Entomological Collection (GNM)

Occurrence
Latest version published by Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) on Jul 1, 2024 Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
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Publication date:
1 July 2024
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Description

The insect collection at Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) contains several million specimens of insects from many areas of the world. The oldest specimens date are from the early 19th century. Some of the collections were donated to the museum by private individuals, and we also have specimens from inventories carried out by museum staff, mainly at localities in Sweden. The vast majority of the Swedish material comes from the museum's ”Terrestrial invertebrate faunistic research program”, which was carried out from the 1920s until 1981. This has contributed to high numbers and a rich diversity of ground-dwelling insects in the collection, such as Carabidae (ground beetles) and Staphylinidae (rove beetles).

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 34,018 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Jonsson C (2020): Entomological Collection (GNM). v1.1. Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM). Dataset/Occurrence. http://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=gnm-ent&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM). To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4508bed1-d45d-4a2d-9790-34cc99ee8cce.  Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Charlotte Jonsson
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Gothenburg Museum of Natural History
  • Museivägen 10
41311 Gothenburg
SE
Kevin Holston
  • Curator
  • Curator
Swedish Museum of Natural History
  • Frescativägen 40
114 18 Stockholm, Sweden
SE
Manash Shah
  • Programmer
  • Database Developer
Swedish Museum of Natural History
  • Frescativägen 40
114 18 Stockholm
SE

Geographic Coverage

The collection consists of specimens from the entire globe, but with main focus on the southwest region of Sweden.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

Insects (Insecta)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 4508bed1-d45d-4a2d-9790-34cc99ee8cce
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=gnm-ent