Belgian Coccinellidae - Ladybird beetles in Belgium
Citation
Adriaens T, San Martin y Gomez G, Maes D, Brosens D, Desmet P (2021). Belgian Coccinellidae - Ladybird beetles in Belgium. Version 1.4. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/0refva accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-09-01.Description
The Belgian Coccinellidae dataset which is published, is the result of a merge of 4 datasets. The INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest; Flemish Region Database), the DFF database (The Walloon Region Database), Observations.be data provided by Natagora (The Walloon Region and Brussels Capital Region) and the Walloon Region Online Encoding Tool (DEMNA - OFFH, observatoire.biodiversite.wallonie.be/encodage) data. At present, the database contains about 80.000 records, of which 15% come from museum collections and literature data. Collection events minimally consist of species, number of individuals, stage (adults, larvae and pupae), observation date, observer and location. Original locations as well as collection material were attributed to 1x1 km or 5x5 km grid cells of the UTM grid (Universal Transverse Mercator). A large part of the Belgian territory has been surveyed for ladybird beetles: the database contains records for at least 85% of all 5x5km UTM grid cells (N = 1376) in Belgium. Additionally, data on substratum plants, height in the vegetation, sampling method, habitat type, surrounding landscape, slope orientation, soil type, humidity, vegetation cover and behaviour were noted. In 1999, the Belgian Ladybird Working Group Coccinula launched a large scale field survey on 40 native ladybird species (Coccinellinae, Chilocorinae and Epilachninae) and to date has more than 500 volunteers providing distribution data. They actively search for ladybird beetles in a variety of habitats using sweep nets, beating trays, visual search, light trapping, pitfall traps and other sampling methods. Distribution, habitat and substrate plant information is also noted on a standard recording form. The working group maintains a database of observations, literature and collection data of Coccinellidae from 1800 onwards. Preliminary atlases have been published for the whole Belgian territory (Branquart et al., 1999; Adriaens and Maes, 2004) and updated distribution maps are available online, on demand and through the working group's newsletter. The published dataset contains most of the data maintained by the working group. For the time being, only the original INBO database is published.Sampling Description
Study Extent
In 1999, the Belgian Ladybird Working Group Coccinula launched a large scale field survey on 40 native ladybird species (Coccinellinae, Chilocorinae and Epilachninae) and to date has more than 500 volunteers providing distribution data. They actively search for ladybird beetles in a variety of habitats using sweep nets, beating trays, visual search, light trapping, pitfall traps and other sampling methods. Distribution, habitat and substrate plant information is also noted on a standard recording form. The working group maintains a database of observations, literature and collection data of Coccinellidae from 1800 onwards. Preliminary atlases have been published for the whole Belgian territory (Branquart et al., 1999; Adriaens and Maes, 2004) and updated distribution maps are available online, on demand and through the working group's newsletter.Sampling
Collection events minimally consist of species, number of individuals, stage (adults, larvae and pupae), observation date, observer and location. Locations are attributed to 1x1 km or 5x5 km grid cells of the UTM grid (Universal Transverse Mercator). At present, the database contains about 60.000 records, of which 15% come from museum collections and literature data. A large part of the Belgian territory has now been surveyed for ladybird beetles: the database contains records for 85% of all 5x5km UTM grid cells (N = 1376) in Belgium. Additionally, information on substratum plants, height in the vegetation, sampling method, habitat type, surrounding landscape, slope orientation, soil type, humidity, vegetation cover and behaviour was noted on the recording form. In certain cases Individualcount is an estimate of the actual number of specimen present.Quality Control
All records are validated.Method steps
- More than 500 volunteers providing distribution data. They actively search for ladybird beetles in a variety of habitats using sweep nets, beating trays, visual search, light trapping, pitfall traps, and other sampling methods.
Additional info
To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). We would appreciate however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.inbo.be/en/norms-for-data-use) and provide a link to the original dataset whenever possible. If you use these data for a scientific paper, please cite the dataset following the applicable citation norms and/or consider us for co-authorship. We are always interested to know how you have used or visualized the data, or to provide more information, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata, opendata@inbo.be or https://twitter.com/LifeWatchINBO. For any further use of the dataset, first contact Tim Adriaens (Tim.adriaens@inbo.be)Taxonomic Coverages
All species in this dataset are ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae). The top 3 recorded species are Coccinella septempunctata (15%), the invasive Harmonia axyridis (13%), and Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (10%).
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Animaliacommon name: animals rank: kingdom
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Arthropodarank: phylum
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Insectacommon name: insects rank: class
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Coccinellidaecommon name: ladybird beetles rank: family
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Adalia bipunctatacommon name: two-spot ladybird rank: species
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Adalia decempunctatacommon name: ten-spotted ladybird rank: species
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Anatis ocellatacommon name: eyed ladybird rank: species
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Anisosticta novemdecimpunctatacommon name: water ladybird rank: species
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Aphidecta obliteratacommon name: larch ladybird rank: species
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Calvia decemguttatarank: species
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Calvia quatuordecimguttatacommon name: cream-spot ladybird rank: species
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Calvia quindecimguttatarank: species
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Chilocorus bipustulatuscommon name: heather ladybird rank: species
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Chilocorus renipustulatuscommon name: kidney-spot ladybird rank: species
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Clitostethus arcuatusrank: species
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Coccidula rufarank: species
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Coccidula scutellatarank: species
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Coccinella hieroglyphicacommon name: hieroglyphic ladybird rank: species
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Coccinella magnificacommon name: scarce seven-spotted ladybird rank: species
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Coccinella quinquepunctatacommon name: five-spot ladybird rank: species
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Coccinella septempunctatacommon name: seven-spot ladybird rank: species
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Coccinella undecimpunctatacommon name: eleven-spot ladybird rank: species
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Coccinula quatuordecimpustulatarank: species
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Cryptolaemus montrouzierirank: species
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Cynegetis impunctatarank: species
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Exochomus nigromaculatusrank: species
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Exochomus quadripustulatuscommon name: pine ladybird rank: species
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Halyzia sedecimguttatacommon name: orange ladybird rank: species
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Harmonia axyridiscommon name: harlequin ladybird rank: species
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Harmonia quadripunctatacommon name: cream-streaked ladybird rank: species
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Henosepilachna arguscommon name: bryony ladybird rank: species
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Hippodamia septemmaculatarank: species
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Hippodamia tredecimpunctatacommon name: thirteen-spot ladybird rank: species
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Hippodamia variegatacommon name: Adonis ladybird rank: species
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Hyperaspis campestrisrank: species
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Hyperaspis concolorrank: species
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Myrrha octodecimguttatacommon name: 18-spot ladybird rank: species
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Myzia oblongoguttatacommon name: striped ladybird rank: species
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Nephus bipunctatusrank: species
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Nephus quadrimaculatusrank: species
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Nephus redtenbacherirank: species
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Oenopia conglobatarank: species
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Oenopia impustulatarank: species
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Platynaspis luteorubrarank: species
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Propylea quatuordecimpunctatacommon name: 14-spot ladybird rank: species
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Psyllobora vigintiduopunctatacommon name: 22-spot ladybird rank: species
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Rhyzobius chrysomeloidesrank: species
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Rhyzobius forestierirank: species
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Rhyzobius liturarank: species
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Scymnus abietisrank: species
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Scymnus apetzirank: species
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Scymnus aterrank: species
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Scymnus auritusrank: species
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Scymnus femoralisrank: species
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Scymnus ferrugatusrank: species
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Scymnus frontalisrank: species
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Scymnus haemorrhoidalisrank: species
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Scymnus interruptusrank: species
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Scymnus limbatusrank: species
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Scymnus mimulusrank: species
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Scymnus nigrinusrank: species
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Scymnus pallipediformisrank: species
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Scymnus rubromaculatusrank: species
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Scymnus rufipesrank: species
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Scymnus suturalisrank: species
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Sospita vigintiguttatarank: species
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Stethorus punctillumrank: species
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Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctatacommon name: 24-spot ladybird rank: species
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Tytthaspis sedecimpunctatacommon name: 16-spot ladybird rank: species
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Vibidia duodecimguttatarank: species
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Coleopteracommon name: beetles rank: order
Geographic Coverages
The Belgian Coccinellidae dataset deals with Ladybirds occurrences in Belgian. The INBO subset deals with occurrences pertaining to Flanders, one of the regions and communities of Belgium.
Bibliographic Citations
- Branquart E., Maes D. (2003). Update van de verspreiding van de Belgische lieveheersbeestjes. Coccinula, Newsletter of the Belgian Ladybird Working Group 7: 5-23. -
- Adriaens T., San Martin G., Maes D. (2008). Invasion history, habitat preferences and phenology of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis in Belgium. BioControl 53(1): 69-88. -
- Adriaens T., Branquart E., Maes D. (2003). The Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Harmonia axyridis Pallas (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae), a threat for native aphid predators in Belgium? Belgian Journal of Zoology 133(2): 195-196. -
- Helen E. Roy, Tim Adriaens, Nick J. B. Isaac, Marc Kenis, Thierry Onkelinx, Gilles San Martin, Peter M. J. Brown, Louis Hautier, Remy Poland, David B. Roy, Richard Comont, René Eschen, Robert Frost, Renate Zindel, Johan Van Vlaenderen, Oldřich Nedvěd, Hans Peter Ravn, Jean-Claude Grégoire, Jean-Christophe de Biseau, Dirk Maes (2012). Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds. Diversity and Distributions (2012) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00883.x - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00883.x
- Kenis M., Adriaens T., Brown P., Katsanis A., Van Vlaenderen J., Eschen R., Golaz L., Zindel R., San Martin G., Babendreier D., Ware R. (2010). Impact of Harmonia axyridis on European ladybirds: which species are most at risk? IOBS/wprs Bulletin 58: 1-3. -
- Adriaens T. & Maes D. (2004). Voorlopige verspreidingsatlas van lieveheersbeestjes in Vlaanderen, resultaten van het lieveheersbeestjesproject van de jeugdbonden. Bertram 2 (1bis): 1-69. http://www.inbo.be/docupload/1436.pdf -
- Kenis, M., Adriaens, T., Brown, P. M. J., Katsanis, A., San Martin, G., Branquart, E., Maes, D., Eschen, R., Zindel, R., Van Vlaenderen, J., Babendreier, D., Roy, H. E., Hautier, L. & Poland, R. L. (2017) Assessing the ecological risk posed by a recently established invasive alien predator: Harmonia axyridis as a case study. BioControl 62(3):341-354 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-016-9764-x
- Adriaens, T., San Martin y Gomez, G., Bogaert, J., Crevecoeur, L., Beuckx, J-P. & Maes, D. (2015) Testing the applicability of regional IUCN Red List criteria on ladybirds (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) in Flanders (north Belgium): opportunities for conservation. Insect Conservation and Diversity 8(5): 404-417. - https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12124
Contacts
Tim Adriaensoriginator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
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Gilles San Martin y Gomez
originator
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
BE
email: gilles.sanmartin@gmail.com
Dirk Maes
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
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Dimitri Brosens
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
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Peter Desmet
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
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Tim Adriaens
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
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Dimitri Brosens
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
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Peter Desmet
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
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