University of Minnesota Insect Collection

Description

The University of Minnesota Insect Collection’s mission is to explore, describe, and preserve representative specimens of Earth’s remarkable diversity of insects and to make these specimens available to the global community for research and education. Contributions to the collection began in 1879 with specimens of insects and spiders from the North Shore of Lake Superior. During the last 135 years, the collection’s holdings have grown from a regional collection of 3,000 specimens to a major national and international resource of more than 4 million specimens. The collection is one of the largest university-affiliated insect collections in North America. Research projects associated with the collection have broad taxonomic and geographic scope. Faculty and graduate student research focuses on both aquatic and terrestrial insect groups and includes taxonomic, phylogenetic, and applied questions. The collection is the mainstay of graduate training in systematic entomology at the University of Minnesota.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Ralph Holzenthal
Telephone: 1-612-624-7728
email: holze001@umn.edu

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Neil Cobb
Telephone: 19286074075
email: neilscobb@gmail.com

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Robin Thomson
Telephone: 1-612-625-2548
email: thom1514@umn.edu

University of Minnesota Insect Collection
1980 Folwell Avenue, Hodson Hall 219
St. Paul
55108
MN
US
email: thom1514@umn.edu