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Wisconsin Insect Research Collection

Specimen Records: 146,059
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-06-11

The Wisconsin Insect Research Collection (WIRC), is home to nearly 3,000,000 curated specimens. The collection also houses more than 5,000,000 additional uncurated specimens in bulk, primarily in ethyl alcohol.  <br><br> The Wisconsin collection is the result of nearly 170 years of collecting by amateur and professional entomologists. Early collecting efforts focused on increasing holdings of Coleoptera, Diptera, and Lepidoptera, while the current research strengths of the WIRC include Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Hemiptera. This diversity reflects the ongoing research of curatorial and support staff as well as taxonomic graduate training and several key collection donations. Active taxonomic teaching and research programs and involvement in state and regional inventory projects have contributed to a sustained growth of the collection by an average of 31,000 specimens per year in recent years.

Contacts

Namenone
Rolenone
Emailscan_noreply@asu.edu
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailscan_noreply@asu.edu
Name Craig M. Brabant
Rolenone
Emailbrabant@entomology.wisc.edu
Name Neil
Rolenone
Emailnone
Name Craig M. Brabant
RoleCollection Manager
Emailbrabant@entomology.wisc.edu
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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  i144540
98.96
dwc_continent_added  i144498
98.931
geopoint_datum_missing  i142120
97.303
dwc_country_replaced  i138284
94.677
dwc_datasetid_added  i121069
82.89
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i121069
82.89
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i121069
82.89
gbif_canonicalname_added  i121069
82.89
gbif_genericname_added  i121069
82.89
gbif_taxon_corrected  i121069
82.89
dwc_taxonrank_added  i120464
82.476
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i120342
82.393
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i98981
67.768
dwc_multimedia_added  i68225
46.711
geopoint_low_precision  i61887
42.371
gbif_reference_added  i57194
39.158
gbif_vernacularname_added  i45598
31.219
taxon_match_failed  i26224
17.954
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i20482
14.023
dwc_family_replaced  i8114
5.555
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i4303
2.946
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i3903
2.672
dwc_genus_replaced  i3280
2.246
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i2381
1.63
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1209
0.828
dwc_order_replaced  i918
0.629
dwc_genus_added  i848
0.581
dwc_taxonid_added  i727
0.498
rev_geocode_eez  i639
0.437
dwc_specificepithet_added  i625
0.428
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i557
0.381
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i373
0.255
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i257
0.176
rev_geocode_mismatch  i232
0.159
rev_geocode_corrected  i98
0.067
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i92
0.063
dwc_phylum_replaced  i60
0.041
dwc_class_added  i39
0.027
dwc_kingdom_added  i39
0.027
dwc_order_added  i39
0.027
dwc_phylum_added  i39
0.027
datecollected_bounds  i16
0.011
dwc_family_added  i13
0.009
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i12
0.008
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i6
0.004
rev_geocode_failure  i4
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i4
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i2
0.001
dwc_class_replaced  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i1
0.001
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