University of New Hampshire Collection of Insects and Arthropods (UNHC-UNHC) (UNHC-UNHC)

With more than 700,000 specimens and growing, the UNHC is the largest arthropod depository and research collection in northern New England. Over 12,000 species are represented from different regions of New England, featuring many specimens collected from the White Mountains. The UNHC is part of the Department of Biological Sciences and the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and is dedicated to preserving the rich historical information encompassed by the collection and committed to acquiring new specimens and resources useful to the UNH Department of Biological Sciences and greater scientific community.

Contact: Istvan Miko (istvan.miko@gmail.com)

Home Page: https://colsa.unh.edu/unh-collections/insects-other-arthropods

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: a7ccda69-f66b-4cf6-b224-3da67d765aa5

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: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: University of New Hampshire

Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

• 17,840 occurrence
• 17,393 (97%) georeferenced
• 16,405 (92%) identified to species
• 6 families
• 56 genera
• 403 species
• 409 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)