VIT - Lepidotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava)

Ibón de Olano1, Marta Infante Sánchez1, Jesús Alonso Ramírez1

1 Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa, Siervas de Jesús 24, E-01001, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Corresponding author(s): Ibón de Olano (ideolano@externos.araba.eus)Marta Infante Sánchez (bazzania.vit@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

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 https://doi.org/10.15470/zfqjri

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Arthropoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Spain, Equatorial Guinea, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=mcna_zyg

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The taxonomic coverage is: Papilionoidea, Noctuoidea, Geometroidea, Bombycoidea, Zygaenoidea, Bombycoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Pyraloidea, Drepanoidea, Tortricoidea, Drepanoidea and, to a lesser extent, other superfamilies of Microlepidoptera.
Taxonomic ranks
Order: Lepidoptera
Infraorder: Bombycoidea
Superfamily: Papilionoidea, Noctuoidea, Geometroidea, Bombycoidea, Zygaenoidea, Lasiocampoidea, Pyraloidea, Drepanoidea, Tortricoidea, Drepanoidea
Informal: Microlepidoptera

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The geographical coverage of the collection includes the whole world, in particular Spain and Equatorial Guinea.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Collection name: VIT - Lepidotheca
Formation period: 1974 - current
Specimen preservation method: Pinned

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive VIT - Lepidotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.es/archive.do?r=mcna_zyg
Publication date of data: 2023-05-12
Language: Spanish
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-12-11
Hierarchy level: Dataset