Brigham Young University Arthropod Museum (BYU-BYUC)
The BYU Arthropod Collection is housed in the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University. It totals approximately 2,000,000 specimens, mostly insects. Although worldwide in coverage, an emphasis is on western North America. Although taxonomically diverse, strengths include Coleoptera, Plecoptera, and Siphonaptera. The insect tissue holdings are outstanding. The principal aim is systematic study, but the collection is available to a wide variety of researchers.
Contact: Shawn Clark (shawn_clark@byu.edu)
Home Page: http://mlbean.byu.edu/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: ad64ad57-a281-457e-b398-964dddc7e953
DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
Live Data Download: Login for access
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)
Rights Holder: Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only.
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ae24fb7b-af3c-478c-a1ed-2215a90793cc
iDigBio Dataset page: https://www.idigbio.org/portal/recordsets/cb65cf5e-07b8-4d53-a91a-7dce9b8ccf80
Address:
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Arthropod Collection
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
USA
Collection Statistics
- 205,291 occurrence
- 194,654 (95%) georeferenced
- 23,426 (11%) with images
- 135,850 (66%) identified to species
- 386 families
- 1,423 genera
- 4,088 species
- 4,322 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
