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UAM Insect Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 395,939
Media Records: 8,432
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-08-24

The UAM Insect collection is the northern-most facility of its kind in the United States. 98.5% of our records are from Alaska. Although a young collection (begun in 2000), we have recently surpassed 200,000 records representing over 1 million specimens (as of June 2014), making this collection the fourth largest in the US in entomology with data served to iDigBio. Over 99% of these records have been georeferenced. Over 75% of the pinned collection has been databased; approximately 10% of the wet collection has been databased. At least one specimen of every lowest identification, in both the pinned and wet collections, has been databased so we have a complete online taxon inventory of the collection. 136,257 specimens have been identified to the species level - these represent 2,869 species (23% are apparent new records for the state). Coleoptera, Odonata, and Hymenoptera are the most well-curated groups. 56,187 of these specimen records have been cited or otherwise used in 38 peer-reviewed publications. Please use this DOI to cite this collection / dataset: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7299/X75D8S0H

Contacts

Name Derek Sikes
RoleCurator of Insects
Emaildssikes@alaska.edu
Name Derek Sikes
RoleCurator of Insects
Emaildssikes@alaska.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Derek Sikes
RoleCurator of Insects
Emaildssikes@alaska.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i394204
99.562
dwc_continent_added  i394201
99.561
geopoint_datum_error  i387828
97.951
dwc_datasetid_added  i263316
66.504
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i263316
66.504
dwc_taxonid_added  i263316
66.504
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i263316
66.504
gbif_canonicalname_added  i263316
66.504
gbif_genericname_added  i263316
66.504
gbif_taxon_corrected  i263316
66.504
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i241448
60.981
gbif_reference_added  i165515
41.803
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i136217
34.404
dwc_multimedia_added  i134528
33.977
gbif_vernacularname_added  i119868
30.274
taxon_match_failed  i89803
22.681
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i56968
14.388
dwc_genus_added  i15909
4.018
rev_geocode_eez  i13389
3.382
dwc_order_replaced  i10758
2.717
dwc_family_added  i10196
2.575
dwc_family_replaced  i6302
1.592
dwc_genus_replaced  i6275
1.585
geopoint_datum_missing  i5826
1.471
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i3644
0.92
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2186
0.552
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1746
0.441
dwc_class_replaced  i1229
0.31
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i1024
0.259
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i801
0.202
dwc_phylum_replaced  i779
0.197
dwc_order_added  i380
0.096
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i379
0.096
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i118
0.03
rev_geocode_mismatch  i66
0.017
dwc_continent_replaced  i27
0.007
rev_geocode_corrected  i25
0.006
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i25
0.006
rev_geocode_failure  i15
0.004
dwc_taxonrank_added  i9
0.002
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