Description
The University of Guelph Insect Collection has its roots in the insect collection of the Entomological Society of Ontario, founded in 1863. It is the oldest insect collection in Canada and was, in effect, Canada's national insect collection before there was a Canada and before the establishment of the Canadian National Collection in Ottawa. Although our current collection of just over two million specimens is relatively small by world standards, the University of Guelph Insect Collection remains one of North America's most important heritage insect collections, and is Canada's third or fourth largest insect collection. It is the best collection of Ontario insects, including many irreplaceable specimens of extirpated species.
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 124,062 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
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University of Guelph Insect Collection (DEBU) from University of Guelph. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/4pp2vt5a (accessed on [date])
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Guelph. 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: 103fa8e2-5be7-402c-b147-708d0755d9b0. University of Guelph publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; DEBU; University of Guelph Insect Collection; Canadensys; Canada; Ontario; collection; specimens
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/en/resources/debu-specimens UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/103fa8e2-5be7-402c-b147-708d0755d9b0 UTF-8 HTML |
| University of Guelph Insect Collection (DEBU) | http://www.uoguelph.ca/debu/ UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
- Originator
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Geographic Coverage
The University of Guelph Insect Collection houses material from around the world with an emphasis on the Ontario insect fauna, and the Nearctic and Neotropical Diptera.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 103fa8e2-5be7-402c-b147-708d0755d9b0 |
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| http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=debu-specimens |