Author: Laura Russell
Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence, Occurrence

LACM Entomology Collection

William Mertz^1, Giar-Ann Kung^1, Weiping Xie^1, Laura Russell^2, David Bloom^2, John Wieczorek^3, Brian Brown^1

1 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., 90007, Los Angeles, United States; 2 VertNet, ; 3 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley, 

Corresponding author(s): William Mertz (wmertz@nhm.org)Giar-Ann Kung (gkung@nhm.org)Weiping Xie (wxie@nhm.org)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Mertz W, Kung G, Xie W (2024). LACM Entomology Collection. Version 5.20. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=lacm_ento&v=5.20

Abstract

With over 800,000 described species — more than half of all known living organisms — insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth. The Natural History Museum's entomology collection has more than 5.8 million specimens of insects and spiders. The collection's strength lies in its holdings of specimens of ants, phorid flies, scarab beetles, and moths from North and Central America. Museum scientists conduct world-class research on systematics, studying species and their relationships, the evolution of major groups, and fossil insects in amber. They conduct field work on insect biodiversity at home and in tropical countries. Entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County goes back as far as 1913, when the Museum first opened.

Keywords: Specimen, Occurrence, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=lacm_ento

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Family: Phoridae is represented in this data.
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Phoridae
Common names: Phorid flies

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The entomology collection is the largest in Southern California. Although the phorid flies represented in this data are from all over the world, they are primarily from North and South America with an emphasis on Costa Rica, Colombia, USA, Equador, and Panama.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive LACM Entomology Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vertnet.org/archive.do?r=lacm_ento
Publication date of data: 2024-04-11
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-06-18
Hierarchy level: Dataset