http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=iict-tabanidae
IICT Tabanidae Collection
Leonor
Venceslau
National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon
Research fellowship
Lisbon
PT
leonorvenceslau@gmail.com
Luís Filipe
Lopes
IHMT
Researcher
PT
Miguel
Loureiro
National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon
Volunteer
Lisbon
PT
Daniel
Mameri
National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon
Research fellowship
Lisbon
PT
Luis
Mendes
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, University of Lisbon
Curator
Lisbon
PT
Luís Filipe
Lopes
IHMT
Researcher
PT
Leonor
Venceslau
MNHNC-UL
Research fellowship
PT
leonorvenceslau@gmail.com
Luís Filipe
Lopes
llopes@museus.ulisboa.pt
user
2019-11-13
eng
The Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical hosts a collection of horseflies (Order Diptera, Family Tabanidae) collected by J. A. Travassos Santos Dias and other researchers, mainly in Portugal and during several expeditions to Angola, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe in the decades of 1940 to 1980. The collection consists of 1319 specimens and includes type specimens of species described by Travassos Santos Dias, as well as species with little distribution data available online.
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
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The collection includes specimens collected in 24 countries of Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. The most represented countries are Portugal (674 records, 51.1% of total), São Tomé and Príncipe (270 records, 20.5%), Guinea-Bissau (96 records, 7.3%) and Mozambique (73 records, 5.5%).
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The collection includes specimens of the Class Insecta, Order Diptera, Family Tabanidae. 28 Genera are represented, of which the most common are Tabanus (751 records, 56.9%), Haematopota (200 records, 15.2%), Ancala (41 records, 3.1%) and Atylotus (41 records, 3.1%). The most represented species are Tabanus monocallosus (260 records, 19.7%), Haematopota italica (78 records, 5.9%) and Tabanus eggeri (68 records, 5.2%). 1144 specimens (86.7%) are identified to the Species level, 138 (10.5%) to the Family, 33 (2.5%) to the Genus and 4 (0.3%) to the Subspecies.
family
Tabanidae
order
Diptera
unkown
Luís Filipe
Lopes
IHMT
Researcher
PT
All specimens were photographed and reviewed to confirm taxonomic information where available. Available collection and taxonomic information was digitized from labels and registry books. All records were reviewed for data quality control.
Specimens of the Tabanidae collection of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, collected during expeditions in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and other locations.
Specimens were sampled during expeditions conducted by the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical.
PORBIOTA
Luís Filipe
Lopes
Leonor
Venceslau
Project 022127/01/SAICT/2016 granted to the research infrastructure PORBIOTA
FCT for funds to GHTM – UID/Multi/04413/2013
FCT for funds to CE3C - UID/BIA/00329/2013
2019-08-28T02:33:56.393+01:00
dataset
Venceslau L, Lopes L F, Loureiro M, Mameri D, Mendes L (2019): IICT Tabanidae Collection. v1.0. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=iict-tabanidae&v=1.0