Insectarium de Montréal (IMQC)

Maxim Larrivée1, Vincent Lessard2, Colin Favret3

1 Insectarium de Montréal, 4581 rue Sherbrooke est, H1X 2B2, Montréal, Canada; 2 Université de Montréal, 4101 rue Sherbrooke est, H1X 2B2, Montréal, Canada; 3 Université de Montréal, 4101 rue Sherbrooke est, H1X 2B2, Montreal, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Maxim Larrivée (maxim.larrivee@ville.montreal.qc.ca)

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Resource Citation

Larrivée M (2018): Insectarium de Montréal (IMQC). v2.0. Insectarium de Montréal. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/i6z1vo https://doi.org/10.5886/i6z1vo

Abstract

The Montréal Insectarium was created thanks to the initiative of notary and self-taught entomologist Georges Brossard, who, in 1988, donated a major collection of naturalized insects. This collection was displayed until the complete renovation of the permanent exhibition in 2011. Then, in 1989, the scientific and historical collection of Brother Firmin Laliberté was used as a starting point for the Insectarium’s scientific collections. The Insectarium’s scientific collections are composed of more than 225,000 insect specimens and include major specialized collections for certain taxa. They also offer a synoptic overview of Québec’s insects. Over the past five years, more than 900 type specimens have been put into the Insectarium’s scientific collections.

Keywords: IMQC, Insectarium de Montréal, Espace pour la vie, Space for Life, Canadensys, Canada, Quebec, Collection, Specimens, Entomology, Occurrence, Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=imqc-specimens

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Entomological collection
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Insecta, Arachnida
Order: Acari, Cheleutoptera, Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Dictyoptera, Diptera, Ephemeroptera, Grylloptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera
Suborder: Homoptera
Common names: Insects, Arachnids

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Insects from Québec and around the world.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1914 - 1992

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Insectarium de Montréal (IMQC)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=imqc-specimens
Publication date of data: 2018-07-25
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-01-26
Hierarchy level: Dataset