The University of Texas Insect Collection (TNHC-UTIC)

The University of Texas Insect Collection (UTIC) houses 500,000 pinned and 1.5 million ethanol-preserved specimens with taxonomic concentrations in Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera. The collections are global in scope with an emphasis on central Texas and Mexico. Among UTIC’s significant holdings are the world’s largest collection of cave invertebrates, a survey of Galapagos Island arthropods from the 1970s, and an historical collection of Texas mosquitos dating 1930-1980.

Contact: Alex Wild (alex.wild@utexas.edu)

Home Page: https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/resources/collections/entomology

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

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

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: The University of Texas

• 38,465 occurrence
• 37,159 (97%) georeferenced
• 526 (1%) with images
• 28,801 (75%) identified to species
• 373 families
• 2,116 genera
• 3,725 species
• 3,748 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)