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 725 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
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Feng V, Ho Q Y, Hwang W S (2020): Butterflies_of_Singapore_and_Peninsular_Malaysia. v1.2. 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=1.2
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 Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 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
Contacts
- Originator
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- Principal Investigator
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3462-2142
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 the collection.
| 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. |
| 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:
- Currently optimization of steps are still ongoing and a more refined description will be provided at a later stage.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Zoological Reference Collection, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore |
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| 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 |