Description
The dataset includes the biodata of the syrphid specimens held in the fund collections of the I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine. Most of the specimens were collected by A. Prokhorov in Ukraine from 2015 to now and are kept pinned. Syrphidae collection is formed from the material collected during a number of expeditions and excursions in various natural habitat types of most geographic and administrative regions of Ukraine.
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 2,773 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.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2e7346bf-be68-4dd1-8231-a8aa3801d9ad. I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
The dataset covers the almost entire territory of Ukraine, most of the material is collected in Kyiv, Rivne, Zakarpatska, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Sumy regions; little material has been collected from Volyn, Kherson, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Cherkasy, Zaporizhya regions.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [44.34, 22.148], North East [52.402, 40.254] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset covers only the species range of the Syrphidae family.
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Class | Insecta |
| Order | Diptera |
| Family | Syrphidae |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1960 – Nowadays |
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Project Data
BioDATA grant for data mobilization including digitization, data quality assurance, data preparation, and publication of collection specimen and other species data from Ukraine to GBIF. Dataset preparation was supported within the project "Biodata mobilization of entomological collections of the I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of NAS of Ukraine". More details on the grant program here (https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/projects/biodata/activities/data-mobilization-call-ukraine.html).
| Title | Biodata mobilization of entomological collections of the I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of NAS of Ukraine |
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| Identifier | Cepa-LT-2017/10049 |
| Funding | BioDATA partners, NLBIF, GBIF Norway, and the UiO Natural History Museum. |
| Study Area Description | The study area focuses on the biodata mobilization of preserved specimens from fund collections of I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine. The taxonomic range covers 3 orders and 22 insect families: Lepidoptera (Tortricidae), Diptera (Sciaridae, Syrphidae), and Hymenoptera (Crabronidae, Sphecidae, Scoliidae, Pompilidae, Vespidae, Chrysididae, Formicidae, Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, Cynipidae, Eurytomidae, Torymidae, Ormyridae, Pteromalidae, Aphelinidae, Eulophidae, Trichogrammatidae, Encyrtidae, Scelionidae). |
Sampling Methods
The material was collected in a number of expeditions and excursions carried out during the field seasons from March to October (mostly April–August). The main biotopes in which Syrphidae were collected are edges of mixed or deciduous forests, floodplain forests or meadow, marshes, orchards, roadsides. The flies were caught mainly by the standard method using an entomological net or sometimes exhauster. For identification of unknown and doubtful species, specimens were studied with MBS-9. Species identification was carried out using the general identification keys published in the works of Speight (2017), Bartsсh (2009), Van Veen (2010), as well as identification keys for individual genera in the works of various specialists. All material is kept in the funds of I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv (SIZK) as a separate Syrphidae collection.
| Study Extent | The dataset contains the biodata of Syrphidae collection is kept in the funds of I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine (SIZK_Syrphidae). The collection consists of two parts: the first contains the pinned and mounted specimens, and this collection is exemplary in our funds; in the second part of the collection there are only pinned specimens (not mounted), and this is a comparative material necessary for identifying species. As a rule, with the help of a dissecting needle with a hook at the end, terminalia are advanced in males. In many cases this makes it easier to identify questionable species. Syrphidae collection of SIZK covers almost the whole territory of Ukraine (there are practically no collection data from the central regions of Ukraine) and various habitat types both natural and anthropogenic. |
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| Quality Control | We were using the OpenRefine (https://openrefine.org/) for checking the data quality and GBIF species matching tool (https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup) for the taxonomic checking opensource software. |
Method step description:
- Selection of the sites.
- Collection of material in the field.
- Pinning and mounting in the laboratory.
- Specimen identification.
- Making of labels for each pinned specimen.
- Cataloging identified specimens and dataset preparation.
- Data checking and cleaning.
- Publication biodata on the GBIF.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Syrphidae |
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| Collection Identifier | SIZK_Syrphidae |
| Parent Collection Identifier | SIZK_Diptera |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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| Curatorial Units | Count 7,500 +/- 200 Pinned specimens |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 2e7346bf-be68-4dd1-8231-a8aa3801d9ad |
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| https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=sizk_syrphidae |