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UTEP Insects (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 27,562
Media Records: 799
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-10-29

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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i27380
99.34
dwc_continent_added  i27290
99.013
geopoint_datum_error  i26623
96.593
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71.029
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71.029
dwc_taxonid_added  i19577
71.029
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i19577
71.029
gbif_canonicalname_added  i19577
71.029
gbif_genericname_added  i19577
71.029
gbif_taxon_corrected  i19577
71.029
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i19507
70.775
dwc_multimedia_added  i17952
65.133
dwc_taxonrank_added  i9861
35.778
gbif_vernacularname_added  i8283
30.052
gbif_reference_added  i4525
16.418
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i1878
6.814
taxon_match_failed  i1097
3.98
dwc_genus_replaced  i775
2.812
rev_geocode_mismatch  i652
2.366
rev_geocode_corrected  i525
1.905
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i519
1.883
geopoint_low_precision  i471
1.709
rev_geocode_failure  i471
1.709
dwc_specificepithet_added  i350
1.27
rev_geocode_eez  i234
0.849
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i171
0.62
dwc_continent_replaced  i159
0.577
dwc_genus_added  i118
0.428
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0.218
dwc_order_replaced  i57
0.207
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i26
0.094
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
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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