Insects — Combined minor collections (5 sections)
About this product
Overview
Insects — Combined minor collections (5 sections) groups 42 collection units from 5 sections within the LS Insects division (Life Sciences), covering an estimated 11,116,426 individual items held across 8,457,404 curatorial/storage units. Material is predominantly whole organisms (14 of 42 collection units), whole or partial organism (9 of 42 collection units), and undefined (7 of 42 collection units). Preservation is mainly dry pinned, undefined, and dried. Named taxa represented in this product include Coleoptera, Buprestoidea, Scarabaeoidea, Staphylinoidea, and Cucujoidea, among others.
Value
Curatorial assessment rates this product highly on Strategy/mission/research, Development potential, and Education suitability (avg. 4.4/5 across its top three scored dimensions), indicating it is well positioned for external licensing relative to other NHM holdings. This material already shows above-average usage/demand signals internally, suggesting a receptive external market.
Use Cases
- training data for computer-vision species-identification and biodiversity-monitoring models
- high-resolution specimen imagery for scientific illustration, publishing, and natural-history media
- reference datasets for evolutionary biology, morphometrics, and comparative anatomy research
- content for natural-history apps, citizen-science platforms, and museum digital exhibits
- academic and institutional research licensing (biodiversity, systematics, and comparative studies)
- new digital product development generally — this group scores well as a strong candidate for investment
Assets (41)
Bailey collection (Accessions)
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British Coleoptera – dry pinned
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Clements Collection (Accessions)
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Culicidae (SEM stubs)
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Dry pinned Buprestoidea
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Dry pinned Carabidae (plus Archostemata & Myxophaga)
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Dry pinned Cerambycoidea
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Dry pinned Chrysomeloidea (s.s. not including Cerambycoidea)
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Dry pinned Cleroidea (and Lymexyloidea)
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Dry pinned Cucujoidea
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Dry pinned Curculionoidea
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Dry pinned Elateroidea (plus all small superfamilies H- Q except where listed elsewhere)
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Dry pinned Scarabaeoidea
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Dry pinned separate outlying collections (Wollaston, Broun)
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Dry pinned Staphylinoidea (including Histeroidea)
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Dry pinned Tenebrionoidea
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Dry pinned water beetles (Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae, aquatic ‘dryopoid’ families)
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Dry: Termite Nests
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Dyte Collection (Accessions)
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Glossinidae (models)
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Heleomyzidae (SEM stubs)
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Individual donated collections
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Insect bulk accessions (spirit collection)
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Leaf mines (nest/gall collection)
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LSHTM collection
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Muscidae (models)
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Nibblett Galls (nest/gall collection)
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Papered: Hemiptera: Aleyrodoidea
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Papered: Hemiptera: Coccoidea
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Papered: Odonata
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Philps Collection (Accessions)
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Ralph Harbach collection
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Ramsdale Collection (Accessions)
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Sarcophagidae (SEM stubs)
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Shillito Collection (Accessions)
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Slides: Coleoptera
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Spirit: Coleoptera adult collection
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Spirit: Coleoptera larvae main collection
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Synoptic Collection - diptera and siphonaptera
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Wellcome collection
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Yvonne Linton collection
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