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San Diego Natural History Museum Entomology Department

Specimen Records: 189,517
Media Records: 89,987
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

Collection is heavily focused on the SW USA and NW Mexico, particularly the peninsula of Baja California. Notably strong collections of Lepidoptera and Neuroptera. The median date of specimen acquisition is 1957 with collections ranging from 1905 to present day. Current and near future collection priorities will focus on underrepresented areas in Baja California, particular inland and coastal dunes.

Contacts

Namenone
Rolenone
Emailphorsley@sdnhm.org
Name Pamela Horsley
RoleCollections Manager
Emailphorsley@sdnhm.org
Name Christiana Mojica
RoleProject Manager
Emailcmojica@sdnhm.org
Name Pamela Horsley
RoleCollections Manager
Emailphorsley@sdnhm.org
Name Christiana Mojica
RoleProject Manager
Emailcmojica@sdnhm.org
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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98.945
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70.981
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70.981
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70.981
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70.981
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70.981
gbif_taxon_corrected  i134521
70.981
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i134477
70.958
geopoint_datum_missing  i125744
66.35
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i100321
52.935
dwc_multimedia_added  i64749
34.165
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i60313
31.825
gbif_vernacularname_added  i56046
29.573
gbif_reference_added  i46629
24.604
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18.405
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7.489
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5.589
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4.964
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4.763
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4.599
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3.988
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3.962
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3.126
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i5719
3.018
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1.192
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1.101
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0.934
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0.845
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0.661
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0.507
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0.44
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0.429
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0.098
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0.093
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0.083
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0.066
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0.066
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0.066
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0.023
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0.016
rev_geocode_failure  i27
0.014
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i23
0.012
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i21
0.011
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0.007
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0.006
dwc_continent_added  i10
0.005
dwc_country_replaced  i5
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0.002
rev_geocode_corrected  i2
0.001
geopoint_0_coord  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i1
0.001