University of Texas, Biodiversity Center, Entomology Collection (UTIC)

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections on Mar 30, 2026 University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections

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Description

The Entomology Collection contains 500,000 pinned and 1.5 million ethanol-preserved specimens, with concentrations in Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Coleoptera (beetles), Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, and ants), and cave invertebrates. Most specimens document the geographic and seasonal occurrences of insect species across Texas, but the collection houses important samples from other states, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia; as well as the historic Ludolph Heiligbrodt Collection (1870-1910) from Bastrop County; as well as a collection of insect-host plant voucher specimens. Voucher specimens from University of Texas research projects, including a number of landmark studies on fire ants, are also in the collection.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 123,686 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Wild A (2025). University of Texas, Biodiversity Center, Entomology Collection (UTIC). Version 1.250. University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/sanyq7 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-02-26.

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ba9984d8-d982-4fe6-b81c-a7585790034a.  University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Collections publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Alex Wild
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator of Entomology
University of Texas at Austin, Biodiversity Center
  • 1.314 Lake Austin Center; 3001 Lake Austin Blvd
78703 Austin
TX
US

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.15468/sanyq7
ba9984d8-d982-4fe6-b81c-a7585790034a
https://ipt.tacc.utexas.edu/resource?r=utic
https://ipt.tacc.utexas.edu/resource?r=utic