M. Andrew Johnston Collection (MAJC-MAJC)

Research collection of M. Andrew Johnston, primarily containing specimens of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae, and more generally coleoptera from Arizona and the southwestern U.S. Located in Tempe, AZ.

Contact: Andrew Johnston (ajohnston@asu.edu)

Home Page: https://desertbeetles.org/majc/

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: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: M. Andrew Johnston

• 8,326 occurrence
• 6,985 (84%) georeferenced
• 2,540 (31%) with images
• 6,388 (77%) identified to species
• 8 families
• 114 genera
• 258 species
• 269 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)