Collaborative databasing of North American bee collections within a global informatics network project (AMNH-BEE)

Data in this collection are from the Collaborative databasing of North American bee collections within a global informatics network project. Data was originally captured using Arthropod Easy Capture software developed at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York. Project lead investigators are John Ascher (Principal Investigator) and Jerome Rozen (Co-Principal Investigator) at the AMNH, and Douglas Yanega (Principal Investigator), University of California Riverside. 

Please use this citation for this archive: John Ascher, Digital Bee Collections Network data archive from the Collaborative databasing of North American bee collections within a global informatics network project. Version: 08 Mar 2016. National Science Foundation grants DBI 0956388 and DBI 0956340

 

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data harvested from a data aggregator
Last Update: 6 September 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 369,654 specimen records
  • 364,684 (99%) georeferenced
  • 366,068 (99%) identified to species
  • 10 families
  • 382 genera
  • 5,353 species
  • 5,560 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Geographic Distribution - ERITREA
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