Description
University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Arthropod collections consist primarily of ants from around the world collected by Professor William Mackay and his students. A variety of other insects are included, primarily from student projects in the El Paso vicinity.
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 27,462 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.
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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Zhuang V (2025). UTEP Insects (Arctos). Version 1.89. University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=utep_ento&v=1.89
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections. 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: 297ecc07-da20-4ebf-9f41-4f80330b4b33. University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Manager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
- 500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #222
- +01 915-747-5479
- Point Of Contact
- Curator, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
- 500 West University Avenue, Biology Bldg. #219
- +01 915-747-6991
- Point Of Contact
- Arctos Database Programmer
Geographic Coverage
University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Arthropod collections consist primarily of ants from around the world collected by Professor William Mackay and his students. A variety of other insects are included, primarily from student projects in the El Paso vicinity.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Arthropod collections consist primarily of ants from around the world collected by Professor William Mackay and his students. A variety of other insects are included, primarily from student projects in the El Paso vicinity.
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
|---|---|
| Order | Hymenoptera |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1900-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Univerisity of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Colllections - Insects |
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| Collection Identifier | UTEP:Ento |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UTEP |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned, Alcohol, Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Data set was developed by University of Texas at El Paso faculty and students and is created to support future research. |
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| Maintenance Description | Specimens records are in the process of being digitized and entered into Arctos. Migration expected to be complete by 2020. |
| Alternative Identifiers | 297ecc07-da20-4ebf-9f41-4f80330b4b33 |
| http://arctos.database.museum/utep_ento | |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=utep_ento |