Frost Entomological Museum (PSUC-ENTO)

The research collection comprises over 1,300,000 specimens of insects representing at least 15,000 species. Specimens are pinned, slide mounted, and liquid preserved in alcohol with dried artifacts. The important collection holdings include the George and Alice Beatty Odonata Collection, John Pepper Aphid Collection, K.C. Kim Anoplura. Collection, archival collections from major inventory and assessment projects including several national parks and a PA National Guard Training Center and others.

Contact: Andrew R. Deans (adeans@psu.edu)

Home Page: http://www.ento.psu.edu/home/frost/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: http://grbio.org/cool/29fv-ztxs

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

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

• 168,200 occurrence
• 121,739 (72%) georeferenced
• 2 (0%) with images
• 25,688 (15%) identified to species
• 756 families
• 1,797 genera
• 2,074 species
• 2,056 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)