The Purdue Entomological Research Collection (PU-PERC)

The Purdue Entomological Research Collection (PERC) is an integral part of the Department of Entomology at Purdue University. Specimens housed in the collection are the basis for research in systematic entomology at Purdue and by specialists worldwide. The PERC also serves as a reference to facilitate the accurate and timely identification of insects for extension and teaching needs. Approximately 2 million specimens are held, representing more than 140,000 species. This includes mainly dry-mounted pinned material as well as many specimens stored in liquid preservative or mounted on slides.

Contact: Dr. Jennifer M. Zaspel (jzaspel@purdue.edu)

Home Page: http://www.entm.purdue.edu/PERC/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 61cff121-261e-4eff-a186-a377f91aa027

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: Purdue University, Department of Entomology

• 67,502 occurrence
• 4,060 (6%) georeferenced
• 1,128 (2%) with images
• 47,922 (71%) identified to species
• 331 families
• 1,389 genera
• 3,453 species
• 3,509 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)