Description
Occurrence data from specimens housed in the Triplehorn Insect Collection at The Ohio State University. Data capture is an ongoing process. To date the greatest effort has focused on the orders Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. Specimens in the collection come from around the world, but the traditional geographical emphasis has been on the Midwestern and Southwestern United States.
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 661,606 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
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Johnson N (2024). Triplehorn Insect Collection, The Ohio State University. Version 1.34. Museum of Biological Diversity, The Ohio State University. Occurrence dataset. https://asc-ipt.asc.ohio-state.edu/mbd/resource?r=osuc_ipt&v=1.34
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museum of Biological Diversity, The Ohio State University. 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: 84ab7b76-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. Museum of Biological Diversity, The Ohio State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-5187
- User
Geographic Coverage
Specimens come from around the world. Historically, the emphasis has been on insects from the Midwestern and Southwestern United States.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-53.794, -179.97], North East [81.522, 179.983] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The collection houses specimens of all orders of insects. The particular strengths are in the orders Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Hymenoptera.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Triplehorn Insect Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | OSUC |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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| Curatorial Units | Count 4,000,000 +/- 50,000 Specimen |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 84ab7b76-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a |
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| https://asc-ipt.asc.ohio-state.edu/mbd/resource?r=osuc_ipt |