Description
The Lepidotheca of the Natural Science Museum of Álava contains 80,000 specimens, 75,600 of them databased, belonging to 5,831 taxa. The collection began in 1974 and the main collectors have been Ibon de Olano, Juan María Marcos, Sigfrido Serrano, José María Salazar, Javier Gastón, Tomás Molina, Txema Revilla, Jesús Méndez Garnica, Fernando de Juana, José Sebastián Estévez, Fidel Fernández Rubio, Diego Sánchez Miyares and Mario Sarsa. This first dataset here published comprises 4,172 specimens of the family Zygaenidae, mostly in the Palearctic region of the world; most of them collected in Spain and in Álava in particular.
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 4,172 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
de Olano I, Infante Sánchez M (2023). VIT - Lepidotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava). Version 1.2. Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15470/zfqjri
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8734b6f6-2bf5-439a-833e-0fd25201bcd7. Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Spain; Equatorial Guinea; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Departamento Invertebrados
- Siervas de Jesús 24
- +34945181924
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Departamento Botánica
- Siervas de Jesús 24
- +34945181924
- Point Of Contact
- Departamento Invertebrados
- Siervas de Jesús 24
- +34945181924
- Custodian Steward
- Técnico responsable
- Siervas de Jesús 24
- +34945181924
- Custodian Steward
- Técnico responsable
- Siervas de Jesús 24
- +34945181924
Geographic Coverage
The geographical coverage of the collection includes the whole world, in particular Spain and Equatorial Guinea.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The taxonomic coverage is: Papilionoidea, Noctuoidea, Geometroidea, Bombycoidea, Zygaenoidea, Bombycoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Pyraloidea, Drepanoidea, Tortricoidea, Drepanoidea and, to a lesser extent, other superfamilies of Microlepidoptera.
| Order | Lepidoptera |
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| Infraorder | Bombycoidea |
| Superfamily | Papilionoidea, Noctuoidea, Geometroidea, Bombycoidea, Zygaenoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Pyraloidea, Drepanoidea, Tortricoidea, Drepanoidea |
| Informal | Microlepidoptera |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1974 - current |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | VIT - Lepidotheca |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.15470/zfqjri |
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| 8734b6f6-2bf5-439a-833e-0fd25201bcd7 | |
| https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=mcna_zyg |