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Published July 6, 2023 | Version 2
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Apoidea at the Lyon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and Toulon Museums

  • 1. IMBE
  • 2. Observatoire des Abeilles
  • 3. Arthropologia
  • 4. Musée des Confluences
  • 5. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle d'Aix-en-Provence
  • 6. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille
  • 7. Muséum Départemental du Var

Description

Version 02 :

Some geographical coordinates were corrected, thanks to Estelle Dumas.

New checked identifications were provided by Vincent Leclercq for Eucera and Anthophora specimens in MHNM.

Data base main description :

List of Apoidea (Hymenoptera) specimens from

MHNAix: Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle d’Aix en Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône)

MHNL: Musée des Confluences, Lyon (Rhône)

MHNM: Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)

MDV: Muséum Départemental du Var, Toulon (Var)

Format is Darwin core, in CSV format. Columns are separated by tabs. encoding is UTF-8.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0
Licence. All work derived from the present study should cite it appropriately, including the
Museum(s) where the material is held.
 

Column label

Column Description

occurrenceID

Individual identification: combination of Museum name, collection identification, box number and specimen number within each box.

basisOfRecord

The specific nature of the data record (i.e. PreservedSpecimen)

eventDate

Event date in the format YYYY-MM-DD

Year

Year of capture if known

Month

Month of capture if known

Day

Day of capture if known

verbatimEventDate

Date of capture, if known, in format DD/MM/YYYY. Missing data are indicated by ?

scientificName

Lowest taxonomic rank possible, usually the species name. If unknown the genus or family names may be given.

Kingdom

Kingdom (i.e. Animalia)

Phylum

Phylum (i.e. Arthropoda)

Class

Class (i.e. Insecta)

Order

Order (i.e. Hymenoptera)

family

Family name

genus

Genus name

specificEpithet

Species epithet of the scientificName

sex

Male (M), Female (F) or unknown (NA)

taxonRank

Taxonomic rank of the most specific name in the scientificName

IdentifiedBy

Name of the entomologist who identified the specimen, if indicated by the label

dateIdentified

Year of identification, if known

identificationVerificationStatus

Whether (coded 1) or not (coded 0) the identification was recently (since 2009) checked

decimalLatitude

Geographic latitude (in decimal degrees) of the location

decimalLongitude

Geographic longitude (in decimal degrees) of the location

geodeticDatum

coordinate system and set of reference points upon which the geographic coordinates are based (i.e. WGS 84)

coordinateUncertaintyInMeters

Uncertainty in coordinates. As the coordinates are usually whose of the locality of the record, uncertainty is in the range of 5000 m

Country

Country of capture, as indicated by the label

countryCode

Two letter country code of the specimen origin

stateProvince

French departmental administrative division. In the case of non French data, any relevant country administrative subdivision

locality

Location of capture, usually the locality

verbatimLocality

Any geographical indication on the label other than the locality

InstitutionCode

Museum where the specimen is held

CatalogNumber

Box identifier within each Museum

occurrenceRemarks

Any ecological data or comment on the label

recordedBy

Name of collector (i.e. legit information)

OrganismQuantity

Number of individuals bearing the same label (usually 1)

OrganismQuantityType

individuals

previousIdentifications

Species name originally given by the original collector, if different from scientificName

georeferencesBy

Identity of the person who added the Latitude and longitude data, i.e. mainly Meunier, Jean-Yves

georeferenceProtocol How the georeference was computed, i.e. from label data (verbatimLocality)
georeferenceSources The georeference code was inferred from geoportail.fr
georeferencedDate The georeference work was performed in 2021, with a few corrections and additions in 2023.
language The data set is mainly written in French, apart from column headings, which are in English
CollectionCode Identifier of collection within each Institution where specimens are held
locationRemarks Several localities could not be identified unambiguously, this is indicated by
“localité incertaine” in this field

Full details in

Meunier J-Y, Geslin B, Issertes M, Mahé G, Vyghen F, Labrique H, Dutour Y, Poncet V, Migliore J, Nève G (2023) Apoidea of the collections of Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Toulon Museums of Natural History (France). Biodiversity Data Journal 11: e99650. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e99650

Funding : This scientific work is part of the natural heritage inventory (inpn.mnhn.fr). In 2023, it received support from PatriNat (OFB- CNRS- MNHN).

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