UAM Insect Collection (Arctos)

Derek Sikes1, AnOrganization to test2, Laura Russell3, David Bloom4, John Wieczorek5, Dusty McDonald6

1 University of Alaska Museum, 907 Yukon Drive, 99775-6960, Fairbanks, United States; 2 , Denmark; 3 VertNet, ; 4 ; 5 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, ; 6 University of Alaska Museum, 

Corresponding author(s): Derek Sikes (dssikes@alaska.edu), AnOrganization to test

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=uam_test

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Insecta, Arachnida, Myriapoda, Chelicerata, Entognatha, Chilopoda, Clitellata, Malacostraca, Gastropoda, Diplopoda, Maxillopoda, Branchiopoda, Crustacea, Bivalvia
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Insecta

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: North America, Europe, Asia, West Indies, Central America
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Living time period: 1883 to present

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive UAM Insect Collection (Arctos)
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=uam_test
Publication date of data: 2023-05-23
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2013-01-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset