UConn Biodiversity Research Collection (UCONN-INV)
The insect collection numbers over 200,000 specimens, with strengths in Heteroptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera and Odonata of the northeastern United States. Although the origins of the collection date to the 1930s, due largely to the efforts of Jerauld Manter, a faculty member at the time, our earliest specimens date from the 1870’s. The facility also houses part of the James A. Slater worldwide collection of Rhyparochromidae (Heteroptera).
Contact: Dr. Katrina Menard (Katrina.menard@uconn.edu)
Home Page: https://biodiversity.uconn.edu/insects/
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 86765f8d-ce14-4743-a103-2829d8f257a8
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)
Collection Statistics
- 3,938 occurrence
- 0 georeferenced
- 2,670 (68%) identified to species
- 4 families
- 17 genera
- 78 species
- 76 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
