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Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Insect, Arachnid and Myriapod Collection

Specimen Records: 477,604
Media Records: 35,816
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

The Division of Insects’ holdings of worldwide Arthropoda (excluding Crustacea) rank fifth in overall size among North American collections and are of worldwide importance for many groups. The collection presently includes roughly 4.1 million pinned insects plus 8.3 million specimens or lots in alcohol or on microscope slides. In addition, there are over 17,000 partly-sorted “bulk samples” from traps or leaf-litter extractions. The collection receives heavy use by US and international research visitors and borrowers as well as extensive educational use.

Contacts

Name Sharon Grant
RoleTechnology Liaison to Science
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
Name Kate Webbink
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Maureen Turcatel
RoleCollection Manager Insects, Arachnids and Myriapods
Emailmturcatel@fieldmuseum.org
Name Rebekah Shuman
RoleCollection Assistant
Emailnone
Name Sharon Grant
RoleTechnology Liaison to Science
Emailsgrant@fieldmuseum.org
  • Data Corrected
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  • 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
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73.24
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68.964
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68.964
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68.964
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68.964
gbif_canonicalname_added  i329375
68.964
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68.964
gbif_taxon_corrected  i329375
68.964
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68.56
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i315123
65.98
gbif_reference_added  i235557
49.321
dwc_multimedia_added  i102600
21.482
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17.797
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15.744
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15.611
dwc_family_replaced  i36004
7.538
dwc_specificepithet_added  i23932
5.011
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3.626
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2.382
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2.188
dwc_genus_replaced  i10274
2.151
rev_geocode_eez  i8607
1.802
dwc_order_replaced  i3313
0.694
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i1932
0.405
dwc_family_added  i1848
0.387
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1122
0.235
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i310
0.065
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i279
0.058
geopoint_similar_coord  i278
0.058
dwc_class_added  i171
0.036
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0.031
dwc_class_replaced  i81
0.017
rev_geocode_failure  i79
0.017
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i65
0.014
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i57
0.012
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0.012
dwc_phylum_replaced  i52
0.011
datecollected_bounds  i19
0.004
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i18
0.004
geopoint_0_coord  i14
0.003
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i5
0.001
dwc_phylum_added  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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