RL Minckley Insect and Plant Collection (RLMC)
The collection is of bees and their floral hosts mainly from the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico and the United States. See Minckley, R.L. and Radke, W.R., 2021. Extreme species density of bees (Apiformes, Hymenoptera) in the warm deserts of North America. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 82, p.317.
Contact: Bob Minckley (robert.minckley@rochester.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 43c894af-a05d-4c92-833c-83e1ebd68701
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: Robert Minckley
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/84b69033-f9de-40bc-8d5f-8ee41987d6cc
Collection Statistics
- 71,529 occurrence
- 71,526 (100%) georeferenced
- 46,273 (65%) identified to species
- 121 families
- 208 genera
- 611 species
- 611 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
