FBIP: IZIKO Hymenoptera collection

Simon Van Noort1, Mahlatse Kgatla2

1 Iziko Museum, 25 Queen Victoria Street, 8000, Cape Town, South Africa; 2 SANBI, 2 Cussonia Avenue, Brummeria, 0184, Pretoria, South Africa

Corresponding author(s): Simon Van Noort (svannoort@iziko.org.za)

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Resource Citation

Van Noort S (2019): FBIP: IZIKO Hymenoptera collection. v1.1. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=digitisation&v=1.1

Abstract

13956 new catalogue records of Hymenoptera were digitised onto the Iziko Specify6 database during 2015. These specimens collected from a number of countries, mostly in Africa, and Mauritius, Madagascar and the United Kingdom. Represent pinned specimens and specimens in ethanol. Some samples from systematic surveys in Wester and Northern Cape.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Digitisation of 13956 new catalogue records of Hymenoptera
Personnel: Simon Van Noort
Funding: Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Various localities in South Africa, Botswana, Central African Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom, Uganda, Spain, Italy, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Tanzania, Brazil, Costa Rica, Columbia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=digitisation

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: all Hymenoptera in Iziko Museum
Taxonomic ranks
Order: Hymenoptera
Common names: Bees, Wasps and Ants

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Various localities in South Africa, Botswana, Central African Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom, Uganda, Spain, Italy, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Tanzania, Brazil, Costa Rica, Columbia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia
Coordinates: 34°31'60''S and 30°2'0.6''N Latitude; 74°4'19.52''W and 38°43'60''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 24, 1940 - September 29, 2016

Methods

Method step description: Various. More recent samples collected using Malaise traps, colour pan traps, sweep netting or by hand.
Study extent description: Various localities in South Africa, Botswana, Central African Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom, Uganda, Spain, Italy, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Tanzania, Brazil, Costa Rica, Columbia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia
Sampling description: Various. More recent samples collected using Malaise traps, colour pan traps, sweep netting or by hand.
Quality control description: None. Requires georeferencing and verification. Large number of errors identified but not yet corrected. Gaps in data require addressing. Some fields added and populated by M. Hamer (Institution, Institution record, Basis of record), and fields added that still need to be populated - Species name author, Subspecies name authorship) still to be populated.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive FBIP: IZIKO Hymenoptera collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/archive.do?r=digitisation
Publication date of data: 2019-09-30
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-09-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset