NEON Domain Carabid Teaching Collections (NEON-DCTC)
This collection contains pinned Carabid beetle specimens housed at NEON Domain facilities where they are used as a reference and teaching collection for beetle identification.
Collection Contact: Isa Betancourt, isbetanc@asu.edu (ORCID #: 0000-0003-3873-0693)
Ground beetles sampled from pitfall traps data product: https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10022.001
Ground beetle sequences DNA barcode data product: https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.10020.001
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3268b9fd-be50-45c4-9f82-43ab0bb3d91c
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://biorepo.neonscience.org/portal/content/dwca/NEON-DCTC_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/69e5ceb4-30a6-4074-8f9d-d6a0457cb789
Cite this collection:
NEON Biorepository Data Portal (2025). NEON Domain Carabid Teaching Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/t6ctuu accessed via the NEON Biorepository Data Portal, https://biorepo.neonscience.org/ on 2025-04-01.
Collection Statistics
- 10,487 specimen records
- 10,487 (100%) georeferenced
- 12 (0.11%) with images (23 total images)
- 4,400 BOLD genetic references
- 163 publication references
- 10,315 (98%) identified to species
- 3 families
- 111 genera
- 547 species
- 597 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)