Occurrence records of Lepidoptera Pollinator specimens in the National Museum of Tanzania

Adelaide Sallema1, Hulda Gideon2, Hulda Gideon3

1 National Museum of Tanzania, P. O. Box 511, P. O. Box 511, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic Of; 2 Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, P.O Box 4302, P.O Box 4302, ; 3 Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, P.O Box 4302, P.O Box 4302, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic Of

Corresponding author(s): Adelaide Sallema (adelaide5mon@yahoo.co.uk), Hulda Gideon (hgideon@hotmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Sallema A.E; Gideon H. M; Mtemela H. L; Nyundo B. A; Robert A. E; Ngereza C. (2019)  Lepidoptera Pollinators from National Museum of Tanzania Collection. TanBIF.

Abstract

The database of Lepidoptera pollinator species of Tanzania is a newborn database which contains more than 1850 occurrence records of preserved specimens of Hesperiidae, Papilionidae and Sphingidae families stored at the National Museum of Tanzania. The database was developed through the JRS Biodiversity Foundation funded project in East Africa titled " Assessment of Lepidoptera pollinator species diversity data in East Africa". The project is a three year collaborative effort between Tanzania (NMT, COSTECH and UDSM), Kenya (National Museum of Kenya) and Uganda (Makerere University), which started in 2017.  This dataset consists 638 occurrence records of Hesperiidae, 401 records of Papilionidae and 812 records of Sphingidae from preserved specimens collected from Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Rukwa, Kagera, Lindi, Tanga, Morogoro, Tabora and Geita regions between 1949 to 2017. All data have been released to the public under a  CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Assessment of Lepidoptera Pollinator Species Diversity Data in East Africa
Personnel: Adelaide Sallema, Hulda Gideon, Bruno Nyundo, Ester Kioko, Huruma Mtemella
Funding: 1. JRS Biodiversity Foundation
2. Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology
3. National Museum of Tanzania
4. National Museum of Kenya
5. Makerere University
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Tanzania: Tanga, Morogoro, Dar es Salaam, Lindi; Western- Rukwa, Mbeya, Kigoma, Tabora, Geita, Kagera and central part – Singida. The sites were sampled during short and long rain periods and also after long rains
Design description: Aerial net and light traps were used to collect Lepidoptera. Some sites were once visited with either day or night catch while other sites were repeatedly visited and both day and night catches were carried out.

Specimens were stored initially in field envelopes, thereafter relaxed and mounted on pins and spread. Identifications were done mostly by Huruma Lufingo Mtemela for both butterflies and Moths. Georeferencing was from the beginning performed by use of GPS Garmin Etrex 30x

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.tanbif.costech.or.tz/resource?r=lepidoptera_pollinators_nmt_2019

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Three families of Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Papilionidae and Sphingidae
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Sphingidae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The whole earth
Coordinates: 9°2'52.8''S and 1°3'25.2''S Latitude; 30°0'0''E and 39°17'38.4''E Longitude 

Living time period: 1949 to date

Methods

Method step description: Sampling
Aerial net and light traps were used to collect Lepidoptera. Some sites were once visited with either day or night catch while other sites were repeatedly visited and both day and night catches were carried out
Methods steps
Specimens were stored initially in field envelopes, thereafter relaxed and mounted on pins and spread. Identifications were done mostly by Huruma Lufingo Mtemela for both butterflies and Moths. Georeferencing was from the beginning performed by use of GPS Garmin Etrex 30x
Study extent description: Aerial net and light traps were used to collect Lepidoptera. Some sites were once visited with either day or night catch while other sites were repeatedly visited and
Sampling description: Specimens were stored initially in field envelopes, thereafter relaxed and mounted on pins and spread. Identifications were done mostly by Huruma Lufingo Mtemela for both butterflies and Moths. Georeferencing was from the beginning performed by use of GPS Garmin Etrex 30x
Quality control description: Specimens were identified in the field and in the Museum, then data were entered in the MS Excel, duplicates records and those records with missing were removed from the dataset.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Occurrence records of Lepidoptera Pollinator specimens in the National Museum of Tanzania
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.tanbif.costech.or.tz/archive.do?r=lepidoptera_pollinators_nmt_2019
Publication date of data: 2022-10-10
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-10-14
Hierarchy level: Dataset