Description
The dataset represents the digital holdings of insects, arachnids (mites and spiders) and myriapods (millipedes and centipedes) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. These collections include over three million specimens, are international in scope, and have broad systematic and geographic coverage.
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 211,505 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:
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Entomological Collections
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Museum of Natural History. 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: 9940af5a-3271-4e6a-ad71-ced986b9a9a5. Swedish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; NHRS; Terrestrial Arthropods; Insects; Myriapods; Spiders; Mites; Types; Worldwide; Sweden; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Specimens from all continents, with significant digitized holdings representing the entomological fauna of Sweden and recent collecting in New Caledonia, Tasmania, and Madagascar.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Arthropoda: Insecta, Myrapoda, Arachnida. This dataset represents the digitized holdings of insect, arachnid (mites and spiders) and myriapod (millipedes and centipedes) specimens at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
| Phylum | Arthropoda (Arthropods) |
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| Subphylum | Myriapoda (Myriapods) |
| Class | Insecta (Insects), Arachnida (Arachnids) |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1800s to current |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Entomological Collections (NHRS) |
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| Collection Identifier | http://grbio.org/cool/jd65-7xyf |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not Applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 9940af5a-3271-4e6a-ad71-ced986b9a9a5 |
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| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nhrs-nrm |