Quick Search

Search by Catalog Number, Occurrence ID, or Record ID. Search by Catalog Number, Occurrence ID, or Record ID.

Collection Profile for:
Colección Entomológica del Museo de Peces de Agua Dulce e Invertebrados de la Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (UNACHI-MUPADI)

The Entomological Collection of the Museum of Freshwater Fish and Invertebrates has more than 40,000 specimens divided into a wet collection and a dry collection, focused mainly on groups of aquatic insects, although it also has a large number of moths from the higher areas of Chiriquí province. The entomological collection was established in 2008 by Dr. Juan Bernal (R.I.P.), in order to collect information about the entomofauna of western Panama. For more information contact the museum director Géminis Vargas (geminis.vargas@unachi.ac.pa), M.Sc. or to the researchers Tomas Ríos (tomas.rios@unachi.ac.pa), M. Sc. and Yusseff Aguirre, M. Sc. (yusseff.aguirre@unachi.ac.pa)

Contacts:

Cite this collection:
Colección Entomológica del Museo de Peces de Agua Dulce e Invertebrados de la Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí. Occurrence dataset (ID: 7a8072d1-f13b-497f-8872-8e5dcaa54b46) https://ecdysis.org/content/dwca/UNACHI-MUPADI_DwC-A.zip accessed via the Ecdysis Portal, ecdysis.org, 2024-12-03).

Address:

Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí
Ciudad Universitaria, El Cabrero
David, Chiriquí   382
Panamá

Collection Statistics

  • 344 specimen records
  • 310 (90%) georeferenced
  • 166 (48%) identified to species
  • 14 families
  • 73 genera
  • 149 species
  • 151 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)

Extra Statistics

Show Geographic Distribution
Show Family Distribution
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Last Update:
Global Unique Identifier: 7a8072d1-f13b-497f-8872-8e5dcaa54b46
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights:
Image Search this Collection