Montana Entomology Collection (MSU-MEC)

The institutional collection of Montana State University, we date to our founding by MSU’s first entomologist Robert Allen Cooley in 1898. The main collection is focused on North America North of Mexico insects and Montana non-insect invertebrates. Two extra-limital sub-collections are housed within the MTEC: the West Indian Beetle Fauna Project (WIBF) and Michael A. Ivie Collection (MAIC) for specimens from outside North America. Total curated holdings are estimated at over 2,000,000, including the important Daniel Gustafson and George Roemhild Aquatic Collections which make up half of the curated material. Strengths of the collection are in aquatic invertebrates from Greater Montana, large holdings from several National Parks, Montana Noctuidae and Coleoptera in general. The home of the Wild Bees of Montana Project, we are experiencing rapid growth, and we are rapidly developing into a major bee collection.

Contact: Michael A. Ivie (mivie@montana.edu)

Home Page: http://mtent.org/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 672cfff0-2626-4165-92fe-339a5c4d7a3f

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)

Rights Holder: MSU

Access Rights: Not-for-profit use only

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