LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
Insect Collection from the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
The Entomological collection of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, comprises over 40000 records, corresponding to about 70450 specimens. The Museum’s original collection was lost in a wildfire in 1978 and was then restarted in the early 1980’s.
The collection includes large sub-collections which were compiled by private collectors and donated to the museum. These include several collections composed of over 10000 specimens, such as the collections donated by the Mendoça family, António Bívar de Sousa and Passos de Carvalho. These contribute significantly to enhance the temporal and geographic coverage of the collection.
The collection remains in constant growth (ca. 4,7% in 2018), as a substantial number of specimens are still on the process of sorting, preparation and cataloguing. Furthermore, since 2014 the collection data has been under intensive verification, enrichment and validation. Over 97% (39174 records) have now been validated.
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Identification
- Alternate Identifier
- 10.15468/en7jvk
- Alternate Identifier
- http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=col-insectos-mnhnc
- Alternate Identifier
- 79673413-746f-48f2-bd8a-7cf27807317e
- Alternate Identifier
- http://gbifipt.museus.ul.pt/resource.do?r=muhnacinsectcollection
- Publication Date
- 2019-09-23
- Title
- Insect Collection from the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Abstract
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The Entomological collection of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, comprises over 40000 records, corresponding to about 70450 specimens. The Museum’s original collection was lost in a wildfire in 1978 and was then restarted in the early 1980’s.
The collection includes large sub-collections which were compiled by private collectors and donated to the museum. These include several collections composed of over 10000 specimens, such as the collections donated by the Mendoça family, António Bívar de Sousa and Passos de Carvalho. These contribute significantly to enhance the temporal and geographic coverage of the collection.
The collection remains in constant growth (ca. 4,7% in 2018), as a substantial number of specimens are still on the process of sorting, preparation and cataloguing. Furthermore, since 2014 the collection data has been under intensive verification, enrichment and validation. Over 97% (39174 records) have now been validated.
- purpose
- Make the collection data acessible to the scientific community.
- Dataset Language
- ENGLISH
- Dataset Creator
- Dataset Creator
- Dataset Creator
- Dataset Creator
- Dataset Creator
- Dataset Creator
- Metadata Provider
- Associated Party
- Dataset Contact
- Dataset Contact
- Dataset Contact
- Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml )
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- Occurrence
- Keywords (Darwin Core Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/dwc/basis_of_record.xml )
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- PreservedSpecimen
- Keywords (GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml )
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- Specimen
- Keywords (n/a )
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- Hexapoda
- Keywords (n/a )
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- Insecta
- Keywords (n/a )
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- Entognatha
Geographic Coverage
- Geographic Description
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This dataset includes specimen ocurrence records from 72 countries. Most of the records are from the Portuguese entomofauna, comprising 31833 records (81.3% of the total) corresponding to 71968 specimens (90.1% of the total).
The following countries most well represented in the collection are:
- Guinea-Bissau: 1734 records (4.4%), 1734 specimens (2.2%)
- Angola: 1534 records (3.9%), 1549 specimens (1.9%)
- São Tomé and Príncipe: 1385 records (3.5%), 1407 specimens (1.8%)
- Mozambique - 1078 records (2.8%), 1181 specimens (1.5%)
Each of all other countries represent less than 1% of the total number of records.
Bounding Box
- West Bounding Coordinate
- -180
- East Bounding Coordinate
- 180
- North Bounding Coordinate
- 90
- South Bounding Coordinate
- -90
Temporal Coverage
Range of Dates
- Begin Date
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1905
- End Date
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2018
Taxonomic Coverage
- General Taxonomic Coverage
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This collection contains specimens from the Subphylum Hexapoda, mainly from the Class Insecta, but also contains specimens from the three Orders (Collembola, Diplura, Protura) of the Class Entognatha. The insect orders represented are Archaeognatha, Blattodea, Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Diptera, Embioptera, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mantodea, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Phthiraptera, Plecoptera, Psocoptera, Siphonaptera, Thysanoptera, Trichoptera, Thysanura.
The best represented Orders, calculated either in record numbers, or specimen numbers are:
Coleoptera: 12802 records (32.7% of total), 16886 specimens (21.1 % of total)
Hemiptera: 7684 records (19.6% of total), 14327 specimens (17.9% of total)
Lepidoptera: 7538 records (19.3% of total), 7915 specimens (9.9% of total)
Hymenoptera: 3521 records (9% of total), 8873 specimens (11.1% of total)
Diptera: 3305 records (8.4% of total), 23270 specimens (29.1% of total)
Orthoptera: 2149 records (5.5% of total), 5106 specimens (6.4% of total)
Odonata: 1098 records (2.8% of total), 1105 specimens (1.4% of total)
Of the total 39139 of records included in this dataset, about 54.1% (N=21167) records are only taxonomically determined to the Order level. About 7.2% (N=2837) are determined to the Family level, 6.9% (N=2717) to the genus level and 31.8% (N=12418) to the Species or Subspecies level.
Among those determined to the Family level or more specific (45.9% of records, N=17972), there are a total of 268 unique Families, 1147 different genus and 1836 unique species.
These are mainly distributed through the seven most diverse Orders:
Coleoptera: 70 Families, 384 Genera, 458 Species
Hymenoptera: 48 Families, 165 Genera, 396 Species
Hemiptera: 37 Families, 114 Genera, 138 Species
Diptera: 33 Families, 52 Genera, 138 Species
Lepidoptera: 26 Families, 322 Genera, 541 Species
Orthoptera: 11 Families, 51 Genera, 67 Species
Odonata: 11 Families, 29 Genera, 52 Species
Ammong these groups, the level of taxonomic determination achieved is not similar:
Coleoptera
Order 6287 (49.1% of total)
Family 1552 (12.1%)
Genus 2208 (17.2%)
Species 2668 (20.8%)
Subspecies 87 (0.7%)
Hymenoptera
Order 1577 (44.8% of total)
Family 285 (8.1%)
Genus 216 (6.1%)
Species 1377 (39.1%)
Subspecies 66 (1.9%)
Hemiptera
Order 6875 (89.5% of total)
Family 278 (3.6%)
Genus 25 (0.3%)
Species 491 (6.4%)
Subspecies 15 (0.2%)
Diptera
Order 1429 (43.2% of total)
Family 425 (12.9%)
Genus 52 (1.6%)
Species 1397 (42.3%)
Subspecies 2 (0.1%)
Lepidoptera
Order 1577 (44.8% of total)
Family 285 (8.1%)
Genus 216 (6.1%)
Species 1377 (39.1%)
Subspecies 66 (1.9%)
Orthoptera
Order 1445 (67.2% of total)
Family 115 (5.4%)
Genus 97 (4.5%)
Species 492 (22.9%)
Subspecies 0 (0%)
Odonata
Order 45 (4.1% of total)
Family 52 (4.7%)
Genus 70 (6.4%)
Species 924 (84.2%)
Subspecies 7 (0.6%)
Coleoptera is considered the most diverse order of the Animal Kingdom and is also the group showing a higher taxonomic diversity in this dataset, and is also the most well represented Order, in number of records. However, the Order that is best represented in terms of specimen number is Diptera, which is only fifth in terms of number of records. This is due to the dataset including a large group of Drosophila specimens which are preserved in batches, each batch corresponding to a single record number.
Each other Order represents less than 1% of the dataset, either in terms of number of records or number of specimens.
The Order showing the best level of taxonomic determination is Odonata, where 84.8% of the records are determined to the level of Species or Subspecies.
One should take into account that over 50% of the dataset remains determined to the Order level, and as more taxonomic information is acquired these numbers can change.
Taxonomic Classification
- Taxonomic Rank Name
- Subphylum
- Taxonomic Rank Value
- Hexapoda
Taxonomic Classification
- Taxonomic Rank Name
- Class
- Taxonomic Rank Value
- Insecta
- Common Name
- Insect
Taxonomic Classification
- Taxonomic Rank Name
- Class
- Taxonomic Rank Value
- Entognatha
License Information
- Intellectual Rights
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This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
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Distributiondocument
Projects
Projects
• Project
- Title
- Digitiization of the Entomological Collection of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, Portugal
Personnel
Individual Name
- Given Name
- Luis Filipe
- Surname
- Lopes
- Role
- CURATOR
Personnel
Individual Name
- Given Name
- Leonor
- Surname
- Venceslau
- Role
- ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Personnel
Individual Name
- Given Name
- Paula Malaquias
- Surname
- Souto
- Role
- ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Personnel
Individual Name
- Given Name
- Diogo
- Surname
- Parrinha
- Role
- ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Personnel
Individual Name
- Given Name
- Isabel
- Surname
- Queirós Neves
- Role
- ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
- Abstract
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This work has been supported by several different projects, fellowships, student and volunteer works:
- NanoCell2SEC project
- PORBIOTA national research infrastructure
- PRISC national research infrastructure
- Post-doctoral fellowship of L. F. Lopes
- Master Thesis of L. Venceslau
- Research fellowship of P. M. Souto, L. Venceslau, D. Mameri, D. Parrinha and I. Neves
- Several short term volunteers
- Funding
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NanoCell2SEC project PTDC/CTM-REF/30529/2017
FCT for funds to GHTM – UID/Multi/04413/2013
FCT for funds to CE3C - UID/BIA/00329/2013
FCT Pos-doctoral fellowship SFRH/BPD/84478/2012 - L. F. Lopes
Project 022127/01/SAICT/2016 granted to the research infrastructure PORBIOTA
Project granted to the research infrastructure PRISC
Study Area Description
- Descriptor
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Natural history, entomology, scientific collections, biodiversity data, biodiversity informatics, biosystematics
Design Description
- Description
- Production and validation of natural colletion data, data and specimen digitization, database management and validation and data publishing.
Methods
Methods
• Method
Method Step
- Description
- No information is available at the moment.
Sampling
- Study Extent
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This dataset contains data from an insect collection that includes specimens from many different origins and studies. It includes data from scientific/biodiversity studies as well as specimens from occasional collection.
- Sampling Description
- This dataset contains data from an insect collection that includes specimens from many different origins and studies. There wasn't a common sampling method for all the specimens. Information regarding the sampling protocol is included at individual specimen level, when the information exists.
