The M. Andrew Johnston Research Collection is comprised primarily of beetles, especially darkling beetles (family Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802). The MAJC has an emphasis on specimens from the southwestern deserts of North America and others pertaining to ongoing systematic research. The collection contains roughly 20,000 pinned specimens, a frozen tissue collection stored in ethanol, and full body disarticulations for morphological examination.
Contact: ajohnston@asu.edu
The Workflows directory contains scripts and workflows for digitization of the MAJC.
The Templates directory contains MAJC template files for catalog number generation, etc.
The Data Backup directory contains periodic Darwin Core Archive backups of the MAJC specimen data.