- The version you are looking at is not the latest version! Please refer to the versions table to find the latest.
Insect Collection from the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Version 1.1 published by National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon on Dec 20, 2018
The Entomological collection of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, comprises over 33 000 accessions, corresponding to about 66 000 specimens. The collection was restarted in the 1980s, after a fire destroyed most of the museum’s zoological collections in 1978. The destruction of the collection registries during the fire has made impossible to know exactly what was lost. The collection is currently composed mainly of donations from other institutions and private collectors. The most important of which is the Mendoça collection, comprising over 13 000 specimens. This donation contributed significantly to enhance the representation of the Portuguese entomofauna. In addition, from 1997 to 2003, several campaigns through the Portuguese territory were undertaken by the museum to increase the collection and its representation (ca. 11 000 accessions). The collection remains in constant growth (ca. 6% in 2013), as a substantial number of specimens are still on the process of preparation and cataloguing. In the last years the catalogue has been under digitization, data review, enrichment and validation. It is now completely digitized and over 90% (more than 30 000 accessions) have been validated.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 30,535 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Downloads
Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:
| Data as a DwC-A file | download 30,535 records in Portuguese (599 KB) - Update frequency: unknown |
|---|---|
| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (16 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (13 KB) |
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Nacional Museum of Natural History and Science (2014). Catalogue of the Insect Collection (MB07), 30513 accessions. http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt/portal/page?_pageid=418,1391560&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 79673413-746f-48f2-bd8a-7cf27807317e. National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.
Keywords
Occurrence; PreservedSpecimen
Contacts
Who created the resource:
Who can answer questions about the resource:
Who filled in the metadata:
Who else was associated with the resource:
Geographic Coverage
The collection includes specimens from 67 countries all over the world, but mostly from Portugal (with over 25 000 accessions) and some African countries, namelly Guinea-Bissau (over 1700 accessions), Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe (over 1300 accessions each) and Mozambique (over 1000 accessions).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
|---|
Taxonomic Coverage
This collection contains specimens from the Subphylum Hexapoda, mainly from the Class Insecta, but also contains specimens from the three Orders (Collembola, Diplura, Protura) of the Class Entognatha. The insect orders represented are Archaeognatha, Blattodea, Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Diptera, Embioptera, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Phthiraptera, Plecoptera, Psocoptera, Siphonaptera, Thysanoptera, Trichoptera, Thysanura. The best represented Orders are: Coleoptera (over 10500 accessions), Hemiptera (over 7800 accessions), Lepidoptera (over 5900 accessions), Hymenoptera (over 2700 accessions), Orthoptera (over 2100 accessions), Diptera (over 2000 accessions). Specimens are determined to the: Order (over 24 500 accessions), Family (over 2500 accessions), Genus (over 2100 accessions) and Species (3739 accessions) and Subspecies (247 accessions).
| Subphylum | Hexapoda |
|---|---|
| Class | Insecta (Insect), Entognatha |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1889-01-01 / 2014-01-01 |
|---|
Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Natural history collection data management and integration at the National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
|---|---|
| Funding | Post-doctoral fellowship awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Technologia (Portugal), with the reference number SFRH/BPD/84478/2012 |
| Study Area Description | Natural history collection data magament |
| Design Description | Production and validation of natural colletion data, data and specimen digitization, database management and validation and data publishing. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
This dataset contains data from an insect collection that includes specimens from many different origins and studies. There was not a common sampling method for all the specimens. Information regarding the sampling protocol is included at individual specimen level, when the information exists.
| Study Extent | This dataset contains data from an insect collection that includes specimens from many different origins and studies. Includes data from scientific/biodiversity studies as well as specimens from occasional collection. |
|---|---|
| Quality Control | After the catalog was digitised it was submitted to a thorough general revision and data validation. Some of the catalog entries were not included in the dataset due to the lack of minimal data. If this data is retrieved these will be included in future updates of the dataset. |
Method step description:
- No information is available at the moment.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Insect Collection of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
|---|---|
| Collection Identifier | http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt/portal/page?_pageid=418,1391560&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL |
| Parent Collection Identifier | http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt/portal/page?_pageid=418,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL |
| Curatorial Units | Between 4,900 and 5,000 jars, with 70% ethanol , Between 10 and 30 Microscopic preparation , Between 25,500 and 25,600 dried, most pinned |
|---|
Bibliographic Citations
- Bolívar, I. 1889. Ortópteros de Africa del Museo de Lisboa. Jornal de sciências mathemáticas, physicas e naturaes (Ser. 2) (J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. , Lisboa (Ser. 2)) 1(2):90
- FERNANDES, José de Almeida (1959) - Tipos entomológicos do Museu Bocage. Revista Portuguesa de Zoologia e Biologia Geral, Museu Bocage, UL, Lisboa, 2 (1-2): 37-50. http://www.arca.museus.ul.pt/ArcaSite/obj/pubsZoo/MNHNL-0001548-MB-DOC-web.PDF
- Cartaxana A, Correia A M, Carvalho D, Lopes LF (2014). O papel das coleções de história natural no estudo e conservação de invertebrados. Ecologi@ 7: 15-21. http://speco.fc.ul.pt/revistaecologia_7_art_1_1.html
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Make the collçection data acessible to the scientific community. |
|---|---|
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=col-insectos-mnhnc |