Cleveland Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Collection (CLEV-CMNHENT)

The Museum’s entomology collection houses approximately 300,000 specimens, primarily from the northeastern United States and collected beginning in the early 1900s. The collection represents a highly important record of biodiversity of our region. A subset of the Museum’s holdings is global in coverage and includes tropical beetles, butterflies and other insects. The department is home to the largest praying mantis (Mantodea) in the Western Hemisphere – totaling more than 14,000 specimens.

Contact: Gavin Svenson (gsvenson@cmnh.org)

Home Page: https://www.cmnh.org

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 3.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

• 126,703 occurrence
• 123,358 (97%) georeferenced
• 9 (0.01%) with images
• 61,807 (49%) identified to species
• 254 families
• 2,759 genera
• 5,657 species
• 5,874 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)