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Royal Ontario Museum - Entomology Collection

Latest version published by Royal Ontario Museum on 19 January 2022 Royal Ontario Museum
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Description

More than a 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 SE 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 1,959 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:

Hubley B (2022): Royal Ontario Museum - Entomology Collection. v2.0. Royal Ontario Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/2gaj01

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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

Contacts

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

Geographic Coverage

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

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

Purpose Digitization of the Royal Ontario Museum's entomology collection
Maintenance Description Ongoing
Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/2gaj01
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=rome-saturniidae-test