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Canadian Museum of Nature Insect Collection

Specimen Records: 35,159
Media Records: 41
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-02-21

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.

Contacts

Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
Name Rob Blades
RoleDigital Collections Information Manager
Emailrblades@nature.ca
Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
Name Jean-Marc Gagnon
RoleCurator, Invertebrate Zoology Collections
Emailjmgagnon@nature.ca
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i34211
97.304
dwc_continent_added  i30483
86.7
geopoint_datum_missing  i22383
63.662
dwc_datasetid_added  i7881
22.415
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i7881
22.415
dwc_taxonid_added  i7881
22.415
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i7881
22.415
gbif_canonicalname_added  i7881
22.415
gbif_genericname_added  i7881
22.415
gbif_taxon_corrected  i7881
22.415
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i6871
19.543
dwc_multimedia_added  i5797
16.488
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i5630
16.013
dwc_family_replaced  i3751
10.669
geopoint_low_precision  i2713
7.716
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1922
5.467
taxon_match_failed  i1767
5.026
gbif_reference_added  i1705
4.849
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i1549
4.406
rev_geocode_mismatch  i440
1.251
dwc_specificepithet_added  i438
1.246
dwc_genus_replaced  i388
1.104
dwc_country_replaced  i304
0.865
rev_geocode_eez  i301
0.856
rev_geocode_corrected  i250
0.711
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i221
0.629
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i92
0.262
dwc_class_replaced  i36
0.102
dwc_order_replaced  i36
0.102
dwc_genus_added  i33
0.094
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i32
0.091
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i28
0.08
rev_geocode_failure  i22
0.063
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i13
0.037
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i11
0.031
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0.014
dwc_order_added  i1
0.003
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