Field Museum of Natural History Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Myriapods (FMNH-FMNHINS)

The Field Museum's Collection of Insects houses worldwide collections of Arthropoda (excluding Crustacea) that rank fifth in overall size among North American collections. At present, the collection includes approximately 4.1 million pinned insects and 8 million specimens or lots of insects and other arthropods in alcohol or on microscope slides. The collection receives heavy use by US and international visitors and borrowers. Collection data are now available online in KE EMu for many parts of the collection. Field Museum Collections Data is licensed CC0 (Public Domain), and media are licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Contact: Maureen Turcatel (Collection Manager) (mturcatel@fieldmuseum.org)

Home Page: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/research/area/insects-arachnids-and-myriapods

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

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

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)

Rights Holder: Copyright © 2023 The Field Museum of Natural History

Access Rights: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/field-museum-natural-history-conditions-and-suggested-norms-use-collections-data-and-images

• 477,803 occurrence
• 349,848 (73%) georeferenced
• 18,231 (4%) with images
• 41 GenBank references
• 7,368 (2%) identified to species
• 637 families
• 848 genera
• 1,174 species
• 1,204 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)