Zoological Collections, Bees of North America

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Western Ontario on Aug 5, 2025 University of Western Ontario
Publication date:
5 August 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Overview: This occurrence dataset contains the scientific names and label data of 513 specimens of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) housed in the Zoological Collections of the Department of Biology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Specimens were collected in Canada, primarily in southern Ontario. Specimens were chosen for digitization based on meeting the following criteria: collected in North America; possessing complete label data (locality, minimally month and year of collection, collector's name); identified authoritatively to species; high specimen quality (head, thorax, abdomen intact). Funding: This project was financially supported by the Faculty of Science and the Western Sustainable Impact Fund, Western 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 513 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

McKenna M, Zitani N (2025). Zoological Collections, Bees of North America. Version 2.4. University of Western Ontario. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/kofv27

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Western Ontario. 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: d70b0fc7-783e-4d94-a2a0-112728dff573.  University of Western Ontario publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Insect; Hymenoptera; Apoidea; Anthophila; bee; Andrenidae; Halictidae; Colletidae; Apidae; Occurrence dataset.; Specimen

Contacts

McShane McKenna
  • Originator
  • Research Technician
University of Western Ontario
Nina Zitani
  • Originator
  • Curator, Zoological Collections
University of Western Ontario
  • 1151 Richmond Street, BGS room 0124
N6A3K7 London
Ontario
CA
  • 1 (519) 661-2111 x 85356
Dr. Nina Zitani
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator, Zoological Collections
University of Western Ontario
  • 1151 Richmond Street, BGS room 0124
N6A3K7 London
Ontario
CA
  • 1 (519) 661-2111 x 85356
Marion Leménager
  • Editor
  • Data manager
Canadensys
CA

Geographic Coverage

Inferred from source data.

Bounding Coordinates South West [42.853, -94.379], North East [60.806, -79.672]

Taxonomic Coverage

Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila: families Andrenidae, Halictidae, Colletidae, Apidae.

Family Andrenidae, Halictidae, Colletidae, Apidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1915-09-04 / 2002-06-28

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/kofv27
d70b0fc7-783e-4d94-a2a0-112728dff573
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=biodiversity-collection-hymenoptera-anthophila