• Metadata Catalogue
  •   Search
  •   Map

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.

  • Default
  • Project
  • Methods
  • Data Tables

Default

Identification

Alternate Identifier

79673413-746f-48f2-bd8a-7cf27807317e

Publication Date
2019-09-23
Title

Insect Collection from the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

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
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Luis Filipe Lopes (Insect and spider collections curator)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt/portal/page?_pageid=418,1391560_dad=portal_schema=PORTAL
Dataset Creator
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Leonor Venceslau (Research fellowship)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

Dataset Creator
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Paula Malaquias Souto (Research fellowship)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

Dataset Creator
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Diogo Parrinha (Research fellowship)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

Dataset Creator
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Isabel Queirós Neves (Research fellowship)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

Dataset Creator
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Daniel Mameri (Research fellowship)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

Metadata Provider
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Luis Filipe Lopes (Insect and spider collections curator)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt/portal/page?_pageid=418,1391560_dad=portal_schema=PORTAL
Associated Party

CURATOR

  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Luis Filipe Lopes (Insect and spider collections curator)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt/portal/page?_pageid=418,1391560_dad=portal_schema=PORTAL
Dataset Contact
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Leonor Venceslau (Research fellowship)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

Dataset Contact
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Paula Malaquias Souto (Research fellowship)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

Dataset Contact
  National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Luis Filipe Lopes (Insect and spider collections curator)

Lisbon

,

PORTUGAL

http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt/portal/page?_pageid=418,1391560_dad=portal_schema=PORTAL
Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml)
  • Occurrence

Keywords (Darwin Core Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/dwc/basis_of_record.xml)
  • PreservedSpecimen

Keywords (GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml)
  • Specimen

Keywords (n/a)
  • Hexapoda

Keywords (n/a)
  • Insecta

Keywords (n/a)
  • Entognatha

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

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
End Date

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

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 SpeciesHymenoptera: 48 Families, 165 Genera, 396 SpeciesHemiptera: 37 Families, 114 Genera, 138 SpeciesDiptera: 33 Families, 52 Genera, 138 SpeciesLepidoptera: 26 Families, 322 Genera, 541 SpeciesOrthoptera: 11 Families, 51 Genera, 67 SpeciesOdonata: 11 Families, 29 Genera, 52 SpeciesAmmong these groups, the level of taxonomic determination achieved is not similar:ColeopteraOrder 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%)HemipteraOrder 6875 (89.5% of total)Family 278 (3.6%)Genus 25 (0.3%)Species 491 (6.4%)Subspecies 15 (0.2%)DipteraOrder 1429 (43.2% of total)Family 425 (12.9%)Genus 52 (1.6%)Species 1397 (42.3%)Subspecies 2 (0.1%)LepidopteraOrder 1577 (44.8% of total)Family 285 (8.1%)Genus 216 (6.1%)Species 1377 (39.1%)Subspecies 66 (1.9%)OrthopteraOrder 1445 (67.2% of total)Family 115 (5.4%)Genus 97 (4.5%)Species 492 (22.9%)Subspecies 0 (0%)OdonataOrder 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

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

.

 

Distribution

Online

URL
https://museus.ulisboa.pt/pt-pt/colecao-insetos
 

Additional Metadata

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-11-29T09:04:31Z

Citation

Lopes L F, Venceslau L, Souto P M, Parrinha D, Queirós Neves I, Mameri D (2019). Insect Collection from the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Version 1.2. Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/en7jvk accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-11-29.

Bibliography

Bolívar, I. 1889. Ortópteros de Africa del Museo de Lisboa. Jornal de sciências mathemáticas, physicas e naturaes (Ser. 2) (J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. , Lisboa (Ser. 2)) 1(2):90

FERNANDES, José de Almeida (1959) - Tipos entomológicos do Museu Bocage. Revista Portuguesa de Zoologia e Biologia Geral, Museu Bocage, UL, Lisboa, 2 (1-2): 37-50.

Cartaxana A, Correia A M, Carvalho D, Lopes LF (2014). O papel das coleções de história natural no estudo e conservação de invertebrados. Ecologi@ 7: 15-21.

Alves MJ, C Bastos-Silveira, A Cartaxana, D Carvalho, T Catry, AM Correia, JP Granadeiro, LF Lopes, PAM Marques, N Mesquita, R Rebelo. 2014. As coleções zoológicas do Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência. In: Professor Carlos Almaça (1934-2010) - Estado da Arte em Áreas Científicas do Seu Interesse. MJ Alves, A Cartaxana, AM Correia, LF Lopes (eds), Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisboa, pp. 289-301.

Logo URL
http://www.mnhnc.ulisboa.pt/pls/portal/docs/1/436925.PNG
Collection

https://museus.ulisboa.pt/pt-pt/colecao-insetos

Insect Collection of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal

 

Project

• 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

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

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

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

• Method

Method Step

Description

No information is available at the moment.

Sampling

Study Extent

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.