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UTEP Insects (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 27,479
Media Records: 791
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Arthropod collections consist primarily of ants from around the world collected by Professor William Mackay and his students. A variety of other insects are included, primarily from student projects in the El Paso vicinity.

Contacts

Name Vicky Zhuang
RoleManager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
Emailmzhuang@utep.edu
Name Vicky Zhuang
RoleManager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
Emailmzhuang@utep.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleCoordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Vicky Zhuang
RoleManager, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
Emailmzhuang@utep.edu
Name Brett Seymoure
RoleCurator, UTEP Biodiversity Collections
Emailbmseymoure@utep.edu
  • 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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i27297
99.338
dwc_continent_added  i27205
99.003
geopoint_datum_error  i26618
96.867
dwc_datasetid_added  i19507
70.989
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i19507
70.989
dwc_taxonid_added  i19507
70.989
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i19507
70.989
gbif_canonicalname_added  i19507
70.989
gbif_genericname_added  i19507
70.989
gbif_taxon_corrected  i19507
70.989
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i19437
70.734
dwc_multimedia_added  i17882
65.075
dwc_taxonrank_added  i9856
35.867
gbif_vernacularname_added  i8283
30.143
gbif_reference_added  i4525
16.467
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i1878
6.834
taxon_match_failed  i1097
3.992
dwc_genus_replaced  i775
2.82
rev_geocode_mismatch  i652
2.373
rev_geocode_corrected  i525
1.911
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i519
1.889
geopoint_low_precision  i471
1.714
rev_geocode_failure  i471
1.714
dwc_specificepithet_added  i350
1.274
rev_geocode_eez  i234
0.852
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i171
0.622
dwc_continent_replaced  i159
0.579
dwc_genus_added  i118
0.429
dwc_family_added  i60
0.218
dwc_order_replaced  i57
0.207
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i26
0.095
dwc_class_replaced  i8
0.029
dwc_phylum_replaced  i7
0.025
dwc_family_replaced  i6
0.022
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i6
0.022
dwc_order_added  i4
0.015
dwc_class_added  i3
0.011
dwc_kingdom_added  i2
0.007
dwc_phylum_added  i2
0.007
dwc_country_replaced  i1
0.004
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0.004
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