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An overview of the Severin -McDaniel Insect Research Collection

An overview of the Severin -McDaniel Insect Research Collection. South Dakota State University Brookings, SD. Rita I. Velez M.Sc., Ph.D. student, Graduate Research Assistant, Collection Manager SMIRC, SDSU rita.velez@sdstate.edu. SMIRC History. 1886 → I.H. Orcutt , M.D., Ph.D.

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An overview of the Severin -McDaniel Insect Research Collection

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  1. An overview of the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection South Dakota State University Brookings, SD Rita I. Velez M.Sc., Ph.D. student, Graduate Research Assistant, Collection Manager SMIRC, SDSU rita.velez@sdstate.edu Paul J. Johnson, PhD. Insect Biodiversity Lab, Curator-Director SMIRC, SDSU paul.johnson@sdstate.edu

  2. SMIRC History • 1886 → I.H. Orcutt, M.D., Ph.D. • 1888 → John M. Aldrich (contributor) • 1892 – 1894 → Thomas Albert Williams • 1895 – 1903 → De Alton Saunders, A.M. • 1903 – 1906 → William Archie Wheeler, M.S. • 1906 → Robert Matheson, B.S.A. • 1909→ H.C. Severin“no collection of insects in the college worthy of the name” • 1918 – 1954 → head of Dep. Entomology-Zoology • 1917 – 1943 → George I. Gilbertson • 1965 → Edward U. Balsbaugh, Jr. curator • BurrusMc Daniel, Ph.D. (1966) → curator 1976 • 1990 → Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection • 1993 → Paul J. Johnson, Ph.D.

  3. SMIRC Now

  4. SMIRC Staff • Director-Curator: Paul J. Johnson, Ph.D. • Collection Manager: Rita I. Velez, M.Sc. • Graduate Students: • Veronica Calles Torrez • David Drons • Laura Winkler • Undergraduate Students (7)

  5. SMIRC Now • 1.2 million specimens • Collection of Pheletus C. Truman ($2000 by 1911) • Collection of G.M. Marrone(2009 – 2010) • Largest collection of insects from the Black Hills • Increasing 7000-9000 specimens per year

  6. SMIRC Now • 110 cabinets • 2128 drawer maximum capacity • 57 steel or wood cabinets (1930’s – 1940’s)

  7. SMIRC Now • IPM= Quarantine freezer + Sanitation → New cabinetry, drawers and unit trays • 2010 new collection room • 2011 new collection manager

  8. SMIRC in the InvertNetproject • Digitization of the specimens → images available through Internet. • Improved pest and environmental management • Identification of unsorted specimens • Updating of nomenclature • “Cleaning efforts” • Data imagining

  9. The future of the SMIRC looks positive … • Update labels, unit trays and drawers • Taxonomic update • Digitization of the specimens - Specify6 • Data imagining • Increment 9000 specimens/year Voucher collection of the Northern Great Plains!

  10. Rita I. Velez, rita.velez@sdstate.edu Dr. Paul J. Johnson, paul.johnson@sdstate.edu

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