[Nhcoll-l] Entomology taxonomy for database

[Pellegrini, Rodrigo [DOS]]

Greetings everyone,

We are currently making an effort to catalog our entomology collection at the NJSM, and add it to our database. We are a Natural History department within a Museum that also houses collections of Archaeology, Fine Art, and Cultural History. Most of us in NH happen to be paleontologists, and the modern insect collection hasn't really been a priority in a very long time. A paleoentomologist recently joined our ranks, and has been identifying, re-identifying and assigning catalog numbers to our old (recent) insects, and the time to import them into our database, EMU, is nigh.
Needless to say, our taxonomy tables in the database lack insect taxonomy. While I could import them with just the ID our paleoentomologist assigned, it would be much better to be able to search the data by taxonomic relations, and hence I'm wondering if anybody here would be kind enough to share their entomology taxonomy tables as a CSV file, for me to import them into our database. We are hoping to get a file that includes up to the Family level, and we could create the genus species for the species represented in our collections.

As I said, we use EMU, but if your database (whatever it may be) can produce a comma-separated-file with understandable headers for the hierarchy (or a key of what the backend name headers correspond to in the hierarchy), I can make it work.

It would save us a ton of time, and we would very much appreciate it. Please let me know directly at Rodrigo.Pellegrini at sos.nj.gov if you can help us out.
Thank you very much for your time,

Rod