Description
More than 10 million specimens of insects, arachnids and myriapods. Strong in aquatic groups of insects. Trichoptera, Hymenoptera and Diptera (Simuliidae). Geographic representation is strong for North America and South-East Asia.
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 191,589 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:
Hubley B (2024). Royal Ontario Museum - Entomology Collection. Version 2.0. Royal Ontario Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/p69k4g
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Ontario Museum. 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: 48c5c83b-2029-4b2c-9f48-5e610e6984d6. Royal Ontario Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2112-3187
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Strong representation for North America and SE Asia.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
N/A
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Class | Insecta |
| Order | Coleoptera, Odonata, Diptera, Blattodea, Trichoptera, Hymenoptera, Ephemeroptera, Lepidoptera |
| Family | Gyrinidae, Milichiidae, Nymphalidae, Hesperiidae, Phoridae, Aeshnidae, Limnephilidae, Scarabaeidae, Baetidae, Scelionidae, Lestidae, Braconidae, Ichneumonidae, Eulophidae, Syrphidae, Curculionidae, Sphingidae, Anthribidae, Endomychidae, Libellulidae, Tenthredinidae, Geometridae, Hybosoridae, Vespidae, Apidae, Coenagrionidae, Elateridae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1862-07-10 / 2023-10-01 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.5886/p69k4g |
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| 48c5c83b-2029-4b2c-9f48-5e610e6984d6 | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rom-entomology |