C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity (CSU-CSUC)

The collection houses approximately 5 million specimens representing about 60,000 species with fifty primary types and 1,000 secondary types. More than 10,000 specimens are added to the collection each year. As a large and comprehensive holding of arthropods, predominately insects, in the Southern Rocky Mountains, it is a major resource for regional and national biodiversity investigations. Much of the material has been identified by specialists to the specific level. Examples of the unique quality of material include the aphids, other Homoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and all aquatic orders. It serves as the repository for arthropod inventories of several National Parks including Canyonlands, Great Sand Dunes, Mesa Verde, Rocky Mountain, Dinosaur, and Yucca House and Colorado National Monuments.

Contact: Chuck Harp (Chuck.Harp@colostate.edu)

Home Page: https://agbio.agsci.colostate.edu/gillette-museum/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 6ca25e61-71fe-4605-848f-86f9b72a87df

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management

Access Rights: Material is for loan to researchers throughout the US and for in-house use.

• 290,402 occurrence
• 273,719 (94%) georeferenced
• 15,584 (5%) with images
• 272,923 (94%) identified to species
• 320 families
• 2,834 genera
• 8,217 species
• 9,409 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)