Description
SEMC (Snow Entomological Museum Collection) comprises nearly 5 million pinned insect specimens. Our strengths are Apoidea, Neotropical Coleoptera (especially Staphylinidae, Hydrophiloidea, and Chrysomoloidea), Mecoptera, and fossil insects. We have digitized approximately 800,000 individual specimens (mostly Apoidea and Staphylinidae, Orthoptera, and various other smaller families).
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 1,392,702 records.
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.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: aae308f4-9f9c-4cdd-b4ef-c026f48be551. University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Specimen; Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
- Metadata Provider
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
Our collection has excellent representation in Kansas and North America (generally), as well as Central and South America (Apoidea, Coleoptera). We have good representation for the Palearctic region as well as Southern Africa and Australia (Apoidea).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1890-2011 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Division of Entomology (Snow Entomological Museum Collection) |
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| Collection Identifier | SEMC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | KU Biodiversity Institute |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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Additional Metadata
http://biodiversity.ku.edu/research/university-kansas-biodiversity-institute-data-publication-and-use-norms
| Alternative Identifiers | aae308f4-9f9c-4cdd-b4ef-c026f48be551 |
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| http://ipt.nhm.ku.edu/resource?r=kubi_entomology |