Bugbase, Lepidopterological Society

Per Stadel Nielsen1, Isabel Calabuig2

1 Lepidopterological Society, Denmark, Skovskellet 35A, 2840, Holte, Denmark; 2 DanBIF - Natural History Museum of Denmark, , Denmark

Corresponding author(s): Per Stadel Nielsen (psn@lepidoptera.dk)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Stadel Nielsen P (2011): Bugbase, Lepidopterological Society. v9.2. Lepidopterological Society, Denmark. Dataset/Occurrence. Lepidopterological Society, Bugbase Lepidopterological Society, Bugbase

Abstract

Database on the recordings of butterflies by the Lepidopterological Society of Denmark (http://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.

Keywords: Lepidoptera, moths, butterflies, macrolepidoptera, microlepidoptera, Occurrence

General description

Purpose: Monitoring faunistic changes of the Danish Lepidoptera, most important findings are published in printed form annually.

Project details

Project title: Bugbase, Lepidopterological Society
Personnel: Per Stadel Nielsen
Funding: None
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Terrestic Denmark

Data published through GBIF: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=bugbase

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Danish lepidoptera, all species
Taxonomic ranks
Order: Lepidoptera
Common names: Sommerfugle

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Denmark, terrestic
Coordinates: 54°28'48''N and 57°55'48''N Latitude; 6°46'48''E and 15°33'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1900 - December 1, 2017

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: none
Collection name: none
Collection identifier: none

Methods

Method step description: Quality control is performed currently, with extra control annually.
Study extent description: Denmark, political, current observations by participants.
Sampling description: Observation and collecting by any means, trapping, photos etc.
Quality control description: 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.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Bugbase, Lepidopterological Society
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/archive.do?r=bugbase
Publication date of data: 2018-05-08
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2011-12-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset