Bugbase, Lepidopterological Society

Occurrence
Latest version published by Lepidopterological Society, Denmark on Feb 20, 2023 Lepidopterological Society, Denmark
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Description

Database on the recordings of Lepidoptera and Trichoptera by the Lepidopterological Society of Denmark (https://www.lepidoptera.dk). Occurrences are based on observations and collecting by any means, trapping, photos etc. Society specialist groups check data for errors and unusual records, mostly by contacting the observer/recorder. To assure quality of data, only members of the society are given access to enter records in the database.

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 1,738,546 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:

Lepidopterological Society, Bugbase, Denmark, 2020. Dataset/species occurrence Lepidoptera/Trichoptera.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Lepidopterological Society, Denmark. 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: 87b6acb8-4db2-4769-93ca-e086040dfe14.  Lepidopterological Society, Denmark publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by DanBIF - Danish Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Lepidoptera; moths; butterflies; macrolepidoptera; microlepidoptera; Trichoptera; caddisflies; Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Per Stadel Nielsen
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Webmaster
Lepidopterological Society, Denmark
Gevninge Bygade 10
4000 Roskilde
DK
Isabel Calabuig
  • Distributor
Node manager, data curator
DanBIF - Natural History Museum of Denmark
DK

Geographic Coverage

Denmark, terrestic

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.48, 6.78], North East [57.93, 15.55]

Taxonomic Coverage

Danish Lepidoptera and Trichoptera, all species.

Order Lepidoptera (Sommerfugle), Tricoptera (Vårfluer)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1900-01-01 / 2020-04-01

Project Data

No Description available

Title Bugbase, Lepidopterological Society
Funding None
Study Area Description Terrestic Denmark

The personnel involved in the project:

Per Stadel Nielsen
  • Custodian Steward

Sampling Methods

Observation and collecting by any means, trapping, photos etc.

Study Extent Denmark, political, current observations by participants.
Quality Control Society specialist groups check data for errors and unusual records, mostly by contacting the observer/recorder. To assure quality of data, only members of the society are given access to enter records in the database.

Method step description:

  1. Quality control is performed currently, with extra control annually.

Collection Data

Collection Name none
Collection Identifier none
Parent Collection Identifier none

Additional Metadata

Purpose Monitoring faunistic changes of the Danish Lepidoptera and Trichoptera, most important findings of Lepidoptera are published in printed form annually.
Alternative Identifiers 87b6acb8-4db2-4769-93ca-e086040dfe14
http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/13988
https://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=bugbase