VIT-Coleopterotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava)

Juan María Marcos Alonso1, Ibón de Olano2, Marta Infante Sánchez2, Jesús Alonso Ramírez2

1 Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa, , Spain; 2 Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa, Siervas de Jesús 24, E-01001, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

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

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Resource Citation

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 https://doi.org/10.15470/qzikh6

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Coleoptera, Arthropoda, Animalia, Insecta

Project details

Project title: Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=vit-coleopterotheca

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Order: Coleoptera

Spatial coverage

General spatial 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.
Coordinates: 47°27'39.6''S and 52°1'8.4''N Latitude; 90°57'46.8''W and 125°40'12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1901 - December 31, 2022

Formation period: This collection has been built since 1974

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive VIT-Coleopterotheca (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=vit-coleopterotheca
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: 2023-04-10
Hierarchy level: Dataset