https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtztbutterflies
Historic Butterfly Specimens in the UVM Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection Digitized for the Vermont Butterfly Atlas
Kent
McFarland
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
conservation biologist
Norwich
Vermont
05055
US
kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
0000-0001-7809-5503
Bryan
Pfeiffer
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
associate biologist
Norwich
Vermont
05055
US
Kent
McFarland
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
conservation biologist
Norwich
Vermont
05055
US
kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
0000-0001-7809-5503
2022-04-11
eng
From 2002 to 2007 volunteer butterfly enthusiasts spent thousands of hours in the field in an effort to record the status and distribution of Vermont butterflies, the first systematic statewide butterfly atlas to be undertaken. As part of this atlas, historic records were digitized from regional collections. Despite their potential importance, butterfly specimens in the UVM Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection had never been catalogued systematically. In January of 2004 we obtained permission to bring 40 volunteers into the collection for a one-day sorting and determination workshop. Volunteers worked in teams, first sorting pinned specimens by family and then to genus and species. After sorting, volunteers worked in pairs to add a unique identification number to each pinned specimen on a separate label, identify each to species, and enter the label data into a spreadsheet. Only people with experience in species identification made determinations, and any difficult or questionable determinations were referred to experts.
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
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https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/vermont-butterfly-survey/
State of Vermont, USA
-73.916
-71.191
45.182
42.553
butterflies and giant silkmoths from Vermont
superfamily
Papilionoidea
butterflies
family
Saturniidae
giant silk moths
notPlanned
Kent
McFarland
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
conservation biologist
Norwich
Vermont
05055
US
kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org
0000-0001-7809-5503
see intro
State of Vermont
Mostly from student collections held in the museum.
see intro
Vermont Atlas of Life
Kent
McFarland
0000-0001-7809-5503
https://val.vtecostudies.org/
https://val.vtecostudies.org/
https://val.vtecostudies.org/
https://val.vtecostudies.org/
2022-04-11T19:47:56.041+00:00
dataset
McFarland K, Pfeiffer B (2022): Historic Butterfly Specimens in the UVM Zadock Thompson Natural History Collection Digitized for the Vermont Butterfly Atlas. v1.0. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtztbutterflies&v=1.0
McFarland, K.P. and S. Zahendra. 2010. The Vermont Butterfly Survey, 2002 – 2007: A Final Report to the Natural Heritage Information Project of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. 298 pp. dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.827269.v1