NHM Collections: Entomology Specimens

The Natural History Museum houses one of the world's most extensive entomology collections, documenting insect diversity across geographic regions, habitats and time periods.

This dataset provides access to the digitised portion of the collection, including specimen records and associated collection information. Available fields may include taxonomic, collection and provenance data, with coverage varying between record types and collection areas.

The dataset is suitable for machine learning, species identification, biodiversity monitoring and research applications using collection-based data.

Data is supplied in Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) format.

Interested in exploring this collection further? Submit an enquiry to the Natural History Museum team to discuss your use case.