Occurrence data of Hover flies available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History collection, Invertebrates Zoology Section.

Laban Njoroge; Esther Wangui Mwangi; Josiah Achieng

doi:10.15468/2dcayw

Occurrence data of Hover flies available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History collection, Invertebrates Zoology Section.

Citation

Njoroge L, Mwangi E W, Achieng J (2019). Occurrence data of Hover flies available at the National Museums of Kenya's Natural History collection, Invertebrates Zoology Section.. Version 1.2. National Museums of Kenya. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2dcayw accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-01-16.

Description

occurrence data of hover flies specimens at the natural history collection of the National museums of Kenya. This comprises of both historical and current data. The taxonomic information is up-to-date as the entire collection was checked by an expert of the African species prior to publishing. Data was mined from the specimen labels into excel spreadsheets as provided by GBIF, georeferenced using Geolocate and validated using GBIF Data Validator

Taxonomic Coverages

This is the complete occurrence data of historical records of hover flies at the natural history collections of the National Museums of Kenya. The data comprises of only dried and pinned specimens

Sryphidae
common name: Hover flies rank: family

Geographic Coverages

The specimens are from different places in the African continent

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Laban Njoroge
originator
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Esther Wangui Mwangi
originator
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: ewmwangi@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Josiah Achieng
originator
position: Data Entry Clerk
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: josiahachieng@gmail.com

Laban Njoroge
metadata author
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Lawrence Monda
publisher
position: ICT Manager
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lmonda@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke

Laban Njoroge
administrative point of contact
position: Research Scientist
National Museums of Kenya
Box 40658
Nairobi
00100
Nairobi
KE
email: lnjoroge@museums.or.ke
homepage: http://www.museums.or.ke