ISEA PAS Lepidoptera Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISEZ PAN) on Jun 25, 2025 Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISEZ PAN)

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Description

The dataset contains a selection of the Lepidoptera material housed in the Scientific Collection of ISEA PAS. There are representatives of both butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea) and many other groups of moths for example Noctuoidea, Tortricidae, or Pyraloidea. The majority of taxa represent Palaearctic fauna, but some of them come from tropical regions of Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia. The database contains both specimens collected during recent fieldwork but also historical materials collected in the first half of the XX century. Almost 70, 000 databased specimens represent less than 20% of the Lepidoptera collection of ISEA PAS.

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 70,010 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:

Przybyłowicz Ł, Sternalski J (2025). ISEA PAS Lepidoptera Collection. Version 1.3. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-isezpan-lepidoptera&v=1.3

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISEZ PAN). 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: 116c1862-09f5-4aa1-a9b1-e25219090316.  Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISEZ PAN) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Polish Biodiversity Information Network.

Keywords

Occurrence; KSIB; Digital Poland: IMBIO Project; Polish Biodiversity Information Network; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Łukasz Przybyłowicz
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Head of the Scientific Collections Unit
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences
Sławkowska 17
31-016 Kraków
Małopolskie
PL
Jakub Sternalski
  • Originator
Data Technician
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences
Sławkowska 17
31-016 Kraków
małopolskie
PL
Piotr Tykarski
  • Editor
assistant professor
Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
Żwirki i Wigury 101
02-089 Warszawa
Mazowieckie
PL

Geographic Coverage

worldwide

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Order Lepidoptera

Project Data

The dataset resulted from the digitization project IMBIO, supported by the Operational Programme Digital Poland in 2020-2023. The IMBIO project is the most extensive Polish enterprise of natural data digitization, with respect to its range, complexity and volume of the processed content. There is 18 participant institutions with the University of Warsaw as a leader. The project delivered 9.5 million of occurrence records, c.a. 2 million of which are based on specimens deposited in collections, and the remaining data derived from other types of scientific sources: card files, legacy materials and bibliography, publicly unavailable older databases. Integration of these resources has made them accessible and searchable. The access platform is the new version of the Biodiversity Map portal (BioMap, https://portal.biomap.pl), while externally the resources are published via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Title Integration and Mobilization of Data about Biotic Diversity of Eukaryota in Resources of Polish Scientific Institutions (IMBIO)
Identifier IMBIO
Funding Project ID: POPC.02.03.01-00-0081/19. The funding source: the Operational Programme Digital Poland 2014-2020, category: 2.3.1 Digital access to public sector information from administrative sources and scientific resources (type II: Digital access to scientific resources).

The personnel involved in the project:

Piotr Tykarski

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 116c1862-09f5-4aa1-a9b1-e25219090316
https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-isezpan-lepidoptera