University of Hawaii Insect Museum (UHIM-UHIM)

The University of Hawaii Insect Museum (UHIM) is the second largest collection of insects in the state of Hawaii and ranks among the biggest collections in the world for Hawaiian insect holdings. The collection dates to 1908, and as such houses an important record of changes in arthropod biodiversity over time, including the extinction and introduction of species. The museum houses over 250,000 specimens, with strengths in endemic Diptera and Lepidoptera. The UHIM also serves as a center for research and education about biodiversity and systematics for the University of Hawaii system.

Contact: Dan Rubinoff (rubinoff@hawaii.edu)

Home Page: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/insectmuseum/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 0fc43ef4-018d-479a-a633-3653718ec766

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 Hawaii Insect Museum

Access Rights: not-for-profit use only

• 128,741 occurrence
• 33,534 (26%) georeferenced
• 123,458 (96%) with images
• 79,422 (62%) identified to species
• 338 families
• 1,184 genera
• 2,625 species
• 2,673 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)