SPECIMENS
Individual specimen records
Summarized specimen records
Locality information for specimens
Images for individual specimens
Host information for individual specimens
There are currently 85,649 independent specimen records incorporated into the database. These include label data from specimens deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, the United States National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, the Essig Museum at the University of California at Berkeley, the Bohart Museum at the University of California at Davis, the California Academy of Sciences, and the University of Massachusetts Entomology Collection. Additionally, published specimen records are incorporated into the specimen database and cited as such.
Information for individual specimens includes numerous fields. The database can be searched or summarized according to any of these. Included in these are the stage (male, female, adult, larva, pupa, egg, etc.), the storage medium (pinned, ethanol, frozen, etc.), the method of collection (culture reared, swept, beating, blacklight, malaise trap, etc.), the person that identified the specimen, the depository in which the specimen is found, any associated citation information, or any of a large number of specimen locality characteristics.
Individual specimen record for Acanthoscelides aragua Johnson 1990
Like any of the other basic fields, specimen data can be summarized by any number of categories. The most useful are perhaps specimens in a species, specimens in a given geographic area, or specimens collected in a given geographic area during a specified time of year.
Summary of specimens of Stator limbatus (Horn, 1873)
Summary of specimens found in Maricopa Co., Arizona.
Results can be summarized by species, day of year, date, etc.
LOCALITY INFORMATION FOR SPECIMENS
Localities are maintained a separately referenced file. Therefore multiple specimens can be linked to individual localities and multiple dates can be linked to individual localities. This allows the user to summarize across numerous fields.
IMAGE INFORMATION FOR SPECIMENS
Image of individual specimen of Caryedes cavatus Kingsolver & Whitehead 1974
HOST INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUAL SPECIMENS
The structure of the database maintains host plant relationships for reared bruchine specimens. This can then be summarized by bruchine species (e.g. hosts per species) or by host (e.g. bruchine guests per host species). The following example shows the first host plant information for the genus Palpibruchus, recorded by G.E. Morse in seeds of Senna aphylla in northwest Argentina.
