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.
Data Records
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.
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:
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
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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
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Geographic Coverage
Canadian prairie provinces
Bounding Coordinates | South West [49.27, -119.88], North East [59.71, -95.1] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
Order | Lepidoptera |
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Bibliographic Citations
- 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
Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/g46dj1kp |
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http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource.do?r=acg-lepidoptera |