georges Brossard, who, in 1988, donated a major collection of naturalized insects. This collection was displayed until the complete renovation of the permanent exhibition in 2011. Then, in 1989, the scientific and historical collection of Brother Firmin Laliberté was used as a starting point for the Insectarium’s scientific collections. The Insectarium’s scientific collections are composed of more than 225,000 insect specimens and include major specialized collections for certain taxa. They also offer a synoptic overview of Québec’s insects. Over the past five years, more than 900 type specimens have been put into the Insectarium’s scientific collections.
Contact: Colin Favret (colin.favret@umontreal.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 January 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File

INBio-ENT

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad - Entomology

Vargas M (2016). Insecta of Costa Rica (INBio). Version 1.7. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Costa Rica. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mykn0u accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-01. Occurrence records for bees published by the National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) of Costa Rica.
Contact: Manuel Vargas (mvargas@inbio.ac.cr)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 March 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)

GLA-iBOL

International Barcode of Life project (iBOL)

The International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL) was formally activated in October 2010. Its first phase (2010-2015) will lead to the acquisition of DNA barcode records for 5M specimens representing 500K species. iBOL will release each barcode record in two phases. The initial phase will release barcode sequence(s), trace files, high-level (ordinal) taxonomic assignment, GPS co-ordinates and the country of collection. This phase of data release will occur automatically on a quarterly basis in datafiles posted on this page as well as at GenBank. The second phase of data release will involve a more precise taxonomic assignment and ancillary data, such as images, for each specimen.The data released to date consists of records for 2,869,168 sequences analyzed at the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding at the University of Guelph and the Centre for Environmental & Molecular Algal Research at the University of New Brunswick during the first year of iBOL ramp-up (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010) and the 66 months of the officially activated iBOL project (July 1, 2010 - Dec 31, 2015). These specimens are derived from many collaborators in many nations.

These data are harvested from an instance on GBIF, which may be found here: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/040c5662-da76-4782-a48e-cdea1892d14c
Contact: Roderic D. M. Page (Roderic.Page@glasgow.ac.uk)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File

Inventario de Hymenóptera; parasítica en México

Los recursos bióticos de México representan una de las mayores fuentes generadoras de biodiversidad en el mundo, ya que en el país se encuentran áreas neárticas y neotropicales. La gran diversidad de entomofauna presente en México ha sido comentada y analizada por varios autores, destacándose el trabajo Halfter. Desafortunadamente pocos grupos importantes de insectos se conocen, dentro de éstos los himenópteros son un grupo poco estudiado y casi desconocidos los himenópteros parasitoides. Lo anterior es debido a múltiples factores, por ejemplo la carencia de colecciones de estos grupos, literatura, equipo adecuado, métodos de preservación, y especialistas nacionales. Numerosos estudios han demostrado la importancia, aplicación e impacto estabilizador de "especies clave" en ecosistemas, de los himenópteros parasitoides. Es importante destacar el gran potencial de utilidad al usar y manejar estos grupos de especies benéficas como una alternativa de control de insectos plaga que no contamina ni produce alteraciones dañinas en el medio ambiente. Sin embargo, catalogar la literatura relacionada a las especies reportadas en México es una fase importante y necesaria a realizar en primer término para el buen funcionamiento de estos insectos benéficos. Dentro de las especies de himenópteros parasitoides de mayor utilidad y aplicación exitosa en control biológico se encuentran los calcidoides. En México, estos grupos se han estudiado recientemente, pero en la mayoría de los casos son conocidos a nivel de género. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 2 Orden: 2 Familia: 30 Género: 688 Subgénero: 11 Especie: 507 Infraespecie: 13
Contact: Alejandro González Hernández (agonzale@fcb.uanl.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 December 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

Inventario de la lepidopterofauna de la Sierra de Huautla

Este trabajo tiene el propósito de contribuir al conocimiento de la diversidad de Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) de la Cuenca Oriental del Balsas, en particular la de la Sierra de Huautla y áreas adyacentes. La Cuenca del Balsas es una de las regiones en donde se ha encontrado una buena representación de la riqueza y endemismos de la flora, de la herpetofauna y de la avifauna mexicanas. Sin embargo, prácticamente no se tiene información en lo que respecta a los papilionoideos, específicamente de aquellos asociados a la selva baja caducifolia de la Sierra de Huautla. Hasta la fecha se han registrado 70 especies pertenecientes a 51 géneros de las familias Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae y Lycaenidae, en solo cinco localidades de recolecta dentro de los municipios de Chietla, Chiautla, Huhuetlán y Teotlalco en el estado de Puebla. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 5 Género: 85 Especie: 150 Infraespecie: 88
Contact: María de las Mercedes Luna Reyes (mmluna@puma2.zaragoza.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Inventario de las mariposas de la selva baja de las sierras de Taxco-Huautla, Guerrero (RTP120)

Este proyecto tiene el propósito de conocer la diversidad de las mariposas de la selva baja caducifolia de la porción norte del estado de Guerrero, especialmente del área comprendida en las Sierras de Taxco-Huautla; adicionalmente, se pretende conocer la distribución local y estacional de estos papilionoideos en el área de estudio. La región prácticamente no ha sido explorada, por lo que este trabajo representa el primer inventario de Papilionoidea. Se trata de un estudio extensivo en el que se considerarán el mayor número de localidades para obtener un inventario más completo. Se propone efectuar salidas al campo mensuales durante 22 meses durante las cuales se recolectarán ejemplares con redes aéreas y trampas cebadas, y se tomarán fotografías de las mariposas. Todos los ejemplares serán determinados taxonómicamente hasta el nivel de especie o subespecie, según corresponda. Posteriormente, se integrará la lista específica y se analizará la distribución de los papilionoideos. Se prepararán en alfiler al menos 2000 ejemplares. Se ingresarán 8,000 registros a la base de datos BIÓTICA. Todos los ejemplares tanto en sobre como en alfiler quedarán depositados en la Colección Lepidopterológica del Museo de Zoología de la FES Zaragoza. PALABRAS CLAVE: diversidad, mariposas diurnas, Papilionoidea, selva baja caducifolia, selvas secas.
Contact: María de las Mercedes Luna Reyes (mmluna@puma2.zaragoza.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 June 2017
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Inventario de los ropaloceros (Lepidoptera) de la Sierra Gorda, estado de Querétaro, México

Se pretende realizar el primer inventario de mariposas diurnas de la Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda, estado de Querétaro. Para esto, se realizará un ciclo anual de muestreos con 7 localidades representativa de los principales ecosistemas presentes. Esperamos que la representatividad en un ciclo anual se acerque al 80 % del total de la fauna de la región. Como resultado se espera publicar un artículo, obtener una base de datos, identificar las especies de valor comercial y dejar 7 campesinos capacitados para fases posteriores de aprovechamiento sustentable de este recurso. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 6 Género: 247 Especie: 462 Infraespecie: 233
Contact: Roberto de la Maza Elvira
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 December 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

JMM-JMMI

Joseph Moore Museum

The Joseph Moore Museum (JMM), established in 1887, evolved from the personal collecting of Earlham College’s second president. The JMM collection is currently estimated at more than 53,000 specimens in the combined Ornithology, Mammal, Invertebrate, Herpetology, Vertebrate Paleontology, and Anthropology Collections. JMM curates multiple preparation types including study skins, skeletal material, fluid preserved specimens, nests, eggs, taxidermy, tissues, and anthropological objects. A significant portion of the collection is from Indiana, however it has a broad geographic representation for teaching purposes.
Contact: Ann-Eliza Lewis (lewisan@earlham.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 7added08-8b32-4b34-8b98-bc6b18e9c230
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Joseph Moore Museum Earlham College
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

KSU-MEPAR

K-State Museum of Entomological and Prairie Arthropod Research

The Kansas State University Museum of Entomological and Prairie Arthropod Research (KSU-MEPAR) is nearly as old as Kansas State University itself, having been started in 1879 by E. A. Popenoe, the first full-time entomologist employed at the Kansas State College. The collection has grown considerably since that time and is estimated to contain approximately 300,000 specimens. The type collection includes 52 holotypes, and 2,214 paratype specimens representing 668 species. The majority of the specimens are from the midwestern states and the western U.S. Many of the specimens were collected from local and regional prairies between 1880 and 1920, providing valuable historical specimens and records of the fauna before the land succumbed to farming and ranching. A significant amount of Neotropical, and some Old World, specimens are also present. The primary purposes of the museum are to collect, preserve, and maintain a research collection of insects and other arthropods, and their associated information, that represent the natural history of Kansas and the prairie region; to study and interpret this information; to make the specimens and other information available for study by researchers; and to use the museum as a resource of information through publications, exhibits, displays, and other informative outreach activities.
Contact: Gregory Zolnerowich (gregz@ksu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 190d5a14-8148-4a50-bfd8-5323fae78671
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Digital Metadata: EML File

KNWR-ENT

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Entomology Collection

Orphaned collection, linked to GBIF http://arctos.database.museum/knwr_ento
Contact: Matt Bowser (none)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 October 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

UCSC-RMIC

Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History, University of California Santa Cruz, Insect Collection

The Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History at UC Santa Cruz houses collections that are mostly local to the Central Californian Coast, including habitats in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Monterey Bay Area, and the Monterey Bay itself (seabirds and marine algae). Collections include: marine algae (400+), plants (10,000+), bryophytes (200+), fungi (1000+), lichens (200+), insects (90,000+), fish (500+), amphibians (500), reptiles (500), birds (1500), and mammals (800+). Notable collections include the Randall Morgan Insect Collection which contains ~70,000 specimens collected systematically at 39 locations from 1989-199 in natural and rare habitats in Santa Cruz County, California. For each specimen, the species of plant it was collected from was also recorded. Morgan collected systematically at each location over an entire year (and in some locations over multiple years) and kept precise records on plant phenology. The collection mainly consists of hymenoptera, diptera, and lepidoptera but also contains good representation of other common orders.
Contact: Chris Lay (cml@ucsc.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1020510b-27c4-4b72-9532-eceb38d4475a
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of California, Santa Cruz
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

KKC-KKC

Kojun Kanda Insect Collection

TBD
Contact: Kojun Kanda (kk933@nau.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 002c13d2-80a9-47db-a28b-4d2b94b7ec96
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UAM-KWP

KWP Lepidoptera Collection (Arctos)

Kenelm W. Philip Lepidoptera collection,includes the Alaska Lepidoptera Survey (ALS) collection. ALS was a citizen science initiative lead by Dr. Philip that was active from 1970 to 2014 and included over 600 people. 90% of the KWP pinned collection (~43,200 specimens) will be transferred to the NMNH in August 2018.
Contact: Derek Sikes (dssikes@alaska.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 21 March 2019
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera y Heterocera) de áreas prioritarias para la conservación en la Península de Yucatán, con registros de adultos y estados inmad

El trabajo de este proyecto se enfoca en la actualización de la base de datos de la Colección de Lepidopteros de Yucatán, incluyendo aspectos curatoriales, asi como la recolecta de ejemplares en la zona norte del estado de Quintana Roo, región prioritaria de Yum Balam con la entrega del listado de especies de la zona. En el Museo de Zoología de Ecosur, unidad Chetumal, se encuentra depositada la primera colección de Lepidoptera de Yucatán que está completamente documentada. Desde 1990 se han realizado estudios faunísticos de este grupo en diversas localidades de la Península de Yucatán a través de proyectos financiados y de la elaboración de tesis de licenciatura, maestría y doctorado. La colección incluye especies de los subordenes Rhopalocera y Heterocera, asi como la reciente colección accesoria que incluye estados inmaduros de estos dos grupos. La colección ha sido revisada por taxónomos especialistas en diferentes familias de ambos subórdenes, y durante este proyecto contaremos con su asesoría. Como parte de los resultados se obtendrá la actualización de la base de datos de ambas colecciones con un incremento global de 30,000 registros, la lista de especies de la región prioritaria de Yum Balam y la curación de las colecciones mencionadas. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 8 Género: 279 Especie: 552 Infraespecie: 264
Contact: Sonia Alejandra Careaga Olvera (scareaga@conabio.gob.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

LepSnap Observations

This houses all images that are not served as "research grade" through iNaturalist or images linked to cataloged specimens in the SCAN/LepNet database.
Contact:
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b384cb2a-c88c-4d17-b313-6f72e27d93f7
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Digital Metadata: EML File

PSU-LUL

López-Uribe Lab Collection

The López-Uribe Lab at Pennsylvania State University researches the evolution and ecology of wild bees and beekeeping management. The lab’s collection is composed of bee specimens that were collected for various research projects and bee monitoring programs in Pennsylvania and beyond. A portion of the collection was donated from Dave Biddinger (PSU), Shelby Fleischer (PSU), and Sam Droege (USGS). Past research projects focused on blueberry pollination, eucerine bees, and wild bee species in Pennsylvania have influenced the collection.
Contact: Margarita López-Uribe (mml64@psu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 40f010d6-4e3c-464c-bac4-50e8f59c2d85
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: PSU-LUL

LCDI-LERC

Luther Entomological Research Collection

The Luther entomological research collection, one of the collections of the Hoslett Museum of Natural History at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, is an important repository of Northeast Iowa insect biodiversity and includes many state record specimens (insect species not previously found in Iowa) not found in the Iowa State University insect collection. The LERC has a unique role specializing in the documentation of insect biodiversity of the driftless region in NE Iowa, SE Minnesota, and SW Wisconsin.
Contact: Kirk Larsen (larsenkj@luther.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 028347c0-a33b-4a6f-9ecd-535358c5fbac
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Luther College

MAJC-MAJC

M. Andrew Johnston Collection

Research collection of M. Andrew Johnston, primarily containing specimens of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae, and more generally coleoptera from Arizona and the southwestern U.S. Located in Tempe, AZ.
Contact: Andrew Johnston (ajohnston@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 August 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: M. Andrew Johnston

M. Gollop Collection

Butterfly observations from the B. Gollop Collection. Data served via Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Mike Gollop (mike.gollop[AT]shaw.ca)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

Maine State Museum - Brianne Du Clos

A project collection of Maine bees from Brianne Du Clos
Contact: Brianne Du Clos (brianne.duclos@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a9656abd-2c6e-4ad2-b7fc-11fa0fa1cb12
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Digital Metadata: EML File

MMMN-MMMN

Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature

Transcribed from specimen labels or file cards; latitude and longitude provided by CNC or collector. Data served by CBIF to GBIF https://www.gbif.org/dataset/84472eb4-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Nancy Noble (nnoble[AT]manitobamuseum.mb.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

McDonald-Podesta-Fortuin-Gandhi Orchid Bee Collection

This collection provides a list of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Euglossini) compiled from field surveys conducted during January-October 2019 in the premontane wet forest of San Luis, Monteverde, Costa Rica. We collected 36 species of Euglossine bees across four genera. We provide new distribution data for nine species in two genera.
Contact: Kamal Gandhi (kgandhi@warnell.uga.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 7f76a650-22f0-4f98-a6fa-5a071b27bbea
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: U of Georgia

MGU-LEMQ

McGill University, Lyman Entomological Museum (LEMQ)

Insect and arachnid specimens deposited in the Lyman Entomological Museum, McGill University. Data served via Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Terry Wheeler (terry.wheeler@mcgill.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 April 2017
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File

MCMUC-MCMUC

McMaster University Collection

Transcribed from specimen labels; latitude and longitude provided by CNC or collector. Data served via GBIF https://www.gbif.org/dataset/844f5238-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a . This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Dr. Guy Baillargeon (baillarg[AT]agr.gc.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

MTU-MTUIC

Michigan Technological University Insect Collection

The Michigan Technological University Insect Collection features over 10,000 specimens primarily from under-sampled areas of Michigan's western Upper Peninsula, filling distribution gaps for the region. Housed in MTU's College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, the collection dates to the 1930s and has been used as a repository for both faculty and students since its inception. Michigan's Upper Peninsula is a heavily forested transitional zone between boreal and northern hardwood ecosystems, featuring unique habitat types and associated arthropod communities. This expanding collection features a large portion of specimens collected in the 1960s through the 1970s, as well as the early 2000s to the present day. Twenty-three insect orders are represented, with strengths in Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Lepidoptera.
Contact: Dr. Tara Bal (tbal@mtu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ba07fe83-e75b-482c-a7d4-a4cf7b9c9db9
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Digital Metadata: EML File

MC-MCIC

Middlebury College Insect Collection

Middlebury College Insect Collection, data provided through IPTs by Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Contact: Alexis Mychajliw (amychajliw@middlebury.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 July 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: MiddleBury College

MPM-MPM ENT

Milwaukee Public Museum, Invertebrate Zoology-Insect Collection

The Milwaukee Public Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection numbers about 800,000 specimens of which 70% are insects and 30% are other invertebrate groups encompassing a broad diversity of animals (52 zoological classes.) Lepidoptera and Coleoptera comprise the largest portions of the insect collections, and Mollusca and Crustacea the largest collections of other invertebrates. Special insect collections include the Type Collection (about 60 holotypes and 55 syntypes) of various orders, tropical Lepidoptera and gynandromorphs from James R. Neidhoefer, a worldwide collection of Sphingidae from William E. Sieker, the Albert Schwartz collection of West Indies Lepidoptera, determined Costa Rican cacao-pollinating midges (Ceratopogonidae and Cecidomyiidae) from Allen M. Young’s research. Other significant invertebrate collections include a comprehensive survey of WI crayfishes made by the WI Department of Natural Resources, Horton H. Hobbs III and Joan P. Jass, the Harold Mathiak collection of WI freshwater unionids, and the WI arachnid collection, including the historically important George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham Collection of jumping spiders. A more detailed description is available at http://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/invertebrate-zoology/collections-overview. For further information or loans, please contact Collection Manager Julia Colby (colby@mpm.edu).
Contact: Julia Colby (Collection Manager) (colby@mpm.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 March 2019
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Milwaukee Public Museum
Access Rights: Milwaukee Public Museum

UMN-EXT

Minnesota Bee Atlas

SCAN is mirroring the data from the Minnesota Bee Atlas the Operating from 2015-2020, the Minnesota Bee Atlas https://bellatlas.umn.edu/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=24. Please go to that site for the original data. Engaged citizen science volunteers in three protocol areas to study the diversity and distribution of native bees. This data includes observation and specimen records from Bee Atlas volunteers as well as specimen records from the University of Minnesota Bee Lab. Please contact Elaine Evans, Extension Educator and Bee Researcher at evan0155@umn.edu, with questions. Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR)
Contact: Britt Forsberg (forsb118@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 15 July 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File

MISSA-MEM

Mississippi Entomological Museum

The Mississippi Entomological Museum is located in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University near Starkville, Mississippi. The Mississippi Entomological Museum was formed in 1979, under the leadership of Dr. William H. Cross, to combine several private and institutional collections that were present in the state. The research collection contains more than 1,300,000 pinned specimens, and more than 35,000 are being added annually. The Mississippi Entomological Museum includes collections, beginning in the late 1800's of H. E. Weed, Henry Dietrich, J. M. Langston, R. W. Harned, Gladys Hoke-Lobdell, E. W. Stafford, M. R. Smith, William H. Cross, Leon W. Hepner, Bryant Mather, and Charles Bryson. Exotic material includes taxa from Central and South America, the Seychelles, New Caledonia, and the Fiji Islands. The MacDonald Collection, emphasizing Lepidoptera of Panama, is housed in the Mississippi Entomological Museum as well as the Ross E. Hutchins collection of photographs, which are primarily of insects and other natural history subjects, and the James Solomon collection of wood damage. More information about the collection is available at http://mississippientomologicalmuseum.org.msstate.edu/. For information pertaining to loans, contact the Curator, Terence Schiefer (tschiefer@entomology.msstate.edu).
Contact: JoVonn Hill (Jgh4@entomology.msstate.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 681c0543-167b-4f2a-94d3-61e9d3183ad3
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Mississippi Entomological Museum

MSU-MEC

Montana Entomology Collection

The institutional collection of Montana State University, we date to our founding by MSU’s first entomologist Robert Allen Cooley in 1898. The main collection is focused on North America North of Mexico insects and Montana non-insect invertebrates. Two extra-limital sub-collections are housed within the MTEC: the West Indian Beetle Fauna Project (WIBF) and Michael A. Ivie Collection (MAIC) for specimens from outside North America. Total curated holdings are estimated at over 2,000,000, including the important Daniel Gustafson and George Roemhild Aquatic Collections which make up half of the curated material. Strengths of the collection are in aquatic invertebrates from Greater Montana, large holdings from several National Parks, Montana Noctuidae and Coleoptera in general. The home of the Wild Bees of Montana Project, we are experiencing rapid growth, and we are rapidly developing into a major bee collection.
Contact: Michael A. Ivie (mivie@montana.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 672cfff0-2626-4165-92fe-339a5c4d7a3f
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: MSU
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

Moth Observation Database: David L. Wikle Personal Collection

Moth Observations Database: David L. Wikle Personal Collection is a series of observed moth specimens from the David L. Wikle Personal Collection collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (cgrinter@calacademy.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observation Database: Field Museum of Natural History

Moth Observations Database: Field Museum of Natural History Collection is a series of observed moth specimens from the Field Museum of Natural History Collection collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observation Database: Kansas State University

Moth Observations Database: Kansas State University Collection is a series of observed moth specimens from the Kansas State University Collection collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Chris Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observation Database: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Moth Observations Database: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Collection is a series of observed moth specimens from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Collection. This database is a project of Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: American Museum of Natural History

Moth Observations Database: American Museum of Natural History is a series of observed moth specimens from the American Museum of Natural History collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (cgrinter@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: California Academy of Sciences

Moth Observations Database: California Academy of Sciences is a series of observed moth specimens from the California Academy of Sciences collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (cgrinter@calacademy.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bc0036f7-95dd-4f46-95a6-b7eab7758a30
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Moth Observations Database: California Department of Food and Agriculture is a series of observed moth specimens from the California Department of Food and Agriculture collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: Canadian National Collection

Moth Observations Database: Canadian National Collection is a series of observed moth specimens from the Canadian National Collection collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Moth Observations Database: Colorado State University, Fort Collins is a series of observed moth specimens from the Colorado State University, Fort Collins collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Moth Observations Database: Denver Museum of Nature & Science is a series of observed moth specimens from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Dr. Frank Krell (frank.krell@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File

Moth Observations Database: LA County Museum of Natural History

Moth Observations Database: LA County Museum of Natural History is a series of observed moth specimens from the LA County Museum of Natural History collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: National Museum of Natural History

Moth Observations Database: National Museum of Natural History is a series of observed moth specimens from the National Museum of Natural History collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: Paul and Sandy Russel Personal Collection

Moth Observations Database: Paul and Sandy Russel Personal Collection is a series of observed moth specimens from the Paul and Sandy Russel Personal Collection collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: Peter Jump Personal Collection

Moth Observations Database: Peter Jump Personal Collection is a series of observed moth specimens from the Peter Jump Personal Collection collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: San Diego Natural History Museum

Moth Observations Database: San Diego Natural History Museum is a series of observed moth specimens from the San Diego Natural History Museum collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: Tom Dimock Personal Collection

Moth Observations Database: Tom Dimock Personal Collection is a series of observed moth specimens from the Tom Dimock Personal Collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: UC Berkeley

Moth Observations Database: UC Berkeley is a series of observed moth specimens from the UC Berkeley collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Peter Oboyski (essig.museum@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: UC Davis

Moth Observations Database: UC Davis is a series of observed moth specimens from the UC Davis collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: UC Riverside

Moth Observations Database: UC Riverside is a series of observed moth specimens from the UC Riverside collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

Moth Observations Database: University of Connecticut

Moth Observations Database: University of Connecticut is a series of observed moth specimens from the University of Connecticut collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN

UPR-MEBT-UPR

Museo de Entomología y Biodiversidad Tropical Collection - University of Puerto Rico

The “Museo de Entomología y Biodiversidad Tropical” (MEBT) contains approximately 200,000 specimens; representing 23 orders and collected predominantly on the Puerto Rican Bank (i.e., Puerto Rico, Vieques Island, Culebra Island, Mona Island, Caja de Muerto Island, Desecheo Island, U.S. and British Virgin Islands), and from other Caribbean Islands. The pinned specimen collection (approximately 70,000 records) is currently stored in 330 USNM drawers and in approximately 150 Schmitt boxes, with many collected over 100 years ago and organized by our founding entomologist, Dr. George N. Wolcott. An extensive accession number cards collection (20,000 cards, created from 1910-1997), letters and other correspondence (3,000) and media (film and photographs, 800) are available onsite. For further information and to arrange a visit or loan, please contact MEBT Director Dr. Rosa A. Franqui (rosa.franqui@upr.edu) or Curator Dr. Alex Segarra (alejandro.segarra@upr.edu).
Contact: Rosa A. Franqui (rosa.franqui@upr.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d30c0a89-d35b-40df-94b2-f88c6b96ed51
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Digital Metadata: EML File

MNHNSD-ARACH

Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” - Colección de Arácnidos

The Arachnids collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” (MNHNSD-ARACH) houses more than 4 000 lots containing around 10 100 specimens; these specimens belong to 9 orders, 76 families, 234 genera and 334 species, of which 106 are endemics from Hispaniola Island. Of all registers, 68 % is identified at least to genera level, and around 3 400 have been digitized, with Araneae representing more than 75 %. Most of the records are from Hispaniola, specifically from Dominican Republic, dating from 1974 to present; however, the collection also contains a few specimens from other Caribbean countries which were received through donations. The arachnids’ orders represented in the collection are: Acari (not included in the dataset), Amblypygi, Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones, Schizomida, Scorpiones, Solifugae, and Thelyphonida; with Palpigradi being the only one not represented of those recorded from Hispaniola. The publication of these data (Acari is NOT included) will take place in two parts: a) an occurrence dataset of all non-spiders’ arachnids will be published before May 31st, 2022; b) an updated publication to include the spiders’ records will be made before May 15th, 2023. Publishing this collection (MNHNSD-ARACH) following the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) standards is part of the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID; project BID-CA2020-031-NAC), developed by GBIF Secretariat, and funded by the European Union. This collection is being managed as a Data snapshot of local collection database, at Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network portal (SCAN), from Symbiota.
Contact: Gabriel de los Santos (g.delossantos@mnhn.gov.do)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 May 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano”

MNHNSD-ORTH

Museo Nacional de Historia Natural “Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano” - Colección de Ortópteros

Contact:
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File

Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ) and Pompilid hosts

special data set from GBIF used for a publication and until notified here this data set is still being developed. Currently the lat-long for many points are incorrect (3-31-21)
Contact: Neil Cobb (neilscobb@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 March 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

The Museum of Comparative Zoology was founded in 1859 on the concept that collections are an integral and fundamental component of zoological research and teaching. This more than 150-year-old commitment remains a strong and proud tradition for the MCZ.

The present-day MCZ contains over 21-million specimens in ten research collections which comprise one of the world's richest and most varied resources for studying the diversity of life. The museum serves as the primary repository for zoological specimens collected by past and present Harvard faculty-curators, staff and associates conducting research around the world.

As a premier university museum and research institution, the specimens and their related data are available to researchers of the scientific and museum community.
Contact: bdim@oeb.harvard.edu (bdim@oeb.harvard.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 23 July 2022
IPT / DwC-A Source:
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Access Rights: The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Copyright © 2018 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Some Rights Reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

MNA-WACA

Museum of Northern Arizona - Walnut Canyon National Monument Collection

The Museum of Northern Arizona Walnut Canyon National Monument Collection (MNA-WACA) is an important collection of both specimens and associated images of arthropods within Walnut Canyon National Monument on the Colorado Plateau. The MNA houses over 300,000 arthropod specimens, collected over a span of 100 years, primarily from the western United States. The MNA is working on projects related to matters of ecology, conservation and biodiversity for National Parks and National Monuments. The goal of the MNA-WACA collection, on behalf of the National Park Service and the MNA, is to represent material relevant to ecologists, taxonomists, conservationists and the public.
Contact: Gary D. Alpert (galpert@musnaz.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
Digital Metadata: EML File

MNA-INV

Museum of Northern Arizona Invertebrate Collections

BIOMNA is a specimen-based information management archive of macroinvertebrates from the entomologically poorly-known Colorado River basin (CRB). In part, the life work of Dr. Larry Stevens (Museum of Northern Arizona Biology Curator), this database provides information on all taxa in the Museum of Northern Arizona’s invertebrate collections, as well as Dr. Stevens’ observations and notes from data-mining efforts in multiple other collections. This database was designed by Jeri D. Ledbetter and Benjamin Brandt. This database is intended to be used by any researcher interested in increasing knowledge about invertebrate biology, ecology, biogeography, or conservation in the CRB. This database is not intended to be used for commercial exploitation. However, while every effort will be made to provide information readily to researchers, it also is important to note that museums like the private, non-profit MNA struggle mightily to remain solvent, and that it becomes culturally critical to support museum collections.
Contact: Larry Stevens (farvana@aol.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 June 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: MNA

MNA-GRCA

Museum of Northern Arizona – Grand Canyon National Park Collection

The Museum of Northern Arizona Grand Canyon National Park Collection, (MNA-GRCA), is an important collection of both specimens and associated images of arthropods within Grand Canyon National Park on the Colorado Plateau. Terrestrial arthropod specimens were collected along the 250 mile Colorado River within Grand Canyon in collaboration with USGS. Citizen scientists (river boatman) and others collected biodiversity specimens along the river using a black-light at night as an attractant trap. The MNA houses over 300,000 arthropod specimens, collected over a span of 100 years, primarily from the western United States. The MNA is working on projects related to matters of ecology, conservation and biodiversity for National Parks and National Monuments. The goal of the MNA-GRCA collection, on behalf of the National Park Service and the MNA, is to represent material relevant to ecologists, taxonomists, conservationists and the public.
Contact: Gary D. Alpert (galpert@musnaz.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cb7fc4b1-5e00-41b9-9ef6-8391f8c8f129
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Digital Metadata: EML File

MNA-PEFO

Museum of Northern Arizona – Petrified Forest National Park Collection

The Museum of Northern Arizona Petrified Forest National Park Collection, (MNA-PEFO), is an important collection of both specimens and associated images of arthropods within Petrified Forest National Park on the Colorado Plateau. The MNA houses over 300,000 arthropod specimens, collected over a span of 100 years, primarily from the western United States. The MNA is working on projects related to matters of ecology, conservation and biodiversity for National Parks and National Monuments. The goal of the MNA-PEFO collection, on behalf of the National Park Service and the MNA, is to represent material relevant to ecologists, taxonomists, conservationists and the public.
Contact: Gary D. Alpert or Tanner Carothers (galpert@musnaz.org or tscaroth@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 54371ec6-eead-41b2-90b9-63120b184448
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Digital Metadata: EML File

MSB-PARA

Museum of Southwestern Biology Division of Parasitology - ParasiteTracker

The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) is a university-based research natural history collection at the University of New Mexico. The MSB has supported original research of national and international significance on the systematics, ecology, and life history of plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates for more than 50 years. The MSB consists of 9 divisions, including the Division of Mammals, the Division of Parasites, and the Division of Genomic Resources which are participating in The Parasite Tracker TCN. The MSB includes both historic collections as well as new accessions from current biodiversity inventories and is actively growing with collections of holistic/extended specimens through local, national and international field efforts. The Division of Mammals is a premier research collection, ranking among the three largest worldwide and largest university based mammal collection, with more than 300,000 cataloged specimens (representing ~1700 species) including thousands of host vouchers linked to parasite records . The MSB Parasite Division has over 30,000 cataloged parasite specimens, including vertebrate helminth and ectoparasite parasite specimens linked to their host vouchers at MSB and other institutions. Highlights of Our Collection • The largest collection of endo- and ectoparasite specimens from high latitude projects, mainly from small mammals, including the lifetime parasite and mammal collections of Robert L and Virginia R. Rausch, the Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program,and the high latitude mammal and parasite Beringian Coevolution and CIIBA Projects.
Contact: Mariel Campbell, Sara V. Brant, Jon L. Dunnum (campmlc@unm.edu sbrant@unm.edu jldunnum@unm.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 2 March 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Museum of Southwestern Biology
Access Rights: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/

UNM-MSBA

Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Arthropods

The MSB Division of Arthropods houses collections from the southwestern US as well as Central and South America and other areas of the world. Species concentrations are in Arachnida, Myriapoda, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Orthoptera. The collection began with material from ecological research (including LTER sites and several NPS sites) and is now increasing its systematics focus. There are an estimated 200,000 specimens but many are still being integrated into the collection.
Contact: Dave Lightfoot (dlightfo@unm.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cf2cd47f-8b74-43a7-b5e4-5bedf5d18cde
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Museum of Southwestern Biology
Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

NMK-INV

National Museums of Kenya, Invertebrate Section

National Museums Kenya is an organization comprising multiple museums. NMK, Nairobi refers to the primary natural history museum in the country. It includes a herbarium (code EA) and multiple other sections (mammalogy, ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, invertebrate zoology, paleontology, and palynology (for fossil pollen). Satellite museums around the country host assorted animal and plant collections.
Contact: Morris Mutua (mmutua@museums.or.ke)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 February 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: National Museums of Kenya
Access Rights: National Museums of Kenya

USGS-PWRC-US-CA-MX

Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab - US-CA-MX - Bees

Species occurrence records for native and non-native bees, wasps and other insects collected using mainly pan, malaise, and vane trapping; and insect netting methods in Canada, Mexico, the non-contiguous United States, U.S. Territories (specifically U.S. Virgin Islands), and U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. Some records also contain notes regarding plants or substrates from which insects were collected or that were present and/or in flower at the time the insects were collected. Unless otherwise noted, taxonomic determinations (identifications) were completed by Sam Droege (USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - PWRC).
Contact: Sam Droege (sdroege@usgs.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 May 2019
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Digital Metadata: EML File

USGS-PWRC

Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab - World - Bees

Species occurrence records for native and non-native bees and other insects collected using mainly pan, malaise, and vane trapping; and insect netting methods in Armenia, Bahamas, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ghana, and Israel. Some records also contain notes regarding plants or substrates from which insects were collected or that were present and/or in flower at the time the insects were collected. Unless otherwise noted, taxonomic determinations (identifications) were completed by Sam Droege (USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - PWRC).
Contact: Sam Droege (sdroege@usgs.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 15 August 2016
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)

LACM-LACMEC

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

This is a snapshot of publicly available data.

With over 800,000 described species — more than half of all known living organisms — insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth. The Natural History Museum's entomology collection has more than 5.8 million specimens of insects and spiders. The collection's strength lies in its holdings of specimens of ants, phorid flies, scarab beetles, and moths from North and Central America. Museum scientists conduct world-class research on systematics, studying species and their relationships, the evolution of major groups, and fossil insects in amber. They conduct field work on insect biodiversity at home and in tropical countries. Entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County goes back as far as 1913, when the Museum first opened.
Contact: Brian Brown (bbrown@nhm.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 June 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File

NAUF-NAUF5F

NAU Forest Entomology Collection

The collection contains forest insects collected primarily in Coconino and Kaibab National Forests. Many bark beetle and wood borer specimens, and ground beetles (mostly Carabidae and Tenembrionidae) are in the collection. The collection also houses hundreds of pine sawfly species many of which are voucher specimens for publications and books. Ant collections from Guana Africa are also present in the collection.
Contact: Richard Hofstetter (Rich.Hofstetter@nau.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5698d7d7-64cd-4ccf-9cc1-5e07a83e27d6
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: NAU
Access Rights: NAU

NCSUR-NCSU_ACEYDSC

NCSU Research Dataset Collection

Adrian Carper, Elsa Youngsteadt, and Danesha Seth Carley Collection. This collection comprises bee specimens from three researcher collections. Only bee specimens collected via hand netting and in Wake Co., NC have been uploaded as a part of this collection. See publications below for methods. Carper AL. Effects of suburbanization on plant-pollinator interactions. Dartmouth College. 2013. Carper AL, Adler LS, Warren PS, Irwin RE. Effects of suburbanization on forest bee communities. Environmental Entomology. 2014;43: 253–262. doi:10.1603/EN13078 O’Brien JE. The contribution of roadside wildflower plantings for enhancing pollinator habitat in the piedmont of North Carolina. North Carolina State University. 2016.
Contact: Becky Irwin (reirwin@ncsu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a9d655b3-7398-4f62-890d-a027fb8d81fc
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: NCSU

NEON-CARC-DNA

NEON Biorepository Carabid Collection (DNA Extracts)

This collection contains genetic extracts derived from select ground beetle vouchers (Coleoptera: Carabidae; NEON sample class: bet_expertTaxonomistID_in.geneticSampleID). Ground beetles are sampled using pitfall traps (16 oz deli containers filled with 150 or 250 mL of diluted propylene glycol preservative). Multiple traps are deployed in each of 10 plots at each terrestrial NEON site (up to 4 traps per plot; maximum 40 traps per site), with traps arrayed approximately 20 meters from the center of the plot in each of the four cardinal directions. Sampling occurs biweekly throughout the growing season (when temperatures are above 4 degrees C). Following trap collection, all beetles from the family Carabidae are sorted by NEON technicians and identified to species or morphospecies. Annually, up to 95 Carabidae per site are pointed or pinned, receive secondary morphology-based identification by an expert taxonomist, and have genetic sequences produced at the cytochrome oxidase I barcode region. Beetles that are rare, particularly difficult to identify, or poorly represented in previous collection events are prioritized for DNA sequencing. Only beetle specimens that have been identified by an expert taxonomist are eligible for DNA barcoding. Barcodes of cytochrome oxidase I are generated per specimen and are cross-posted on the Barcode of Life Data Portal (http://www.boldsystems.org/). Genetic extracts in 96-well plates from the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding are archived in the NEON Biorepository at -80 degrees Celsius. See related links below for protocols and NEON related data products. Information about the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding can be found at https://ccdb.ca/
Contact: NEON Biorepository (biorepo@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 June 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

NEON-CARC-PV

NEON Biorepository Carabid Collection (Pinned Vouchers)

This collection contains pinned Carabid adults from pitfall trapping (NEON sample class: bet_IDandpinning_in.individualID). Ground beetles are sampled using pitfall traps (16 oz deli containers filled with 150 or 250 mL of propylene glycol). Up to four traps are deployed in each of 10 plots at all terrestrial NEON sites (up to 40 traps per site), with traps arrayed approximately 20 meters from the center of the plot in each of the four cardinal directions. In 2018, NEON stopped sampling the 'North' trap site; only 30 traps were deployed per site per bout after that point. Sampling occurs biweekly throughout the growing season (when temperatures are above 4 degrees C). Following trap collection, all beetles from the family Carabidae are sorted by NEON technicians and identified to species or morphospecies. A subset of collected Carabidae are pointed or pinned, while other specimens (non-pinned/non-pointed carabids, invertebrate bycatch, and vertebrate bycatch) are stored in 95% ethanol for archiving, and may be pooled into a single archive vial per plot. Regardless of storage method, all collections data are reported at a per trap resolution. A subset of pinned ground beetles (up to 467 per site per year) are sent to an expert taxonomist for secondary identification. When multiple taxonomic determinations are available, expert taxonomy is used as the current determination. All other determination information is populated into the identification history for each specimen.
Contact: NEON Biorepository (biorepo@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 June 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

NEON-CARC-TS

NEON Biorepository Carabid Collection (Trap Sorting)

This collection contains subsamples of Carabid adults from pitfall sampling (NEON sample class: bet_sorting_in.subsampleID.bet). Ground beetles are sampled using pitfall traps (16 oz deli containers filled with 150 or 250 mL of propylene glycol). Four traps are deployed in each of 10 plots at each terrestrial NEON site (40 traps per site), with traps arrayed approximately 20 meters from the center of the plot in each of the four cardinal directions. Sampling occurs biweekly throughout the growing season (when temperatures are above 4 degrees C). Following trap collection, all beetles from the family Carabidae are sorted by NEON technicians and identified to species or morphospecies. A subset of collected Carabidae are pointed or pinned, while other specimens (non-pinned/non-pointed carabids, invertebrate bycatch, and vertebrate bycatch) are stored in 95% ethanol for archiving, and may be pooled into a single archive vial per plot. Regardless of storage method, all collections data are reported at a per trap resolution. A subset of pinned ground beetles (up to 467 per site per year) are sent to an expert taxonomist for secondary identification. Identifications performed on these individuals may be used to estimate uncertainty in parataxonomist identification by NEON technicians.
Contact: NEON Biorepository (biorepo@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 June 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

NEON-MOSQ-BI

NEON Biorepository Mosquito Collection (Bulk Identified)

This collection contains vials of identified mosquitoes stored in bulk (not pathogen tested) from CO2 trapping at terrestrial sites (NEON sample class: mos_archivepooling_in.archiveVialIDList). When adult mosquitoes are active, sampling occurs (via CDC light traps) every two weeks at core sites and every four weeks at relocatable sites. A sampling bout consists of one trapping night and the following day for up to ten plots per site. Following collection, samples are sent to a professional taxonomist where a subsample of each catch generated from each trap is identified to species and sex. Vials containing identified mosquitoes are archived in 2, 5, 10, or 15 mL cryovials in liquid nitrogen, or at -80 for samples collected before 2020.
Contact: NEON Biorepository (biorepo@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 June 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

NEON-MOSC-PV

NEON Biorepository Mosquito Collection (Pinned Vouchers)

This collection contains pinned mosquito vouchers from CO2 trapping (NEON sample class: mos_identification_in.individualIDList). When adult mosquitoes are active, sampling occurs (via CDC light traps) every two weeks at core sites and every four weeks at relocatable sites. Before 2018, a sampling bout consisted of two trapping nights and the intervening day for up to ten plots per site. Beginning in 2018, a sampling bout consists of approximately 24 hours of trapping (one night and one daytime interval) at up to ten plots per site. Following collection, samples are sent to a professional taxonomist where a subsample of each catch generated from each trap is identified to species and sex.
Contact: NEON Biorepository (biorepo@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 June 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

NSMLV-ENT

Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas Entomology Collection

Over 20,000 mostly Lepidoptera specimens collected by former curator at the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, George T. Austin, local collector Doug Mullins, and various other collectors. The collection represents a diverse collection from around the world with an emphasis on Nevada and surrounding regions including the Mojave Desert and the Great Basin. All holotypes were deposited the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity in Gainesville, Florida in 2004.
Contact: Sali A. Underwood, Curator of Natural History (sunderwood@nevadaculture.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1552580c-02b7-430c-9b18-7250ff3769c8
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas Entomology Collection

NMSU-NMSU

New Mexico State Collection of Arthropods

The New Mexico State Collection of Arthropods is located at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. It currently houses approximately 150,000 arthropod specimens as well as the Merrill Sweet Collection (350,000 specimens). The NMSU Collection primarily is composed of arthropods from the western United States, with an emphasis on the arachnids of the arid Southwest. The goals of the collection include survey of the arthropod fauna of New Mexico and the Southwest, providing reference material for researchers, and providing outreach to our constituents in the state and abroad.
Contact: Scott Bundy (cbundy@nmsu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8b97d772-e666-4dd9-ac5d-c4701d593e41
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: NMSU

NYSM-ARTH

New York State Museum Arthropod Collection

The insect collection contains more than one million general specimens and approximately 1,000 type specimens (excluding the gall midge types), mainly from New York State. The last decade has seen rapid expansion both in number of specimens and area of coverage.
Contact: Timothy McCabe, Ryan Whitehouse (Timothy.McCabe@nysed.gov Ryan.Whitehouse@nyse)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f3a9bdc2-f494-4cdd-8f9b-a4fc59e90ab2
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: New York State Museum
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

AMNH-BEE

North American Bee Collections

This collection is a snapshot of two projects. The first project is collections data from the Tri-Trophic Interactions ADBC Thematic Collections Network at the American Museum of Natural History http://tcn.amnh.org/. The second collection consists of data from a bee PBI project. Data for both of these projects are being served on SCAN to provide added value to SCAN users. Although the American Museum of Natural History served as the lead institution for both of these projects, a number of institutions have collaborated in the digitization. Please download data-sets from the iDigBio portal , which serves as the primary portal for these data-sets.
Contact: John S. Ascher (dbsajs@nus.edu.sg)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 June 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY (Attribution)
Rights Holder: SCAN
Access Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

NCSU-ENT

North Carolina State University Insect Collection

Housed in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology and the College of Agriculture and Life Science, the NCSU Insect Museum is a research collection dedicated to the acquisition and preservation of resources in systematic entomology useful to the NCSU Department of Entomology, the citizens of North Carolina, and the broader systematics community. The collection houses approximately 1.8 million specimens
Contact: Bob Blinn (bblinn@ncsu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d4501850-33c3-41fd-82de-b6b1d86a3f8b
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Digital Metadata: EML File

NAU-AGFR

Northern Arizona University - Agua Fria National Monument Collection

The Northern Arizona University Agua Fria National Monument Collection (NAU-AGFR) is comprised of arthropods collected within an experimental garden along the Agua Fria river. This garden is funded by a Macrosystems grant from the National Science Foundation and the facility is part of a network of common gardens managed by the Southwest Experimental Garden Array (SEGA). The primary focus of these gardens is to understand 1) the role of genetics in mitigating the effects of climate change and 2) to quantify how plant stress affects biodiversity. Dr. Art Keith uses Sea, Land, Air, Malaise (SLAM) traps to collect insects. Morgan Bannard and Gretchen Gronberg are responsible for insect curation and imaging. Dr. Gary Alpert, an entomologist at NAU oversees all arthropod aspects of the project and is assisted by Dr. Tom Whitham who oversees the integration of insect findings with climate change and plant genetics studies.
Contact: Gary D. Alpert (garydalpert@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a4c7e782-aa84-493f-a270-aa16be6eb6d0
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Northern Biodiversity Program Coleoptera (2010-2011)

This dataset is provided by Canadensys https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=northern-beetle-specimens, please go there to obtain raw data. The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 9,062 records. specific dataset from study. 12 sites (see location). Standardized passive sampling design. 9 pitfall and 9 pan traps distributed randomly in 3m 15x75m transects, in 3 mesic and 3 wet habitat replicates (108 traps per site). Traps collected every 4 days (324 samples/site total). Beetles extracted and ID'd.
Contact: Chris Buddle (chris.buddle@mcgill.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 January 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Odonata de Veracruz

El estado de Veracruz, reconocido como una de las entidades con mayor riqueza biológica de México, ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios que muestran un buen conocimiento sobre las comunidades vegetales y especies de vertebrados que contiene. Sin embargo, para el caso de animales invertebrados este tipo de información es mínima y se concentra en algunos trabajos de localidades específicas. A partir de este proyecto apoyado por la CONABIO, se obtuvo una base de datos de los Odonata de Veracruz, que incluye más de 203 especies, correspondientes aproximadamente al 61% del total en la República Mexicana. En el informe que complementa esta base de datos se incluyen las referencias geográficas de los ejemplares de odonata del estado, provenientes tanto de colecciones nacionales como del extranjero, y los datos necesarios para realizar estudios específicos, (biogeográficos, de conservación , ecológicos, etc.) de este grupo de insectos. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 12 Género: 63 Especie: 196 Infraespecie: 8
Contact: Enrique González Soriano (esoriano@mail.ibiologia.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 December 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

BYU-OBSERV

Odonata records from the Brigham Young University Arthropod Museum

These records are taken from odonates in the BYU collection but the specimens were not catologed. Most of the specimens are papered but some are in the frozen tissue collection. The records were produced by Alan Myrup, who has spent many years curating the BYU odonate collection.
Contact: Shawn Clark (shawn_clark@byu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d8074cdb-9b4c-49ae-8746-e72a6dc411cc
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only.

OSU-OSU

Ohio State C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection

This collection is comprised of an extract of specimen records from the Ohio State C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection. These records are also included in the Triplehorn Museum's GBIF feed. Further aggregation is not recommended.
Contact: Norman F. Johnson (johnson.2@osu.edu)
Home Page: wasps.osu.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 July 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Ohio State University

OSAL-OSAL_Ar

Ohio State University Acarology Laboratory

Fluid specimen collection of spiders (Araneae). Primarily the historical collection of the Ohio State University originally established by Dr. William Morton Barrows in the early 20th century. The majority of the specimens were collected in Ohio, but significant holdings from the Great Smokey Mountains National Park and northern Florida are also present. Many of the type specimens for species described by Barrows and his co-authors are housed here. Specimens collected during the Ohio Spider Survey (1994-2014) are included and make up the majority of the databased material.
Contact: Hans Klompen (klompen.1@osu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 January 2023
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The Ohio State University

OSAC-BEES

Oregon Bee Atlas

bee data
Contact: Chris Marshall
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 15 May 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: OSU

OSU-OSAC

Oregon State Arthropod Collection

The OSAC is a research collection of approximately 3 million non-marine arthropod and molluscan specimens. Strengths are Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Hemiptera and Acari. The fauna of the Pacific Northwest is particularly well represented, but the collection is global in scope. The collection includes both primary and secondary types. More information can be found on their website: http:osac.oregonstate.edu.
Contact: Christopher Marshall (Christopher.Marshall@oregonstate.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 May 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Oregon State University

CIDA-OJSM

Orma Smith Museum of Natural History

The only natural history museum in the region encompassing southwestern Idaho, southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada, the Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History is the premier resource for environmental and natural history education in the region. The Museum is listed in the "30 Most Amazing Higher Education Natural History Museums" list compiled by Best College Reviews. The Museum’s extensive collections and programs support the education of The College of Idaho students and the general public, as well as numerous research activities.
Contact: William Clark (clarkfam1@mindspring.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 539bc75f-9d43-4460-848d-93375a7eb94a
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History

Lyman-Lyman

Orphaned Collection - Lyman Entomological Museum

Insect and arachnid specimens deposited in the Lyman Entomological Museum, McGill University. Data served via Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Stephanie Boucher (sboucher[AT]nrs.mcgill.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

TAMU-SongLab

Orthoptera DNA Tissue Collection

The Orthoptera DNA Tissue Collection is a part of the Texas A&M University Insect Collection that has resulted from long-term research on Orthoptera biodiversity by Dr. Hojun Song. Currently, the collections include nearly 10,000 DNA-grade whole-body specimens preserved in 100% ethanol and stored in -20 degree freezers. The collection is global in scope, with strength in the orthopteran suborder Caelifera. For further information about a loan, please contact Dr. Hojun Song (hsong[at]tamu.edu).
Contact: Hojun Song (hsong@tamu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e074397d-6046-464e-88b8-b7c2129c1499
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UMBC-QMOR

Ouellet-Robert Entomological Collection (QMOR)

The Ouellet-Robert entomological collection (QMOR) is one of the larger Canadian university entomological collections and the second largest in Quebec. It comprises 1.5 million specimens, covering more than 20,000 species. Aquatic insects from many regions of the world are particularly well-represented. This dataset includes 38,295 digitized lots from the collection (192,000+ individuals), representing the orders Odonata, Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera. Data served via Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Colin Favret (colin.favret@umontreal.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 April 2017
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UT-UTBFL

Pardee et al. 2023: Plant-Pollinator Networks across an Urban Corridor

This dataset represents the species-level occurrence and floral associate data. "Through bee collection, vegetation surveys, and pollen load identification across ~350 km of urban habitat, we studied the impact of local and landscape-level management on plant-pollinator networks. We also quantified pollinator preferences for plants within urban grasslands." Pardee, G.L., Ballare, K.M., Neff, J.L., Do, L.Q., Ojeda, D., Bienenstock, E.J., Brosi, B.J., Grubesic, T.H., Miller, J.A., Tong, D. and Jha, S., 2023. Local and Landscape Factors Influence Plant-Pollinator Networks and Bee Foraging Behavior across an Urban Corridor. Land, 12(2), p.362. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/2/362
Contact: Gabriella Pardee (gabriellapardee@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1461f01b-7873-4319-86aa-9e834d27e681
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Peter Hall Observations

Butterfly Observations: Field notes provided electronically by Ross Layberry, 2004, digitized from observational records of Peter Hall from 1981 to 2003. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/8473de00-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a . This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Peter Hall (hallp@agr.gc.ca)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

Plant Bug Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Project PBI: Phytophagous Insects as a Model Group for Documenting Planetary Biodiversity (Insecta: Heterop

Contact: Randall T. Schuh (schuh@amnh.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 15 June 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File

Plant–pollinator community assembly across wildfire gradients

This dataset was extracted from the publically available data from the publication "LaManna, J.A., Burkle, L.A., Belote, R.T. and Myers, J.A., Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant–pollinator community assembly across wildfire gradients. Journal of Ecology." https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13530. Records are treated as observations since no reference collection was mentioned in the publication. Data set acquired by Neil Cobb on December 8, 2020.
Contact: Joe LaManna (joseph.lamanna@marquette.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 December 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Joe LaManna

PollardBase

PollardBase is a data entry and management system for butterfly monitoring programs that follow protocols similar to those described by Ernie Pollard and have become known in the butterfly world as “Pollard Walks”. All these programs use trained volunteers who walk set routes multiple times during each season and over several years. Butterfly monitoring data published by PollardBase collaborators includes the following collaborator’s datasets:
PollardBase - Cascades Butterfly Project;
PollardBase - Colorado Butterfly Monitoring Network;
PollardBase - Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network;
PollardBase - Iowa Butterfly Survey Network;
PollardBase - Michigan Butterfly network;
PollardBase - Missouri Botanical Garden;
PollardBase - Orange County Butterfly Monitoring Network;
PollardBase - Tennessee Butterfly Monitoring Network.

These data have been retrieved from a GBIF instance, which may be found here: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/6dc35c87-ff97-4708-9e45-6f764ddc1ef3 . This dataset is being provided as a service to SCAN users, please obtain data records directly from the GBIF instance.
Contact: Leslie Ries (Leslie.Ries@georgetown.edu)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 17 July 2018
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Pollinator interaction flexibility across scales affects patch colonization and occupancy

This dataset was extracted from the publically available data from the publication "Gaiarsa, M.P., Kremen, C. & Ponisio, L.C. Pollinator interaction flexibility across scales affects patch colonization and occupancy. Nat Ecol Evol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01434-y." Records are treated as observations since no reference collection was mentioned in the publication. Data set acquired by Paige Chesshire on April 29, 2021.
Contact:
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e23dd866-31d8-4b72-be68-bd11ce7d3df2
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Predicting changes in bee assemblages following state transitions

This is the publically available data set from the publication "Kazenel, M.R., Wright, K.W., Bettinelli, J., Griswold, T.L., Whitney, K.D. and Rudgers, J.A., 2020. Predicting changes in bee assemblages following state transitions at North American dryland ecotones. Scientific reports, 10(1), pp.1-15." https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57553-2. Records are treated as observations but some will be duplicates with specimen records from UNM collection. Data set provided by Melanie Kazenel.
Contact: Melanie Kazenel (mkazenel@unm.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 27 January 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: UNM-LTER

UTAH-PIPR

Price Institute of Parasite Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah

The Price Institute for Parasite Research (PIPR) is largely focused on the study of ectoparasitic insects (but we also work on vertebrate endoparasites, including avian malaria). The centerpiece of PIPR is a collection of 1200+ species of slide-mounted lice, representing about two thirds of the 301 recognized genera, making it the fourth most diverse collection in North America (top 10 worldwide). The collection is invaluable because of the consistent quality of its specimens, most of which were prepared by Dr. Roger Price, a leading authority on the systematics of lice. PIPR also contains an extensive collection of 40,000+ slides of fleas and lice assembled by the late Robert Elbel. It houses equipment for microscopy and the creation and analysis of digital images. This facility, in conjunction with the University's SEM unit, allows for rapid recording of morphometric data on a variety of scales. PIPR has facilities for preparing new slide-mounts and remounting slides. It houses one of the largest frozen ectoparasite tissue collections in the world, consisting of 7,000+ specimens from 250+ host species. PIPR also has an associated molecular lab with full capabilities for DNA extraction, PCR, and the preparation of material for the University of Utah's central automated sequencing facility. PIPR will serve as a base for research and training in ectoparasitology well into the new century. • 25,000 slides of lice (Phthiraptera) • 17,000 slides of fleas (Siphonaptera) • Additional ectoparasite specimens include: mites, ticks, flies, and helminths, but these are not yet catalogued.
Contact: Sarah Bush (bush@biology.utah.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 028fdfa8-3d4b-4c1f-ab67-4cd41e01e213
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Rights Holder: Sarah E. Bush, Curator PIPR collection

Primera fase de actualización de la Colección de Siphonaptera Alfredo Barrera del Museo de Zoología Alfonso Herrera

Proyecto financiado parcialmente por la Fundación Gonzalo Río Arronte Las pulgas son insectos ectoparásitos de aves y mamíferos, portadores de virus y bacterias, por lo que son transmisoras de enfermedades causantes de epidemias cuando estas no son controladas. Por lo que son considerados insectos de importancia sanitaria, y es por esta razón que comenzó el estudio de estos parásitos, conformando colecciones. La colección de Siphonaptera (Insecta) Alfredo Barrera, del Museo de Zoología "Alfonso L. Herrera" es considerada una de las más importantes en Latinoamérica, ya que cuenta con una gran cantidad de ejemplares tipo y un acervo importante de ejemplares de otros países, además es una de las pocas colecciones dedicadas al estudio de este taxón en el país. En la cual se encuentran representadas el 72% (100) de las especies que han sido registradas en el país (138 especies); sin embargo, todavía falta mucha información sobre este taxón por conocer. Actualmente existe una base de datos soportada en el programa Biótica 4.0, que se creo en el año de 1996 a partir del proyecto J123 de la CONABIO y contiene 5,277 registros, de los cuales el 20% de los registros se encuentran determinados a nivel genérico. De 1997 a la fecha se ha ido acumulando material en alcohol al 70%, alrededor de 1,500 ejemplares que están en proceso de curación para integrarse a la colección. Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 1 Familia: 9 Género: 50 Subgénero: 1 Especie: 136 Infraespecie: 23
Contact: Jorge Llorente Bousquets (jlb@hp.fciencias.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

Proyecto para compatibilizar el inventario de biota edáfica BGBD con el Sistema Nacional de Información sobre Biodiversidad

La comunidad de organismos del suelo, incluyendo bacterias, hongos e invertebrados, es extremadamente diversa inclusive en los paisajes más uniformes. Los organismos del suelo realizan una parte esencial del ciclaje de nutrientes, actúan como secuestradores de carbono y gases que producen el efecto invernadero, regulan los regimenes hídricos de las cuencas y promueven la adquisición de nutrientes por las plantas entre otros importantes servicios ecosistémicos. Por ello es que a pesar de la dificultad de su estudio y clasificación taxonómica, se ha vuelto cada día más prioritario concentrar los esfuerzos de investigación en conocer la biodiversidad edáfica. El proyecto BGBD en México ha creado un acervo de información pionero sobre la biota edáfica en la La Reserva de la Biosfera Los Tuxtlas. Este acervo se ha logrado gracias al esfuerzo conjunto de diez equipos de trabajo especializados en la taxonomía de doce grupos funcionales. La propuesta del presente proyecto obedece al interés del proyecto BGBD en México de que dicha información se incorpore al SNIB cumpliendo con los formatos y estándares de calidad que éste sistema requiere. Debido al limitado número de estudios que se han abocado en México a describir la biodiversidad de organismos bajo el suelo, el SNIB cuenta actualmente con pocos registros para los taxones incluidos en la base BGBD. El proyecto plantea diez meses de trabajo intensivo que permitan (1) incorporar la información ya existente a la base de datos SNIB, (2) generar campos adicionales y extensiones que permitan contener las características particulares de la biota edáfica que no están consideradas en la estructura de SNIB y (3) recopilar información requerida por el SNIB que aún no está contenida en la base BGBD. Reino: 3 Filo: 5 Clase: 12 Orden: 39 Familia: 222 Género: 305 Especie: 146 Infraespecie: 2
Contact: Simoneta Negrete Yankelevich (simoneta.negrete@inecol.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 December 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

UCD-BMEC

R. M. Bohart Museum of Entomology

The Bohart Museum’s mission is to serve the research community, support campus teaching, provide science educational outreach for the public, and to provide diagnostic and information services. The museum houses the seventh largest insect collection in North America. The museum specializes in the unique insect fauna of California, both native and exotic species. Current holdings of nearly 8 million specimens include a wide range of terrestrial invertebrates, specializing in arthropods (insects, millipedes, centipedes, scorpions, mites, ticks, and spiders), crustaceans (pill and sow bugs, fairy and tadpole shrimp), and tardigrade water bears. The largest collections are of the Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Acarina and Tardigrada. The collections are worldwide in scope, with the Americas, south Asia and Australia particularly well-represented. The museum is also the home of the California Insect Survey and sponsors research on the California fauna.
Contact: Lynn S. Kimsey (lskimsey@ucdavis.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 79aa23b2-db5f-4b44-9484-e8af67d3db86
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Rights Holder: University of California
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use, except by contract

Repatriación de datos de los lepidópteros depositados en la Colección del McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural H

El presente proyecto tiene como objetivo principal repatriar los datos de las especies de nueve familias de Lepidoptera, depositados en la colección del "McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity", Florida Museum of Natural History. En la actualidad se están revisando las familias Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae, Hesperidae, Sphingidae, Saturniidae y Castiindae, las cuales son las bases del presente proyecto. A traés de estimaciones preliminares se calcula que están representadas en el McGuire Center aproximadamente 1500 especies y unos 50,000 registros de estas familias. Con la obtención de estos datos se pretende incrementar el conocimiento geográfico y biótico de la fauna de lepidópteros mexicanos, además de seguir con el desarrollo de las bases de datos de los Museos de Zoología de la Facultad de Ciencias y de El Colegio de la Frontera Sur; así como, del banco de datos de la propia CONABIO. Con la información obtenida y con la que ya se cuenta, seguir contribuyendo en el conocimiento de la fauna mexicana; además de la formación de recursos humanos en el desarrollo de las actividades profesionales de licenciatura y posgrado en ambas instituciones y el apoyo científico a otras instituciones tanto nacionales, como del extranjero.
Contact: Moisés Armando Luis Martínez (alm@ciencias.unam.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

USC-DMBC

Richard B. Dominick Moth and Butterfly Collection

The Richard B. Dominick Moth and Butterfly Collection consists of 25,215 moths and 1,758 butterflies of which there are 1,167 species; the collection is currently located on the Columbia Campus of the University of South Carolina. All specimens were collected by Dr. Dominick in the areas around his home on The Wedge Plantation between during the period from roughly 1965 through 1975. The Wedge is a former rice plantation, located 5 miles north of McClellanville, South Carolina, and consisting of a mixed habitat of impounded rice fields, cypress swamps and a mixed pine-hardwood forest including live oaks and giant Magnolias. The property is transected by the fresh to brackish South Santee River, which divides The Wedge into approximately 650 and 850 acre tracts. The collection was the result of the lifelong interest of Dr. Dominick, a physician. Dr. Dominick played a central role in reevaluating the phylogeny of moth species in North America. A series of monographs organized as fascicles of "The Moths of America North of Mexico" was published through the joint effort of Dr. Dominick and E.W. Classey; from 1971 to 1978 13 fascicles were published on 13 superfamilies of moths. Many individuals assisted Dr. Dominick in this enterprise; those recognized as the principal contributors include Dr. D. C. Ferguson (1978), Dr. J. G. Franclemont (1973), Dr. Ronald W. Hodges (1971), (1974), (1978), Dr. E. G. Munroe (1972), (1973), (1976), and Mr. Charles R. Edwards. The cataloging of the Dominick Collection was done by Dr. F. Lance Wallace of The Citadel, Charleston SC; Dr. Wallace maintained the collection from 1983 to 1992, updating the collection to coincide with the numbering system and revisions occurring in the Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico.
Contact: Herrick Brown (hbrown@mailbox.sc.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c3e21d0d-c534-475e-b545-981fcf3e4041
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Rights Holder: University of South Carolina, Department of Biological Sciences

Riqueza específica y biodiversidad de microartrópodos edáficos de la Isla de Cozumel, Q. Roo

Se presenta una propuesta para conocer la riqueza de especies, la biodiversidad y la abundancia de ácaros, colémbolos, proturos, dipluros y hormigas edáficas de 3 asociaciones vegetales (dunas costeras, manglares y selva mediana subcaducifolia) de la Isla de Cozumel, Q. Roo. En este estudio se llevará a cabo una serie de muestreos de hojarasca y suelo principalmente y colectas complementarias de: musgo, hongos, corteza, troncos en descomposición y detritos en oquedades de rocas y otros biotopos. En las dunas costeras y en algunas zonas de manglar, se colocaran trampas Pit-fall para la colecta de microartrópodos. Los muestreos se realizarán semestralmente durante dos años, lo que permitirá evaluar la abundancia de los grupos en dos épocas del año, su preferencia de hábitat, la biodiversidad y riqueza de especies de la Isla de Cozumel. Otros estudios efectuados con anterioridad en la Reserva de la Biósfera de Sian Ka'an, en Noh-Bec, La Unión y la Rivera del Río Hondo (Vázquez et al 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) permitirán la identificación más eficiente y rápida de las especies, así como detectar nuevos registros y las especies nuevas, además ubicar la distribución de las especies en las diferentes asociaciones vegetales de la Isla de Cozumel. La presencia, abundancia y/o ausencia de determinadas especies pueden ser utilizados como indicadores de determinadas condiciones ambientales particulares por ejemplo: el pH, temperatura, humedad, contenido de materia orgánica y otros elementos presentes en el suelo inciden en la diversidad edáfica, por lo que el estudio y el conocimiento de la riqueza y biodiversidad de los microartrópodos edáficos son elementos muy importante para el entendimiento de la ecología de las selvas tropicales y para la toma de decisiones en el manejo de los recursos naturales. El proyecto tiene como objetivos principales: 1) conocer la riqueza de especies y la abundancia, biodiversidad y distribución geográfica de los grupos propuestos que son: ácaros Pro
Contact: María Magdalena Vázquez González (marvazqu@uqroo.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 December 2019
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Digital Metadata: EML File

RL Minckley Insect and Plant Collection

The collection is of bees and their floral hosts mainly from the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico and the United States. See Minckley, R.L. and Radke, W.R., 2021. Extreme species density of bees (Apiformes, Hymenoptera) in the warm deserts of North America. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 82, p.317.
Contact: Bob Minckley (robert.minckley@rochester.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 43c894af-a05d-4c92-833c-83e1ebd68701
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Rights Holder: Robert Minckley

RMBL-ENT

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Insect Collection

The insect collection at RMBL represents the research interests of lab scientists from 1929-present. The collection is especially strong in pollinator taxa, including: hymenoptera and lepidoptera; aquatic taxa; ants; and orthoptera.
Contact: Rick Williams (willcha2@isu.edu)
Home Page: https://rmbl.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 14f65b37-ca29-42bd-9d89-21ca84c096b5
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Rights Holder: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

Ross A. Layberry Observations

Butterfly Observations: Field notes provided electronically by Ross Layberry, 2002, primarily observational records; includes duplicates of the specimen records. Data served at https://www.gbif.org/dataset/845cebe6-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Ross A. Layberry (rosslayberry@yahoo.ca)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

RBCM-ENT

Royal British Columbia Museum Entomology Collection

We are harvesting this data from Royal British Columbia Museum Entomology Collection. Please harvest their record set directly from GBIF to obtain primary data records.
Contact:
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 1 August 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

RPSP-ENT

RPSP - Coleção Entomológica Prof. J.M.F. Camargo, FFCLRP/USP

A. B. Almeida E (2022). RPSP - Coleção Entomológica Prof. J.M.F. Camargo, FFCLRP/USP. Version 1.40. Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/fkx59c accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-02-19. A Coleção Entomológica Prof. J.M.F. Camargo (RPSP), sediada no Departamento de Biologia da FFCLRP/USP, começou a ser montada em 1965. Desde então, como resultado de várias expedições ao Amazonas e demais espaços neotropicais, e intercâmbio com museus do Brasil e exterior, foi montado o mais completo acervo de Meliponini Neotropicais ("abelhas sem ferrão"). A coleção inclui cerca de 250.000 espécimes de abelhas, dos quais mais de 150.000 são Meliponini. A maior parte dos espécimes encontra-se montada em alfinetes, e milhares de exemplares encontram-se preservados em fixador (incluindo larvas, jovens e adultos, operárias, machos e rainhas), representando cerca de 1000 ninhos estudados, além de constituir a única coleção com obras construídas pelas abelhas (peças de ninhos e cerca de 5.500 slides sobre a biologia do grupo).
Contact: Eduardo A. B. Almeida (eduardo@ffclrp.usp.br)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 February 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Universidade de São Paulo

RUBC-RUAC_ENT

Rutgers University Entomological Museum

The Rutgers University Entomological Museum (RUEM) is home to over 200,000 specimens, one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of New Jersey insects in the world. The collection dates back to the late 1880s and was developed by both entomologists and citizen scientists. Much of the collection is from areas of agriculture that no longer exist due to development in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Contact: Dana Price (d.price@rutgers.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9b03da3f-c289-4844-acff-8905f5cc1423
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Rights Holder: Rutgers University

SCFS-ENTO

Sagehen Creek Field Station (UC-Berkeley) – Insects

This collection represents an incomplete spectrum of insects collected at UC Berkeley - Sagehen Creek Field Station (and a few others). UC Davis' ENT109 has been taught at Sagehen in alternate years since shortly after Richard Bohart initiated the course in the late 1940's. Phil Ward has run the program in recent decades, and is undoubtedly the most knowledgeable expert on the insect fauna of Sagehen and the surrounding areas. ENT109 students must collect 200 families during their stay (of about 600 in all of North America). This challenging task is made possible by Sagehen's geographical position that spans from the Sierra Crest at the top, to the Great Basin where the creek joins the Little Truckee River. Sagehen is also positioned within day-trip distance of many additional ecosystems, including lakes, rivers and deserts, that support even more insect fauna diversity. Year-round flows from Sagehen's volcanic bedrock feed fen and meadow complexes that have been especially conducive to driving caddisfly speciation. Don and Nancy Erman have published extensively on these insects and ecosystems at Sagehen. Sagehen's insect specimen records were digitized by BNHM as part of a CAP-TCN grant in 2014. Those records were simply added to the museum's collection records, without any way of identifying them as Sagehen specimens, and with no way for Sagehen to manage that data. So, in 2020 we worked with the museums to finally separate out and upload the Sagehen data to SCAN-bugs.org.
Contact: Faerthen Felix (faerthen@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c2226ec6-2616-45fb-b3ea-c83b1f134c3b
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: UC Regents

SSAC-SSAC

Salvatore S. Anzaldo Collection

Research collection of Sal Anzaldo, primarily containing specimens of weevils in the superfamily Curculionoidea. The collection is currently housed at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Contact: Sal Anzaldo (sanzaldo@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 97a2a8fc-8fc8-48c1-a0eb-c50add88c708
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Rights Holder: Salvatore S. Anzaldo

SDNHM-SDMC

San Diego Natural History Museum Entomology Department

Collection is heavily focused on the SW USA and NW Mexico, particularly the peninsula of Baja California. Notably strong collections of Lepidoptera and Neuroptera. The median date of specimen acquisition is 1957 with collections ranging from 1905 to present day. Current and near future collection priorities will focus on underrepresented areas in Baja California, particular inland and coastal dunes.
Contact: Pamela Horsley (phorsley@sdnhm.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: adfa0ab3-b6b7-45bb-8f0d-c36b097b6bd4
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Rights Holder: San Diego Natural History Museum

SDSU-TAC

San Diego State University - Terrestrial Arthropods Collection

The SDSU Terrestrial Arthropods Collection includes an estimated 50,000 specimens of pinned insects, a slide-mount collection, and many terrestrial arthropods (e.g., insects, arachnids, myriapods) preserved in ethanol. Most of these specimens were collected in southern California and adjacent regions (e.g., Arizona, Baja California Mexico). The collection holdings in Arachnida, Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, and Coleoptera are particularly strong. The collection is an important resource for both the teaching and research missions of the Department of Biology at SDSU, with a synoptic collection of local insects kept specifically for this purpose.
Contact: Dr. Marshal Hedin (mhedin@mail.sdsu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c425cbc1-db60-4f45-be76-95358932734c
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Rights Holder: SDSU Terrestrial Arthropods Collection

SBMNH-SBMNHENT

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Entomology Collection

The Entomology Collection at Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) contains over 300,000 specimens, including both insects and arachnids. The collections focus primarily on the Santa Barbara region, including important holdings from the California Channel Islands. In addition to Channel Islands material, the collection is very strong in California beetles (Coleoptera), moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera), and parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera). The dry collection is housed in modern metal cabinets, in Cornell-style drawers, and is mostly sorted to the family level. The collection holds about 20 primary types, described as a result of California beetle surveys, housed separately from the remainder of the collection. Representation is very strong from the Transverse Ranges, including the mountains of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties. Desert areas to the east are also well represented, as is the southern Sierra Nevada.
Contact: Matthew L. Gimmel (mgimmel@sbnature2.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 December 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

SCAN-ARTSYS

SCAN Collection of Externally Processed Specimens (Arthropod Systematics Research)

ARTSYS is the "SCAN Collection of Externally Processed Specimens for Arthropod Systematics Research". ARTSYS is a pragmatic solution to the challenge of making specimens accessible that are part of an ongoing revisionary systematic project, but are frequently on loan or otherwise not destined to become part of the author's home collection. ARTSYS is open to any revisionary arthropod systematist needing such a tool. The occurrence record table allows one to specify the Owning Institution and Disposition (e.g., "on loan"). Request access to ARTSYS: e-mail nico.franz@asu.edu. Register your set of utilized ARTSYS catalog numbers: http://tinyurl.com/artsys-label-tracking. Access the ARTSYS spreadsheet template: https://github.com/nfranz/ARTSYS [Download the spreadsheet, adjust the number in cell A2 according to the number set reserved in the Tracking Google spreadsheet, and print your set of 525 catalog numbers]

Note: as of 28 October 2019 ARTSYS is now a snapshot collection on SCAN with data being live-managed within the Ecdysis symbiota portal: https://serv.biokic.asu.edu/ecdysis/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=8
Contact: Nico M. Franz (nico.franz@asu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 October 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File

Scarab Central: World Scarabaeoidea

Scarab beetles (Scarabaeoidea) include over 31,000 described species, and current estimates suggest that the group includes at least 50,000 species world-wide. It is ecologically diverse with species that feed on roots, fruits, leaves, and rotting wood as well as detritivores that are associated with vertebrate carcasses and dung, and inquilines living in nests of vertebrates and invertebrates. The group is environmentally important, with many species of conservation, agricultural, biocontrol, cultural, and eco-service concern. For these reasons, biodiversity data on scarab beetles are essential. This database integrates data from several projects focused on New World scarab biodiversity. Combining these data greatly increases the power of our biodiversity knowledge. It allows development of regional catalogs, specimen-level information including character data, geographic and temporal distributions, host plant associations, and images. It contributes to the development of computer infrastructure for organizing and accessing knowledge about scarab beetles, and provides the foundation for future work in global scarab systematics
Contact: Brett C. Ratcliffe (bratcliffe1@unl.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 38c12dad-756f-494d-bf91-dedfde534b05
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: UNL
Access Rights: Access to most of the data will be open to the public. Certain data will be limited to special request in writing from bona fide researchers. Such information will be metadata about the collection data (i.e., when and who proofed the data), sensitive

Scarabaeoidea y colección de tipos de la colección entomológica del Centro de Estudios en Zoología, Universidad de Guadalajara

La Colección Entomológica del Centro de Estudios en Zoología, Universidad de Guadalajara (CZUG) se ha convertido en los últimos años en un acervo fundamental para el conocimiento de los insectos del estado de Jalisco y la región Occidente del país. Si bien, en el estado existen otras dos colecciones de importancia (en la Estación de Biología, Chamela, UNAM y en el Instituto Manantlán de Ecología y Conservación de la Biovidersidad, Universidad de Guadalajara), las actividades de investigación y difusión permiten ubicarla en una posición importante a pesar de ser de reciente formación. Al realizar este proyecto, la información de Scarabaeoidea de la colección se sistematizará e incorporará a una base de datos en Biótica 4.1, además de que la información de especímenes del extranjero se incorporará a una base de datos en Access, misma que ahora contiene la información de la Colección Entomológica Tomás G. Zoebisch asociada a la colección Entomológica.Se incorporará información de cinco familias, aproximadamente 45 géneros y 250 especies. El total de registros será de aproximadamente cinco mil, considerando para ello que cada ejemplar será un registro debido a que cada uno de los ejemplares estará asignado a un número de catálogo de la colección Reino: 1 Filo: 1 Clase: 1 Orden: 3 Familia: 15 Género: 169 Subgénero: 22 Especie: 359 Infraespecie: 20
Contact: José Luis Navarrete Heredia (snavarre@cucba.udg.mx)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2017
Digital Metadata: EML File

SHM-SHM-ART

Sierra Huérfana de Mazatán - Arthropod Observations

A collection of photo-vouchered arthropod occurrences of the Sierra Huérfana de Mazatán, Ures Municipality, Sonora, México.
Contact: Valeria Cañedo (valeriacanedom12@gmail.com)
Collection Type: General Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8f67a9a4-3929-45bc-b682-17a918b56146
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Digital Metadata: EML File

SI-NMNH

Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History

Public records of accessioned specimens and observations curated by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. This collection is comprised of an extract from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution IPT. These records are also included in the National Museum of Natural History iDigBio feed. Please download data directly from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution IPT.
Contact: Thomas Orrell (orrellt@si.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 22 October 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File

SDSU-SMIRC

South Dakota State University, The Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection

The Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection (SMIRC) covers a large variety of information, from collection highlights to research. Because the SMIRC was established in the late 19th century, the collection has an extensive history. The complex collection has aided in many different research projects and has helped with the production of many products.
Contact: Paul Johnson (paul.johnson@sdstate.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 79a96c8c-5719-4e0e-8a24-d597c48c1d62
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Digital Metadata: EML File

SEMO-SEMO

Southeast Missouri State University Invertebrate Museum

A regional collection consisting of specimens from the Southeast Missouri and Southwest Illinois area. Has representatives from most orders.
Contact: Timothy M. Judd (tjudd@semo.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d1630d40-6c96-4b63-adf1-a43523d402e8
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Southeast Missouri State University
Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

SOVT-FBL

State of Vermont Forest Biology Lab

The Forest Biology Lab is located in the Vermont Agricultural and Environmental Laboratory (VAEL) on the campus of Vermont Technical College in Randolph. This new facility houses FPR’s insect collection that contains at least 1,884 different species of Vermont invertebrates from lab submissions and trap surveys. The size of the collection is estimated to be 10,000 specimens and lots (aquatic).
Contact: Savannah Ferreira (Savannah.ferreira@vermont.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b3f19e66-af52-4929-ba64-2715f700745e
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: State of Vermont Forest Biology Lab

SIM-SIM-ENT

Staten Island Museum Entomology Collection

Located in New York City’s greenest borough, the Staten Island Museum Entomology Collection contains approximately 520,000 specimens, mainly collected on Staten Island and surrounding New York and New Jersey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection contains the William T. Davis Cicada Collection and includes many of his type specimens.
Contact: Colleen Evans (cevans@statenislandmuseum.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6ab74482-6965-42b7-9b4f-f3cb6f0f80bc
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Staten Island Museum
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

UAZC-BOMB

Survey of bumblebees in central Alberta - 2018

This dataset is provided by Canadensys https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=bduc-bombus-specimens, please go there to obtain raw data. Prescott, David R.C., Michelle L. Wells, and Lincoln R. Best. 2019. Survey of bumblebees in central Alberta, 2018. University of Alberta Zoological Collection. During 2018, Alberta Environment and Parks conducted an inventory of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in central Alberta, Canada with focus on the Parkland Natural Region of the province. The majority (>99%) of 8808 bumble bees were collected in blue vane traps deployed 3-4 times over the summer at 31 distinct locations. Also included are records from a smaller number of hand-collected bees that were opportunistically sampled at 12 sites during work on field projects during the summer. Blue vane traps were installed at 31 locations in central Alberta, Canada. Twenty-six sites were located in, or immediately adjacent to, the Parkland Natural Region, two in the Grassland Natural Region, and three in the Boreal Forest Natural Region. Each trap was erected for approximately two weeks within each summer month (May-August). Traps were usually situated where a variety of habitat types (forest, grass, water, agricultural) were located in close proximity (<1 km), and usually on lands designated for habitat preservation (parks, natural areas, private conservation properties). The mean trapping duration over the summer at each site was (1275.2 hours; range 696-2547), and the mean number of bumble bees collected at each site was 281.5 (range: 20-900) individuals. A total of 8726 individuals of 22 species were collected. We also hand-collected bumblebees at 12 sites in Alberta during 2018, and include here records of 82 bees of 11 species. All bumble bees collected during the study are housed at the University of Calgary Zoology Museum, along with as-yet unidentified by-catch (non-Bombus) from the blue vane traps. We thank Ducks Unlimited Canada, Alberta Environment and Parks, the Uni
Contact: David Prescott (dave.prescott@gov.ab.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 January 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Alberta Zoological Collection

TTRSNHM (25625)-TTRSLEP (24626)

Tall Timbers Research Station Natural History Museum, The Lepidoptera collection

The Tall Timbers Lepidoptera collection includes nearly 2,000 specimens collected largely in the southeastern United States. Major collectors include Lucien Harris (for Butterflies of Georgia), Leon and Julie Neal, and E. V. Komarek.
Contact: Kevin Robertson Jim Cox Gil Nelson (krobertson@ttrs.org Jim@ttrs.org gnelson@bio.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e2bad816-fb41-481e-91e6-09e2a059efac
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy
Access Rights: CC BY

Test Collection

Site admin test collection
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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
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Digital Metadata: EML File

TAMU-TAMUIC

Texas A&M University Insect Collection

The Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC) is a land-grant-university-based collection of insects and related arthropods whose primary holdings are focused on the regional faunas of the south-central and southwestern United States and the northern neotropics, especially Mexico. As the oldest and largest entomological collection in Texas, the TAMUIC serves research, education and extension missions throughout the state, and particularly supports the diverse activities of the TAMU Department of Entomology. The TAMUIC has grown steadily through the years, especially in the last three decades, to become a major research collection with 2.6+ million curated specimens and holdings of more than 45,000 species. Approximately 10,000 specimens are loaned annually to systematics and biodiversity researchers around the world.
Contact: Karen Wright (kwright@tamu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 13b264e0-ea1c-4ff2-8229-0507f8dbf46a
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Texas A&M University
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

TTU-TTU-Z

Texas Tech University - Invertebrate Zoology

The Invertebrate Zoology collection (TTU-Z) of the Museum of Texas Tech University is international in scope with an emphasis on arthropods from semi-arid and arid lands, especially from North America. The collection consists primarily of insects (including an extensive collection of ants), medical/veterinary specimens (endo- and ectoparasites), and arachnids. The pinned collection contains over 3,200 genera and 7,500 identified species. The collection is estimated to hold about 4.6 million specimens including pinned insects, arachnids preserved in ethanol, microscope slides (medical/veterinary importance and mites), and bulk samples. There are currently slightly more than 800 type specimens (mostly paratypes) in the collection.
Contact: Jennifer C. Girón (jennifer.giron@ttu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: d4e788b4-5d52-47a3-873e-227c6df49c7b
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Museum of Texas Tech University
Access Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

MSU-MSUC

The Albert J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection

In 1867, Professor Albert J. Cook started the ARC and it currently houses ~ 1.5 million specimens mounted on pins, slides or stored in alcohol representing ~35,000 species. A significant portion of the collection represents the insect diversity Michigan and the Great Lakes Region. Other significant collections represent the world-wide arthropod fauna for select taxa, e.g., Lepidoptera and Scolytinae. Researchers in systematics, agriculture, natural resources, urban insect management, to extension personnel and to the general public use these specimens. Please direct inquiries to Anthony Cognato, Director or Gary Parsons, Manager (parsonsg@cns.msu.edu).
Contact: Anthony Cognato (cognato@msu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 15cdb244-b82d-4798-af5e-ef7bc138f233
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Department of Entomology, MSU

BROW-BCIC

The Broward College Insect Collection

The focus of the Broward College Insect Collection is to house and make available arthropod collections focused on South Florida and the greater Everglades ecosystems. Established in 2017 it began with about 30,000 specimens from the faculty’s personal/research collections and historic student/teaching collections of the college. Donations and student survey projects currently feed the collection. For further information and to arrange a visit or loan, please contact collection director Dr. David Serrano (dserrano@broward.edu)
Contact: Dr. David Serrano (dserrano@broward.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a875efbb-6377-47b2-9fb3-7500e7df8a02
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Broward College

University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity-BIOUG

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics - University of Guelph

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) archive at the University of Guelph currently holds over 2.8 million voucher specimens (as of March 2017). Every specimen is digitized, and the exact storage location of each specimen is tracked in a collection management information system for quick reference and retrieval. The databased information for every voucher is also archived in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD), permitting the permanent storage, validation and analysis of barcode sequence data and associated specimen metadata. Nearly 90% of the specimens have been DNA barcoded, and a few representatives of every species have been digitally imaged. The majority of these specimens (roughly 60%) derive from Canada, stemming primarily from collections made by the CBG at 159 sites since 2008 including national parks, provincial parks and other protected or private areas. The collection is taxonomically diverse, spanning 25 phyla, 62 classes, and 263 orders. Employing the Barcode Index Number system as a proxy for species, the collection contains about 175,000 species. Just over 1 million specimens from the collection are included in this resource, which includes all CBG collection events from 2008-2015 at National Parks, National Park Reserves, and National Urban Parks within Canada. All included specimen records are associated with DNA barcode information, and have a link to their associated specimen page on the BOLD. All barcode sequences associated with these specimens have been submitted to GenBank and their accessions are provided in this resource. This data resource is served by the Integrated Publishing Toolkit of Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=bioug-specimens. This "snapshot" collection is technically a curated dataset of specimen information from local database and the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD).
Contact: Dr. Jeremy deWaard (dewaardj@uoguelph.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 July 2018
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Digital Metadata: EML File

DCH-DCEC

The Davidson College Entomology Collection

Davidson College used to have many more insects than we do currently. Much of the collection was transferred to NC State in the late 1990s when we lost our museum space to renovations for research space. We have recently rebuilt some of what remained to a somewhat larger collection, due to our own collecting and a decent sized gift of Costa Rican, European and North American butterflies. The collection is an idiosyncratic collection of what was left behind, what I’ve collected, and butterflies gifted to the College.
Contact: Chris Paradise (chparadise@davidson.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0006a383-40ab-41dc-887f-617c97c490f6
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Davidson College
Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

The Diptera Course Checklist

From June 20th - July 6th, 2019, an international team of 35 entomologists from 15 countries attended Fly School II: A Course for Dipterists in Los Osos, California, sponsored by the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. We extensively sampled for Diptera at 17 main sites, with Camp Keep (GPS N 35.29, W -120.88) as the camping quarters, representing a broad range of habitats within San Luis Obispo County. A variety of collecting methods were employed, including both active (e.g. sweep sampling, hand netting, and aspirating) and passive (e.g. Malaise, Shannon, and light traps) techniques. Flies were identified to lowest taxonomic level possible based on expertise using the most relevant literature available, and specimens are permanently housed at a variety of locations around the world. A full checklist of taxa based on these data will be included in a forthcoming publication in the Pan-Pacific Entomologist. Co-contact: Brittany Wingert - bwingert@ualberta.ca Co-contact: Andrea Kautz - akautz14@gmail.com Co-contact: Brian Brown - bbrown@nhm.org
Contact: C. Scott Clem (cscottclem@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3a89cc92-38e7-4f79-9177-3891869ee2a0
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: LACM

MCPR

The Dr. James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studies Zoological Collection

The Dr. James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studies includes a growing zoological collection, with the vast majority of specimens being insects. Of the insect specimens, most are moths, with a small collection of dragonflies, butterflies, and beetles. The collection is housed in the Reedy Creek Nature Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, and managed by Natural Resources staff from Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation’s Division of Nature Preserves and Natural Resources. The regional collection focuses on Mecklenburg County, North Carolina but also includes specimens from surrounding counties and areas outside of the region. Currently 1,794 specimens in the collection.
Contact: Lenny Lampel (Lenny.Lampel@mecklenburgcountync.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e69cb0e2-b62e-4f47-93f4-60d1feeb808c
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The Dr. James F. Matthews Center for Biodiversity Studies

EL-MNHN-Paris

The Lepidoptera collection (EL) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN - Paris)

We are harvesting North American Lepidoptera records from MNHN for the benefit of SCAN users. Please obtain records directly from their GBIF recordset to obtain primary data records. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/33e3780b-d539-4e5e-b82f-1662b5941a9e
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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 23 February 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File

The Lepidopterists' Society Season Summary

The Lepidopterists' Society Season Summary is an annual compilation of Lepidoptera records from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Each year our members submit information regarding range extensions, host plant associations, population dynamics, etc. Automated in 1995, the database contains all records since that time plus Saturniidae and Sphingidae records since 1971. In spite of a strict review policy, it is inevitable that the database will contain occasional errors. However, by using the database as a pointer system, the data can be valuable for the avocational collector planning a vacation as well as the professional conducting research of the highest order.
Contact: Chris Grinter (info@lepsoc.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 602df614-d246-476d-9e62-51ad74b36175
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Digital Metadata: EML File

PU-PERC

The Purdue Entomological Research Collection

The Purdue Entomological Research Collection (PERC) is an integral part of the Department of Entomology at Purdue University. Specimens housed in the collection are the basis for research in systematic entomology at Purdue and by specialists worldwide. The PERC also serves as a reference to facilitate the accurate and timely identification of insects for extension and teaching needs. Approximately 2 million specimens are held, representing more than 140,000 species. This includes mainly dry-mounted pinned material as well as many specimens stored in liquid preservative or mounted on slides.
Contact: Dr. Jennifer M. Zaspel (jzaspel@purdue.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 61cff121-261e-4eff-a186-a377f91aa027
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Purdue University, Department of Entomology

OMNH-RINVRT

The Sam Noble Museum Department of Recent Invertebrates

The Collection of Recent Invertebrates, with its >500,000 specimens, presents a nice sampling of invertebrate diversity. Focus of the collection is on Oklahoma invertebrates, but it also contains specimens from more than 100 countries and territories. We are unique among invertebrate collections by pursuing cataloging of all of our specimens. Data is also served to iDigBio under SNOMNH IPT - Recent invertebrates https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/2e6b6643-ebc7-4a80-a7ea-f4dd7b9c42e7
Contact: Katrina Menard (Kmenard@ou.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 8 January 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The University of Oklahoma

UCF-UCFC

The University of Central Florida Collection of Arthropods

Officially known as the University of Central Florida Collection of Arthropods (UCFC), our collection was founded by Stuart M. Fullerton in 1993, who possessed a lifelong passion for entomology.
UCFC possesses one of the largest completely databased collections in the world with over 560,000 specimen records for insects and other arthropods with more being added daily.
Contact: Barbara Sharanowski (Barbara.Sharanowski@ucf.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UTEP-BCEC

The University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Entomology collection

The University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Entomology collection includes The Mackay Laboratory of Myrmecology which is overseen by William P. Mackay and has a mission to advance the understanding of ants through research on their taxonomy, systematics and ecology as well as a variety of other insects and arthropods.
Contact: Vicky Zhuang (mzhuang@utep.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 January 2022
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: he University of Texas at El Paso

TNHC-UTIC

The University of Texas Insect Collection

The University of Texas Insect Collection (UTIC) houses 500,000 pinned and 1.5 million ethanol-preserved specimens with taxonomic concentrations in Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera. The collections are global in scope with an emphasis on central Texas and Mexico. Among UTIC’s significant holdings are the world’s largest collection of cave invertebrates, a survey of Galapagos Island arthropods from the 1970s, and an historical collection of Texas mosquitos dating 1930-1980.
Contact: Alex Wild (alex.wild@utexas.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The University of Texas

AMNH-TTD

Tri-Trophic TCN

Plants, herbivores, and parasitoids: A model system for the study of tri-trophic associations project. Darwin Core Archive for the Collaborative Research: Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the study of Tri-Trophic Associations project;National Science Foundation EF#1115081, EF#1115103, EF#1115080, EF#1115144, EF#1115191, EF#1115104, EF#1115115
Contact: Christine Johnson (cjohnson@amnh.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 June 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File

UAM-ENTO

UAM Insect Collection

This collection is comprised of an extract of specimen records from the University of Alaska Museum Entomology Collection. These records are also included in the UAM iDigBio feed. If further aggregation is desired please contact the curator of the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection to ask permission to aggregate data from their source IPT instance.
Contact: Dr. Derek Sikes (dssikes@alaska.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 23 April 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Alaska Museum

UCONN-INV

UConn Biodiversity Research Collection

The insect collection numbers over 200,000 specimens, with strengths in Heteroptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Odonata of the northeastern United States. Although the origins of the collection date to the 1930s, due largely to the efforts of Jerauld Manter, a faculty member at the time, our earliest specimens date from the 1870’s. The facility also houses part of the James A. Slater worldwide collection of Rhyparochromidae (Heteroptera).
Contact: Dr. Katrina Menard (Katrina.menard@uconn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 86765f8d-ce14-4743-a103-2829d8f257a8
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Digital Metadata: EML File

USNM-USNMENT

United States National Museum, Entomology Collections

The USNM Entomology Collection is one of the largest insect collections in the World. The collection contains over 300,000 species representing approximately 60% of known insect families. With approximately 35 million specimens, including 100,000 holotypes and hundreds of additional paratypes and other secondary types, in more than 232,000 drawers in 5200 cabinets, 33,000 jars or vials, and 50,000 slides from locations worldwide, the collection is strongest in coverage for Nearctic and Neotropical regions. Specimens from the Old World are also well represented, especially Sri Lanka, Philippines, and Papua New Guinea. Particular strengths include mosquitoes, wasps, beetles, butterflies and moths and flies. The collection of Coleoptera at USNM is one of the world’s largest, consisting of more than 10 million specimens, including over 20,000 primary types. The nucleus of the National Collection was formed in 1881 with the transfer of the general collection of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the National Museum of Natural History. Notable collection acquisitions and donations have significantly enhanced the National Coleoptera Collection. The majority of the collection is housed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, other groups are held at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland and the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland. The Department of Entomology includes research scientists and museum specialists from the Smithsonian Institution, U.S.D.A. Systematic Entomology Lab and Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit of the Department of Defense.
Contact: M. Lourdes Chamorro (Lourdes.Chamorro@ars.usda.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 043bee8b-d64c-4136-a7c1-f79af60d4a13
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Digital Metadata: EML File

CBUMAG-ENT

Universidad del Magdalena Abejas

Abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes) del Centro de Colecciones Biológicas de la Universidad del Magdalena (2006-2015). Los especímenes provienen de muestreos realizados en nueve departamentos y 21 municipios de Colombia. Se revisaron los ejemplares de abejas depositados en el CBUMAG hasta el año 2015. Todo el material depositado proviene de trabajos de investigación o actividades académicas, con diferentes metodologías de muestreo. Aproximadamente el 97% de los especímenes que se encuentran depositados en el CBUMAG cuenta con algún tipo de información sobre esta metodología, por ejemplo, la hora, el método de recolección, hospederos y/o transectos. Dentro de los métodos de muestreo más utilizados se encontraron la red entomológica, trampas Malaise, trampas Van Sommeren Rydon, Pan traps, trampas con cebo, esencias y la recolección manual. Sepúlveda Cano P A, Palmera Castrillón K J, Smith-Pardo A H (2021). Abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apiformes) del Centro de Colecciones Biológicas de la Universidad del Magdalena (2006-2015). Version 2.1. Universidad del Magdalena. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15472/rfut0k accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-12.
Contact: Paula Sepúlveda (psepulveda@unimagdalena.edu.co)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 11 March 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Universidad del Magdalena

UAM-OBS

University of Alaska Museum (UAM) Insect Observations

This dataset is pulled from the literature, other non-digitized collections, and databases. It is restricted to Alaskan non-marine arthropod records. Most records are not georeferenced. Sikes D (2022). UAM Insect Observations (Arctos). Version 36.58. University of Alaska Museum of the North. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/8nv0mp accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-21.
Contact: Derek Sikes (dssikes@alaska.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 March 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Alaska

UASM-UASM

University of Alberta Museums, E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum

The E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum houses approximately one million specimens. The research collection includes principally Nearctic insects, representing most orders and the major families thereof. The beetle family Carabidae is especially well represented: included are about 400,000 specimens mainly from the Nearctic region, but with an important Neotropical component, and fewer taxa from the remaining biogeographic regions of the world. The moths and butterflies, order Lepidoptera, with over 65,000 specimens, about half of which are from Alberta localities, are another group of major interest.
Contact: Dr. Felix Sperling (felix.sperling@ualberta.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 6 March 2019
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UA-UAIC

University of Arizona Insect Collection

The University of Arizona Insect Collection (UAIC) contains approximately 2 million specimens representing 35,000 species of pinned, alcohol-preserved, slide-mounted and frozen-tissue preserved arthropods mostly from the Sonoran Desert Region. Significant holdings include Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera and Lepidoptera, but all insect groups are extensively represented. The UAIC user community is diverse, ranging from outstanding undergraduate and graduate students to highly active emeritus insect systematists. Annually, we host thousands of visitors, ranging from resident researchers to individual walk-ins, campus tour groups, and vast numbers of people seeking information on the biology of the Sonoran Desert Region.
Contact: Wendy Moore (wmoore@email.arizona.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: aef2ae41-e2ab-4c73-a616-036ba2fc2326
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Arizona
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UBC-UBCZ

University of British Columbia - Spencer Entomological Collection (UBCZ)

Over half a million pinned specimens, 75,000 alcohol-preserved specimens and 25,000 specimens on slides showcase BC and the Yukon’s spectacular insect diversity. Past collectors’ particular projects have shaped the collection, and have resulted in particularly strong holdings of Hemiptera (true bugs), Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), Siphonaptera (fleas) and Anoplura and Mallophaga (lice). The collection has also been enriched by the following notable holdings: de Waard Lepidoptera (moths), Downes Hemiptera (true bugs), Foxlee Diptera (true flies) and Hymenoptera (bees and wasps), Harrison Coleoptera (carabids), Llwewllyn Jones Lepidoptera (butterflies), Scudder Hemiptera (true bugs), Stace-Smith Coleoptera (beetles). The Collection also includes an extensive library of entomological literature, ranging from insect taxonomy, biology, and habitat to pest control. It includes over 350 books, 8000 reprints, and 20 series of unbound journals. We also have over 10,000 photographic slides of insects and arachnids with accompanying data. Data served via Canadensys at http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Karen Needham (semubcz@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 January 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UCRC-ENT

University of California Riverside, Entomology Research Museum

This is a snapshot from UCRC IPT, this is a valuable dataset for SCAN, allowing people to have a more complete picture of arthropod occurrences. Please access the IPT page or GBIF if you use the data for research http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=ucrc Among the many strengths of UCR's collection are its holdings of native bees and parasitic Hymenoptera, as well as the families Asilidae, Bombyliidae, and Sciomyzidae (Diptera), Coccinellidae, Staphylinidae, and Meloidae (Coleoptera), Aphididae and Miridae (Hemiptera), and the order Thysanoptera. Of particular interest is its large collection of immature insects (the work of the late L.D. Anderson), and an enormous voucher collection from a 10-year faunistic survey of the Boyd Deep Canyon Research Center, a substantial portion of which is now databased. Our holdings, of roughly 4 million specimens (placing it among the 20 largest insect collections in North America), include primarily terrestrial insects from Southern California and Arizona, with strong representations of Mexican insects (primarily Baja California and Sonora), and various other parts of the world including Thailand, Brazil, Honduras, Russia, India, and Australia.
Contact: Doug Yanega (dyanega@ucr.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 June 2019
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: UCRC

University of California San Diego - Drought and Habitat Fragmentation on Native Bee Assemblages

This dataset was extracted from the publically available data in the publication "Hung, K.L.J., Sandoval, S.S., Ascher, J.S. and Holway, D.A., 2021. Joint Impacts of Drought and Habitat Fragmentation on Native Bee Assemblages in a California Biodiversity Hotspot. Insects, 12(2), p.135." DOI:10.3390/insects12020135 . Records are treated as observations since no reference collection was mentioned in the publication. Dataset was acquired and formatted for SCAN by Neil Cobb on February 16, 2020. Records are treated as observations although in the methods the authors claim that each record represents a specimen
Contact: Keng-Lou James Hung (kenglou.hung@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 February 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of California-San Diego

UCSB-IZC

University of California Santa Barbara Invertebrate Zoology Collection

The UCSB Invertebrate Zoology collection began as a student teaching collection for an entomology class in the 1950s. In 1960, Dr. Adrian Wenner arrived at UCSB and added a small personal collection of families not represented in the collection. The collection continues to grow through voluntary donations of arthropods collected by students for class projects, accessions from the UCSB Natural Reserve System, and research projects at UCSB and the Cheadle Center Ecological Restoration. The majority of the specimens are insects from UC Santa Barbara and surrounding area and the collection strength is in Hymenoptera.
Contact: Katja Seltmann (seltmann@ccber.ucsb.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 18 March 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara
Access Rights: CC0

UCFC-SMFCA

University of Central Florida, Stuart M. Fullerton Collection of Arthropods

Vouchered occurrence records for arthropods, primarily insects, from the Stuart M. Fullerton Collection of Arthropods at the University of Central Florida.

These data are provided by an IPT and are harvested , on average, on a monthly basis. http://xbiod.osu.edu/ipt/resource?r=ucfc
Contact: Barbara Sharanowski (Barbara.Sharanowski@ucf.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 June 2018
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UCM-UCMC

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Entomology Collection

The Entomology collection (including both insects and arachnids) is one of six major collections housed at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History in Boulder, Colorado. This collection houses over 700,000 insect and spider specimens, representing over 17,000 species, with a focus on the Rocky Mountain region and North America. Current research efforts in the collection are focused on grasshoppers, bees, and Lepidoptera. The goals of this collection are to make our specimens and the data they contain available to researchers and the public, to participate in public education and outreach, and to conduct research relevant to issues of ecology, evolution, and conservation.
Contact: Deane Bowers (deane.bowers@colorado.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 17c97d22-5064-49c9-a323-110c14056ebe
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Colorado

UD-UDCC

University of Delaware Insect Research Collection

The University of Delaware Insect Research Collection was founded with the creation of the Agricultural Research Station at Delaware College (now University of Delaware) in the 1880’s, and became associated with the Department of Entomology when the Department was founded in 1925. It is a scientific research collection historically focused on the insects and other arthropods of Delaware (or more broadly, the Delmarva Peninsula, which comprise about 75% of the collection), especially those of agroeconomic importance. However, in recent years, the collection has sought to incorporated specimens from a much broader geographic spectrum. The collection consists of approximately 350,000 pinned specimens, plus several thousand specimens in alcohol and a few hundred on slides. Collection strengths from past researchers or students include biting flies, aquatic insects (esp. Bob Lake’s Trichoptera and Plecoptera, plus Hydrophilidae from Andrew Short), Formicidae, and bees. Recent years have resulted in a great expansion of the Hemiptera collection, in particular the Auchenorrhyncha, of which some 40,000 specimens have been digitized as part of the Tri-Trophic Hemiptera TCH supported by NSF. Further digitization projects are actively sought, particularly if they involve the active participation of UD undergraduate students.
Contact: Charles Bartlett (Bartlett@udel.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 303067f9-527d-458e-81ea-0894c44b9e23
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Charles Bartlett
Access Rights: Not for Profit

UFIFAS-UFFE

University of Florida Forestry Entomology Collection

Research collection primarily consisting of bark beetles and their symbionts.
Contact: Jiri Hulcr (hulcr@ufl.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 00d5fdb8-7d1e-4e1a-a363-06c74ddf7f2e
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: UFL

GMNH-UGCA

University of Georgia Collection of Arthropods

The University of Georgia Collection of Arthropods (UGCA) serves as the official state repository of insects and other non-marine arthropods. The Collection is part of the UGA Department of Entomology and the Georgia Museum of Natural History (GMNH). The UGCA includes approximately 2,000,000 pinned specimens. In addition the collection houses significant alcohol-preserved and slide-mounted collections. Approximately 60% of the holdings are from the southeastern United States as is consistent with our mission to serve as the primary systematics reference for the state. More than 70% of that regional material is identified to the species level.
Contact: Joseph V. McHugh (mchugh.jv@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e7bcca50-5afb-4728-a5c4-014551fe50a0
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Georgia Museum of Natural History
Access Rights: Material is available via loans to researchers around the world and for in-house use.

GUAM-ESUG

University of Guam Insect Collection

Most of the specimens in the University of Guam insect collection were collected on Guam or elsewhere in Micronesia.
Contact: Dr. Aubrey Moore (aubreymoore@guam.net)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 2ab896ab-8b52-404a-b1d4-fad3fcbd37b4
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Guam,College of Natural and Applied Sciences
Access Rights: Not for commercial use

DEBU-ENT

University of Guelph Insect Collection (DEBU)

This dataset is provided by Canadensys https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=debu-specimens, please go there to obtain raw data. University of Guelph Insect Collection (DEBU) from University of Guelph. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/4pp2vt5a (accessed on [date]) The University of Guelph Insect Collection has its roots in the insect collection of the Entomological Society of Ontario, founded in 1863. It is the oldest insect collection in Canada and was, in effect, Canada's national insect collection before there was a Canada and before the establishment of the Canadian National Collection in Ottawa. Although our current collection of just over two million specimens is relatively small by world standards, the University of Guelph Insect Collection remains one of North America's most important heritage insect collections, and is Canada's third or fourth largest insect collection. It is the best collection of Ontario insects, including many irreplaceable specimens of extirpated species.
Contact: Steven Paiero (paieros@uoguelph.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 12 January 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Guelph

UHIM-UHIM

University of Hawaii Insect Museum

The University of Hawaii Insect Museum (UHIM) is the second largest collection of insects in the state of Hawaii and ranks among the biggest collections in the world for Hawaiian insect holdings. The collection dates to 1908, and as such houses an important record of changes in arthropod biodiversity over time, including the extinction and introduction of species. The museum houses over 250,000 specimens, with strengths in endemic Diptera and Lepidoptera. The UHIM also serves as a center for research and education about biodiversity and systematics for the University of Hawaii system.
Contact: Dan Rubinoff (rubinoff@hawaii.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0fc43ef4-018d-479a-a633-3653718ec766
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Hawaii Insect Museum
Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

UI-UISC

University of Indianapolis Spider Collection

A collection of spiders from Eastern North America. All varieties of families are present, but the greatest representation exists for the Linyphiidae. Approximately 10,000 specimens.
Contact: Marc Milne (milnem@uindy.edu)
Home Page: NA
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 431b9892-7dd8-4d57-9b34-96e583efe0ac
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Indianapolis

KU-SEMC

University of Kansas Natural History Museum Entomology Division

This collection is comprised of an extract of specimen records from the University of Kansas Natural History Museum Entomology Division. These records are also included in the KU Natural History Museum iDigBio feed. Please download data directly from Kansas Natural History Museum Entomology Division.
Contact: Dr. Zack Falin (ksem@ku.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 March 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The University of Kansas Natural History Museum

KY-UKIC

University of Kentucky Insect Collection

The University of Kentucky Insect Collection is composed of two major collections. The primary UK collection had its beginning in 1889 under the newly formed Entomology Department’s chair, Harrison H Garman. Charles Covelle of the University of Louisville facilitated donating their collection to UK; the transfer was completed in 2003. In 2010, the combined collection was moved into its current location in the Dimock building on the UK main campus. The collection is housed in compactors and consists of somewhere between ½ and 1 million pinned specimens in 1,868 drawers. Major strengths include leafhoppers (>250 drawers) and Lepidoptera (730 drawers) where taxonomists Paul Freytag (UK, leafhoppers) and Charles Covelle, Jr. (U of L, Lepidoptera) spent their careers studying these groups. The collection is Kentucky-centric, but has specimens from all over the US, and more exotic locations in Central and South America (Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela), Asia (Japan, Phillipines, Thailand) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia). There is also a more modest collection of ethanol-preserved specimens.
Contact: Julian R. Dupuis, Eric G Chapman (julian.dupuis@uky.edu, ericgchapman@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0d8689b5-5476-478d-a334-e44f205036c9
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Kentucky

UMMZ-UMMZI

University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Insects

We serve this data for SCAN users to complement the existing arthropod data available on SCAN. Please do not download UMMZ data from SCAN. Please visit https://www.gbif.org/dataset/13e7869e-0c76-473a-a227-53d6e3d6fbf2 or their IPT site https://ipt.lsa.umich.edu/resource?r=ummz_insects&request_locale=zh to download data for research. This will provide UMMZI with full attribution for use of the data This collection contains catalog records from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology’s Insect Division’s specimen collection. Many specimen records include a specimen and label data image. The database currently contains about 300,000 specimen records out of the estimated 3 million estimated specimens in the collection. Some records contain complete collection, preparation, and taxonomic detail, while others only have a specimen data image and limited taxonomic detail. Records include specimen information from the early 1800’s through the present and are of global distribution. Most of our databased or digitized records currently are of Orthoptera (grasshoppers, katydids, & crickets), Odonata (dragonflies & damselfies), and Hymenoptera (bees, wasps & ants)
Contact: UMMZ Insects Division Data Group (ummz-insects-data@umich.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 30 April 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Michigan

UMD-UMDI

University of Minnesota Duluth Insect Collection

The University of Minnesota Duluth Insect Collection is the second largest collection of entomological specimens in the state of Minnesota, with an expanding collection of over 48,000 specimens. Since its inception, the collection served as a repository for entomology students’ specimens. The collection represents local insect diversity of northeastern Minnesota, a region of unique ecological communities shaped by climate and recent geologic history. With specimens spanning six decades, the collection represents past and recent insect diversity within this region; with an emphasis on local carabid beetles.
Contact: Tim Craig (tcraig@d.umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1e91cfd2-a0b5-4715-b624-68a44ef07def
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Digital Metadata: EML File

MIN-UMSP

University of Minnesota Insect Collection

The University of Minnesota Insect Collection’s mission is to explore, describe, and preserve representative specimens of Earth’s remarkable diversity of insects and to make these specimens available to the global community for research and education. Contributions to the collection began in 1879 with specimens of insects and spiders from the North Shore of Lake Superior. During the last 140 years, the collection’s holdings have grown from a regional collection of 3,000 specimens to a major national and international resource of more than 4.06 million specimens. The collection is one of the largest university-affiliated insect collections in North America. Enhancing the collection’s status are 5 resident systematists, computerized inventory management and specimen databases, and the large and historically important affiliated University of Minnesota Natural Resources Library. Current and past National Science Foundation grants have made significant progress in digitizing the collection’s specimen holdings. Research projects associated with the collection have broad taxonomic and geographic scope. Faculty and graduate student research focuses on both aquatic and terrestrial insect groups and includes taxonomic, phylogenetic, and applied questions. The collection is the mainstay of graduate training is systematic entomology at the University of Minnesota.
Contact: Robin Elizabeth Thomson (thom1514@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ad7e4ae3-ab29-41f0-a66a-2f0e4756b2c1
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Regents of the University of Minnesota

UNSM-UNSM

University of Nebraska State Museum

Worldwide insects with emphasis on Great Plains of USA and Neotropics. Approximately 2 million specimens with strengths in Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera.
Contact: Dr. Matt Paulsen (mjpaulsen@unl.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 614b856a-de67-42e2-b83a-f6fbbd5d1f54
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Nebraska

UNR-ENTO

University of Nevada, Reno, Museum of Natural History, Entomology Research Collection

Reared specimens associated with interaction diversity datasets from across the Americas. Supplemented with adult collections. In addition to homepage please visit www.caterpillars.org
Contact: Lee Dyer (ldyer@unr.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 046eddff-cf84-40f7-979b-e6b7b42d718c
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Nevada, Reno, Museum of Natural History

UNHC-UNHC

University of New Hampshire Collection of Insects and Arthropods (UNHC-UNHC)

With more than 700,000 specimens and growing, the UNHC is the largest arthropod depository and research collection in northern New England. Over 12,000 species are represented from different regions of New England, featuring many specimens collected from the White Mountains. The UNHC is part of the Department of Biological Sciences and the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and is dedicated to preserving the rich historical information encompassed by the collection and committed to acquiring new specimens and resources useful to the UNH Department of Biological Sciences and greater scientific community.
Contact: Istvan Miko (istvan.miko@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a7ccda69-f66b-4cf6-b224-3da67d765aa5
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of New Hampshire
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

UND-UND-IC

University of North Dakota Insect Collection.

Details to be filled out soon.
Contact: Jefferson Vaughan (jefferson.vaughan@UND.edu)
Home Page: TBA
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e868f83d-386d-4454-9c47-dc03f1f0407f
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UNI-UNIAW

University of Northern Iowa - Wen Research Collection

This dataset includes bees collected as part of a research program
Contact: Ai Wen (ai.wen@uni.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 83609cac-3a1e-4141-b4d4-51842dd8203f
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UPRM-INVCOL

University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Invertebrate Collection

Terrestrial invertebrate collection, containing arthropods and molluscs from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
Contact: Alex Van Dam (alex.vandam@upr.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ff3f430a-ca02-46ed-81b5-7c53c17f4041
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Digital Metadata: EML File

University of Redlands Arthropod Collection

The University of Redlands Arthropod Collection contains specimens dating to the early 20th century. The collection houses specimens caught and curated by students taking Entomology as well as a substantial amount of specimens collected in pollinator pan traps and pitfall traps.
Contact: Dustin VanOverbeke (dustin_vanoverbeke@redlands.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 18503e82-4842-40c8-b2ac-d8f7490de49c
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Redlands

UTC-UTCI

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Insect collection started in 1970 with Dr. Charles Nelson, a Plecoptera expert. For several years it grew into an extensive teaching collection with representative of most insect families found in the Southeastern USA. In 2008, Dr. Stylianos Chatzimanolis initiated the Coleoptera collection, which is fully curated and databased. The main focus of the Coleoptera collection is the Southeastern USA but several other countries are represented. We welcome visitors and loan requests; please contact Stylianos Chatzimanolis at the email address below or at @schatzimanolis.
Contact: Stylianos Chatzimanolis (stylianos-chatzimanolis@utc.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 16 August 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File

UVI-SOA-CES

University of the Virgin Islands, Cooperative Extension Service Arthropod Collection

This is the arthropod collection for the Integrated Pest Management program of the University of the Virgin Island’s School of Agriculture/Natural Resources Cooperative Extension Service. The collection is from a variety of ecosystems including forests, urban and farms from the US Virgin Islands.
Contact: Amy Dreves (Amy.dreves@uvi.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 7566f1e2-7ae4-432a-b02d-ed1d1df5f3e1
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of the Virgin Islands, School of Agriculture/Natural Resources, Cooperative Extension Service

UU-UUIC

University of Utah Invertebrates Collection

The University of Utah Invertebrates Collection contains specimens collected and curated by students and faculty from the University of Utah’s main campus and Red Butte research canyon in Salt Lake City as well as the university’s research station at Rio Mesa in Moab, UT. This collection is curated by students at University of Utah.
Contact: Donald H. Feener Jr. (donald.feener@utah.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 05e52500-0e75-4062-9de0-3def8c2ee66f
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Utah Biology Department

UVM-VTZT

University of Vermont Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection-Invertebrates

The Zadock Thompson entomological collection is the oldest and most complete collection of its kind in the state of Vermont. It is also the largest insect collection in the state, with approximately 280,000 pinned specimens, and 20,000 DNA-grade specimens preserved in ethanol. The species represented in the collection represent the diversity of insect’s populations in Vermont, though the range of the specimens is worldwide. The collection consists of approximately 40% Coleoptera, 10% Hemiptera, 10% Diptera, 10% Lepidoptera, 5% Hymenoptera and 5% Odonata, and a selection of various other orders of insects; as well as 60,000 Arachnids. The collection is now the only large arthropod collection in the state, since the ruin of the State Invertebrate Collection by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene. The Thompson collection has repeatedly and regularly been accessed by scientists studying taxonomy, nomenclature, phylogenetics, population ecology, and biodiversity of species living in Vermont, as well as being regularly used for biological class instruction, and by non-biologists, including artists and photographers. Understanding the consequences of climate change on biodiversity and distribution of animals is becoming increasingly important, and thus the scientific value of historical collections such as the Zadock Thompson Zoological Collection increases.
Contact: Lisa Chamberland (uvm.vtzt@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4f6326b5-f8c5-4a39-88b9-e23b65180f9b
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: The University of Vermont

UWOC-UWOC

University of Western Ontario Collection

Transcribed from specimen labels; latitude and longitude provided by CNC or collector. Data served at https://www.gbif.org/dataset/84687bdc-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. This data is provided as a resource for SCAN users, if you use data from this collection in publications please access the data via GBIF or Canadensys web portals.
Contact: Stanley Caveney (caveney[AT]uwo.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 July 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File

UWSP-PARA

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

The Stephen J. Taft Parasitology Collection in the UWSP Museum of Natural History (UWSP – PARA) was established in 2004 when Dr. Stephen (Steve) J. Taft retired after 33 years of teaching and research at UWSP. The collection was largely acquired and amassed through the work of Steve Taft and the numerous students he mentored over the decades of his tenure at UWSP. The collection is impressive in its magnitude and faunistic scope, with over 20,000 slide mounted specimens and additional hundreds of wet preserved specimens in vials and jars. Strengths of the collection include avian ectoparasites (lice and mites) as well as endoparasites (helminths and blood protists). The collection contains many invaluable specimens, such as those from hosts that no longer occur in Wisconsin, or others from hosts for which lethal sampling is no longer permissible. The Parasitology Collection maintains facilities for preparing new permanent slide-mounts and remounting slides. A small but growing frozen tissue collection and associated molecular laboratory support future research. The mission of the Parasitology Collection is to serve as a foundation for research and training, primarily of undergraduates, in parasitology and related scientific and applied disciplines.
Contact: Sarah Orlofske (Sarah.Orlofske@uwsp.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 387ee677-4818-405d-90be-cff5c2cc949c
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UWYMED-ENT

University of Wyoming Dillon Lab Insect Collection

Insect pollinators (primarily bees) collected for various projects throughout Wyoming. Most collections are since 2009 but some specimens are historical, salvaged from past researchers working in the region.
Contact: Michael Dillon (Michael.Dillon@uwyo.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 9fc2faba-f3ab-4fb5-8695-5c0b2e602b71
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Michael Dillon

USNM data by Mississippi Entomological Museum

This is a special collection database created by MEM for the USNM Orthoptera collection
Contact: Zach Brown (zrb29@msstate.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 13 December 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File

UDAF-UDAFE

Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Entomology Collection

The entomology collection at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is located in Salt Lake City. Specimens are collected from all over the state but a majority is from the Great Basin area. There are several thousand specimens in the collection with emphasis placed on insects significant to the future of agriculture in Utah, such as bark beetles, Japanese beetles and gypsy moths.
Contact: Joey Caputo (jcaputo@utah.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: e6f892dc-9db7-4dbb-a446-496ab2156862
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Utah Department of Agriculture and Food
Access Rights: Public Data

Utah State University, Eastern Entomological Collection

Utah State University, Eastern (USUE) was formally called Carbon College and the College of Eastern Utah and was the first state-supported two-year institution, established in 1937. An entomological teaching collection exists within the Wildland Resources Department of the S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources. A wide-range of entomological collections are cataloged collected primarily from the 1960s through the 1980s. The specimens have been used as a teaching collection and are housed in one entomology cabinet. The collection includes bees, wasps, flies, moths, butterflies, and odona0tes from primarily Emery, Carbon, Duchesne, and San Juan Counties in Southeastern Utah. Our aim is to digitize the collection to aid in teaching students and provide historic data on arthropod diversity for this region of Utah.
Contact: Sunshine Liberty Brosi (sunshine.brosi@usu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 81b82166-321f-4680-a86b-9c13a56f618f
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Utah State University, Eastern

Utah Tech University Natural Science Museum’s Insect Collection

The collections of Utah Technical University’s Natural Science Museum were originally made solely to help students become familiar with the area’s plants and animals. With the institution’s change from a two-year college in 2013, its commitment to technology education, and the growing importance of biodiversity informatics led to the decision to start digitizing the existing collection and using it to help ensure students become familiar with the new tools being developed for recording, sharing, and using specimen-based biodiversity information.
Contact: Bryan Stevens (bstevens@dixie.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f287b25e-ebc3-4ca9-9bef-15317fb9e5b0
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Utah Technical University
Access Rights: CC 4

VecB-Aggregate

VectorBase (Bioinformatics Resource for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens)

VectorBase is a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) providing genomic, phenotypic and population-centric data to the scientific community for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens. This includes warehousing standardized population survey data from mosquito abatement districts across the United States, and from international sources. info@vectorbase.org
Contact: Mary Ann McDowell (mcdowell.11@nd.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 64d4de09-3872-4dcb-bf9b-74800d3536a5
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Digital Metadata: EML File
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VCE-VAL

Vermont Atlas of Life

Observations from Vermont Atlas of Life projects. All of the data is served to GBIF https://www.gbif.org/publisher/b6d09100-919d-4026-b35b-22be3dae7156 and to date covers 20 different projects carried out by the Vermont Center for Ecostudies https://vtecostudies.org/ . The data should be downloaded directly from the Vermont Atlas of Life IPT or the GBIF data set https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0016932-200127171203522
Contact: Kent McFarland (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 February 2020
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Vermont Center for Ecostudies

BIG4-VSIC

Viktor Senderov Insect Collection

Viktor Senderov Insect Collection - in development, and part of the BIG4-Project (http://big4-project.eu/).
Contact: Viktor Senderov (vsenderov@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f31bfe81-0530-4fe0-b9db-67ef844a80c4
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VCU-ENT

Virginia Commonwealth University Dyer Lab Bee Collection

A collection of bees caught using targeted flower sweeps, passive bee bowls, and blue vanes on Appalachian shale barren sites during the summer of 2019. These bees were caught as part of O. Latham’s master thesis for Virginia Commonwealth University. Olivia Latham, Olivialath@gmail.com, Rodney Dyer rjdyer@vcu.edu
Contact: Olivia Latham (Olivialath@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f7f9a895-e980-4e48-a7de-d5e8e4e7ecd9
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Rights Holder: VCU

VPI-VTEC

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Insect Collection

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Insect Collection is the oldest and largest entomological collection in Virginia. Founded in 1888 by W.B. Alwood at the university’s first experimental station with just a few insects collected from his apple orchards, the collection now composes more than 500,000 specimens. The collection contains many entomological treasures like American Burying Beetles collected from Blacksburg in 1889 (now extinct from the state), colorful Malaysian butterflies, a herbarium of plant pests, and an extensive slide collection of 50,000 soil mites. In addition to pinned dried specimens, the VTEC holds an alcohol collection of aquatic insects and Appalachian millipedes.
Contact: Paul Marek (pmarek@vt.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cbb0e637-c014-4f09-99a1-37d1bbfdfb70
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Rights Holder: Virginia Tech, Department of Entomology

Washington Bee GBIF-BOLD Dataset

Washington Bee data from GBIF & BOLD not on SCAN
Contact: Chanda Bartholomew (chenne@agr.wa.gov)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 29 April 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Data Providers

WSU-WSUC

Washington State University Collection

Contact: Elizabeth Murray (e.murray@wsu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cf67bcd5-ae91-4e62-9237-5bf284446989
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WVW-ENT

West Virginia Wesleyan College Katharine B. Gregg Orchid Pollinator Collection

This collection consists of specimens collected during orchid field studies by Dr. Katharine B. Gregg, Professor Emerita of Biology, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV., between the years 1968-1998. Specimens of Bombus and Megachile were collected during pollination studies of Cleistesiopsis bifaria and C. divaricata, and those of Danaus, Papilio, Battus, etc., were collected during pollination studies of Platanthera ciliaris. Various species of Euglossine bees were collected by Gregg at fragrance baits in Belize, while other euglossines were collected in several Central and South American countries by Dr. Calaway H. Dodson and his students.
Contact: Katharine B. Gregg (gregg@wvwc.edu)
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Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5955574f-14de-45b6-86ef-290b3915293c
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Rights Holder: West Virginia Wesleyan College
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WCUH-WCUCA

Western Carolina University Collection of Arthropods

The WCCA (Western Carolina University Collection of Arthropods), at the WCU’s Apodaca Science building, is home to over 80,000 arthropod specimens, sorted and identified to variable levels. WCCA was founded by arachnologist Emeritus Prof. Fred Coyle back in the 1960s., and taken over by Emeritus Prof. Kefyn Catley, also an arachnologist, in the 1990s. As such, WCCA has a modest, mostly regionally relevant collection of arachnids. The collection is currently curated by Prof. Silveira, who has held the role since 2019. Since then, the collection representation and focus has shifted to insects, especially beetles, with an emphasis on fireflies. More recently, The WCU Culicidae collection, curated by Dr. Byrd, was incorporated into WCCA (although it is housed in a separate building, in the Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Laboratory). This collection is a reference resource containing more than 3,000 pinned adult mosquitoes representing more than 100 species, and primarily maintains species from North America.
Contact: Luiz Felipe Lima da Silveira (limadasilveiral@wcu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 17ece428-0fd9-43be-b150-43ff9d5a3f8e
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WWU-WWUC

Western Washington University Insect Collection

The Western Washington University Insect Collection houses approximately 50,000 insect specimens. Our geographic area of focus is the northwestern portion of the contiguous United States. Most of our specimens are from the northwestern portion of Washington State, an area that is poorly represented in other collections in the region. The collection is the largest publicly-held insect collection within a 100 mile radius centered on Seattle.  
Contact: Merrill Peterson (Merrill.Peterson@wwu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: be43e4da-bd95-4cdb-a590-3129a4cef884
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Rights Holder: Western Washington University
Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

WICH-WICHI

Wichita State University Collection

The Wichita State University Biodiversity Laboratory houses the invertebrate collection (WICHI) which contains arthropod specimens that result from regional research (pollination, herbivory, habitat surveys) and international research (primarily Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). We aim to make biodiversity data broadly available and assist in research that examines biotic patterns (e.g., insect and host-plant interactions), phylogenetics, spatial distributions, and conservation. Discoveries based on this research assist in documenting the biotic response to climate change, predicting the geographic potential of invasive species, recognizing habitat bio-indicators, among others.
Contact: Mary Liz Jameson (MaryLiz.Jameson@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bf5897ef-d770-46ac-8159-04e1eb267f6b
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Rights Holder: 37.72071, -97.29384

UI-WFBM

William F. Barr Entomological Museum

The University of Idaho’s William F. Barr Entomological Museum is located in the Agriculture building (room 136) at the University of Idaho (Moscow, ID). The museum was initiated in 1946, when taxonomist W.F. Barr (1920-2011) was hired at UI, where he served until retiring in 1982. The collection contains over one million pinned specimens, housed in 142 CAS type cabinets, over 20,000 vials of ethanol-preserved immatures, and a modest collection of slide-mounted mites, Diptera and aphids. The primary geographic focus is the Pacific Northwest region and southern deserts, but also world coverage for Buprestidae and Cleridae, Bill Barr’s specialty families. Other particularly well represented groups are other families of Coleoptera, rangeland grasshoppers, aquatic insects and butterflies. The collection also houses the very large collection of reprints and rare books donated by Melville H. Hatch. The long-serving (1986-2015) curator was Frank Merickel, a position held by Luc Leblanc (leblancl@uidaho.edu) since 2015.
Contact: Luc Leblanc, Stephen Cook (leblancl@uidaho.edu, stephenc@uidaho.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 04b4edd7-82e4-4e40-8225-c9dd676594f5
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Rights Holder: University of Idaho William F. Barr Entomological Museum

UWM-WIRC

Wisconsin Insect Research Collection

The Wisconsin Insect Research Collection (WIRC), is home to nearly 3,000,000 curated specimens. The collection also houses more than 5,000,000 additional uncurated specimens in bulk, primarily in ethyl alcohol.  

The Wisconsin collection is the result of nearly 170 years of collecting by amateur and professional entomologists. Early collecting efforts focused on increasing holdings of Coleoptera, Diptera, and Lepidoptera, while the current research strengths of the WIRC include Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Hemiptera. This diversity reflects the ongoing research of curatorial and support staff as well as taxonomic graduate training and several key collection donations. Active taxonomic teaching and research programs and involvement in state and regional inventory projects have contributed to a sustained growth of the collection by an average of 31,000 specimens per year in recent years.
Contact: Craig M. Brabant (brabant@entomology.wisc.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cb64eb29-b440-4d69-87d0-f720c353557f
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WWD-WWD

World Weevil Database

Weevil database of specimens largely held at the CMNC. Focus on New World taxa.
Contact: Robert Anderson (RAnderson@nature.ca)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bd827e44-7375-4965-87b2-d8f401cd89c3
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Xerces-BOMB

Xerces Society - Bumble Bee Watch

This dataset is provided by USGS, please go here https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=xerces-bumblebeewatch to obtain raw data. IP Rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CCZero 1.0 License http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. While we provide these data to USGS BISON under the above license, we respectfully ask that data users consider the Bumble Bee Watch Privacy and Data Use Policy https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/privacy-policy Bumble Bee Watch is a collaborative effort to track and conserve North America’s bumble bees. Bumble Bee Watch is a citizen science project through the partnership of The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the University of Ottawa, Wildlife Preservation Canada, BeeSpotter, The Natural History Museum, London, and the Montreal Insectarium. Bumble bee species occurrence data included in this dataset is derived from photo-based observations of bumble bees collected and submitted by citizen scientists in the United States and Canada. These data will help researchers determine the status and conservation needs of bumble bees; Help locate rare or endangered populations of bumble bees; and Learn about bumble bees, their ecology, and ongoing conservation efforts.
Contact: Richard Hatfield (rich@xerces.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 14 January 2020
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Xerces

YPM-ENT

Yale Peabody Museum, Entomology Division

This collection is comprised of an extract of specimen records from the Yale University Peabody Museum Entomology Division. These records are also included in the Peabody Museum's iDigBio feed. Further aggregation is not recommended.”
Contact: Dr. Lawrence Gall (lawrence.gall@yale.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 24 June 2021
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Yale University

UVM-UCC

Zadock Thompson Zoological Collections - Caribbean Island Biogeography (CARBIO) Arachnid Collection

The Caribbean Island Biogeography (CARBIO) Arachnid Collection is part of the University Vermont Natural History Collection. With over 100,000 DNA-grade specimens preserved in ethanol this collection is the largest and most complete collection spiders and other arachnids from the Caribbean. These arachnids continue to play an integral role in helping scientists better understand how biodiversity is generated on island archipelagos.
Contact: Ingi Agnarsson (ingi.agnarsson@uvm.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: c6d37c78-53a5-4eb2-89d2-7c3ed0e90fc0
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Rights Holder: The University of Vermont
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only
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