Apoidea at the Lyon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and Toulon Museums

Version 04 (18 Dec. 2024): 

Thanks to Museum work done by Yvan Brugerolles and Vincent Leclercq,

173 specimens from MHNL and MHNM had their identification checked.

and 387 specimens were added to the original data set, now totaling 7910 data. 

All these specimens now have an identificationVerificationStatus column set at 1. 

Some place names mentionned in the René Grilat (b. 21 oct 1850 ; d. 31 july 1914) collection could be localised, thanks to Berland (1926) : 
Lyon C. = vallon de la Cadette, La Pape (Ain), [now in Rilleux-la-Pape (45.8099 N , 4.9017 E)]
Lyon D. = Décines (Isère), à l'est de Lyon, [now Décines-Charpieu (45.7716 N , 4.9582 E)]
Lyon M. = Montessus, en amont de Lyon, sur les côteaux du Rhône, [most probably a misprint for Montessuy (45.8049 N, 4.8310 E), as localities named "Montessus" are known in the Loire and Isère valleys, but none in the Rhône valley]
Berland, L., 1926. Notes sur les Hyménoptères fouillseurs de France. XII. Quelques mots sur Grilat, entomologiste lyonnais, et ses récoltes d’Hyménoptères. Annales de La Société Entomologique de France 95, 177–178.

Collection dates were inferred from collection history for specimens with missing data :

René Grilat (1836-1914) : 1870/1914 [2216 missing data, most often he indicated day and month but not year]

Claudius Côte (1881-1956) : 1875/1920 [232 missing data, he did not collect much himself, but employed collectors.]

Nicolas Bermante : 1990/1999 [one missing datum ; I indicated the years when he collected)

Guy Chavanon (b 1951): 1971/2004 [51 missing data; 2004 is the date of the donation of the collection to the Museum]

Pierre Réal (1922-2009) : 1962/2000 [6 missing data]

Robert Gonon (1908-1994) : 1960/1994 [7 missing data]

Georges Audras (1881-1970) : 1901/1970 [730 missing data]

Version 03 (1 Dec. 2023): 

108 specimens from MHNL were checked and reidentified by Yvan Brugerolles. 

16 specimens were added.

All data from box MHNL468350 are now considered as recently checked, with an identificationVerificationStatus column set at 1. 

A caste column was added to account for cast data in Hymenoptera.

Version 02 (6 July 2023) :

Some geographical coordinates were corrected thanks to Estelle Dumas.

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

Database 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. Beware of the presence of apostrophes (') in some geographical names.

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 (I)
• caste: Caste information of the specimen
• 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
• identificationQualifier: for a few specimens only a tentative identification was possible; This is indicated by 'cf.' in this column.
• 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).