Description
Entomological collections include over 20,000,000 specimens, representing over 5,400 species, mainly from eastern Poland. They are stored dry, in the form of permanent microscopic sliders, or preserved in alcohol. Many of them still require detailed study. They are of great scientific value, both in Poland and Europe. This is evidenced by the presence of 21 specimens of descriptive types, including 11 holotypes and 10 paratypes. The collection includes approximately 10,000 specimens of beetles, bugs and butterflies caught mainly in the second half of the last century in Bulgaria, Romania, the southern and western parts of present-day Ukraine, as well as in the former Soviet republics, mainly in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, as well as in Iran.
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 87,247 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:
Staniec B, Wagner G K, Kowalczyk M, Dzyr A, Chobotow J, Kucharska K (2025). UMCS Entomological Collection. Version 1.1. University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-umcs-entomological-collection&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. 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: a8095fbb-0758-46b8-a3a5-caf8a3e1a5b0. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin 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
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Geographic Coverage
Europe
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [37.16, -13.359], North East [71.074, 51.328] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Class | Insecta |
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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) |
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| 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). |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | a8095fbb-0758-46b8-a3a5-caf8a3e1a5b0 |
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| https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-umcs-entomological-collection |