UAM Insect Collection (Arctos)

Occurrence
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Description

The UAM Insect collection is the northern-most facility of its kind in the United States. 98.5% of our records are from Alaska. Although a young collection (begun in 2000), we have recently surpassed 200,000 records representing over 1 million specimens (as of June 2014), making this collection the fourth largest in the US in entomology with data served to iDigBio. Over 99% of these records have been georeferenced. Over 75% of the pinned collection has been databased; approximately 10% of the wet collection has been databased. At least one specimen of every lowest identification, in both the pinned and wet collections, has been databased so we have a complete online taxon inventory of the collection. 136,257 specimens have been identified to the species level - these represent 2,869 species (23% are apparent new records for the state). Coleoptera, Odonata, and Hymenoptera are the most well-curated groups. 56,187 of these specimen records have been cited or otherwise used in 38 peer-reviewed publications. Please use this DOI to cite this collection / dataset: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7299/X75D8S0H

Data Records

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 353,844 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
353844
Multimedia 
6869

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How to cite

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University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection (UAM), University of Alaska Fairbanks

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GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Derek Sikes
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator of Insects
University of Alaska Museum
  • 907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
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  • Metadata Provider
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DK
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Dusty McDonald
  • Point Of Contact
  • Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum

Geographic Coverage

North America, Europe, Asia, West Indies, Central America

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Insecta, Arachnida, Myriapoda, Chelicerata, Entognatha, Chilopoda, Clitellata, Malacostraca, Gastropoda, Diplopoda, Maxillopoda, Branchiopoda, Crustacea, Bivalvia

Class Insecta

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1883 to present

Additional Metadata