Description
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.
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 39,114 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:
Larrivée M (2018): Insectarium de Montréal (IMQC). v2.5. Insectarium de Montréal. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/i6z1vo
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Insectarium de Montréal. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3484c814-c0f1-453c-8501-50d4846c4ba6. Insectarium de Montréal publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canadensys.
Keywords
IMQC; Insectarium de Montréal; Espace pour la vie; Space for Life; Canadensys; Canada; Quebec; Collection; Specimens; Entomology; Occurrence; Occurrence; Specimen
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6243-3184
Geographic Coverage
Insects from Québec and around the world.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Entomological collection
| Class | Insecta (Insects), Arachnida (Arachnids) |
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| Order | Acari, Cheleutoptera, Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Dictyoptera, Diptera, Ephemeroptera, Grylloptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera |
| Suborder | Homoptera |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1914-01-01 / 1992-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.5886/i6z1vo |
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| 3484c814-c0f1-453c-8501-50d4846c4ba6 | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=imqc-specimens |