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VIT-Coleopterotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava)

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Citation

Marcos Alonso J M, de Olano I, Infante Sánchez M (2023). VIT-Coleopterotheca (The Natural History Museum of Álava). Version 2.3. Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15470/qzikh6 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-07.

Description

The Coleopterotheca of the Natural History Museum of Álava began in 1974 and nowadays, it holds around 160.000 specimens, of which 133.700 are databased. The number of taxa is approximately 5.000. The main collectors are Juan María Marcos, Imanol Zabalegui, Federico Zuazo, Ibon de Olano, Diego Sánchez Miyares, Pablo Bahillo, Felipe Calvo, José María Salgado y José Sebastián Estévez. The collection is particularly numerous in specimens of the Caraboidea superfamily from the Basque Country (Northern Spain)(Ortuño & Marcos, 2003); and in cave fauna, including many paratypes, collected in different locations in the Northern half of Spain. Ortuño, V.M. & Marcos, J.M. (2003). Los Caraboidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco. Tomo I: Cincidelidae y Carabidae. Gobierno Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 573 p.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Animalia
    rank: kingdom
  2. Arthropoda
    rank: phylum
  3. Coleoptera
    rank: order

Geographic Coverages

World, but the vast majority of records come from Spain. Within Spain, Álava is the best represented province, followed by Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia, Asturias and Cantabria.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Juan María Marcos Alonso
originator
position: Retired
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
ES
Ibón de Olano
originator
position: Departamento Invertebrados
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: ideolano@externos.araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Marta Infante Sánchez
originator
position: Departamento Botánica
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Ibón de Olano
metadata author
position: Departamento Invertebrados
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: ideolano@externos.araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Marta Infante Sánchez
metadata author
position: Departamento Botánica
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Jesús Alonso Ramírez
custodian steward
position: Técnico responsable
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: mcna@araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Ibón de Olano
administrative point of contact
position: Departamento Invertebrados
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: ideolano@externos.araba.eus
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
Marta Infante Sánchez
administrative point of contact
position: Departamento Botánica
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
Siervas de Jesús 24
Vitoria-Gasteiz
E-01001
Álava / Araba
ES
Telephone: +34945181924
email: bazzania.vit@gmail.com
homepage: https://naturazientzienmuseoa.eus/es/
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