Description
The Coleopterotheca of the Natural History Museum of Álava began in 1974 and nowadays, it holds around 160.000 specimens, of which 133.700 are databased. The number of taxa is approximately 5.000. The main collectors are Juan María Marcos, Imanol Zabalegui, Federico Zuazo, Ibon de Olano, Diego Sánchez Miyares, Pablo Bahillo, Felipe Calvo, José María Salgado y José Sebastián Estévez. The collection is particularly numerous in specimens of the Caraboidea superfamily from the Basque Country (Northern Spain)(Ortuño & Marcos, 2003); and in cave fauna, including many paratypes, collected in different locations in the Northern half of Spain. Ortuño, V.M. & Marcos, J.M. (2003). Los Caraboidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco. Tomo I: Cincidelidae y Carabidae. Gobierno Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 573 p.
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 133,126 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:
Marcos Alonso JM, de Olano I, Infante Sánchez M (2023). VIT - Coleopterotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava). Version 1.1. Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). Occurrence dataset
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: 5978f9a9-c6e9-4f45-aa12-54743b72fe78. 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; Coleoptera; Arthropoda; Animalia; Insecta
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Geographic Coverage
World, but the vast majority of records come from Spain. Within Spain, Álava is the best represented province, followed by Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia, Asturias and Cantabria.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-47.461, -90.963], North East [52.019, 125.67] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Order | Coleoptera |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1901-01-01 / 2022-12-31 |
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| Formation Period | This collection has been built since 1974 |
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Project Data
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| Title | Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.15470/qzikh6 |
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| 5978f9a9-c6e9-4f45-aa12-54743b72fe78 | |
| https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=vit-coleopterotheca |