Occurence of spiders (Araneae) and ants (Formicidae) collected from northern Ghanaian mango orchards and forest savannah
Citation
Yrjölä V (2024). Occurence of spiders (Araneae) and ants (Formicidae) collected from northern Ghanaian mango orchards and forest savannah. Version 1.2. Finnish Museum of Natural History. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/h9vtau accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-05.Description
The dataset contains occurrence data of 36 species and 29 morphospecies of spiders (Araneae) and 41 species and 22 morphospecies of ants (Formicidae) collected from ten sampling points in northern Ghana during Oct-Nov 2022. The total sample size is 288 samples of spiders with 438 mature individuals and 782 samples of ants with 7859 individuals. The dataset contains collection information (locality, habitat, collecting method, time, coordinates, collectors, etc.) and sample information (collection code, count, sex, remarks, etc.). This work was part of the project SustInAfrica and funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement 861924.Sampling Description
Study Extent
Pitfall and Malaise trapping was preformed in October-November 2022 in Sinsablegbinni Forest Reserve and mango orchards in villages of Kumbungu and Dallung, northern Ghana.Sampling
Plot sizes and trap numbers varied so that in the Forest Reserve four 50x50m plots were sampled with 48 pitfall traps and one Malaise trap in each, while in the Kumbungu mango orchard five approximately 30x30m plots were sampled with 32 pitfall traps and four Malaise traps in each, and in the Dallung mango orchard a small 10x10m subplot was trapped with eight pitfall traps and one Malaise trap.Method steps
- After the trapping, the material was stored in 96% ethanol and shipped to Helsinki, Finland, where the focal taxa were sorted and identified to species or morphospecies level. A maximum of ten individuals of each (morpho)species were collected, labelled and stored in the collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History (Luomus), while the rest of the material was sent back to the country of origin for further inspection.
Additional info
Associated specimen records can be found in https://www.gbif.org/dataset/3c40bd29-eb8e-4a0d-93c5-3cb1b7204a4f and https://www.gbif.org/dataset/afc5826a-b29b-4edb-9618-11c24df5fa83Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Northern region
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Veikko Yrjöläoriginator
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Finnish Museum of Natural History
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email: veikko.yrjola@helsinki.fi
Veikko Yrjölä
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position: Staff
Finnish Museum of Natural History
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email: veikko.yrjola@helsinki.fi
Pedro Cardoso
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Finnish Museum of Natural History
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