Entomology Collection at the Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH-ENT)

The Entomology Collection at the Natural History Museum of Utah consists of approximately 250,000 pinned and alcohol specimens from around the world, with greatest specimen numbers from the intermountain west. The collection dates back to the late 1800s, with heaviest collection periods in the 1930s and 1960s. The collection was relocated in 2012 to a new facility with optimal storage conditions. Areas of greatest strength include Lepidoptera, Cicadidae and Cicindelidae. Future project emphasis is on databasing the collection to increase research utilization of the collection.

Contact: Christy Bills (cbills@nhmu.utah.edu)

Home Page: http://nhmu.utah.edu/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 11991258-201f-460d-a69b-1ab112a01cf3

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: Natural History Museum of Utah

Access Rights: not-for-profit use only, researchers are requested to let us know when they use our specimen data in publications

• 78,754 occurrence
• 76,368 (97%) georeferenced
• 4,353 (6%) with images
• 39,999 (51%) identified to species
• 389 families
• 1,930 genera
• 3,794 species
• 4,483 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)