San Diego State University - Terrestrial Arthropods Collection (SDSU-TAC)

The SDSU Terrestrial Arthropods Collection includes an estimated 50,000 specimens of pinned insects, a slide-mount collection, and many terrestrial arthropods (e.g., insects, arachnids, myriapods) preserved in ethanol. Most of these specimens were collected in southern California and adjacent regions (e.g., Arizona, Baja California Mexico). The collection holdings in Arachnida, Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, and Coleoptera are particularly strong. The collection is an important resource for both the teaching and research missions of the Department of Biology at SDSU, with a synoptic collection of local insects kept specifically for this purpose.

Contact: Dr. Marshal Hedin (mhedin@mail.sdsu.edu)

Home Page: http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/collections/terrestrialarthropods.htm

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: c425cbc1-db60-4f45-be76-95358932734c

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: SDSU Terrestrial Arthropods Collection

• 4,402 occurrence
• 4,384 (100%) georeferenced
• 255 (6%) with images
• 4,365 (99%) identified to species
• 10 families
• 31 genera
• 111 species
• 118 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)