Occurrence data of Hover flies available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History collection, Invertebrates Zoology Section.

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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 3,137 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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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Njoroge L, Mwangi E W, Achieng J (2019): Occurrence data of Hover flies available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History collection, Invertebrates Zoology Section.. v1.2. National Museums of Kenya. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=hover&v=1.2

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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: 0b43443a-2599-42c1-b7c5-f9e2ff93d449.  National Museums of Kenya publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Kenya.

Keywords

Occurrence; Diptera; Hover flies; Pollinators; Conservation; Specimen Digitization; National Museums of Kenya; Natural history collections; Invertebrate Zoology; Specimen; Diptera; Hover flies

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Geographic Coverage

The specimens are from different places in the African continent

Taxonomic Coverage

This is the complete occurrence data of historical records of hover flies at the natural history collections of the National Museums of Kenya. The data comprises of only dried and pinned specimens

Project Data

This project headed by the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RCMA) that seeks to address the gap for sub saharan Africa by partnering with museums in Africa to digitize and publish existing records on the group of insects known as diptera (Flies and Mosquitoes) and to increase the size and value of museum collections through field collections and by documenting pollination interaction webs for the groups.

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