Occurrence data of bee flies housed within the Natural History collection,  Invertebrate Zoology Section, National Museums of Kenya

Laban Njoroge1, Josiah Achieng1, Esther Wangui Mwangi2, Lawrence Monda1

1 National Museums of Kenya, Box 40658, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya; 2 National Museums of Kenya, Box 40658, 00100, Nairobi

Corresponding author(s): Laban Njoroge (lnjoroge@museums.or.ke)Josiah AchiengEsther Wangui Mwangi (ewmwangi@museums.or.ke)

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Abstract

Occurrence data of bee flies specimens at the natural history collection of the National museums of Kenya is presented. It comprises of both historical and current data. The taxonomic information is not up-to-date as the collection was not checked by an expert of the African species prior to publishing. Data was mined from the specimen labels into excel spreadsheets as provided by GBIF, georeferenced using Geolocate and validated using GBIF Data Validator.

Keywords: Occurrence, Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bee flies, Pollinators, Conservation, Digitization, National Museums of Kenya, Invertebrate Zoology, Specimen

Project details

Project title: The Pollinator Information Network for Sub-Saharan Two-Winged Insects
Personnel: Josiah Achieng
Funding: JRS Biodiversity Foundation - (PIN-DIP)
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The specimens are from the natural history collection of the National Museums of Kenya collected from different regions in the African continent
Design description: Specimen label data was collected into excel spread sheets following the required standards

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=bomby

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Order: Diptera
Common names: Bee Flies

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The specimens are from different places in the African continent
Coordinates: 35°27'39.6''S and 37°43'8.4''N Latitude; 19°41'16.8''W and 53°26'16.8''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Occurrence data of bee flies housed within the Natural History collection,  Invertebrate Zoology Section, National Museums of Kenya
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/archive.do?r=bomby
Publication date of data: 2020-02-05
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-01-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset