Clemson University Arthropod Collection

The recently renovated Clemson University Arthropod Collection (CUAC) supports the teaching, research, and extension activities of Clemson University. The Collection consists of approximately 1.3 million specimens from Classes Insecta, Arachnida, Branchipoda, Copepoda, Diplopoda, and Chilopoda. The wet, alcohol-preserved collection is exceptionally rich, with over 1,000,000 specimens, nearly half of which are Trichoptera, or caddisflies, resulting from 40 years of work by Director Emeritus Dr. John Morse. The pinned, dry collection comprises only about 200,000 specimens, but also has strong regional representation of all the major orders, with the Coleoptera collection growing rapidly through the work of the Caterino Lab and collection manager Mike Ferro.