Archbold Biological Station Arthropod Collection (ABS-ARTHARCH)

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)

Home Page: http://www.archbold-station.org/html/research/entom/arthcoll.html

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: f52df103-0126-47fd-8836-934641444fcd

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)

Rights Holder: Archbold Biological Station

• 34,344 occurrence
• 23,065 (67%) georeferenced
• 1,875 (5%) with images
• 28,845 (84%) identified to species
• 439 families
• 3,426 genera
• 6,983 species
• 6,987 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)