Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity (FLMNH-MGCL)

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Florida, has become one of the world’s largest institutions for research on butterflies and moths, and an important research facility for insect science. The facility was constructed by combining the staff and merging the Lepidoptera holdings from the Allyn Museum of Entomology, the Florida State Collection of Arthropods and other University of Florida collections, and now may include over ten million specimens from all over the world, rivaling some of the largest Lepidoptera research collections globally. The facility includes a team of domestic and international researchers studying many areas of lepidopterology, including behavior, biodiversity, biogeography, ecology, genomics, physiology, systematics and taxonomy.

Contact: Akito Kawahara (kawahara@flmnh.ufl.edu)

Home Page: www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center

• 89,468 occurrence
• 7,058 (8%) georeferenced
• 87,729 (98%) with images
• 71,308 (80%) identified to species
• 54 families
• 1,016 genera
• 2,897 species
• 3,003 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)