Annotated checklist of the beetles of chestnut agroforestry systems in Aspromonte, Southern Italy

The checklist contains 255 species of beetles which belong to 49 families. The species were collected during a field study carried out in the years 2017 and aimed at describing the community of beetles. The collection methods consisted of window flight traps. The study area included 3 sites, two coppice stands, young and mature (38.180221 N, 15.784308 E), and a traditional fruit orchard (38.06018 N, 15.781616 E), located in the Italian Southern Apennines on the borders of the Aspromonte National Park.

The checklist is annotated with information on the taxonomy of the species (order and family), number of individuals, locality, habitat type (following EUNIS habitat classification 2017), sampling protocol, collector name, specialist name, IUCN Red List categories of the saproxylic species (Carpaneto et al. 2015). 

The terms used for the dataset fields follows the Darwin Core Maintenance Group. 2020. List of Darwin Core terms. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/

The Diversity of saproxylic beetle communities have been analysed and published (Parisi et al. 2020).

The harmonization of the dataset to the point of view of taxa, authorship, LSID and the massive upgrading of the related identifiers in Zenodo record was performed by the use of R script using respectively dplyr, taxize (Chamberlain and Szöcs, 2013) and zen4r (Blondel and Barde, 2020) packages.