Description
Over half a million pinned specimens, 75,000 alcohol-preserved specimens and 25,000 specimens on slides showcase BC and the Yukon’s spectacular insect diversity. Past collectors’ particular projects have shaped the collection, and have resulted in particularly strong holdings of Hemiptera (true bugs), Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), Siphonaptera (fleas) and Anoplura and Mallophaga (lice). The collection has also been enriched by the following notable holdings: de Waard Lepidoptera (moths), Downes Hemiptera (true bugs), Foxlee Diptera (true flies) and Hymenoptera (bees and wasps), Harrison Coleoptera (carabids), Llwewllyn Jones Lepidoptera (butterflies), Scudder Hemiptera (true bugs), Stace-Smith Coleoptera (beetles). The Collection also includes an extensive library of entomological literature, ranging from insect taxonomy, biology, and habitat to pest control. It includes over 350 books, 8000 reprints, and 20 series of unbound journals. We also have over 10,000 photographic slides of insects and arachnids with accompanying data.
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 68,522 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
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Spencer Entomological Collection (UBCZ) from University of British Columbia. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/r5d29ft9 (accessed on [date])
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of British Columbia. 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: 9c45867f-f77d-42f3-9751-ae16bb7c9bc8. University of British Columbia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; UBCZ; Spencer entomological collection; University of British Columbia; Canadensys; Canada; British Columbia; collection; specimens; entomology; Specimen
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/d/ubc-entomology-collections UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/9c45867f-f77d-42f3-9751-ae16bb7c9bc8 UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Mainly a BC collection, with additional holdings from YT, AK, NT, and NU . Also a small number of specimens from the other Canadian Provinces and WA, OR, and CA in the United States.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [32.57, -168.91], North East [71.46, -115.68] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
BC specimens from all insect orders. A small collection of non-insect arthropods from BC. Jumping spiders (Family Salticidae) from around the world.
| Class | Insecta (Insects) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1900-01-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Spencer Entomological Museum |
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| Collection Identifier | SEMUBC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UBCZ |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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| Curatorial Units | Between 500,000 and 550,000 pinned specimens , Between 75,000 and 80,000 alcohol specimens , Between 25,000 and 30,000 microscope slides |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 9c45867f-f77d-42f3-9751-ae16bb7c9bc8 |
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/r5d29ft9 | |
| http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ubc-entomology-collections |