Description
The Division of Insects’ holdings of worldwide Arthropoda (excluding Crustacea) rank fifth in overall size among North American collections and are of worldwide importance for many groups. The collection presently includes roughly 4.1 million pinned insects plus 8.3 million specimens or lots in alcohol or on microscope slides. In addition, there are over 17,000 partly-sorted “bulk samples” from traps or leaf-litter extractions. The collection receives heavy use by US and international research visitors and borrowers as well as extensive educational use.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 478,709 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Field Museum. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7931dcab-94f1-46ce-8092-56e4335423de. Field Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Technology Liaison to Science
- 1400 S Lake Shore Drive
- 3126657203
http://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0201-732X
- Originator
- 1400 S Lake Shore Drive
- Metadata Provider
- Collection Manager Insects, Arachnids and Myriapods
- 1400 S Lake Shore Drive
- 3126657743
- Metadata Provider
- Collection Assistant
- 1400 S Lake Shore Drive
Geographic Coverage
Global
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/field-museum-natural-history-conditions-and-suggested-norms-use-collections-data-and-images
| Alternative Identifiers | 7931dcab-94f1-46ce-8092-56e4335423de |
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| https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fmnh_insects |