OCCURRENCE

Abilene Christian University Insect Specimens (Arctos)

Latest version published by Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection on 28 September 2023 Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection
The ACUNHC Entomology Collection is comprised of roughly 600 documented specimens. The collections holdings far exceed this number. The collection is in the process of being documented and catalogued. The vast majority of the collection is from Taylor county, Texas.

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 1,268 records.

1 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.

  • Occurrence (core)
    1268
  • Multimedia 
    0

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.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 1,268 records in English (323 kB) - Update frequency: monthly
Metadata as an EML file download in English (8 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (8 kB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Abilene Christian University Entomology Collection. Individual catalog records should be cited as https://arctos.database.museum/guid/ACUNHC:Ento: followed by the integer catalog number.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 01bdf3ea-140a-4d45-a27c-aeca97662aea.  Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Thomas Lee
Professor
Department of Biology, Abilene Christian University
US

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Tom Lee
Professor
Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection
Department of Biology, ACU Box 27868, Abilene Christian University
79699 Abilene
TX
US
13253704442

Who filled in the metadata:

Thomas Lee
Professor
Department of Biology, Abilene Christian University
US

Who else was associated with the resource:

Point Of Contact
Rebecca Hunter
Associate Professor
Abilene Christian University Natural History Collection
Department of Biology, ACU Box 27868, Abilene Christian University
79699 Abilene
TX
US
13256742182
https://www.acu.edu/faculty/rebecca-hunter/
Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
http://vertnet.org/

Geographic Coverage

Primarily Taylor County, Texas with some specimens from other US states, Mexico and South America.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-7.014, -126.211], North East [50.513, -53.789]

Taxonomic Coverage

Primarily insects with some other terrestrial arthropods.

Phylum  Arthropoda

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1950 to present

Collection Data

Collection Name Abilene Christian University Insect specimens
Collection Identifier https://arctos.database.museum/collection/ACUNHC:Ento
Parent Collection Identifier ACUNHC
Specimen preservation methods Pinned,  Alcohol

Additional Metadata

Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Purpose Education and research.
Alternative Identifiers 01bdf3ea-140a-4d45-a27c-aeca97662aea
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=acunhc_ento