Royal Ontario Museum - Entomology Collection - Saturniidae

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Royal Ontario Museum on Jul 21, 2025 Royal Ontario Museum

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Description

Saturniidae of the Royal Ontario Museum - Entomology Collection, mainly from Canada, with strength in genera Dryocampa, Automeris, Anisota and Antheraea. The occurrences in this dataset are also present in the main publication of the Royal Ontario Museum - Entomology Collection (Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/p69k4g).

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Hubley B (2025). Royal Ontario Museum - Entomology Collection - Saturniidae. Version 2.1. Royal Ontario Museum. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/2gaj01

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Ontario Museum. 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: cde844c1-a43e-41b3-8007-dea00fec7d87.  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; Occurrence

Contacts

Brad Hubley
  • Metadata Provider
  • Entomology Collection Manager
Royal Ontario Museum
  • 100 Queen's Park
M5S 2C6 Toronto
Ontario
CA
  • 1-416-586-5764
Brad Hubley
  • Metadata Provider

Geographic Coverage

Silk moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) from Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Italy, Mexico, USA, Venezuela and Vietnam.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-3.654, -122.8], North East [52.883, 107.855]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Lepidoptera
Family Saturniidae

Additional Metadata

Purpose

Digitization of the Royal Ontario Museum's entomology collection

Maintenance Description Ongoing
Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/2gaj01
cde844c1-a43e-41b3-8007-dea00fec7d87
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rome-saturniidae-test