Ants from the Paraguayan dry Chaco

Occurrence
Latest version published by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences on Jul 3, 2024 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Publication date:
3 July 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Reference collection of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Paraguayan dry Chaco, collected along an aridity gradient between 2001 and 2004. Overall, 1280 samples were carried out allowing to collect 50,552 individuals corresponding to 38 genera and 212 species or morphospecies.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. 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: 0b0bc0f0-bfad-11dd-aa16-b8a03c50a862.  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Maurice Leponce
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Team Leader
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
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1000 Brussels
BE
Nicolas Noé
  • Metadata Provider
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Belgian Biodiversity Platform - Belspo
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1050 Bruxelles
BE
Nicolas Noe

Geographic Coverage

Paraguayan dry Chaco

Bounding Coordinates South West [-27.684, -63.457], North East [-18.73, -54.229]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 0b0bc0f0-bfad-11dd-aa16-b8a03c50a862
https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=rbins_ants