Lepidoptera Martin Corley

Description

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 53,510 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.

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:

Corley M, Afonso B C (2021): Lepidoptera Martin Corley. v1.1. CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=lepidoptera&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 0f7c7942-c5d2-435e-afba-97df549dbc19.  CIBIO (Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources) Portugal publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.

Keywords

Occurrence; Lepidoptera

Contacts

Martin Corley

• Originator ●
• Point Of Contact

Beatriz Afonso

• Metadata Provider

Researcher

PORBIOTA

Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda

1349-017 Lisboa

PT

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3784-8024

Geographic Coverage

The occurrences are in mainland Portugal, with some observations in Spanish territory.

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset includes 53571 records referring to specimens of 68 different families, 925 genders and 2193 species/subspecies.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

This dataset consists of a collection of personal observations of the lepidopteran expert, Martin Corley, in Portuguese territory. Contains information about the species observed, details of the methodology used, and the host where it was observed. Various sampling protocols were used, such as MV lights and Vanessa traps.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Sampling had as sampling protocol several methods, all of them described in the database. Some examples are Vanessa traps, MV lights, Heath traps, House lights and Black actinic trap.

Method step description:

1. In Open Refine, the records in which the column “Recorder” contained “Martin Corley” were filtered – in order to select only the personal records and not the bibliographic ones. The document with only the lines referring to these records was exported in excel.
2. Through the column with the original coordinates (GRID = verbatimCoordinates) a procv was made to the document with their translation to decimal coordinates (decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude) as well as all the arguments related to the location (locality, municipality, stateProvince, country, countryCode, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters and coordinatePrecision). The column geodeticDatum = WGS84 and verbatimSRS = PT-TM06/ETRS89 was added.
3. The column of the authors of the records (recordedBy) was placed in DwC format with the name of the authors separated by “|”.
4. All rows had dates, so the separation into day, month, year was made and then the eventDate column was created with the date in ISO format. Date consistency was checked and 61 records with wrong dates were removed (eg 3801-02-01; 0801-02-01).
5. The associatedTaxa column was created, where the prefix “host” was placed in all cells that contained information in the host column. The lifeStage column was created, where the similar terms were minimized: cases = case; larval nests = larval nest; cocoons = cocoon; larva and pupa = larva | pupa. The zeros and NA became empty cells. A single list of protocols was created and minimized to similar terms.
6. Mandatory columns were added: type, modified, license, collectionCode, datasetName, basisOfRecord, occurrenceStatus. The ASWASNAME name was changed to scientificName.
7. The dataset was run in the Species Extractor application to extract the fields acceptedNameUsage, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, specificEpithet, infraspecificEpithet and taxonRank. The matchType and confidence columns are automatically extracted, which allow evaluating the differences between scientificName and acceptedNameUsage. For scientificName “FUZZY” writing errors were verified, for this, the taxonomicStatus column was added where the indication “misspelled” was placed for these cases. For the scientificName “HIGHERRANK”, the unique names were copied and the names were manually verified on the platform https://www.lusoborboletaspt.com/. Next, the scientificNameAuthorship and acceptedNameUsage columns were updated with the new information.
8. Column ID4 was eliminated because it had equal values for all “0” cells. The column “determiner” was changed to “identifiedBy”, and were removed values present in the respective column (ex. 0 and 1). The columns "identificationRemarks" was created with some detailed information present in "identifiedBy". The columns ID1, ID2, ID3 and ID6 were joined in a single column to “identificationRemarks”, separated by “|“. All commas became dots (ex. coordinates).

Additional Metadata