Description
The collection includes a large number of insects and spiders. The main collections are the Lepidoptera collection (among others Maassen, Lücker, Rootbeen, Baltus), Erich Wasmann’s collection of Formicidae, Isoptera, myrmecophiles and termitophiles, and the Coleoptera collection (for example Poot). Indigenous material was mostly collected in Limburg (Southern Netherlands), foreign material was either collected by collectors who left their collections to the NHMM or it was sent to them because of their recognised expertise in their field or as exchange material. Most of the material in the collection was collected in the twentieth century, though the Wasmann collection (not yet digitized) also contains a significant amount of 19th century material.
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 22,902 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.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum Maastricht. Data from this dataset may be used and shared freely when the creators of the data are attributed correctly.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 733854db-11e2-472f-914f-461c06943090. Natural History Museum Maastricht publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Global
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Insects and spiders: Lepidoptera, Formicidae, Isoptera (myrmecophiles and termitophiles) and Coleoptera.
| Order | Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Araneae (spiders), Isoptera (termites and white ants), Coleoptera (Beetles) |
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| Family | Formicidae (ants) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1819-06-22 / 1994-11-30 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 733854db-11e2-472f-914f-461c06943090 |
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| http://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource.do?r=nhmm-zoology |