The UCR
Entomology Research Museum is the insect collection of the Department of
Entomology of the
University of California, Riverside. It contains approximately 4 million total
insect specimens, 2.9 million of which are pinned, roughly 370,000 mounted on
slides, the remainder preserved in
ethanol (including most of the non-insect
arthropods, and some
snails). Of the >3 million curated holdings, approximately 75% of are identified to
genus level or better. An estimated 25% of the entire collection are
Hymenoptera, 21
re
Coleoptera, 18%
Diptera, and 18%
Lepidoptera.