Insects collection at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - test

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Test Organization #1 on Feb 10, 2026 Test Organization #1
Publication date:
10 February 2026
Published by:
Test Organization #1
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Test of several groups from Te Papa's insects collection. Te Papa's entomology team has an active research programme that includes describing new species, updating previous taxonomic treatments of particular spider groups, aquatic beetles and parasitic insects, as well as studying the geographical and phylogenetic relationships of parasitic insects with their hosts

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 13,765 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
13765
Identification 
12895
Multimedia 
224

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

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Test Organization #1. 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: e2b88199-2f7d-40e1-81d5-c88d6756902c.  Test Organization #1 publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Lucy Schrader
  • Editor ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Kaitūhono Hora Raraunga | Digital Channels Outreach Manager
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • PO Box 467
6011 Wellington
NZ

Geographic Coverage

Very rough approximation of the Pacific.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-60, -140], North East [-10, 110]

Taxonomic Coverage

This dataset contains specimens identified as the following order or genus. Order: opiliones, pseudoscorpions, siphonaptera Genus: auchenorrhyncha, mallophagan, carabidae, hepalidae, tineidae, psychidae, roeslertammiidae, gracillariidae, yponomeutidae, glyphipterigidae, lyonetiidae, gelechiidae, batracheridae, cosmopterigidae, oecophoridae, scythrididae, cossidae, choreutidae, tortricidae, copromorphidae, carposinidae, pterophorida, lycaenidae, nymphalidae, coleophoridae, lecithoceridae, momphidae, elachistidae, sesiidae, tortricidae, oecophoridae, carposinidae, choreutidae, saturniidae, sphingidae, thyrididae, pyralidae, crambidae, anthophila, Chironomidae, mycetophila, anisopodidae, culicidae

Order opiliones, pseudoscorpions, siphonaptera

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1833-

Additional Metadata

Maintenance Description Just doing some testing.
Alternative Identifiers e2b88199-2f7d-40e1-81d5-c88d6756902c
https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=tepapainsects