Description
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.
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 727 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:
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
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vermont Center for Ecostudies. 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: a5d361b0-410b-44fd-9666-0a938c75abd1. Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
State of Vermont, USA
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [42.553, -73.916], North East [45.182, -71.191] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
butterflies and giant silkmoths from Vermont
| Superfamily | Papilionoidea (butterflies) |
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| Family | Saturniidae (giant silk moths) |
Project Data
| Title | Vermont Atlas of Life |
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| Identifier | VAL |
| Funding | https://val.vtecostudies.org/ |
| Study Area Description | https://val.vtecostudies.org/ |
| Design Description | https://val.vtecostudies.org/ |
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Sampling Methods
Mostly from student collections held in the museum.
| Study Extent | State of Vermont |
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| Quality Control | see intro |
Method step description:
- see intro
Bibliographic Citations
- 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 dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.827269.v1
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtztbutterflies |
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