Occurrence data of Noctuidae within the Natural History Collection at The National Museums of Kenya as part of the AMI-Kenya Project.

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by National Museums of Kenya on Feb 11, 2026 National Museums of Kenya
Publication date:
11 February 2026
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

The dataset presents occurrence records of Noctuid moths generated from historical records within the natural history collection of the National Museums of Kenya. Representative specimens were imaged for use in the AI- bases taxonomic identification of species whose images have been captured in the field using The Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) Tool. This published data is only a subset from this family of moths which forms a basis for publishing the Noctuid data in the future.

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 297 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:

Njoroge L, Macharia J, Musyoki A, Makena V, Mukami B (2026). Occurrence data of Noctuidae within the Natural History Collection at The National Museums of Kenya as part of the AMI-Kenya Project.. Version 1.3. National Museums of Kenya. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=lepido_1&v=1.3

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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: c41c8ead-1c8a-45c7-8643-e55e352a19d0.  National Museums of Kenya publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Kenya.

Keywords

Noctuidae; occurrence; specimen; insects; invertebrates; AMI Project; Specimen

Contacts

Laban Njoroge
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
  • Museum Hill Road
40658 - 00100 Nairobi
KE
  • +254722257790
Jane Macharia
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
  • Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
  • Museum Hill Road
40658-00100 Nairobi
KE
  • +254724512053
Alex Musyoki
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
  • Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
  • Museum Hill Road
40658-00100 Nairobi
KE
  • +254727134913
Varliewin Makena
  • Originator
  • Data Clerk - Invertebrate Section, Zoology Dpt.
National Museums of Kenya
  • Museum Hill Road
40658-00100 Nairobi
KE
Beatrice Mukami
  • Originator
  • Data Clerk - Invertebrate Section, Zoology Dpt.
National Museums of Kenya
  • Museum Hill Road
40658-00100 Nairobi
KE

Geographic Coverage

Specimens were collected from all over the African continent over the years.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1905-02-10 / 1998-06-09

Project Data

No Description available

Title Advancing moth biodiversity monitoring in Kenya through automated machine imaging and AI-based taxonomic identification
Funding Funds for specimen digitization and field collection of image data was provided by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and administered by The Tropical Biodiversity Association (TBA)

The personnel involved in the project:

Laban Njoroge
  • Metadata Provider

Collection Data

Collection Name Invertebrate Collection
Collection Identifier https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/6c4bc956-850c-4f9e-b02f-9244a4376e30
Parent Collection Identifier Not applicable
Specimen preservation methods Pinned

Additional Metadata

This dataset provides a preliminary species list and distribution of Noctuid moths within the Natural History collection of the National Museums of Kenya.

Alternative Identifiers c41c8ead-1c8a-45c7-8643-e55e352a19d0
http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=lepido_1