Occurrence of Skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera:Hesperiidae) in Invertebrate Zoology Collection at National Museums of Kenya
Latest version published by National Museums of Kenya on Nov 16, 2020
This data is a digitized presentation on the occurrence and abundance of skipper butterflies housed in the insects’ collection, Zoology department at the National Museums of Kenya. This information provides a baseline information on the distribution of skipper butterfly species and can be used for further study on their ecology as well monitoring of population trends in different habitats.
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 9,011 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.
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 9,011 records in English (233 KB) - Update frequency: unknown |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (12 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (9 KB) |
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Kioko E, Musyoki A, Luanga A, Sese J, Nyangena L (2020): Occurrence of Skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera:Hesperiidae) in Invertebrate Zoology Collection at National Museums of Kenya. v1.6. National Museums of Kenya. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=hesperiidaenmk&v=1.6
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museums of Kenya. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 507c5b51-1f83-4c7f-9111-94fb255adfd7. National Museums of Kenya publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Kenya.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Skipper butterflies; Digitization; Distribution; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The skipper butterflies were collected from different countries in the African continent.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-34.597, -17.227], North East [36.315, 50.977] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Class | Insecta |
| Order | Lepidoptera |
| Family | Hesperiidae (Skipper butterflies) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1888-01-01 / 2020-01-01 |
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Project Data
The skipper butterflies specimen digitization is part of an ongoing NMK/JRS project.
| Title | Assessment of Lepidoptera pollinator species diversity in East Africa |
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| Funding | The project is funded by JRS Biodiversity foundation, with co-funding provided by National Museums of Kenya. |
| Study Area Description | Dry preserved specimens collection within the National Museums of Kenya. |
| Design Description | Specimen and species data captured in excel spreadsheets. Data aligned to the Darwin core standards before publishing through the NMK’s IPT. |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Invertebrate Zoology |
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| Collection Identifier | https://www.gbif.org/grscicoll/collection/6c4bc956-850c-4f9e-b02f-9244a4376e30 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 507c5b51-1f83-4c7f-9111-94fb255adfd7 |
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| http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=hesperiidaenmk |