Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection

Johnathon Ridden1

1 Canterbury Museum, 11 Rolleston Avenue, 8013, Christchurch, New Zealand

Corresponding author(s): Johnathon Ridden (JRidden@canterburymuseum.com)

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Resource Citation

Ridden J (2021): Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection. v1. Canterbury Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=canterburymuseummayflycollection&amp;v=1.0

Abstract

This is a collection amassed primarily by Terry R Hitchings at Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. Mr. Hitchings began collecting, curating, identifying and describing new species from the collection in the early 1990s, incorporating the existing Canterbury Museum mayfly collections into this work. From the late 2000s, Mr. Hitchings son Timothy R Hitchings began working with his father on the collection. Their work on the group is ongoing. A project to fully catalogue this collection was completed a couple of years ago.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, New Zealand, Ephemeroptera

General description

Purpose: This dataset will provide information on freshwater mayflies species to inform change over time and environmental conditions of freshwater ecosystems in New Zealand.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=canterburymuseummayflycollection

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: This data covers the majority of described species of Ephemeroptera recorded in New Zealand.
Taxonomic ranks
Family: Leptophlebiidae, Tachinidae
Genus: Atalophlebioides, Austroclima, Deleatidium, Nesameletus, Tepakia, Zephlebia
Species: Acanthophlebia cruentata, Ameletopsis perscitus, Arachnocolus phillipsi, Atalophlebioides cromwelli, Auporiella pohei, Austroclima jollyae, Austroclima sepia, Austronella planulata, Coloburiscus humeralis, Cryophlebia aucklandensis, Deleatidium acerbum, Deleatidium angustum, Deleatidium atricolor, Deleatidium autumnale, Deleatidium branchiola, Deleatidium cerinum, Deleatidium cornutum, Deleatidium crawfordi, Deleatidium fumosum, Deleatidium insolitum, Deleatidium kawatiri, Deleatidium kiwa, Deleatidium lillii, Deleatidium magnum, Deleatidium myzobranchia, Deleatidium patricki, Deleatidium rapidum, Deleatidium townsi, Deleatidium vernale, Deleatidium wardorum, Ichthybotus bicolor, Ichthybotus hudsoni, Isothraulus abditus, Mauiulus aquilus, Mauiulus luma, Neozephlebia scita, Nesameletus austrinus, Nesameletus flavitinctus, Nesameletus murihiku, Nesameletus ornatus, Nesameletus vulcanus, Oniscigaster distans, Oniscigaster wakefieldi, Rallidens mcfarlanei, Rallidens platydontis, Siphlaenigma janae, Tepakia caligata, Zephlebia borealis, Zephlebia dentata, Zephlebia inconspicua, Zephlebia nebulosa, Zephlebia pirongia, Zephlebia spectabilis, Zephlebia tuberculata, Zephlebia versicolor

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Geographic coverage is across the three main islands of New Zealand, with some sub-Antarctic island material. The main focus on the South Island, as the Hitchings are based in Christchurch.
Coordinates: 65°30'46.8''S and 28°36'46.8''S Latitude; 157°51'7.2''E and 153°59'2.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1914

Natural collections description

Collection name: Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Canterbury Museum Mayfly Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=canterburymuseummayflycollection
Publication date of data: 2021-08-10
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-08-10
Hierarchy level: Dataset