Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Arthropods (UNM-MSBA)

The MSB Division of Arthropods houses collections from the southwestern US as well as Central and South America and other areas of the world. Species concentrations are in Arachnida, Myriapoda, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Orthoptera. The collection began with material from ecological research (including LTER sites and several NPS sites) and is now increasing its systematics focus. There are an estimated 200,000 specimens but many are still being integrated into the collection.

Contact: Dave Lightfoot (dlightfo@unm.edu)

Home Page: http://msb.unm.edu/arthropods/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: cf2cd47f-8b74-43a7-b5e4-5bedf5d18cde

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: Museum of Southwestern Biology

Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

• 59,296 occurrence
• 59,191 (100%) georeferenced
• 75 (0.13%) with images
• 29,840 (50%) identified to species
• 494 families
• 2,418 genera
• 4,009 species
• 4,094 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)