Insects of New Caledonia

Occurrence
Latest version published by Wrocław University, Museum of Natural History on May 8, 2025 Wrocław University, Museum of Natural History

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Description

A database registered in GBIF in 2010, initially with 444 records, based on the material collected during four MNHW expeditions to New Caledonia in 2004-2010 organized by M. Wanat with addition of literature records on New Caledonian Apioninae weevils. In 2023 (IMBIO project) extended with 1011 records concerning identified species of Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae, and further 578 records with habitus illustrations of selected unidentified representatives of 65 beetle families from New Caledonia, available for taxonomical study from MNHW, many of them expected to be unknown to science.

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 1,589 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Wanat M, Stefaniak J (2025). Insects of New Caledonia. Version 1.3. Wrocław University, Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-uwr-insects-new-caledonia&v=1.3

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Wrocław University, Museum of Natural History. 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: d0af44d7-879c-46e4-ad6a-1cbf229f1ec3.  Wrocław University, Museum of Natural History 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

Marek Wanat
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Professor
University of Wrocław, Museum of Natural History
Sienkiewicza 21
50-335 Wrocław
Dolnośląskie
PL
Jacek Stefaniak
  • Metadata Provider
  • Point Of Contact
Data Technician
University of Wrocław, Museum of Natural History
Sienkiewicza 21
50-335 Wrocław
Dolnośląskie
PL
Piotr Tykarski
  • Editor
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
Żwirki i Wigury 101
02-089 Warszawa
Mazowieckie
PL

Geographic Coverage

New Caledonia

Bounding Coordinates South West [-22.35, 164.001], North East [-20.392, 166.967]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Coleoptera
Family Lycidae, Lymexylidae, Gyrinidae, Zopheridae, Erotylidae, Trogossitidae, Clambidae, Dryopidae, Histeridae, Rhysodidae, Heteroceridae, Ptilodactylidae, Sphindidae, Carabidae, Biphyllidae, Limnichidae, Mycetophagidae, Buprestidae, Propalticidae, Curculionidae, Scraptiidae, Cerylonidae, Ptiliidae, Endomychidae, Hydraenidae, Hybosoridae, Bostrichidae, Latridiidae, Staphylinidae, Elateridae, Salpingidae, Tetratomidae, Throscidae, Mordellidae, Ptinidae, Ripiphoridae, Nosodendridae, Hydrophilidae, Cantharidae, Dytiscidae, Lampyridae, Melandryidae, Bothrideridae, Scarabaeidae, Oedemeridae, Corylophidae, Silvanidae, Megalopodidae, Aderidae, Ciidae, Dermestidae, Coccinellidae, Monotomidae, Leiodidae, Anthicidae, Chrysomelidae, Cleridae, Scirtidae, Cerambycidae, Prostomidae, Brentidae, Tenebrionidae, Lucanidae, Nitidulidae, Laemophloeidae, Eucnemidae, Phalacridae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2011-05-31 / 2020-01-20

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

Collection Data

Collection Name Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław Collection
Collection Identifier MNHW

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers d0af44d7-879c-46e4-ad6a-1cbf229f1ec3
https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-uwr-insects-new-caledonia