Bees of Portugal Collection, Science Museum of the University of Coimbra

Occurrence Specimen
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22 May 2025
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Description

The "Bees of Portugal Collection, Science Museum of the University of Coimbra" dataset includes all the records of the specimens of Portuguese bees (Anthophila: Hymenoptera) on the zoological collection of the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra. It includes 13,374 specimens that were identified to species level between October 2023 and May 2024 (except 61 specimens, to genus level). This work was performed inside one of the PhD tasks of Hugo Gaspar (funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT - 2023.01736.BD) and for the improvement of reference collections for the project ARCADE (funded by the European Union through the project TETTRIs ARCADE 2/T1 - GA_101081903). The publication of this dataset is associated with the publication of the following paper: TO COMPLETE

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Gaspar H, Flaminio S, Rufino C, Loureiro J, Castro S, Wood T J (2025). Bees of Portugal Collection, Science Museum of the University of Coimbra. Version 1.2. Science Museum of the University of Coimbra. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=mcuc_zoo_bopc&v=1.2

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a79bc1f7-1fb5-4f6d-81b0-1d11f0edac0f.  Science Museum of the University of Coimbra publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Wild bees; pollinators; biodiversity; digitization; natural history collections

Contacts

Hugo Gaspar
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Author ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Researcher
CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
  • Calçada Martim de Freitas
3000-456 Coimbra
Coimbra
PT
Simone Flaminio
  • Originator
  • Researcher
Laboratory of Zoology, Research Institute for Biosciences, University of Mons
Mons
BE
Cristina Rufino
  • Originator
  • Collection Curator
CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Coimbra
PT
João Loureiro
  • Originator
  • Associate Professor
CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Coimbra
PT
Sílvia Castro
  • Originator
  • Assistant Professor
CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
Coimbra
PT
Thomas J. Wood
  • Originator
  • Researcher
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Leiden
NL

Geographic Coverage

Portugal, including Mainland and the Archipelagos of Azores and Madeira

Bounding Coordinates South West [29.51, -31.27], North East [42.25, -6.08]

Taxonomic Coverage

All but 61 specimens are identified to species level. Only bees (Anthophila: Hymenoptera) are included.

Superfamily Anthophila (Bees)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1877-03-01 / 1990-09-15

Project Data

No Description available

Title Bees of Portugal Collection, Science Museum of the University of Coimbra
Identifier 2023.01736.BD and 2/T1 - GA_101081903
Funding Funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT – through the fellowship 2023.01736.BD to Hugo Gaspar, and by the European Union through the project TETTRIs ARCADE 2/T1 - GA_101081903
Study Area Description Portugal, Mainland and the Archipelagos of Azores and Madeira
Design Description Digitization, cataloguing, labelling, organization and taxonomic revision of historical Portuguese bee collectionof the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra - Bees of Portugal Collection, Science Museum of the University of Coimbra.

The personnel involved in the project:

Hugo Gaspar
  • Author

Sampling Methods

The specimens were picked from the zoological collection. All the position inside original boxes were recorded. All labelled information was digitized. A new lable with basic information was added to all specimens. All specimens were revised with morphological analysis and organized in new entomological boxes.

Study Extent The specimens studied include only bees (Anthophila: Hymenoptera), all Portuguese species, spaning from 1877 to 1990, from all districts of Portugal (Mainland and Archipelagos of Azores and Madeira).
Quality Control All the taxonomic nomenclature follows the most updated European checklist (Ghisbain et al. 2023). Geographic coordinates were extracted with a centroid on localities or pin pointed by M.A. Diniz, with a variable levels of precision (ranging mostly from 10 to 2500 m).

Method step description:

  1. N/A

Collection Data

Collection Name Bees of Portugal Collection
Collection Identifier MCUC_ZOO_BOPC
Parent Collection Identifier MCUC_ZOO
Specimen preservation methods Pinned

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers a79bc1f7-1fb5-4f6d-81b0-1d11f0edac0f
http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=mcuc_zoo_bopc