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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Entomology Collection (SBMNH-SBMNHENT)

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The Entomology Collection at Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) contains over 300,000 specimens, including both insects and arachnids. The collections focus primarily on the Santa Barbara region, including important holdings from the California Channel Islands. In addition to Channel Islands material, the collection is very strong in California beetles (Coleoptera), moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera), and parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera). The dry collection is housed in modern metal cabinets, in Cornell-style drawers, and is mostly sorted to the family level. The collection holds about 20 primary types, described as a result of California beetle surveys, housed separately from the remainder of the collection. Representation is very strong from the Transverse Ranges, including the mountains of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties. Desert areas to the east are also well represented, as is the southern Sierra Nevada.
Contacts: Matthew L. Gimmel, mgimmel@sbnature2.org
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 6e617657-ddab-4a49-ad92-dad309c70c51
Digital Metadata: EML File
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d883d764-4522-4928-bdf7-4d6f0aae2ebd
Cite this collection:
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Entomology Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 6e617657-ddab-4a49-ad92-dad309c70c51) https://ecdysis.org/content/dwca/SBMNH-SBMNHENT_DwC-A.zip accessed via the Ecdysis Portal, ecdysis.org, 2024-03-29).
Collection Statistics
  • 139,983 specimen records
  • 139,423 (100%) georeferenced
  • 1,604 (1%) with images (3,687 total images)
  • 74,601 (53%) identified to species
  • 175 families
  • 1,795 genera
  • 3,197 species
  • 3,291 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
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