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LACM Entomology Collection

Specimen Records: 650,449
Media Records: 41,678
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-03-24

With over 800,000 described species — more than half of all known living organisms — insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth. The Natural History Museum's entomology collection has more than 5.8 million specimens of insects and spiders. The collection's strength lies in its holdings of specimens of ants, phorid flies, scarab beetles, and moths from North and Central America. Museum scientists conduct world-class research on systematics, studying species and their relationships, the evolution of major groups, and fossil insects in amber. They conduct field work on insect biodiversity at home and in tropical countries. Entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County goes back as far as 1913, when the Museum first opened.

Contacts

Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase & Reports Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
Name Giar-Ann Kung
RoleCollections Manager
Emailgkung@nhm.org
Name Weiping Xie
RoleCollections Manager
Emailwxie@nhm.org
Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase & Reports Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
Name Weiping Xie
RoleCollections Manager
Emailwxie@nhm.org
Name Giar-Ann Kung
RoleCollections Manager
Emailgkung@nhm.org
Name David Bloom
Rolenone
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase & Reports Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
Name Weiping Xie
RoleCollections Manager
Emailwxie@nhm.org
Name Giar-Ann Kung
RoleCollections Manager
Emailgkung@nhm.org
  • 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
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