Natural History Museum Maastricht (NL) - Entomological Collection

Occurrence
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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.

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Rights

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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

Contacts

Frans J.A. Slieker
  • Originator
  • Honorary Curator
Natural History Museum Rotterdam
NL
Paul Beuk
  • Metadata Provider
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht
  • De Bosquetplein 6-7
NL-6211KJ Maastricht
NL
Cees H.J. Hof
  • Publisher
  • Node Manager
NLBIF
  • P.O. Box 93102
NL-1090 BC Amsterdam
NL
  • +31 20 5255496

Geographic Coverage

Global

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

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)
Family Formicidae (ants)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1819-06-22 / 1994-11-30

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 733854db-11e2-472f-914f-461c06943090
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