The Australian National Insect Collection is recognized both nationally and internationally as a major research collection. It is the world's largest collection of Australian insects and related groups such as mites, spiders, nematodes and centipedes housing over 12 million specimens.

GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/beed1b50-8c73-11dc-aaed-b8a03c50a862
Homepage: https://collections.ala.org.au/public/show/dr130
Citation: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (2026). Australian National Insect Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/s1hm8r accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-11.