Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Entomology Collection (UDAF-UDAFE)

The entomology collection at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is located in Salt Lake City. Specimens are collected from all over the state but a majority is from the Great Basin area. There are several thousand specimens in the collection with emphasis placed on insects significant to the future of agriculture in Utah, such as bark beetles, Japanese beetles and gypsy moths.

Contact: Joey Caputo (jcaputo@utah.gov)

Home Page: http://ag.utah.gov/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: e6f892dc-9db7-4dbb-a446-496ab2156862

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)

Rights Holder: Utah Department of Agriculture and Food

Access Rights: Public Data

• 425 occurrence
• 371 (87%) georeferenced
• 353 (83%) identified to species
• 2 families
• 34 genera
• 53 species
• 65 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)