Description
Insect and arachnid specimens deposited in the Lyman Entomological Museum, McGill University.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 253,103 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Lyman Entomological Museum (LEMQ) from McGill University. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/q79vhp1e (accessed on [date])
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is McGill University. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 275319e1-f91c-406f-b239-62cb9d4185cb. McGill University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
LEMQ; Lyman Entomological Museum; Entomological collection; McGill University; specimens; Insecta; Diptera; Neuroptera; Coleoptera; Hymenoptera; Araneae; Specimen; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/d/lemq-specimens UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/275319e1-f91c-406f-b239-62cb9d4185cb UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
- Originator
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Geographic Coverage
Worldwide terrestrial coverage. 70% of Diptera specimens were collected from Canada.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This dataset includes specimens in the collection of all Diptera (240,000+), all Canadian Neuroptera (2,700+), Canadian Coleoptera(2,600+) from the families Buprestidae and Dermestidae, Canadian Hymenoptera(2,900+) from the families Eumenidae and Vespidae, Araneae (4,500+).
| Class | Insecta (insects) |
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| Order | Diptera, Neuroptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Araneae (Spiders) |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1860-present |
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Sampling Methods
Create new record in collection database using Biota 2 and populate fields with the information on all attached specimens and determination labels.
| Study Extent | Digitization of the Diptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Neuroptera and Araneae from the Lyman Entomological Collection (LEMQ). |
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| Quality Control | Label and identification data were entered using control vocabularies and species names were checked for spelling and synonyms. All fields have been filled in a standardized way. |
Method step description:
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Lyman Entomological Museum |
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| Collection Identifier | LEMQ |
| Parent Collection Identifier | LEMQ |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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| Curatorial Units | Count 253,000 +/- 200 specimens |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 275319e1-f91c-406f-b239-62cb9d4185cb |
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/q79vhp1e | |
| http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lemq-specimens |