University of Minnesota Insect Collection (Entomology-UMSP)

Housed within the Department of Entomology, UMSP is one of the largest university-affiliated insect collections in North America. Current holdings include 4,035,133 specimens, representing over 53,000 described species (as of December 2019). The collection is a valuable resource for researchers at the University of Minnesota, across the state, and throughout the entomological community, both nationally and internationally.

Contact: Robin Elizabeth Thomson (curator@umn.edu)

Home Page: https://insectcollection.umn.edu/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://bellatlas.umn.edu:443/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Regents of the University of Minnesota

• 334,146 specimen records
• 223,920 (67%) georeferenced
• 394 families
• 1,599 genera
• 4,438 species