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Moths and Butterflies of the Prairies Ecozone in Canada

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15 September 2014
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Description

The Prairies Ecozone of southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta supports a diverse fauna, with 2,232 species of butterflies and moths (order Lepidoptera) recorded to date in 61 families. By far the best known Lepidoptera are the butterflies, with 177 species known to occur in the ecozone. The species known to occur in the Prairies Ecozone are listed by province. The Lepidoptera fauna of this ecozone is reviewed in terms of diversity, state of knowledge of the major groups, postglacial and relict patterns, recent changes in distribution, and endangered and threatened species.

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The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2,656 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Gregory R. Pohl, B. Christian Schmidt, J. Donald Lafontaine, Jean-François Landry, Gary G. Anweiler, and Charles D. Bird. 2014. Data for Moths and Butterflies of the Prairies Ecozone in Canada. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/g46dj1kp

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Biological Survey of Canada. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ & http://www.canadensys.net/norms

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c6aaec5d-716e-46a1-826b-dc324feb4ede.  Biological Survey of Canada publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canadensys.

Keywords

Checklist; Inventoryregional; Lepidoptera; checklist; taxonomy; Canada; provinces; prairies; open data

Contacts

Greg Pohl
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Author ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Insect/Disease Identification Officer
Natural Resources Canada, Northern Forestry Centre
5320 - 122 Street
T6H 3S5 Edmonton
Alberta
CA
780-435-7211
B. Christian Schmidt
  • Author
Entomologist
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
960 Carling Avenue
K1A 0C6 Ottawa
Ontario
CA
613-715-5429
J. Donald Lafontaine
  • Author
Scientist
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes, Biodiversity Program, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
960 Carling Avenue
K1A 0C6 Ottawa
Ontario
CA
613-759-1791
Jean-François Landry
  • Author
Scientist
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes, Biodiversity Program, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
960 Carling Avenue
K1A 0C6 Ottawa
Ontario
CA
613-759-1825
Gary Anweiler
  • Author
n/a
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
CW 405, Biological Sciences Building
T6G 2E3 Edmonton
Alberta
CA
Charles Bird
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Box 22
T0C 1G0 Erskine
Alberta
CA
David Shorthouse
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Biodiversity Informatics Manager
Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre / Canadensys
4101 rue Sherbrooke est
H1X 2B2 Montréal
QC
CA
514-343-6111 82354
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Geographic Coverage

Canadian prairie provinces

Bounding Coordinates South West [49.27, -119.88], North East [59.71, -95.1]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Order Lepidoptera

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Pohl, G. R., B. C. Schmidt, J. D. Lafontaine, J.-F. Landry, G. G. Anweiler and C. D. Bird. 2014. Moths and Butterflies of the Prairies Ecozone in Canada. In Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands (Volume 4): Biodiversity and Systematics Part 2. Edited by D. J. Giberson and H. A. Cárcamo. Biological Survey of Canada. pp. 169-238. http://dx.doi.org/10.3752/9780968932179.ch5 doi:10.3752/9780968932179.ch5