Recordset

Search Recordset

Western Washington University Insect Collection

Specimen Records: 4,039
Media Records: 3,514
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2021-10-28

The Western Washington University Insect Collection houses approximately 50,000 insect specimens. Our geographic area of focus is the northwestern portion of the contiguous United States. Most of our specimens are from the northwestern portion of Washington State, an area that is poorly represented in other collections in the region. The collection is the largest publicly-held insect collection within a 100 mile radius centered on Seattle.

Contacts

Namenone
Rolenone
Emailscan_noreply@asu.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailscan_noreply@asu.edu
Name Merrill Peterson
Rolenone
EmailMerrill.Peterson@wwu.edu
Name Neil
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Merrill Peterson
RoleCollection Manager
EmailMerrill.Peterson@wwu.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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i3385
83.808
dwc_continent_added  i3381
83.709
geopoint_datum_missing  i3333
82.52
dwc_datasetid_added  i3078
76.207
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3078
76.207
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i3078
76.207
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3078
76.207
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3078
76.207
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3078
76.207
gbif_genericname_added  i3078
76.207
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3078
76.207
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i2648
65.561
dwc_multimedia_added  i2224
55.063
geopoint_low_precision  i1986
49.171
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1593
39.44
taxon_match_failed  i898
22.233
gbif_reference_added  i897
22.208
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i359
8.888
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i200
4.952
dwc_family_replaced  i191
4.729
dwc_genus_replaced  i123
3.045
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i115
2.847
rev_geocode_eez  i115
2.847
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i86
2.129
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i40
0.99
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i28
0.693
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i8
0.198
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1
0.025