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Colorado State University, C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity

GBIF publisher since
1 November 2018

Description

The C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity houses more than three and a half million specimens and has excellent representation of most orders of insects especially with a strong in the coverage of Rocky Mountain species, but also southwestern species. The collection houses holdings of national importance in the aquatic insect orders, the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the Diptera (flies, gnats and mosquitos), and the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps and relatives. The Collection houses 83 primary types and more than 2,000 secondary types. The associated Bruner Family Library contains important systematic literature. Research, undergraduate and graduate training, and outreach activities are prominent among museum-related activities.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Paul Opler
Telephone: 9702190046
email: paulopler@comcast.net
POINT_OF_CONTACT
Boris Kondratieff
Telephone: 9702040574
email: Boris.kondratieff@colostate.edu
Colorado State University, C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity
Dept of Bioagricultural Sciences, Campus Delivery 1177, Colorado State University
Fort Collins
80523
CO
US
email: Boris.kondratieff@colostate.edu
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