81ba5ef3-7a68-4a11-86ef-7c6dd4834dc6
https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=cd_megachilidae_mrac
RMCA Colonial collections in Megachilidae of Congo
Alain
Tshibungu Nkulu
Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Phd student
Blvd. du Triomphe, Office : Building NO, Zone O, level 3, room 209
Brussels
B- 1050
BE
Alain.Tshibungu.Nkulu@ulb.be
Alain
Tshibungu
Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Phd student
Blvd. du Triomphe, Office : Building NO, Zone O, level 3, room 209
Brussels
B- 1050
BE
Alain.Tshibungu.Nkulu@ulb.be
Nicolas
Vereecken
Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Associate Professor
Blvd. du Triomphe, Office : Building NO, Zone O, level 3, room 207
Brussels
B- 1050
BE
Nicolas.Vereecken@ulb.be
2022-04-20
eng
In the face of taxonomic knowledge gaps in sub-Saharan Africa, the availability of biodiversity data is pressing, especially as extinction risks and conservation needs arise for the sustainability of derived ecosystem services (Rodger et al., 2004; Mkenda et al., 2019). The development of research is therefore dependent on access to basic knowledge that really only exists in the form of collections throughout the world's museums.
The present occurence data and associated catalog is based on collections of Megachilidae historically collected in the Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. It includes several collecting localities for several specimens kept at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Belgium). The collections of the Megachilidae of the RMCA were reorganized by Professor Jean J. Pasteels, who covered the taxonomic revisions until about the 1980s.
We mention here, the collectors and the dates of collection of the specimens. For each of the species, so informed in this catalog, the descriptor is indicated and the taxonomic nomenclature updated to conform to the international standard. This nomenclature is especially inspired by the publication of Trunz et al. (2016), on the classification of the tribe of Megachilini in relation to phylogeny and biogeography. Moreover, the taxa are organized according to public directories (Discover Life and GBIF), the catalog of Afrotropical bees of Coetzer & Eardley (2019) and the key to genera and subgenera of bees of sub-Saharan Africa of Eardley et al. (2009).
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml
Specimen
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
All these collections of Megachilidae relate to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Most of them were collected between 1905 and 1960, the year of Congo's political independence. These data are therefore from all 26 provinces through their numerous localities.
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Alain
Tshibungu Nkulu
Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Phd student
Blvd. du Triomphe, Office : Building NO, Zone O, level 3, room 209
Brussels
B- 1050
BE
Alain.Tshibungu.Nkulu@ulb.be
Alain
Pauly
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Entomologist
Rue Vautier 29
Brussels
B-1000
BE
alain.pauly54@gmail.com
Didier
Van den Spiegel
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Head of "Biological collection and data management" unit
Leuvensesteenweg 13
Tervuren
B- 3080
BE
didier.van.den.spiegel@africamuseum.be
Mylor
Shutcha
Ecology, Ecological Restoration and Landscape; Université de Lubumbashi (UNILU)
Lab head
Route Kasapa, Campus Universitaire de l'UNILU
Lubumbashi
1825
CD
mylor.ngoyshutcha@unilu.ac.cd
Nicolas
Vereecken
Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Associate Professor
Blvd. du Triomphe, Office : Building NO, Zone O, level 3, room 207
Brussels
B- 1050
BE
Nicolas.Vereecken@ulb.be
2022-04-19T10:18:41.908+00:00
dataset
Tshibungu Nkulu A (2022): RMCA Colonial collections in Megachilidae of Congo. v1.1. Test Organization #1. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=cd_megachilidae_mrac&v=1.1
81ba5ef3-7a68-4a11-86ef-7c6dd4834dc6/v1.1.xml