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UTEP Insects (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 27,617
Media Records: 805
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

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
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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99.327
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99.001
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71.007
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71.007
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71.007
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71.007
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71.007
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71.007
gbif_taxon_corrected  i19610
71.007
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70.754
dwc_multimedia_added  i17968
65.061
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35.706
gbif_vernacularname_added  i8290
30.018
gbif_reference_added  i4535
16.421
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6.854
taxon_match_failed  i1100
3.983
dwc_genus_replaced  i776
2.81
rev_geocode_mismatch  i653
2.364
rev_geocode_corrected  i525
1.901
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i519
1.879
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1.713
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1.705
dwc_specificepithet_added  i350
1.267
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0.619
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0.59
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0.46
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0.232
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0.224
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i26
0.094
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0.051
dwc_phylum_replaced  i7
0.025
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0.022
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0.007
dwc_country_replaced  i1
0.004
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
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