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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
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
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0786-4069
- Programmer
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] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Insects (Insecta)
| Class | Insecta (Insects) |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 4508bed1-d45d-4a2d-9790-34cc99ee8cce |
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| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=gnm-ent |