Vermont Lady Beetle (Coccinellidae) Specimens in the Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation Insect Collection

Kent McFarland1, Kent McFarland2

1 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, PO Box 420, 05055, Norwich, United States; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Kent McFarland (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org)

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Resource Citation

McFarland K (2024). Vermont Lady Beetle (Coccinellidae) Specimens in the Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation Insect Collection. Version 1.4. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtfpr-ladybeetles&v=1.4

Abstract

Lady Beetle (Coccinellidae) pinned specimens collected in Vermont and deposited in the Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation Insect Collection.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Vermont Atlas of Life
Personnel: Kent McFarland
Study area descriptions/descriptor: State of Vermont, USA
Design description: http://val.vtecostudies.org/

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=vtfpr-ladybeetles

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Family: Coccinellidae
Common names: Lady Beetles

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: State of Vermont, USA
Coordinates: 42°30'0''N and 45°6'0''N Latitude; 73°32'31.2''W and 71°16'44.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: September 11, 1978 - January 9, 2004

Natural collections description

Collection name: Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation Insect Collection
Collection identifier: VTFPR
Specimen preservation method: Pinned

Methods

Method step description: Specimens collected and deposited in the Vermont Forest, Parks, and Recreation insect collection on an ad hoc basis.
Study extent description: State of Vermont, USA
Sampling description: Specimens collected and deposited in the Vermont Forest, Parks, and Recreation insect collection on an ad hoc basis.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Vermont Lady Beetle (Coccinellidae) Specimens in the Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation Insect Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=vtfpr-ladybeetles
Publication date of data: 2024-03-14
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-01-31
Hierarchy level: Dataset