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Saltabel - Orthoptera in Belgium

Dataset homepage

Citation

Adriaens T, Brosens D (2015). Saltabel - Orthoptera in Belgium. Version 5.2. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/1rcpsq accessed via GBIF.org on 2017-08-20.

Description

The Saltabel dataset deals with grasshopper and cricket occurrences in Belgium. The data are largely gathered by volunteer naturalists, who also reviewed and digitised data from existing museum and university collections in Belgium. Input in a database, feedback to observers, validation and database maintenance were cared for by a professional employee at the Institute for Nature Conservation (IN). The Saltabel (Salta < Saltatoria; bel > Belgium) working group was established in 1989. The purpose of this project was mainly to collect information about the distribution, faunistics and ecology of grasshoppers and crickets in Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The working group produced a newsletter which appeared irregularly in the period 1989-2002 with the intention to inform observers about latest findings, interesting observations, ecological research etc., provide feedback to naturalists and to raise awareness about the conservation value of Orthoptera in general. During this periode, the working group was most active and organised annual weekends, in turn organized in Belgium, the Netherlands and sometimes also northern France . These weekends were intended to perform inventories for badly prospected regions and to stimulate knowledge exchange between collaborators. In 1997, a standard work on the grasshoppers and crickets of The Netherlands was published using data from this project (Kleukers et al. 1997). In 2000, a provisional atlas and red lists of grasshoppers and crickets in Flanders , Brussels and Wallonia was published (Decleer et al. 2000), providing the first major output of this faunistic project for Belgium. As a consequence, the interest for grasshoppers and crickets in conservation increased, as these insects became important indicators of natural quality and successful nature management. After this milestone, the working group lost some incentive, the network of volunteers was no longer professionally supported and Saltabel became less active. In 2006, a dedicated survey was organised in Brussels Capital Region through the SaltaBru project, greatly increasing the number of records for this region. More recently, Saltabel became a study group of the Flemish NGO Natuurpunt and the working group revived with numerous activities and a growing number of recorders involved (http://www.saltabel.org). Since 2011, the online encoding platform http://www.waarnemingen.be is promoted and used for online reporting of records. Since 2012, the focus of the working group was put on enhancing the knowledge of threatened species in Flanders, with dedicated surveys prospecting historically known locations of e.g. Stenobothrus stigmaticus, Stenobothrus lineatus and Ephippiger ephippiger. The database described here, however, does not contain these recent records. The Netherlands are currently also working on a new atlas through waarneming.nl (http://www.waarneming.nl/sprinkhaanatlas_start.php).

Purpose

The dataset was developed to create the red lists of Orthoptera in Flanders, Wallonia, and the Brussels Capital Region. Further the data was used to create an atlas of Orthoptera in Belgium.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The data are gathered in the context of an atlas on Orthoptera in Belgium and the creation of regional red lists for grasshoppers and crickets in Flanders, Wallonia, and the Brussels Capital Region.

Sampling

The data mostly comprise loose human observations by volunteer naturalists. Also a significant amount of records originate from net sampling and the intelligent use of bat detectors, and digitized data from existing museum and university collections in Belgium.

Quality Control

Data are first validated by experts; only the validated records are published.

Method steps

  1. Observations pertaining to common species which were previously validated to occur in the neighbouring grid cells of 5 x 5 km squares are automatically validated. Observations of species that are considered rare, or common species that have not been recorded in the neighbouring grid cells are subjected to a manual control by experts.

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.

Taxonomic Coverages

This dataset contains occurrences of the order Orthoptera (grasshoppers & crickets), from the families Tettigoniidae, Gryllidae, Gryllotalpidae, Tetrigidae, and Acrididae.
  1. Orthoptera
    common name: grasshoppers & crickets rank: order
  2. Ensifera
    rank: suborder
  3. Caelifera
    rank: suborder
  4. Gryllidae
    common name: true crickets rank: family
  5. Gryllotalpidae
    common name: mole crickets rank: family
  6. Tetrigidae
    common name: pygmy grasshoppers rank: family
  7. Acrididae
    common name: short-horned grasshoppers rank: family
  8. Tettigoniidae
    common name: bush-crickets rank: family
  9. Acheta domesticus (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  10. Barbitistes serricauda (Fabricius, 1798)
    rank: species
  11. Calliptamus italicus (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  12. Chorthippus albomarginatus (Degeer, 1773)
    rank: species
  13. Chorthippus biguttulus (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  14. Chorthippus brunneus (Thunberg, 1815)
    rank: species
  15. Chorthippus dorsatus (Zetterstedt, 1821)
    rank: species
  16. Chorthippus mollis (Charpentier, 1825)
    rank: species
  17. Chorthippus montanus (Charpentier, 1825)
    rank: species
  18. Chorthippus parallelus (Zetterstedt, 1821)
    rank: species
  19. Chorthippus vagans (Eversmann, 1848)
    rank: species
  20. Chrysochraon dispar (Germar, 1835)
    rank: species
  21. Conocephalus discolor (Thunberg, 1815)
    rank: species
  22. Conocephalus dorsalis (Latreille, 1804)
    rank: species
  23. Decticus verrucivorus (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  24. Ephippiger ephippiger (Serville, 1831)
    rank: species
  25. Euthystira brachyptera (Ocskay, 1826)
    rank: species
  26. Gampsocleis glabra (Herbst, 1786)
    rank: species
  27. Gomphocerripus rufus (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  28. Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  29. Gryllus campestris (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  30. Leptophyes punctatissima (Bosc, 1792)
    rank: species
  31. Locusta migratoria (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  32. Meconema meridionale (Costa, 1860)
    rank: species
  33. Meconema thalassinum (Degeer, 1773)
    rank: species
  34. Metrioptera bicolor (Philippi, 1830)
    rank: species
  35. Metrioptera brachyptera (Linneaus, 1761)
    rank: species
  36. Metrioptera roeselii (Hagenbach, 1822)
    rank: species
  37. Myrmeleotettix maculatus (Thunberg, 1815)
    rank: species
  38. Nemobius sylvestris (Bosc, 1792)
    rank: species
  39. Oecanthus pellucens (Scopoli, 1763)
    rank: species
  40. Oedipoda caerulescens (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  41. Oedipoda germanica (Latreille, 1804)
    rank: species
  42. Omocestus rufipes (Zetterstedt, 1821)
    rank: species
  43. Omocestus viridulus (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  44. Phaneroptera falcata (Poda, 1761)
    rank: species
  45. Pholidoptera griseoaptera (Degeer, 1773)
    rank: species
  46. Platycleis albopunctata (Goez, 1778)
    rank: species
  47. Platycleis tessellata (Charpentier, 1825)
    rank: species
  48. Psophus stridulus (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  49. Sphingonotus caerulans (Linneaus, 1767)
    rank: species
  50. Stenobothrus lineatus (Panzer, 1796)
    rank: species
  51. Stenobothrus stigmaticus (Rambur, 1839)
    rank: species
  52. Stethophyma grossum (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  53. Tetrix bipunctata (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  54. Tetrix ceperoi (Bolivar, 1887)
    rank: species
  55. Tetrix subulata (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species
  56. Tetrix tenuicornis (Sahlberg, 1893)
    rank: species
  57. Tetrix undulata (Sowerby, 1806)
    rank: species
  58. Tettigonia cantans (Fuessly, 1775)
    rank: species
  59. Tettigonia viridissima (Linneaus, 1758)
    rank: species

Geographic Coverages

This dataset contains Orthoptera occurrences in Belgium.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Decleer, K., Devriese, H., Hofmans, K., Lock, K., Barenbrug, B. & Maes D. (2000). Voorlopige atlas en "rode lijst" van de sprinkhanen en krekels van België (Insecta, Orthoptera). Werkgroep Saltabel i.s.m. I.N. en K.B.I.N., Rapport Instituut voor Natuurbehoud 2000/10, Brussel, 76 p. / Atlas et "liste rouge" provisoire des sauterelles, grillons et criquets de Belgique (Insecta, Orthoptera). Groupe de travail Saltabel e.c.a. I.N. et I.R.S.N.B., Rapport Instituut voor Natuurbehoud 2000/10, Bruxelles, 76 p. - ISBN 90-403-0119-0

Contacts

Tim Adriaens
originator
position: Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
Brussels
1070
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: tim.adriaens@inbo.be
Dimitri Brosens
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
Brussels
1070
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
homepage: http://www.biodiversity.be
Tim Adriaens
point of contact
position: Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
Brussels
1070
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: tim.adriaens@inbo.be
Kris Decleer
content provider
position: Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
Brussels
1070
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: kris.decleer@inbo.be
Hendrik Devriese
content provider
Saltabel
BE
email: hendrik.devriese@scarlet.be
Koen Lock
content provider
Saltabel
BE
email: koen_lock@hotmail.com
Jorg Lambrechts
content provider
Natuurpunt
BE
email: jorg.lambrechts@natuurpunt.be
Gilles San Martin
content provider
Saltabel, SaltaBru
BE
email: gilles.sanmartin@gmail.com
content provider
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Rue Vautier 29
Brussels
1000
Brussels Capital Region
BE
homepage: http://www.naturalsciences.be/
Dimitri Brosens
processor
position: Data liaison officer
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
Brussels
1070
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
homepage: http://www.biodiversity.be
Peter Desmet
processor
position: LifeWatch team coordinator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
Brussels
1070
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
homepage: http://lifewatch.inbo.be
Tim Adriaens
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
Brussels
1070
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: tim.adriaens@inbo.be
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