https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=lepnet Julia Colby Milwaukee Public Museum Collection Manager

800 W Wells St Milwaukee WI 53233 US

14142782760 colby@mpm.edu Susan Sullivan Borkin Milwaukee Public Museum Curator Emerita

800 W Wells St Milwaukee WI 53233 US

Jennifer Zaspel Milwaukee Public Museum

800 W Wells St Milwaukee WI 53233 US

Julia Colby Milwaukee Public Museum

800 W Wells St Milwaukee WI 53233 US

14142782760 colby@mpm.edu Julia Colby Milwaukee Public Museum Collection Manager

800 W Wells St Milwaukee WI 53233 US

14142782760 colby@mpm.edu publisher Jennifer Zaspel Milwaukee Public Museum Research Curator

800 W Wells St Milwaukee WI 53233 US

principalInvestigator 2022-01-11 eng The Lepidoptera of North America Network (LepNet) comprises 27 core research collections that will digitize specimen records and integrate these with existing records. Digitized larval vial records with host plant data marks the first significant digitization of larvae in North American collections. This digitization effort will produce enough data to elevate up to 5,000 lepidopteran species to a “research ready” status suitable for complex, data-driven analyses. LepNet will produce high-quality images of exemplar species covering at least 55% of North American lepidopteran species. These images will enhance identifications and promote systematic, ecological, and global change research. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. North America -169.102 -50.977 83.36 21.943 1882 2019 Lepidoptera order Lepidoptera Butterflies and moths irregular Julia Colby Milwaukee Public Museum

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14142782760 colby@mpm.edu Jennifer Zaspel principalInvestigator Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are one of the most diverse groups of organisms on the planet: worldwide there are approximately 160,000 species, including around 14,300 species in North America. Moths and butterflies are a conspicuous component of terrestrial habitats and one of the most diverse groups of plant-feeding animals worldwide. This group insect includes species of great economic importance. Their juveniles feed on plants useful to humans, including grains, cotton, tobacco, and timber and shade trees. However, many of the adults are beneficial as pollinators and are icons of conservation as evidenced by Monarch butterflies. Given their economic importance and sheer beauty, butterflies and moths are one of the most abundant insect group in museum collections, but only a fraction of the approximately 15 million specimens in non-federal collections have had their specimen label information digitally recorded and accessible to researchers and educators. Of those specimens that have been digitized, fewer than 10% of the North American Lepidoptera species have sufficient, accessible occurrence data to make reliable predictions about habitat use, susceptibility to global change impacts, or other ecologically important interactions. This project will digitize and integrate existing, unconnected collections of lepidopterans to leverage the outstanding potential of this group of organisms for transformative research, training and outreach. NSF DBI-1601957 2020-03-23T18:37:33.899+00:00 dataset Colby J, Sullivan Borkin S, Zaspel J (2022): MPM Lepidoptera of North America Network (LepNet). v1.3. No organisation. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=lepnet&v=1.3 https://i1.wp.com/scan-all-bugs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Logo-4.png?w=1144&ssl=1 MPM ENT Milwaukee Public Museum Insect Collection https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?id=lepnet/v1.3.xml