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Snow Entomological Museum Collection

Specimen Records: 1,397,049
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-02-20

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).

Contacts

Name Andrew Bentley
RoleBioinformatics Manager
Emailabentley@ku.edu
Name Zack Falin
RoleCollection Manager
Emailksem@ku.edu
Name Michael Engel
RoleCurator in Charge
Emailmsengel@ku.edu
Name Andrew Short
RoleCurator
Emailaezshort@ku.edu
Name Zack Falin
RoleCollection Manager
Emailksem@ku.edu
Name Rachel Osborn
RoleCollection Manager
Emailrachelkosborn@ku.edu
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
dwc_continent_replaced  i1394108
99.789
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i1386161
99.221
dwc_datasetid_added  i1014113
72.59
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1014113
72.59
dwc_taxonid_added  i1014113
72.59
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1014113
72.59
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1014113
72.59
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1014113
72.59
gbif_genericname_added  i1014113
72.59
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1014113
72.59
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i961072
68.793
geopoint_datum_missing  i756912
54.179
gbif_reference_added  i693139
49.615
dwc_multimedia_added  i308477
22.081
gbif_vernacularname_added  i233302
16.7
taxon_match_failed  i172317
12.334
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i128308
9.184
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i52542
3.761
rev_geocode_mismatch  i43250
3.096
rev_geocode_failure  i41051
2.938
dwc_genus_replaced  i24698
1.768
dwc_genus_added  i22122
1.583
geopoint_low_precision  i21398
1.532
dwc_specificepithet_added  i17785
1.273
rev_geocode_eez  i14490
1.037
dwc_family_replaced  i14118
1.011
dwc_order_replaced  i6398
0.458
dwc_family_added  i5422
0.388
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2507
0.179
dwc_country_replaced  i1393
0.1
geopoint_datum_error  i1109
0.079
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i960
0.069
dwc_class_replaced  i729
0.052
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i485
0.035
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i459
0.033
rev_geocode_corrected  i107
0.008
geopoint_bounds  i105
0.008
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i53
0.004
dwc_phylum_replaced  i44
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i27
0.002
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i22
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i21
0.002
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i7
0.001
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i6
0
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i5
0
geopoint_0_coord  i1
0