Description
The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) joined the Butterflies of the Southeast Asian Islands Consortium Project coordinated by Naturalis Biodiversity Center and aimed to mobilize specimen data through the digitization of butterfly specimens housed in our collection, with priorities to achieve high coverage of representative families/subfamilies.
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 2,613 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:
Feng V, Ho Q Y, Hwang W S, Koh E J, Soong J (2020): Butterflies of Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia (Hesperiidae). v1.7. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore. Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/bifa/resource?r=butterflies_of_singapore_and_peninsular_malaysia&v=1.7
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore. 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: cc353435-511d-4ba2-b88d-b874d22c7a0a. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Oriental; skippers; species distribution; species diversity; Southeast Asia; museum specimens; Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [1.088, 99.998], North East [6.839, 104.37] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This dataset consists of Hesperiidae butterflies found in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. All butterflies are identified to species or subspecies.
| Family | Hesperiidae (Skippers) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1968-01-01 / 1998-01-01 |
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Project Data
This dataset consists of butterfly specimens belonging to the family Hesperiidae housed in Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Zoological Reference Collection, Entomological section.
| Title | Digitizing butterfly specimens of Singapore & Peninsular Malaysia (Hesperiidae dataset) |
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| Identifier | BIFA4_050 |
| Funding | This dataset is made possible by the GBIF Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA) grant BIFA4_050: Digitizing butterflies of Singapore & Peninsular Malaysia: contributions to the Butterflies of the Southeast Asian Islands Consortium Project, co-funded by the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum. |
| Study Area Description | This project focus on the butterfly specimens collected in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia by various collectors during the second half of the 20th century (1960s - late 1990s). |
| Design Description | This dataset is part of the data mobilization phase of the museum as we digitize our zoological collection. Protocols set up here for image capture, label transcription, georeferencing and data processing will help to optimize future data mobilization initiatives. |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
Active sweep net collecting is the most common method for collecting butterflies, although some forms of baited traps are also employed for certain groups of butterflies.
| Study Extent | Currently there is scant information on the sampling methods due to the idiosyncretic sampling nature undertaken by the various collectors. |
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| Quality Control | Quality control for this project occurs at the data capturing and data processing stages. Incomplete information that requires certain level of interpretation were conducted with annotated remarks or verbatim data for further verification. Georeferencing data added were given a conservative level of uncertainty. |
Method step description:
- Label information were first transcribed onto Excel sheets as one of the first steps of data mobilization. Event Date interpreted from verbatim date from original label. Georeferencing was conducted based on a consolidated list of unique localities. GPS coordinates were estimated post hoc using Google Earth, with verification with original collector where possible. Image association is also performed using the Excel sheet by adding the url link to each specimen after the images of the specimens were uploaded to a separate image hosting server. Image filenames were interpreted by an OCR algorithm using catalogue number label within the image taken. Dataset cleaned using OpenRefine and saved as csv file for uploading.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Zoological Reference Collection, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore |
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| Collection Identifier | ZRC_ENT |
| Parent Collection Identifier | ZRC |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | cc353435-511d-4ba2-b88d-b874d22c7a0a |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/bifa/resource?r=butterflies_of_singapore_and_peninsular_malaysia |