University of California Riverside, Entomology Research Museum (UCRC-ENT)

This is a snapshot from UCRC IPT, this is a valuable dataset for SCAN, allowing people to have a more complete picture of arthropod occurrences. Please access the IPT page or GBIF if you use the data for research http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=ucrc Among the many strengths of UCR's collection are its holdings of native bees and parasitic Hymenoptera, as well as the families Asilidae, Bombyliidae, and Sciomyzidae (Diptera), Coccinellidae, Staphylinidae, and Meloidae (Coleoptera), Aphididae and Miridae (Hemiptera), and the order Thysanoptera. Of particular interest is its large collection of immature insects (the work of the late L.D. Anderson), and an enormous voucher collection from a 10-year faunistic survey of the Boyd Deep Canyon Research Center, a substantial portion of which is now databased. Our holdings, of roughly 4 million specimens (placing it among the 20 largest insect collections in North America), include primarily terrestrial insects from Southern California and Arizona, with strong representations of Mexican insects (primarily Baja California and Sonora), and various other parts of the world including Thailand, Brazil, Honduras, Russia, India, and Australia.

Contact: Doug Yanega (dyanega@ucr.edu)

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: CC BY-NC 3.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

Rights Holder: UCRC

• 181,026 occurrence
• 170,516 (94%) georeferenced
• 147,011 (81%) identified to species
• 406 families
• 2,980 genera
• 5,618 species
• 5,618 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)