California Academy of Sciences - Entomology Type Collection (CAS-TYPE)
Since the department's founding in 1862, our collection has grown to become one of the three largest entomology collections in North America, encompassing approximately 250,000 species of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. Led by curators Brian Fisher, Michelle Trautwein, and Lauren Esposito, and collection manager Chris Grinter, today's department includes scholars, curatorial staff, postdoctoral researchers, and students comprising a broad range of expertise.
Contact: Chris Grinter (cgrinter@calacademy.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 5 May 2021
DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)
Rights Holder: California Academy of Sciences
Collection Statistics
- 17,575 occurrence
- 2,537 (14%) georeferenced
- 136 (0.77%) identified to species
- 635 families
- 55 genera
- 91 species
- 116 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
