Entomology Inventory (CAS-INV)

Thanks to generous support from the National Science Foundation, Department of Entomology has inventoried and databased all of the species names in the entire pinned insect collection. This species-level database includes 6,467,135 specimens representing 147,693 taxa. It does not include information on groups of arthropods normally kept in alcohol with the exception of the Trichoptera (caddis-flies) and Embiidina (web-spinners). It also does not include information on specimens out on loan (more than 1,000,000 specimens), and the approximately 4 million specimens gathered as part of the Madagascar Arthropod Biodiversity Project.

Contact: Chris Grinter (cgrinter@calacademy.org)

Collection Type: Observations

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: ad33cb7c-b2e3-469e-98fc-c8bfe28c3eca

Live Data Download: Login for access

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)

Rights Holder: California Academy of Sciences

• 551,264 specimen records
• 7,645 (1%) georeferenced
• 185,364 (34%) identified to species
• 773 families
• 7,881 genera
• 29,077 species
• 30,464 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)