Barcant Butterfly Collection -  Lycaenidae

Renoir Auguste1, Mike Rutherford1

1 The University of the West Indies, Life Sciences Dep't, St. Augustine, Trinidad And Tobago

Corresponding author(s): Renoir Auguste (UWIZoologyMuseum@sta.uwi.edu)

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Resource Citation

Rutherford MG and Auguste RJ (2018): Barcant Butterfly Collection -  Lycaenidae. v1.4. The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum (UWIZM). Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=uwizmbarcantlycaenidae&amp;v=1.4

Abstract

This dataset contains some of the records from the Malcolm Barcant Butterfly specimens from the Family Lycaenidae. They are housed at the Angostura Museum and Butterfly Collection, Laventille, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Keywords: Occurrence, Barcant, Butterflies, Lycaenidae, Trinidad and Tobago, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Improving Biodiversity data accessibility in the Caribbean countries of Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and Suriname
Personnel: Mike Rutherford, Renoir Auguste
Funding: This project is made possible through a grant from GBIF
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Trinidad and Tobago
Design description: The goal of this project is to make the records contained within the UWIZM accessible to all.

Data published through GBIF: https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=uwizmbarcantlycaenidae

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Butterflies were identified to species level.
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Lycaenidae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Trinidad and Tobago
Coordinates: 9°58'48''N and 11°22'19.2''N Latitude; 62°1'44.4''W and 60°21'32.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 9, 1925 - July 1, 1972

Natural collections description

Collection name: Barcant Butterfly Collection - Lycaenidae
Specimen preservation method: Dried

Methods

Method step description: 1. Specimens in the collection were assessed for existing data (labels in jars, details in registers, etc,)
2. Identifications were confirmed or made using a variety of literature sources (scientific papers, books, online resources)
3. Specimens were photographed and properly stored then the data was uploaded to the UWIZM Past Perfect database.
Study extent description: Trinidad and Tobago
Sampling description: Specimens were collected by sweep netting or were bred by Malcolm Barcant or associates.
Quality control description: Specimen identifications were checked by at least two people.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Barcant Butterfly Collection -  Lycaenidae
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/archive.do?r=uwizmbarcantlycaenidae
Publication date of data: 2018-09-21
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-04-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset