Hymenoptera Institute Collection (UKY-HIC-HIC)

The Hymenoptera Institute Collection is a collection of largely parasitic Hymenoptera housed in Michael Sharkey’s Lab in the Entomology Department (Agricultural Science Center North) at the University of Kentucky. The museum houses over 350 drawers of Hymenoptera focusing on Braconidae, with the primary focus on the braconid subfamily Agathidinae. The braconid collection is of world-scope, having received samples from all continents except Antarctica and is primarily used to describe new species and conduct molecular phylogenetics studies. Major recent projects include the Thailand Biodiversity Project (TIGER), the Columbia Biodiversity Project, and the Hymatol Project (phylogeny of Hymenoptera). More information can be found at the Sharkey Lab webpage: http://sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/sharkeyProjects.php

Contact: Eric Chapman (ericgchapman@gmail.com)

Home Page: http://sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/sharkeyProjects.html

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: a8a78602-8293-4636-943a-aa4e7a91dfe7

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

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Digital Metadata: EML File

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

Rights Holder: University of Kentucky

Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

• 17,340 occurrence
• 10,744 (62%) georeferenced
• 425 (2%) with images
• 2,305 (13%) identified to species
• 47 families
• 269 genera
• 509 species
• 509 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)