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UAM Insect Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 388,294
Media Records: 7,647
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

The UAM Insect collection is the northern-most facility of its kind in the United States. 98.5% of our records are from Alaska. Although a young collection (begun in 2000), we have recently surpassed 200,000 records representing over 1 million specimens (as of June 2014), making this collection the fourth largest in the US in entomology with data served to iDigBio. Over 99% of these records have been georeferenced. Over 75% of the pinned collection has been databased; approximately 10% of the wet collection has been databased. At least one specimen of every lowest identification, in both the pinned and wet collections, has been databased so we have a complete online taxon inventory of the collection. 136,257 specimens have been identified to the species level - these represent 2,869 species (23% are apparent new records for the state). Coleoptera, Odonata, and Hymenoptera are the most well-curated groups. 56,187 of these specimen records have been cited or otherwise used in 38 peer-reviewed publications. Please use this DOI to cite this collection / dataset: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7299/X75D8S0H

Contacts

Name Derek Sikes
RoleCurator of Insects
Emaildssikes@alaska.edu
Name Derek Sikes
RoleCurator of Insects
Emaildssikes@alaska.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Derek Sikes
RoleCurator of Insects
Emaildssikes@alaska.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • 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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i385836
99.367
dwc_continent_added  i385833
99.366
geopoint_datum_error  i381538
98.26
dwc_datasetid_added  i254476
65.537
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i254476
65.537
dwc_taxonid_added  i254476
65.537
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i254476
65.537
dwc_taxonrank_added  i254476
65.537
gbif_canonicalname_added  i254476
65.537
gbif_genericname_added  i254476
65.537
gbif_taxon_corrected  i254476
65.537
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i232820
59.96
gbif_reference_added  i159369
41.043
dwc_multimedia_added  i128322
33.048
gbif_vernacularname_added  i114441
29.473
taxon_match_failed  i89482
23.045
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i54792
14.111
dwc_genus_added  i15054
3.877
rev_geocode_eez  i13313
3.429
dwc_order_replaced  i10486
2.701
dwc_family_added  i9888
2.547
geopoint_datum_missing  i6231
1.605
dwc_genus_replaced  i5751
1.481
dwc_family_replaced  i5032
1.296
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i3675
0.946
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2184
0.562
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1716
0.442
dwc_class_replaced  i1076
0.277
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i1020
0.263
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i757
0.195
dwc_continent_replaced  i749
0.193
dwc_phylum_replaced  i648
0.167
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i378
0.097
dwc_order_added  i315
0.081
rev_geocode_mismatch  i45
0.012
rev_geocode_failure  i15
0.004
rev_geocode_corrected  i4
0.001
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i4
0.001
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i1
0
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