Occurrence

UCT: Southern African Butterfly Conservation Assessment (1815-2009)

Latest version published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 28 July 2020 South African National Biodiversity Institute
Specimen records from butterfly collections held at various museums (Transvaal, Iziko South Africa, Durban Natural Science, Natal, Albany, East London and National Museums) in South Africa.
Publication date:
28 July 2020
License:
CC-BY 4.0

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 86,659 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mecenero S (2015): UCT: Southern African Butterfly Conservation Assessment (1815-2009). v1.3. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=uct_butterfly_conservation_assessment&v=1.3

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 590471f8-1497-4158-ab7f-b9294b656cda.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Papilionidae; Lycaenidae; Nymphalidae; Hesperiidae; Pieridae; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Silvia Mecenero
Project coordinator
UCT
Animal Demography Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town
7701 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
(021) 650 3426
http://sabca.adu.org.za

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Silvia Mecenero
Project coordinator
UCT
Animal Demography Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town
7701 Cape Town
Western Cape
ZA
(021) 650 3426
http://sabca.adu.org.za

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Technician
SANBI
Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
021 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org/

Geographic Coverage

The entire area of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-36.2, 13.55], North East [-20.77, 35.31]

Taxonomic Coverage

Butterflies (Lepidoptera), five familes: Papilionidae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Hesperiidae, Pieridae

Class  Insecta
Order  Lepidoptera (Butterflies)
Family  Papilionidae,  Lycaenidae,  Nymphalidae,  Hesperiidae,  Pieridae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1815-11-28 / 2009-04-16

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 590471f8-1497-4158-ab7f-b9294b656cda
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=uct_butterfly_conservation_assessment