Description
Apart from the National Museums of Kenya, The entomology collection of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology is the largest collection of Kenyan insects held in African institutions, and possibly in the world. The collection is housed in the Biosystematics Unit of ICIPE. . Intensive collecting over the past past 20 years has increased holdings substantially. Recently, a project was begun to database the entire collection. To date over 20,000 specimens have been processed and we estimate that the total collection presently surpasses 100,000 specimens. The collection’s geographic focus is Kenya with additional Afrotropical material. The taxon dimension of the collection is primarily Diptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera/Homoptera and the geographic dimension of those groups is predominantly from Kenya. The collection is an actively developing one and some of the research on the collection includes the PINDIP (Pollinator Information Network for Two-Winged Insects) (link to: https://www.pindip.org/) project. Taxonomic research on taxa from the collections’ Diptera and Hymenoptera holdings has produced many publications over the past 20 years.
Enregistrements de données
Les données de cette ressource occurrence ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 1 470 enregistrements.
Cet IPT archive les données et sert donc de dépôt de données. Les données et métadonnées de la ressource sont disponibles pour téléchargement dans la section téléchargements. Le tableau des versions liste les autres versions de chaque ressource rendues disponibles de façon publique et permet de tracer les modifications apportées à la ressource au fil du temps.
Versions
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Comment citer
Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:
Gitau, J. (1), Copeland, R. (1) & Jordaens K. (2) (2020): The hoverfly collection (Diptera, Syrphidae) of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) at Nairobi (Kenya). v1. (1) International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, (2) Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=rmca_icipe&v=1.0
Droits
Les chercheurs doivent respecter la déclaration de droits suivante:
L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0.
Enregistrement GBIF
Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : 029ca2ac-d525-4dd0-bfc5-288102358341. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Mots-clé
Occurrence; Specimen
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Couverture géographique
Africa, Kenya
| Enveloppe géographique | Sud Ouest [-90, -180], Nord Est [90, 180] |
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Couverture taxonomique
The collection covers the family Syrphidae.
| Family | Syrphidae |
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Couverture temporelle
| Date de début / Date de fin | 2002-01-01 / 2019-01-01 |
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Données sur le projet
The PINDIP project, funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation, and headed by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RCMA), will help redress that gap for sub-Saharan Africa, by partnering with museums in Africa to digitize and publish existing records on the group of insects known as Diptera (flies and mosquitoes), and increase the size and value of museum collections through field collections, and by documenting pollination interaction webs for the group. The Diptera families of interest are Bombyliidae, Calliphoridae, Mythicomyiidae, Nemestrinidae, Rhiniidae, Syrphidae and Tabanidae. The African institutions involved are: International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya), National Museums of Kenya (NMK, Nairobi, Kenya), KwaZulu-Natal Museum (NMSA, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), National Museum Bloemfontein (BMSA, Bloemfontein, South Africa), South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI, Pretoria, South Africa), and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA, Cotonou, Benin). The PINDIP project, funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation and hosted at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, includes mobilization of Afrotropical pollinating fly (Diptera) data as a primary output. The Syrphidae dataset from icipe comprises approximately 1470 specimens, predominantly from Kenya, and is a key output for this project. All associated specimens are housed at icipe Biosystematic Unit, Nairobi, Kenya.
| Titre | PINDIP |
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| Financement | JRS Biodiversity Foundation |
Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:
Méthodes d'échantillonnage
Historical collection records, including various methods such as malaise traps, hand collecting etc.
| Etendue de l'étude | Dataset comprises historical records from circa 2002 to 2019, focussing on Kenya but with some additional material. |
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| Contrôle qualité | Historical specimens have been re-identified where possible. |
Description des étapes de la méthode:
- 1.Data cleaning. 2.Taxon names were compared to the GBIF data using the species matching tool.
Métadonnées additionnelles
| Identifiants alternatifs | 029ca2ac-d525-4dd0-bfc5-288102358341 |
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| https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=rmca_icipe |