University of Georgia Collection of Arthropods (GMNH-UGCA)

The University of Georgia Collection of Arthropods (UGCA) serves as the official state repository of insects and other non-marine arthropods. The Collection is part of the UGA Department of Entomology and the Georgia Museum of Natural History (GMNH). The UGCA includes approximately 2,000,000 pinned specimens. In addition the collection houses significant alcohol-preserved and slide-mounted collections. Approximately 60% of the holdings are from the southeastern United States as is consistent with our mission to serve as the primary systematics reference for the state. More than 70% of that regional material is identified to the species level.

Contact: Joseph V. McHugh (mchugh.jv@gmail.com)

Home Page: http://blog.caes.uga.edu/ugca/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: e7bcca50-5afb-4728-a5c4-014551fe50a0

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

Live Data Download: Login for access

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Georgia Museum of Natural History

Access Rights: Material is available via loans to researchers around the world and for in-house use.

• 28,779 occurrence
• 27,425 (95%) georeferenced
• 10 (0.03%) with images
• 23,940 (83%) identified to species
• 127 families
• 1,107 genera
• 2,185 species
• 2,438 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)