Several museum are databasing their collections allowing free access for those wanting to find specimens for research:
1. California Academy of Sciences (they are listing the arthropods collected during their Madagascar and other projects). This website is free access to the collection but it is far from complete: http://research.calacademy.org/ent 2. Essig Museum at Berkeley: http://essigdb.berkeley.edu/ 3. Systematic Entomology Lab, USNM collections (Beltsville and Washington, DC): for several collection sites: http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=12-45-49-00 John William Dooley MS Organismal Biology, SJSU USDA, APHIS, PPQ 389 Oyster Point Blvd, Suite 2A South San Francisco, Ca 94080 650-8769093 (office) 650-8760915 (fax) 650-3338426 (cell) Personal email: padraicsiob...@hotmail.com This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.
