Canadian Museum of Nature Insect Collection

Data as a DwC-A file	download 67,164 records in English (8 MB) - Update frequency: irregular
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Description

The Canadian Museum of Nature's Insect Collection houses more than one million specimens, most being beetles. Scarabaeidae and Curculioniodea are particularly well-represented. Geographic areas of representation include North, Central and South America, Australia, and South Africa.

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 67,164 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

67164

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:

Gagnon J, Blades R (2026). Canadian Museum of Nature Insect Collection. Version 1.68. Canadian Museum of Nature. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_insect&v=1.68

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Canadian Museum of Nature. 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: 7086bdef-e377-4ac5-872f-751b1d614ed2. Canadian Museum of Nature publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.