ARC-PPRI: National Survey of Arachnida (1905-2009)

Robin Lyle1, Fhatani Ranwashe2

1 Agricultural Research Council - Plant Protection Research Institute, ARC- Plant Protection Research Institute, Private Bag X134, Queenswood, 0121, Queenswood, South Africa; 2 SANBI, Private Bag X7, Kirstenbosch, 7735, Claremont, South Africa

Corresponding author(s): Robin Lyle (lyler@arc.agric.za), Fhatani Ranwashe (f.ramwashe@sanbi.org.za)

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Resource Citation

Lyle R (2015): ARC-PPRI: National Survey of Arachnida (1905-2009). v1.3. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=arc_national_survey_of_arachnida&v=1.3

Abstract

South Africa (S.A.) has a rich arachnid fauna with about 5000 known species, which represent 6% of the global arachnid diversity. Currently 75% of the arachnids are endemic to S.A.. The South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA) was initiated in 1997. SANSA is an umbrella project dedicated to unify and strengthen biodiversity research on arachnids in S.A.

Keywords: Occurrence, Arachnida, Araneae, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Amblypygi, Solifugae, Specimen

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All the Arachnida ordes (excluding the Acari)
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Arachnida
Common names: Spiders

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Southern Africa, with majority records in South Africa
Coordinates: 35°0'0''S and 0°0'0''N Latitude; 11°5'24''E and 46°13'48''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 01 September 1905 - 11 April 2009

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive ARC-PPRI: National Survey of Arachnida (1905-2009)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/archive.do?r=arc_national_survey_of_arachnida
Publication date of data: 2018-01-11
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-04-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset