West Virginia Wesleyan College Katharine B. Gregg Orchid Pollinator Collection (WVW-ENT)
This collection consists of specimens collected during orchid field studies by Dr. Katharine B. Gregg, Professor Emerita of Biology, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV., between the years 1968-1998. Specimens of Bombus and Megachile were collected during pollination studies of Cleistesiopsis bifaria and C. divaricata, and those of Danaus, Papilio, Battus, etc., were collected during pollination studies of Platanthera ciliaris. Various species of Euglossine bees were collected by Gregg at fragrance baits in Belize, while other euglossines were collected in several Central and South American countries by Dr. Calaway H. Dodson and his students.
Contact: Katharine B. Gregg (gregg@wvwc.edu)
Home Page: NA
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5955574f-14de-45b6-86ef-290b3915293c
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: West Virginia Wesleyan College
Access Rights: West Virginia Wesleyan College
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/09d82596-f4a1-45ce-8684-580b57b7b60e
Collection Statistics
- 293 occurrence
- 140 (48%) georeferenced
- 267 (91%) identified to species
- 7 families
- 12 genera
- 45 species
- 46 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
