3 research outputs found
FIGURE 1 in LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network
FIGURE 1. Geographic distribution of the 27 partner institutions in LepNet and their digitization targets for specimen label data (blue) and specimen images (red)
FIGURE 2 in LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network
FIGURE 2. Existing (black) and expected (blue, yellow, and green) number of records to be produced by LepNet for the 3 major groups and 15 families of Lepidoptera that are most common in the collections of the partner institutions. Existing records were obtained from the SCAN and iDigBio data portals
LepNet: The Lepidoptera of North America Network
The Lepidoptera of North America Network, or LepNet, is a digitization effort recently launched to mobilize biodiversity data from 3 million specimens of butterflies and moths in United States natural history collections (http:// www. lepnet. org/). LepNet was initially conceived as a North American effort but the project seeks collaborations with museums and other organizations worldwide. The overall goal is to transform Lepidoptera specimen data into readily available digital formats to foster global research in taxonomy, ecology and evolutionary biology