Description
The E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum houses approximately one million specimens. The research collection includes principally Nearctic insects, representing most orders and the major families thereof. The beetle family Carabidae is especially well represented: included are about 400,000 specimens mainly from the Nearctic region, but with an important Neotropical component, and fewer taxa from the remaining biogeographic regions of the world. The moths and butterflies, order Lepidoptera, with over 65,000 specimens, about half of which are from Alberta localities, are another group of major interest.
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 342,394 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:
University of Alberta Museums, Becker-Burns A, Mallalieu K (2025). University of Alberta E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum (UASM). Version 17.106. University of Alberta Museums. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.18165/9enbmt
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alberta Museums. 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: 8971dfba-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. University of Alberta Museums publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
- Rutherford South 3-20, 11204-89 Avenue NW
- 780-492-5834
- Metadata Provider ●
- Custodian Steward
- Assistant Director Collections Management
- Rutherford South 3-20, 11204-89 Avenue NW
- 780-492-3871
- Metadata Provider ●
- Custodian Steward
- Collections Management Advisor
- Rutherford South 3-20, 11204-89 Avenue NW
- 780-492-6271
- Curator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- CW 405, Biological Sciences Bldg., University of Alberta
- 780-492-3991
- Curator
- Assistant Curator
- CW 405, Biological Sciences Bldg., University of Alberta
- 780-492-0461
Geographic Coverage
Global, North America, Canada, United States, Mexico, Alberta
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The following taxonomic groups make up >10% of the collection: Arthropoda, Hexapoda, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Carabidae, Noctuidae
| Phylum | Arthropoda (Arthropods) |
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| Class | Hexapoda (Hexapods) |
| Order | Coleoptera (Beetles), Lepidoptera (Moths & Butterflies) |
| Family | Carabidae (Ground Beetles), Noctuidae (Owlet Moths) |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1877-current |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of Alberta E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum |
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| Collection Identifier | UASM |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UAM |
| Specimen preservation methods | Alcohol, Deep frozen, Dried, Microscopic preparation, Pinned, Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.18165/9enbmt |
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| 8971dfba-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a | |
| https://ipt.museums.ualberta.ca/ipt/resource?r=entomology |