RMCA Colonial collections in Megachilidae of Congo

Occurrence
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20 April 2022
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Description

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).

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

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

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 81ba5ef3-7a68-4a11-86ef-7c6dd4834dc6.  Test Organization #1 publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Alain Tshibungu Nkulu
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Phd student
Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Blvd. du Triomphe, Office : Building NO, Zone O, level 3, room 209
B- 1050 Brussels
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Alain Tshibungu
  • Metadata Provider
Phd student
Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Blvd. du Triomphe, Office : Building NO, Zone O, level 3, room 209
B- 1050 Brussels
BE
Nicolas Vereecken
  • Metadata Provider
  • Point Of Contact
Associate Professor
Agroecology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Blvd. du Triomphe, Office : Building NO, Zone O, level 3, room 207
B- 1050 Brussels
BE
Alain Pauly
  • Point Of Contact
Entomologist
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Rue Vautier 29
B-1000 Brussels
BE
Didier Van den Spiegel
  • Point Of Contact
Head of "Biological collection and data management" unit
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Leuvensesteenweg 13
B- 3080 Tervuren
BE
Mylor Shutcha
  • Point Of Contact
Lab head
Ecology, Ecological Restoration and Landscape; Université de Lubumbashi (UNILU)
Route Kasapa, Campus Universitaire de l'UNILU
1825 Lubumbashi
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Geographic Coverage

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.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Insecta

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 81ba5ef3-7a68-4a11-86ef-7c6dd4834dc6
https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=cd_megachilidae_mrac