Checklist

Checklist of Beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second Edition.

Latest version published by Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre on 01 February 2017 Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre
Home:
Link
Publication date:
01 February 2017
License:
CC-BY 4.0

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 12,491 records in English (478 KB) - Update frequency: unknown
Metadata as an EML file download in English (12 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (9 KB)

Description

All 8238 species-group taxa of Coleoptera known to occur in Canada and Alaska are recorded by province/territory or state, along with their author(s) and year of publication, in a classification framework. Only presence of taxa in each Canadian province or territory and Alaska is noted. Labrador is considered a distinct geographical entity. Adventive and Holarctic species-group taxa are indicated. References to pertinent identification keys are given under the corresponding supraspecific taxa.

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 12,491 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:

Yves Bousquet, Patrice Bouchard, Anthony E. Davies, and Derek S. Sikes. 2013. Data associated with CHECKLIST OF BEETLES (COLEOPTERA) OF CANADA AND ALASKA. SECOND EDITION. DATA PAPER. ZooKeys. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/998dbs2a

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7a9bccd4-32fc-420e-a73b-352b92267571.  Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Checklist; Inventory; regional; Coleoptera; Canada; Alaska

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Contacts

Patrice Bouchard
  • Metadata Provider
  • Author
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Research Scientist (Curator - Coleoptera Unit)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
960 Carling Avenue
K1A 0C6 Ottawa
Ontario
CA
613-759-7510
Anthony Davies
  • Author
Technician (Coleoptera Unit)
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
960 Carling Avenue
K1A 0C6 Ottawa
Ontario
CA
613-759-1810
Derek Sikes
  • Author
Curator of Insects / Associate Professor of Entomology
University of Alaska Museum
907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
Alaska
US
907-474-5469
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Ottawa
CA

Geographic Coverage

This checklist includes records from all provinces and territories of Canada as well as Alaska.

Bounding Coordinates South West [41.14, -169.43], North East [83.32, -51.7]

Taxonomic Coverage

All extant described species in the order Coleoptera known to occur in Canada and Alaska are included.

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1758-01-01 / 2013-01-01

Project Data

No Description available

Title Dr.
Funding A-base funding (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

The personnel involved in the project:

Patrice Bouchard
  • Author

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Bousquet, Y., Bouchard, P., Davies, A.E. and Sikes, D.S. in press. Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition. Pensoft, Sofia. 402pp.
  2. Bousquet Y, Bouchard P, Davies AE, Sikes DS (2013) Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition. ZooKeys 360: 1–44. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.360.4742 doi:10.3897/zookeys.360.4742

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 7a9bccd4-32fc-420e-a73b-352b92267571
http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=coleoptera-ca-ak