Western Carolina University Collection of Arthropods (WCUH-WCUCA)

The WCCA (Western Carolina University Collection of Arthropods), at the WCU’s Apodaca Science building, is home to over 80,000 arthropod specimens, sorted and identified to variable levels. WCCA was founded by arachnologist Emeritus Prof. Fred Coyle back in the 1960s., and taken over by Emeritus Prof. Kefyn Catley, also an arachnologist, in the 1990s. As such, WCCA has a modest, mostly regionally relevant collection of arachnids. The collection is currently curated by Prof. Silveira, who has held the role since 2019. Since then, the collection representation and focus has shifted to insects, especially beetles, with an emphasis on fireflies. More recently, The WCU Culicidae collection, curated by Dr. Byrd, was incorporated into WCCA (although it is housed in a separate building, in the Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Laboratory). This collection is a reference resource containing more than 3,000 pinned adult mosquitoes representing more than 100 species, and primarily maintains species from North America.

Contact: Luiz Felipe Lima da Silveira (limadasilveiral@wcu.edu)

Home Page: https://catcoll.wcu.edu/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 17ece428-0fd9-43be-b150-43ff9d5a3f8e

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Digital Metadata: EML File

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

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