Lyman Entomological Museum (LEMQ)

• DwC-A
• EML
• RTF
• GBIF

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 255,092 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.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Lyman Entomological Museum (LEMQ) from McGill University. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/q79vhp1e (accessed on [date])

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is McGill University. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 275319e1-f91c-406f-b239-62cb9d4185cb.  McGill University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

LEMQ; Lyman Entomological Museum; Entomological collection; McGill University; specimens; Insecta; Diptera; Neuroptera; Coleoptera; Hymenoptera; Araneae; Specimen; Occurrence

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Geographic Coverage

Worldwide terrestrial coverage. 70% of Diptera specimens were collected from Canada.

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset includes specimens in the collection of all Diptera (240,000+), all Canadian Neuroptera (2,700+), Canadian Coleoptera(2,600+) from the families Buprestidae and Dermestidae, Canadian Hymenoptera(2,900+) from the families Eumenidae and Vespidae, Araneae (4,500+).

Temporal Coverage

Sampling Methods

Create new record in collection database using Biota 2 and populate fields with the information on all attached specimens and determination labels.

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Collection Data

Additional Metadata