University of California Santa Barbara Invertebrate Zoology Collection (UCSB-IZC)

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)

Home Page: https://www.ccber.ucsb.edu/collections/zoological/arthropods

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara

Access Rights: CC0

• 32,073 occurrence
• 29,844 (93%) georeferenced
• 12,823 (40%) with images
• 8,726 (27%) identified to species
• 333 families
• 791 genera
• 788 species
• 807 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)