University of Arizona Insect Collection (UA-UAIC)

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)

Home Page: https://uaic.arizona.edu

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: aef2ae41-e2ab-4c73-a616-036ba2fc2326

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

Live Data Download: Login for access

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: University of Arizona

Access Rights: Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. (eg. 'not‐for‐profit use

• 121,733 occurrence
• 82,608 (68%) georeferenced
• 100,010 (82%) with images
• 91,174 (75%) identified to species
• 94 families
• 1,142 genera
• 4,132 species
• 4,222 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)